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Celebrating the Year of the Dragon with OY China
To celebrate the Year of the Dragon, which started on January
23rd, Oy Ahoy has launched a new kiddies iPad (and soon iPhone)
app, Oy China! It takes children and their parents on an
educational adventure, and lets them discover the colorful world
of lucky dragons. Oy China helps your children discover yet
another fascinating culture and the heritage of one of the
world’s oldest civilizations.
Oy China encourages your kids to be creative and design their
own dragon by choosing pieces from one of the many exquisitely
designed dragon sets. The dragon is built by picking one of the
eight smiling heads, three bright body modules, wagging tail and
vibrant spikes. And this is just half of the fun!
In China, every kid makes a paper dragon kite and takes it for a
wild dance in the sky, to celebrate the coming of the New Year.
Open your kids’ minds to a new culture, give them the
opportunity to explore and be creative! They can navigate their
dragon over the rice fields and help it collect magical items.
Each magical item makes the dragon longer, and as the old legend
says, the longer the dragon is, the more luck it brings. So be
careful to avoid fireworks, they make your dragon shorter. Teach
them how to tap on the boxes to grant their dragon the ability
to spit fire, as any “serious” dragon can, and your kid with
giggle joyously. At the end of each journey, help your young one
count the body modules of the dragon.
Oy China is the second in the Oy Ahoy series, after a highly
praised Oy Mexico, which tells a sweet story about memories of a
lost loved one, introduced by the Mexican tradition of
celebrating Dia de Muertos. The Danish-Swedish game design
studio focuses on delivering dynamic, fresh and spell bounding
stories to children of age 2-6. Each app is created with great
care towards kids appropriate content and amazing artwork. For
each project, they work closely together with children’s books
illustrators from the specific culture they present, for a more
authentic, culturally accurate experience.
For Oy China they developed a creative relationship with
Yangsook Choi, selected as one of the most prominent new
children's book artists by Publishers Weekly. Her books have
received several awards, including the International Reading
Association's Children's Book Award, and the Skipping Stones
Award. "Choi adapts thoughtfully to her new environs, without
submerging her unique artistic identity." (The New York Times)
Oy Ahoy proposes to literarily rebuild our world of cultures,
traditions and great stories and squeeze it into the iOS
devices. They want to let the toddlers explore the world with
their fingertips, in a series of apps, each representing a
unique country or culture. Oy China is now available on the
Apple App Store!
More information about Oy Ahoy can be found at
oyahoy.com.