Squirrel & Bear

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Squirrel & Bear
Basic data

Publishing year 2014
operating system Mobile app: Android, iOS
category Educational game
License chargeable
squirrel-baer.de

Squirrel & Bär is an English learning game and point-and-click adventure game for children by the German development company the Good Evil GmbH from 2014. The game is available on iOS devices (iPad and iPhone) as well as for all Android devices from version 2.3 playable. In the year of publication, the game won several prizes, including the German Developer Award 2014 for the best children's game and the TOMMI children's software award for the “Preschool & Kindergarten” area.

Game content

In the game, the main characters Squirrel and Bear have to save the sick bees and get a medicinal plant that is guarded by the lynx in the distant mountains. To get to the medicinal plant, Squirrel and Bear have to travel through the forest and the city to the mountains and have adventures in the process. During the adventures, the players learn the English language as the characters speak English outside the forest and they have to communicate with them. For this purpose they got a vocabulary book from the badger.

Learning concept

The players learn the English language by having to communicate with the various animals outside the forest, gradually building up their vocabulary.

Development and reception

The game was developed by the Cologne- based programming company the Good Evil GmbH with the support of the Film- und Medienstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen . The idea and the game design come from company founder Linda Kruse, the programming and scripting by Guido Lorenz and Renaud van Strydonck and the illustration and animation of the illustration and animation by Ulla Schmidt, the theme music was by Rolf Lammers and Jonas Schweitzer- Faust produces. The English texts were spoken with up to 900 vocabulary by English native speakers in studio quality and correspond to the European Framework of Reference for language acquisition at level A1.

The game's concept was nominated for the German computer game award as the best young talent in 2012. In the year of publication, the game won the German Developer Award 2014 as the best children's game, the German Children's Software Award TOMMI for the “Preschool & Kindergarten” area, the Pedagogical Interactive Award PÄDI 2014 as “Best Apps for Children” and the Giga-Maus 2014 as “Best Foreign language learning program “excellent. In September 2016 it was selected as app of the month by the German Academy for Children's and Youth Literature .

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c Official website for Squirrel & Bear ; accessed on October 7, 2017.
  2. ↑ Squirrel & Bär  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / deutscherentwicklerpreis.de   on the website of the German Developer Award; accessed on October 7, 2017.

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