Own project / in-house · Consulting & Build
Oooka & BOOOKA World
A kids' video game about the two Nice Monsters, still in active development.
Challenge
Create a gentle, open-ended video game for young children, based on Joshua's own characters Oooka and BOOOKA — the two Nice Monsters. The game needed to be kind and playful, with no scores, timers, or pressure to come back every day.
Approach
This is Joshua's own in-house project. Candy builds the game, Dana leads design, and Wally writes the stories. The looks of the characters come from Joshua's source images. The team has built a browser play world with a mushroom-house home, rooms and places to explore, dress-up, furniture children can sit and sleep on, and touch reactions with sound. Art goes into the game only after Joshua has approved it. A story bible keeps the world consistent.
Outcome
A playable game has been built and revised through many versions. It remains in active development, and it has not been published as a public launch. No player counts, sales or other results are claimed here.
