Bio
Mind Candy’s vision is to create worlds that fire the imagination. Our flagship product is Moshi Monsters which has grown to over 98m registered users online and has also expanded successfully offline into best selling books, magazines, toys, trading cards, music albums and a movie. Creating magical entertainment on mobile and tablet is at the heart of what we do at Mind Candy and we’re now developing several groundbreaking new products, including Petlandia, a crazy world where pets and pop culture collide.
Session
Managing a Monster Flash Project
Moshi Monsters is an extremely popular online social game for kids with over 25 million members and growing...fast!!!
It is the world of adoptable monsters, combining adorable virtual pets with social online gameplay and educational puzzles for children.
The puzzles test a variety of skills including basic maths, spatial awareness, logic, counting, anagrams and vocabulary.
Over 25 million monsters have been created to date and over two million new players joining each month making Moshi Monsters one of the world's fastest growing children's sites with one new player joining every second!
To date, hundreds of millions of educational puzzles have been played and millions of virtual items sold each day!
We will share some of our secrets in managing such a large, on-going flash project and give an account of a day in the life of a Front-End Developer at Mind Candy.