A very special book app
Our book app for iPads and Android tablets combines the wonderful story "Meta Morfoss" by the German writer Peter Hacks (1928-2003) with illustrations by the Russian illustrator, animator and game designer Max Litvinov (aka Kclogg).
What's special about the app is the "reading quest" format. Users read the text and search for particular keywords, which are animated when tapped, making something happen in the picture. Thus readers grad… Mehr anzeigen
German enhanced e-books and book apps are often aimed in terms of content and design at children who are still being read aloud to. However, our "Meta Morfoss" app is for children who can already read and for whom there is little available in app stores. We also want reading on a tablet to remain a scintillating, rewarding experience and that this be due to a literary text itself - not its retelling or adaptation but good, real literature.
We want to explo… Mehr anzeigen
Our book app for children focuses on reading and the text from which the illustrations should not distract. Our reading quest format is unique in the world. It combines the fun of reading with the fun of technology.
Our prototype is ready. Help and support us to produce our unique app for children! With your help we can have our "Meta Morfoss" app in the stores from mid-2014!
We will be able to pay the freelancers in our team – the illustrator, the UX/UI designer, the sound designer and the programmer. Some of the money will also go towards testing and preparing the launch in app stores.
Our publishing house Daktylos Media: Interactive Children's Books produces and distributes children's apps for iPads and Android tablets.
Anna Burck is responsible for the publishing side, editing, marketing and press relations, rights and licensing. She worked with several publishers during her studies of contemporary German literature and Russian in Berlin and Moscow. Afterwards, she managed several cultural projects, focusing on online editing and market… Mehr anzeigen
Daktylos Media
Der Berliner Eulenspiegel Verlag hat sich 1990 mit den Verlagen Neues Leben und Das Neue Berlin zusammengeschlossen. Er bietet ein breites Spektrum an Belletristik und Sachbuch und hat die Gesamtausgabe von Peter Hacks' Werken herausgegeben.
Denis (co-founder of Startnext)
