"Mathogen is frighteningly addictive. Not only is it beautiful to look at, the gameplay mechanics offer a near-perfect balance of work and play."
"This app is simply fun and the music is soothing. Money well spent! The bonus is that it helps with the simple arithmetic. This app would be good for kids of all ages."
- 123ok
"This app is easy to play and fun for all ages! I played it my entire lunch break. I can't wait to show it to my 4-year old niece so that she can improve her math skills!"
- rooooon
"This is a wonderfully quick and addictive game. Easy to pick up, hard to put down."
- TheJesusZombie
"I haven't bought many apps, but I sure am glad I got this one. It just came out and I'm hooked. Fair warning though...I've already gotten into fights with my wife and daughter because they want to play this app too. My daughter is just learning basic math and already after only a couple of hours it seems like she actually likes math and wants to play (shhh...learn). Oh well, whatever gets kids to want to learn. Great app, recommend it to everyone."
- ParkerIan
"The game's art and wonderful taste are worth the ticket price. Luckily, it also comes with a fun and frantic math game!"
- onionsaregross
"This game is simple and art is so beautiful."
- jun spacey
"As a parent, I've just about given up hope finding an educational app that will hold my children's attention for longer than 5 simultaneous plays. But just as I was about ready to write off it's existence entirely, the ever elusive app introduces itself as 'Mathogen!'"
- SuperMomOf3_808
"Fun little math game, it's simple but addicting. Great for my kids to play to practice their math skills. Keep up the good work, i look forward to future updates."
- eminay
I thought this interview with Joshua Davis was very interesting. I've been following his output for 10 years now. I'm having fun messing with his HYPE Framework -- an Actionscript animation library. Someone referred me to Wonderfl.net and suggested that I upload some of my AS3 projects for peer review. Sounds like a great idea.
I love this visualization by LolApps. It shows their engineers working on the code base. Not sure how long it took it took them to gather the data to produce this.
All 239 blog entries I posted over the past 2 years of development of Mathogen were lost due to database corruption. Rather than mourn the loss of 2 years of thought collection, fan interaction, and objective c consumption, I've decided to instead look forward and continue to improve. I'd been planning a site redesign for a long time anyway.
At this pivotal time in the development of Mathogen I'd like to address the intent of this website. Mathogen.com exists to showcase the thought process, development process, design decisions, and current inspirations that promote the continued development of my game Mathogen.
Mathogen version 1.1 was completed in the fall of 2009. After completing the development and initial upgrade of the game I decided to focus on porting the game to Flash in Actionscript 3.0 to offer as a free game to users on Facebook. I am primarily interested in creating games that contribute to the development of critical thinking, essential pattern matching, and entertaining experiences.
No time to dwell on the loss. Time to code!
David Neely is a one-man powerhouse of indie creativity. Neely has been singing and playing guitar in his Hoku-nominated band LINUS! for the past 10 years. He consumes far too much coffee while coding and enjoys sharing his passion for making independent video games.
In 2006, Neely received his B.A. in Information and Computer Science from the University of Hawaii at Manoa -- focusing on mobile application development, film theory, and sound design. Neely just returned from touring Japan with his band and is currently porting his educational iPhone game Mathogen to the Facebook platform.
email: david@mathogen.com
twitter: @deeniri
music: www.linustheband.com
portfolio: www.deeniri.com
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