Language Development Game
Electric Funstuff, interactive production company for Children's Television's Workshop produced this educational game that helps kids improve their English and science skills. They needed someone who could illustrate in CTWs distinctive style.

Choose a Science Topic
With an audience of small children, I kept it simple, used bright colors, and made large buttons with shapes that describe their function. With the teacher's help, kids select English or Spanish, a science topic and create a user name.

Game Show Theme
Choosing a game show theme, I designed a stage for the simple text, picture questions and clues that teach children to use association to learn new words. I animated CTW style characters that popped in and out to interact with the player.

Multiple Choice
Multiple choice uses text for the questions and pictures for the answers to associate imagery with text in a fun way. I used Illustrator to draw and color the line art then imported the screens into Photoshop to cut out the elements for programming.

Picture Question
Animated characters help kids through the various games and challenges and appear to offer clues if the child is playing poorly. Questions in the form of pictures help children increase their visual awareness and reasoning skills.

The Production Team
Design, illustration and animation: Kathy Konkle. Production Company: Electric Funstuff for Children's Television Workshop. Sound and video: Spencer Grey. Programmed by: David Longdogen