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A New Castle for Ideonic!

Jeremiah — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 15:35:06 +0000

After three fun years in Middlesbrough we decided it was time to move on, so we packed our bags and moved up to a ‘quite lovely’ attic office in the newly renovated No. 68, Jesmond Road West, Newcastle. We’re really excited about having a more central presence in the North East and are looking forward to working with some of the great organisations in Tyneside with whom we’ve not yet had the chance.

We’re not alone in the building, our long term business cohorts Fluid Pixel have made the move too and we are also now joined in the building by Sailor Girl, SSL Post, Veriphy and Century 17. We will be having a welcome bloc party at some point soon (just don’t tell Drummond Central who own the building)… more details coming soon!

In the meantime we’d like to catch-up with some of the people we already know in the Newcastle & Gateshead and get to know the rest. So if you are looking for games and interactive content developers, you have an interest in learning or social change, or you’d just like to find out more about what we do at Ideonic then please get in touch we’d like to meet you!

Get in touch: hello@ideonic.com

MirrorMe iPhone is Released

Adam — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:00:40 +0000

MirrorMe is now available for iPhone, iPad and iPod through the Apple App Store!

We’re pleased to announce that our multi award winning application makes it debut on the iPhone, and it’s even better. We have learnt a lot from the Facebook version of the application, and we wanted to bring new features to the iPhone version.

The app brings several new features to MirrorMe, including the ability to work in offline mode and manually detect your face and apply filters, choose how far in to the future you want to age, and extended sharing options. We’ve also optimised our server so online processes should be even faster.

We spent weeks optimising the application and interface to suit the iPhone, and implemented changes such as the offline mode to ensure everyone can enjoy the results of MirorMe, even without a connection.

Available on the App Store priced at £1.19, download it today and let us know what you think.

Ideonic GoApe!

Adam — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 09:18:19 +0000

The Ideonic team along with members of friends Fluid Pixel and 13 Strides went ape this weekend, at the GoApe course in Dalby Forest, North Yorkshire.

The team building day was both fun and challenging. The course, set high in the trees in the forest takes you platform to platform, connected by challenges made from rope and wood. A combination of rope ladders, swing bridges and tight ropes along with several high level zip lines (some more than 700m long!) made the day exciting, challenging and fun. Many of us came some what to overcoming fears of heights, and the day was finished off for many, with some great Fish and Chips in Whitby.

Check out our video montage of the day below.

Online Community Manager Opportunity

Jeremiah — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:06:43 +0000

Over the past few months we’ve been busy developing our most exciting project so far (hence why we’ve been rather quiet). We are now nearing completion and now we need your help to make sure it gets the attention it deserves.

We have an opportunity for you to join our team as a part-time community manager. The secret project will be released across multiple social networks and an iPhone version is in the pipeline. You will work with us over the next few months to support the release of the product and make sure it gets maximum exposure by taking part in online discussions, submitting it for reviews and promoting it to key online communities.

To apply please complete the application form below, we look forward to your submissions:

(Applications now closed)

Another Hello

Adam — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:00:33 +0000

I’m Adam, a developer at Ideonic and recently joined the company after completing my degree at Teesside University. My first three weeks saw me taking on a lead developer role in the creation of My Voice for St Michaels School. It was a great project to dive straight in to. Working with the children in workshops, getting them involved in designing and developing the project was a great opportunity, and something we will look at doing more in the future. I think a finished project is always more of a success if the client has more involvement in its development – especially when designing for children. It was also a great opportunity to get pupils visiting Ideonic HQ and seeing what we do and how we do it. The project was a great success, and was well received from the school, pupils, and Creative Partnerships.

Since, i’ve been developing other projects, learning all about Adobe Flex, and myself along with Cora, and Stuart from Fluid Pixel have also been involved in several game making workshops – i’ll talk more about this some time soon! I’m also looking at ways to improve the Ideonic website; you should see some new features and some changes in the near future. One new feature is the Our Team section, with a little insight to the people behind Ideonic.

We will all be contributing more to the website, so keep an eye on our blog or simply bookmark our RSS feed to see what we’re up too .

No I in Team?

Jeremiah — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 17:57:43 +0000

Up until now postings on the Ideonic blog, twitter, newsletters etc have been anonymous but we have been thinking that you might prefer to hear from the I’s in the Us. So over the next few weeks expect our communications to become a lot more transparent. We will be adding a new section to the website with details about each of the team members and we’re all going to start writing regular blog posts about our personal experiences at work.

At Ideonic we’re really trying to do something different and avoid become non-human. We want to be transparent and want people to take part in our growth as a business. So we’re really looking forward to talking with you!

I’m Jeremiah by the way

BBC Approved

Jeremiah — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 03:09:25 +0000

We have been chosen to on the BBC’s approved supplier list. This list is the primary resource by which the BBC new media commissioners choose external suppliers for work. We are very excited to have been added to the list and look forward to working with the BBC.

Ideonic.com

Jeremiah — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 23:00:04 +0000

We took our time but we have finally launched the first version of our new website.

We’re advocates of social media and keen to create a website which is more of a 2-way communication channel rather than a set of static, rarely updated pages. For that reason we chose to build our website on top of wordpress, enabling each section to be open to comments and feedback.

We plan to keep adding to the website so please let us know anything you’d like to see.

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Bye Bye Babel, Hello Ideonic

Jeremiah — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:55:35 +0000

Following two years of successful business growth, we have decided to take the next step and invest in developing a strong internationally recognisable brand.

We started Babel Digital in 2006 as a serious games development studio, with the intention of focusing purely on language learning simulations; hence the language reference in the company name. (The tower of babel is from the Bible, back when mankind was gathered in one place and everyone spoke a common language).

So as the business developed we began to work on a wealth of exciting non-language related projects. And though we still believe in the great strength of games for learning languages and culture it is no longer the only area that we are focused on.

We wanted to create a name which better encompassed our now more diverse focus.

So say hello to Ideonic

After many weeks of mind mapping, procedural name generation, foreign language studies and history lessons, we decided on the name Ideonic. We feel it is a name that when you hear it, it is easy on the ear but still has enough punch that you remember it. A combination of ideo-, as in ideology (of or indicating ideas) and electronic (indicating our link with digital technology).

It does not have the biblical background story, which you get with Babel Digital but we really like it and hopefully you do to. If you can think of a more elaborate story we can use for the reason behind the name or to give us your opinion, drop us an email to hello@ideonic.com.

Thanks for reading, and lets all say goodbye to Babel Digital one last time.