Archive for September, 2010

Fizzy’s first iPhone App

Tuesday, September 21st, 2010

Over the last few months, we have been working with PBS Kids and Boston-based App development house, DINO, to produce the Lunch Lab’s first iPhone game.  We’re proud to announce that the game has been submitted to Apple for approval.  It’s been an amazing process to translate the Corporal Cup Food Camp segments to a touch-based “cooking” game experience.  We’re hoping the approval goes smoothly, so you can enjoy the game when it hits the shelves – it’s been a blast to play test.  In the meantime, here’s a sneak peek of the game:

CloudKid in the Sunday Boston Globe

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

Scott Kirsner swung by the CloudKid HQ in late-August, and we talked to him about what we’re working on and how, as a startup, we fit into the Boston media landscape (and beyond). The content of our conversation is featured in Scott’s latest article on the front page of the Business section of the this week’s Sunday Globe. CloudKid was mentioned along with the small crop of animation studios in and around Watertown.

CloudKid LLC is one of the newest companies on the scene, formed in May 2009 by Dave Schlafman, formerly an artist at Soup2Nuts. The fledgling studio won a $400,000 PBS grant to develop a site called Fizzy’s Lunch Lab, which presents videos, games, and easy recipes, all intended to improve kids’ eating habits. The site went up last November, and earned an Emmy nomination not long after. (The firm didn’t win, but was nominated for the “new approaches in children’s media’’ category of the daytime Emmys.)

Read the whole article here.

MVP!

Saturday, September 4th, 2010

CloudKid MVP TrophyLast spring while visiting LA for a round of pitch meetings, Matt Moore and I bought the ultimate printer that produced some of the nicest presentation prints we’d ever seen.  Upon returning back east, we appropriately named the printer The MVP.  Based on that idea, we decided it would be a great weekly tradition to present a CloudKid MVP award to the person, place, or object that defies expectations.

We are proud to announce that the first recipient of the coveted CloudKid MVP Award is our new studio space!  This isn’t a diss to any of our fellow CloudKids – everyone was in agreement and couldn’t be happier with our new HQ.

Please note: CloudKid is not in cahoots with Burger King or its King.