One day, the fables came to life!
When you were a child, did you ever wish the characters in your picture books could come to life?
Now, your kids (and you) can play along with the story! Wild Fables are interactive picture books for the iPhone, iPad and iTouch.
Each Wild Fable is a retelling of an Aesop’s Fable, with original art and tons of interaction! The first three Wild Fables are:
- The Crow and the Pitcher
- The Fox and the Grapes
- The Lion and the Mouse
More fables are planned, so download the Wild Fables app early and collect them all!
What do you mean, interactive?
Basically, the reader gets to play along! Â Rocks can be thrown around the screen, animals move as if alive, and if you irritate a sleeping lion, he’s going to react!
Realistic physics effects give the Wild Fables world life, and tilting the iPhone/iPad/iTouch will change the direction of gravity! Â For a demonstration, watch this one-minute video:
We use physics-based code to make the stories interactive, and have spent a lot of time thinking about how to make the interactions the most fun they can be. We hope you like them too!
Why Aesop’s Fables?
Aesop’s fables have been told for millennia to illustrate moral values, and many of them are well-known throughout the world. Read more about Aesop and his fables here.
As kids, we loved Aesop’s fables because they featured animals, and were fun.
As adults, we like that they teach moral lessons … and feature animals. And are fun!
Is the first fable really free?
It absolutely is!
Our first fable, The Crow and the Pitcher, will be available as a free download.
We hope you’ll have as much fun reading and playing with it as we do.
The other animals and their fables will be waiting to meet you in the Wild Fables store. We plan for Wild Fables to showcase a collection of a dozen or so of Aesop’s fables.
The Creators
Ray Wenderlich is our programmer extraordinaire. He’s the founder of Razeware, which has already put out several popular apps like Instant Poetry and Math Ninja (a game that lets kids be a ninja while mastering arithmetic — math just got a whole lot cooler!), and runs a programming-centric blog. He likes sushi, gaming, and is a big fan of Kermit the frog.
Vicki Wenderlich is Ray’s prettier half, and our graphics goddess. When she’s not conjuring our winsome fables characters, along with whatever other art Ray and I ask for, into existence, she’s a ceramic sculpture artist and runs a ceramics-centric blog. She loves cheese, animals and long walks gabbing with her twin sister.
Andrea Coulter: that’s me! I’m Vicki’s aforementioned twin sister (yes, we’re identical), and I’m the writer of the bunch. I also work on concept and design development with Ray and Vicki, and tackle some behind-the-scenes tasks that aren’t nearly as fun to talk about as programming or art. I write novels and run a writing-centric blog under my pen name Lynn Colt. I love cheese, animals and long walks gabbing with my sister (see, I told you we were twins!).
And that’s us! We’re hoping to launch the Wild Fables app in mid- to late-March 2011. Sign up on the main page of our website to be kept in the loop!
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Hey guys! The site looks awesome! As if I wasn’t excited enough about the Wild Fables app, I am totally stoked now!! The video is great. I can’t wait for the release. A job well done!
I’ve been a huge fan of Ray’s blog and tutorial postings. I am also passionate about quality interactive digital media for children. I love the touch and physics aspects of these storybooks – and can see parent/child sharing an interactive experience. It is wonderful to see such sharp, passionate folks helping out our kids and sharing their knowledge!!!
THANK YOU.
@ Stephanie – thanks! The video took forever, since we are (well, I am at least!) video-making n00bs, lol
@ Margaret – We’re so excited that other people are excited about Wild Fables too – we’ve put so much into our animals and their interactions, so we hope people like playing with the stories as much as we do!
Hi. Your app looks awesome. I write an app review blog. Can I get a promo code for the other stories and I’ll write a review for them.
Blog address is
http://www.momjacked.blogspot.com
My first app is coming put this spring. I’m very excited. It’s aimed at a niche market of Muslim families
If your company is ever interested in multicultural fables and folk tales. I would be happy to collaborate. I am an educational wrist with fifteen titles in print. I like Hodja and Anansi stories.
All the best
Suzanne Muir
Author
Love your graphics Vicki…didn’t know you draw as well as sculpt…Great job all of you!
Hi Vicki & Ray,
I just purchased your app, Wild Fables. I downloaded it to my new iPad 2
… It was really well done. My 8 year old daughter just loved it and read all 5 stories within the first hour we bought it. Interactivity was well done, not overdone, but had enough interesting features to keep a young child engaged.
I am an iphone/ipad developer and just started Game App development. I am new to Cocos2D (finished Steffen’s book). I have gone through some of Ray’s tutorials, they are so helpful. I am also waiting for his new book.
Please produce more children’s stories …. and I would love to see a tutorial on how to build a page or two of an interactive book like that.
cheers, best of luck.
Majid Moghadam
Hi Majid! Thanks for checking out Wild Fables, and we’re so glad you and your daughter loved it
We will definitely keep working on more fables, and are having a great time putting together the next one, The And & The Chrysalis.
It’s great to hear the the tutorials have been helpful; Ray works hard on them and is always happy to see how they’ve helped out other programmers. Good luck with your game app ventures!
Please come to my App party! I’m hosting an app party on Sat. Nov 12th 9am-4pm EST on my FB page Over The Moon Stories. I am hoping you might consider participating with some promo codes as Wild Fables is one of my favourite apps!
I have 650 followers on FB now but I’m going to advertise on FB using an ad to bring more party-goers to the page. Also many other developer and app review pages will link in on that day for a broader reach.
Please get in touch if you can participate! Thanks for your help….
Hi Vicky,
Just want to thank you for your sprites for tower defense game:) Very handy.
All the best,
E.