It’s still very Wild West and experimental right now and it is really exciting.Įnochs: The first movies were a locomotive and a guy running and that was it, and everyone was thrilled. Oldenburg: It harkens back to the early days of film. What is it like working in such uncharted territory?
We’ve all grown up reading about all this wonderful fantastic stuff, and then it doesn’t come to fruition. There is a sort of retro nostalgic vibe to our company that is rooted in science fiction. Oldenburg: Part of our mission here is to bring the future that never was back to the forefront. We try to generate our own internal projects half the time and the other half of the time we want to work on collaborative projects with outside parties. Morris Lessmore,’ a magical story app that appeared on many top 10 app lists of 2011.Įnochs: We think of ourselves as a storytelling outfit. Savvy iPad owners may know Moonbot Studios as the creators of ‘The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. To do this they jump on them, spin them, smash them and pull them apart using various tools.Īnd you - the reader? the player? - have to help them. ‘The Numberlys ‘ is set in a black-and-white world inspired in part by Fritz Lang’s ‘Metropolis,’ where only numbers exist until five little guys decide to create the alphabet by transforming numbers into letters. One might describe it as one of the few storytelling apps that takes into account the iPad’s unique functionality. IPad owners, get psyched: The creative people over at Moonbot Studios have just released ‘The Numberlys,’ a new iPad and iPhone app that is not quite a movie, not quite a book and not quite a game - although it includes elements of all three. This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links.