Grimm’s Hansel and Gretel for iOS and OS X – Out now!

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We’re delighted to announce the launch of Grimm’s Hansel and Gretel ~ 3D Interactive Pop-up Book for both iOS and OS X. The last few months have been a wonderful experience for us. We hope you and your little ones enjoy Grimm’s Hansel and Gretel as much as we’ve enjoyed making it.

Grimm’s Hansel and Gretel is our biggest and most interactive children’s book to date. It feature 39 beautifully presented pages of text, eleven fun and interactive pop-up scenes with simple games and tasks to perform along with full professional voice narrations in four languages.

You can find out more about Grimm’s Hansel and Gretel at the product website. For press information, including localised screen shots and press releases, please download the press pack.

App Updates

We have quite a few app updates going live today as well. The most notable of which is, of course, the long awaited Retina update to our classic literature apps, 3D Classic Literature Collection, Grimm’s Fairy Tales and Sherlock Holmes. We’ve had a lot of requests for this feature update and we’re delighted to finally have it ready just in time for the holidays.

As always, we would love to hear your feedback. You can send us an email at feedback@idealbinary.com or you can catch us on Twitter and Facebook.

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Ideal Binary’s Rapunzel wins iLounge iPod/iPhone Kids’ App of the Year

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Ideal Binary’s Rapunzel wins iLounge iPod/iPhone Kids’ App of the Year.

November 1st 2011 – Ideal Binary, the Dublin, Ireland based developer interactive books for Children is delighted to announce that its Grimm’s Rapunzel for iOS has been awarded iPod/iPhone Kids’ App of the Year by the influential ilounge (http://iLounge.com) the internet’s top site for iPhone and iPad information and reviews.

“As parents of young children, we’re always thrilled when app developers create fun new ways to tell stories,” said Jeremy Horwitz, Editor-in-Chief of iLounge. “Ideal Binary’s version of the classic Grimm’s Rapunzel is a wonderful example of ‘thinking outside the box’ — literally making the pages of a book burst to life with interactive elements, voices, and art that would have been impossible only three years ago. A beautiful concept with great execution.”

Available on iPad®, iPhone®, iPod touch® and Mac® platforms Grimm’s Rapunzel is a uniquely presented adaptation of the classic Grimm Brothers’ tale. Featuring beautifully illustrated interactive 3D pop-up scenes to accompany the text, the reader can interact with the story in an entirely new way, playing with screen elements or viewing scenes from new perspectives.

“We’re thrilled to win such a prestigious award” said Ideal Binary co-founder Kevin Doolan. “iLounge is a key authority and go-to source for trusted reviews, so this is a great endorsement. We look forward to entertaining many more iLounge readers with a full roadmap of titles over the coming year.”

Grimm’s Rapunzel is the second in a series of books which also includes Grimm’s Red Riding Hood and a soon to be released retelling of the classic Hansel & Gretel story.

Find out more at http://www.idealbinary.com

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Founded in 2008, Ideal Binary is a Dublin, Ireland based developer and publisher of interactive entertainment content. Building on it’s proprietary PopIris™ enhanced ebook engine, Ideal Binary develops highly innovative and entertaining software including interactive books and games.

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iLounge 2011 Developer of the Year Awards

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We are delighted to announce that Ideal Binary has been nominated for a 2011 Application Developer of the Year award by iLounge. This is an amazing honor, and a huge endorsement of our company and the apps we’ve developed.

Voting is open to the public! Please show your support by voting for Ideal Binary as Application Developer of the Year here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/FWVJYS9

There are 4 categories, and you must vote in each category for your vote to count. Thanks for your support!

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Grimm’s Red Riding Hood for OSX

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We’re delighted to announce the release of Grimm’s Red Riding Hood ~ 3D Interactive Pop-up Book for OSX. This version is virtually identical to the iOS version, less tilt control during the pop-up scenes.

We’re also happy to report that the app has appeared up front on the Mac App Store in New and Noteworthy and as a main feature! This is our second Mac book app to be featured prominently so we’re very happy, to say the least!

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Grimm’s Red Riding Hood for iOS

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It’s been less than a week since we released Grimm’s Red Riding Hood ~ 3D Interactive Pop-up Book for iOS, but it’s already exceeded our expectations by a long, long way. We were amazed at how quickly it rose in the charts globally. In particular, it hit the number one spot in the iPad Books category in Germany (top 50 overall in the iPad chart) after only two days in the wild and has remained there until today when it fell back to the number two spot. It continues to hold it’s position high in the top 5 in the iPad Books category in France and is doing fantastically well in both the US and the UK.

After only a few hours on the App Store we appeared in “New and Noteworthy” in the UK on both iPhone and iPad which is a wonderful endorsement of the app.

UPDATE – It’s been another four days and we simply had to update this post with a shot of the iPad Book chart in France. Grimm’s Red Riding Hood and Rapunzel are topping the charts in France too!

To celebrate the release, we’re running a promotional competition. We’re giving away custom t-shirts featuring artwork from all of our titles and we’ll be adding more designs to the design selection over the coming days and weeks. You can find out more about the competition at the product web site.

As a bonus, we’re making 3D Classic Literature Collection for iPhone free for a limited time so if you haven’t already got it, now is your chance!

We also have good news for our Mac customers. We submitted the OSX build of Grimm’s Red Riding Hood around about the same time as the iOS version, so expect to see that on the Mac App Store any day now.

We have some big feature updates planned for PopIris™, not to mention we’re already well into production on our next big project. So stay tuned for more in the coming weeks!

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