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Howard Phillips Know-It-All Kickstarter -- An Edutaiment Leaning Game

I thought this was kind of thread worthy since it being helmed by "that guy with the bowtie in the Nester comics" and former Nintendo employee Howard 'Gamemaster' Phillips. What is it exactly? Well it is apparently it's an educational learning game to help people improve their memory.


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From Kickstarter:

Gamemaster Howard's Know-It-All is an iOS game being developed by Howard Phillips -- of Nintendo fame, hence the Gamemaster reference ;) -- and a team of talented friends from the games industry.

Know-It-All is currently past the prototype phase and is moving rapidly towards Beta with a targeted release date of January. Know-It-All is fun now but we still have a lot of work to do to enhance play and button everything up before we ship.

We need a bit more support (the minimum Project Goal) to launch Know-It-All but we also thought a Kickstarter with a goal multiplier would afford us the ability to add features such as multiplayer, additional pack-in content, ports to other systems such as Android, HTML5, Wii, and Kinect, and even enable us to distribute free copies to targeted public school districts (the entire district!) around the USA and abroad.

And what are some of the game developers (and non- game developers) saying about this project?:

---- Cliff Bleszinski - Design Director, Epic Games
"Howard Phillips is one of the most creative, knowledgeable, scholarly and community minded people we know. His Know-It-All game is extremely exciting: at first it looks like mere flashcard technology - but we've come to see that Know-It-All is much more than that. Keep up the brilliant work Howard!" <via email>

---- Dr. John D. Bransford, Shauna C. Larson Professor of the learning Sciences - University of Washington. Former Centennial Professor of Psychology and Eduction and Co-Director of the Learning Technology Center at Vanderbilt University and Co-Chair of the National Academy of Science committee which wrote How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience and School (2000).

Nintendo's former 'Fun Club President' wants you to Know-It-All
by Frank Cifaldi at Gamasutra.com

'Gamemaster Howard' is back with a clever (and fun) educational game by Todd Bishop at Geekwire.com


Kickstarter page here:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1358562997/gamemaster-howards-know-it-all

There`s still 27 days left, and this Kickstarter still has quite a ways to go. It still needs about $45k worth of funding, but it is a novel idea and one that might be worth looking into.
 
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