Welcome to the ApolloGames.ca Blog

Apollogames.ca is an innovative, independent game company located in Guelph, Ontario. Led by a core team of conceptors and programmers with strong experience in design and programming, Apollogames.ca specializes in the design of high quality online games and virtual environments for youth and lifelong learners that are a combination of entertaining and challenging interfaces and unique educational features.

With the launch of its groundbreaking literacy game ‘Speare (patent pending), Apollogames.ca is set to release a range of new games for youth who spend significant time exploring the online game world. Our goal is to produce fun games that educate across a wide range of disciplines and topics for a wide range of learners, from kindergarten through to lifelong learners.

Apollogames.ca also hosts other independent designers whose work meets the standards we have set, and consults with these designers to produce new integrated learning environments that set a new standard for quality and innovation on the web.

The Apollogames.ca site will serve as an ever-expanding portal that aims to stimulate new forms of educational gaming in the larger community of independent designers and to host those games within a cutting-edge design and technical environment.

Our aim is to entertain and educate simultaneously, with equal attention to both these aspects of any game; and we recognize that games are an important but substantially underused way of learning effectively.

We are community-based, collaborative, and committed to producing the highest quality games for young minds that can be found on the web.

Apollogames.ca is a wholly owned subsidiary of SpeareCorp.com.Inc.

ApolloGames.ca announces the release of 'Speare, a fun, interactive, online game that teaches language and literacy skills. Based on Romeo and Juliet, ‘Speare integrates video game technology and educational elements, creating an addictive online game that is both fun and informative.

Check out www.apollogames.ca on April 23, 2007 for more information on 'Speare.

Sunday, April 22, 2007

President blogs 'Speare launch

Shakespeare's Birthday

On Monday 23rd April 2007, we will host a party to celebrate Shakespeare birthday (and incidentally the day of his death as well). We are about halfway through the Shakespeare - Made in Canada festival http://www.shakespearemadeincanada.ca/ which is centered on the Canadian Adaptations of Shakespeare website http://www.canadianshakespeares.ca/ and the exhibition at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre. The festival has been a great success and the exhibition has attracted almost twice the visitors to the Art Centre. In fact, we have extended the hours of opening to accommodate the extra guests.

In association with the birthday celebrations, we will be launching the literacy game 'Speare. This is a unique interactive video-game based on the language of Shakespeare in his play Romeo and Juliet. Through an innovative interactive folio and a learning commons, the game presents a new way to read and understand Shakespeare. At the same time, the language skills of players is vastly improved. In association with the launch we are also launching a new website ApolloGames.ca which we hope will attract people to the literacy game.

Check out the websites.

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Screenshots from Speare