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zinc Roe is looking for an experienced developer for a six month contract position building iOS games for preschoolers.

zinc Roe is looking for an experienced ActionScript developer for a six month contract position build online games for preschoolers.

Today is your chance to grab a Tickle Tap App promo code. This week Apple updated their rules making it possible for App Store promo codes to be redeemed anywhere in the world! We are especially excited about this since we hail from the Great White North. To get your free app just look for [...]

When the zinc Roe team launched Total Drama Online (www.TotalDramaOnline.com) in July we quickly realized the limitations of traditional SEO. Total Drama Online is a gaming and fan companion site to the popular animated television series now in its third season on Teletoon in Canada and the Cartoon Network in the United States. In compliance [...]

As a company based in Ontario, zinc Roe has benefitted tremendously from access to tax credits and funds such as the Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund, OMDC Interactive Digital Media Fund, and the Canada Media Fund. When I speak to colleagues in the new media field about these funds the general reaction is amazement [...]

Yesterday I joined Ryan Creighton and Deborah Esayian in a panel discussion on the topic of lessons learned running an interactive business. The event was part of Interactive Ontario‘s iLunch series. The topic was pretty broad ranging but I tried to put a younger version of myself in the audience and ask myself what wisdom [...]

Today marks the launch of Tickle Tap Toddler Pack Two. While we do have a few tweaks and updates planned this is the last app in the Tickle Tap Apps series. Tickle Tap Apps kicked off with a pitch written back in early 2009. At the time zinc Roe had produced only a couple of [...]

When using the webcam in your flash applications, it can be handy to flip the video object so it acts like a mirror. Many of the flash webcam demos out there does exactly this, usually by setting the scaleX property of the video object to -1. Unfortunately, because the registration point of the video object [...]

As promised here are my slides from my talk at INPlay this week. I really had a great time at INPlay. Building Apps for Preschoolers – INPlay 2010

Right about now a number of notable folks in the world of children’s technology are on their way to the Dust or Magic AppCamp. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to make the trip. But I thought I’d use this as an excuse to share a few of the lessons learned in developing Tickle Tap Apps. We [...]