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Toca Boca
Company blog · tocaboca.com/magazineculturegames
Toca Boca is the company blog at tocaboca.com, writing about culture and games. Since 2012, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Site of the Toca Boca children's app developer. HN commenters link it for its kids' games and press posts, including the Toca TV update and the ownership change to Spin Master.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Toca Boca creates digital toys and games for kids. Play Toca Boca World, Toca Boca Jr, and more — available on iOS and Android. A Spin Master studio.
Most-linked posts?
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-03-12
What Hacker News says?
On toca-boca ownership, it's now owned by Spin Master: https://www.bonnier.com/en/news/bonniers-app-hit-toca-boca-t... https://tocaboca.com/press-post/toca-boca-and-sago-mini-join...
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on “Video Games Are the Future of Education”Submitted Toca Pet Doctor: The story as a story · 2 points
HN discussionA plea to parents purchasing iPad Apps for children: Stop buying apps that do stuff like this. If you see that an app has a $99 in-app berry purchase, don't download or buy it. If you see that an app encourages children to poke and sling animals and destroy things, don't buy it. Do a small bit of research to see if the app was designed with your child's age in mind. Buy apps from trusted sources like http://tocaboca…
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on “A Dad’s Plea To Developers Of iPad Apps For Children”Submitted There are many reasons some kids aren't playful as a story · 1 points
HN discussionToca Boca tried this with their Toca TV service, but it was discontinued because subscription rates were too low. If anyone could do it it should be them, having proven that it is possible to charge for kids' apps with no in app purchases. https://tocaboca.com/press-post/toca-tv-update/
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on “The Worst Job in Technology: Staring at Human Depravity to Keep It Off Facebook”Submitted Kids Are People: A Radical Idea as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIt turns out, there's a huge market for this! Had Glitch not been stuck on Flash and was able to pivot to mobile it may have been a success. My daughter, her friends, her cousins, are all obsessed with Toca Boca ( https://tocaboca.com/ ) which is nothing more than digital "barbie", a game you can play forever, fully powered by your imagination. It's also the reason Minecraft is still so popular: it's a platform for…
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on “The death of Glitch, the birth of Slack”There's a Swedish iOS game developer that's quite successful as well, Toca Boca. They're doing games for the small ones and as a father of two I have every single game they've developed on my iPads. Quality work that sits well with my kids. http://tocaboca.com
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on “Why are there so many successful Swedish gaming companies?”Toca Boca apps generally get good reviews: http://tocaboca.com/
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on “Ask HN: Good tablet games for children with autism ”Every kid is different, but IMO the most important meter of screen time is: can they walk away from the device without issues, or can you take it away without causing a meltdown? If so, everything is fine. How you get there depends on the kid a lot, some need hard screen time limits, some can moderate on their own. You need to normalise the device, it's not a treat for something else or a magical device that they re…
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on “Ask HN: How do you handle tech use with your kids?”
