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.

In March we launched a ten-week episodic adventure game – Battle for Planet Science. The online game was designed to engage young people and develop their interest in the different aspects of Science. The game delivers over half an hour of science driven fun, combining clever panoramic visual and problem solving gameplay to create an enjoyable educational experience.

Released alongside a ‘Design a Superhero and Villians’ Schools competition, all characters were designed by Pupils and the winners redrawn by a professional comic book artist. The game was designed to match the comic book theme and if you complete the game and you’ll even be able to print your own comic book based on your in game choices.

We developed Battle for Planet Science using Adobe Flash. We believed it to be an excellent game and it appears Adobe agree. Battle for Planet Super Powers made it to the semi-finals of the Adobe Max 2009 awards. Though it’s a shame we didn’t make it to the final, recognition in such a high profile award shows we are making massive leaps in the quality of our development.

Try the game out on Planet-Science (www.planet-science.com/psp/battleforps/psp.html) and let us know your opinion.

For the weekend, I hung up my business hat and went along purely as a geek. I ended up working on an idea called Citipedia. Originally submitted by Dundee based designer Lyall Bruce, Citipedia was a platform for giving communities more information and ultimately power over the space around them.

I chose to work on this project because I loved the vision of creating a fun ’simcity like’ interface for people to explore how wasted space could be better used. My contribution to the project was a Flash based editor, that used googlemaps to display an real space which users could then add different terrain and features ontop of and estimate the total development costs and time - in the future we intended to add counters to additional measure the environmental and social impact.  

This editor formed part of a larger social networking platform allowing users to share their ideas and utimately create change. We should hopefully have the full application online at somepoint but until then you can >> Start Planning.

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 .

We recently finished a project called MyVoice which involved running workshops with the students in one of the local school, St Michael’s in Billingham. The concept behind the game is to allow pupils to voice their ideas/opinions on the school, freely and easily on a shared website. It was great working with the students when we were brain storming and throwing ideas around – it amazed me how much they knew about digital technologies! They had no problem coming up with feasible (and also ambitious) features to add to the project. We took the finished product to the school and I got to see what the students thought of it, it was great to see our product being used in the classroom, and the students were definitely good game testers! I’ve never seen anyone clicking the same icon so many times in one go.

I really enjoyed working on this product and by the looks of things it won’t be long till I’m in another class room working with more enthusiastic young people. So that’s it for my first blog post! I’m sure it won’t be too long till my next post since I’m involved in many exciting projects at Ideonic!