Mix Master 2 launches on Addicting Games

August 25, 2010 – The latest in our popular Mix Master series has launched on Addicting Games. Mix Master 2 features heavy hitting Hip Hop tracks and attitude. Check it out here!

NDi Media signs distribution deal with MOffY Limited for Music Platform

July 15, 2010 – NDi Media is pleased to announce an agreement with MOffY Limited to create localized versions of our popular music platform throughout the far east. Initial languages will include Chinese, Malay, Indonesian, and Thai, with more to follow. NDi is excited to partner with MOffY and offer this now-famous platform internationally. More news as this multi-lingual story unfolds -- stay tuned!

Six new games in development for American Greetings

July 2010 – NDi Media is currently producing six more games for American Greetings’ tremendously popular Strawberry Shortcake™ property. Each unique game will feature one of the Strawberry Gang from Berry Bitty City™: Blueberry Muffin™, Raspberry Torte™, Lemon Meringue™, Plum Pudding™, Orange Blossom™, and Strawberry Shortcake™ herself! Be sure to check them out this fall.

NDi Media delivers Toshiba™ Laptops Mix Master to Addicting Games

July 2010 – NDi has created another branded version of the Mix Master – this time for technology heavyweights Toshiba and Intel™. Users can choose to create a pulsating, high-energy mix using the Electro Dance loops, or take it to the streets by slammin’ the Hip Hop loops into a funky groove. Check it out here!

Minimops launches on National Geographic Little Kids

June 2010 – NDi's own Minimops have joined famous pre-school brands Mama Mirabelle and Toot and Puddle on National Geographic’s Little Kids website. Now millions of preschoolers will enjoy playing the games and activities featuring these cute little characters. Click here to play!

Industry veteran Meinert Hansen joins NDi as Creative Director

April 20, 2010 – NDi Media is pleased to announce that industry veteran Meinert Hansen has joined NDi as Creative Director.

Among Meinert’s many accomplishments are:

Concept artist, illustrator, storyboard writer, production designer for a number of international blockbusters such as “300”, “Across the Universe”, “Silent Hill”, “The Spiderwick Chronicles”, “Leatherheads”, “District 9”, “2012” and a range of animated television series and features

Ubisoft Entertainment: Lead Concept Artist / Senior Art Director “Myst 4: Revelation” (the sequel to the Myst series and concept art and storyboards for “Splinter Cell: Conviction”

"Meinert is a unique creative artist," said Neil Smolar, president of NDi Media. "His work is an inspiration," he continued. " And his passion and vision will illuminate all of our projects."

As the creator of two of NDi Media’s most valuable and important properties, Hans Hans the Biking Viking and Detective One, Meinert has a long and successful relationship with NDi.

"I'm thrilled to be a part of the dynamic and talented team at NDi and look forward to participating in the many exciting projects it has to offer," said Meinert. "I value NDi's strong commitment to original content and their keen sense of how new media and entertainment properties can grow and prosper in the digital world."

Meinert is joining NDi at an important juncture in the company’s history. The company expects to launch a number of its original properties both online and for broadcast over the coming year. With the "Virtual World of Music" launching on National Geographic Games in May and production kicking off on "Muzika", an important new online game being developed in partnership with Cookie Jar Entertainment, Meinert’s talents will have an immediate impact.

NDi game attracts 22 million players

April 1, 2010 – NDi Media’s game Mind Your Manners has garnered close to 22 million game plays since its debut last year in March. Created for American Greetings for their Kid Zone website and game portal, the game features Strawberry Shortcake and friends in a tea-party time management game.

Also extremely popular are NDi’s Strawberry Shortcake Berrylicious Bake-Off with over 18 million plays (in only 5 months!), Care Bears Belly Ball with well over 11 million plays and Sushi Pack Save Our City with nearly 10 million plays. With numbers like these it comes as no surprise that NDi’s games are by far the most popular on the American Greetings portal!

Two new licenses for NDi’s preschool property Minimops

March 24, 2010 – NDi Media has recently sold licenses for its Minimops property to both TVO Kids as well as to National Geographic’s Little Kids division.

It is no surprise that these adorable little doodles have been attracting so much attention, as they are absolutely irresistible not only to preschoolers but to their caregivers as well.

Designed especially for the preschool set, games include animated dot-to-dot, growing an interactive flower, and putting together the cutest dinosaur puzzles you’ve ever seen, all which can be seen at www.minimops.com.

NDi Media at GDC San Francisco

February 24, 2010 – NDi Media Paul Mackie (Co-Founder, Director of Finance and Operations) will be attending this year’s annual Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco from March 9-13th. He’ll be demonstrating the versatility of NDi’s unique music platform, which allows users to mix, save and share their own creations.

Paul will be seeking related development opportunities focusing on the social gaming space. Please contact us at info@ndimedia.com for a meeting at the conference.

NDi Media at Kidscreen Summit in New York City Feb. 10-12

January 25, 2010 – NDi Media president Neil Smolar will attend the Kidscreen Summit in New York City from February 10-12, 2010. NDi has some exciting new properties to show off this year!

Kidscreen is widely considered the world's leading conference on the business of kids entertainment, hosting more than 1,400 attendees from around the world. Please contact schutter@ndimedia.com to arrange a meeting.

NDi Media creating 4 new games for TVOntario

January 6, 2010 – NDi Media is pleased today to announce that it has been commissioned by TVO to create 4 new games, set to launch this February. The Arctic-themed games will feature new original characters developed by NDi Media. Aimed at young children ages 3 to 5 years old, NDi will be creating one of its very special music games as well as some arts and crafts activities and more. Check back soon to see the new artwork!

NDi Media and National Geographic partner to develop Virtual World of Music Game

December 13, 2009 – Game will let fans of all ages come together to create, share and discover a world of music across multiple platforms.

Set to launch in early 2010, "Virtual World of Music" builds on NDi Media's Mixing Studio platform, which has been used by millions of players worldwide.

Designed by composers and tested by kids, the mixing platform guarantees that pros and novices alike will mix great-sounding songs every time via the game.

See the National Geographic Press Release here

NDi Media launching its own platform for music lovers in Québec

October 21, 2009 – Clique Audio, based in part on NDi’s hugely popular Mixing Studio game, will feature some of the province’s best music artists. Experience NDi Media’s seminar titled “The launch of a compelling music-themed world” at the Montreal International Game Summit on November 16th at the Hilton Bonaventure Hotel from 2:45 – 3:45 PM.

NDi Media president Neil Smolar speaker at the 4th Annual New Brunswick Film and Television Industry Summit

September 15, 2009 – In partnership with The New Brunswick Producers Association, the 4th Annual New Brunswick Film and Television Industry Summit will take place on September 30th, 2009 from 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM at the Delta Beausejour Hotel in Moncton. The focus of the Summit is on New Media and the impact it will have on New Brunswick’s film and television industry. Neil will be giving a presentation about the relationship between new media, film and television as well as providing experienced insight into the process of deal-making in the online entertainment industry. Please email schutter@ndimedia.com for a meeting.

NDi Media announces upcoming music projects

September 11, 2009 - NDi Media would like to thank Telefelim New Media for their support of its music project called Clique Audio, currently in production. Clique Audio. is a music platform where players can create, save and share mp3’s of music they create themselves. Players can also attend virtual concerts, enter contests, rate their peers and much more.

Telefilm’s support has allowed NDi Media to enter into an agreement with National Geographic Games. It will create a version for them, as well as another version in French for Quebec featuring artists and musicians from La Belle Province.

Another hit for NDi’s Mix Master with Sears

September 9, 2009 - NDi Media is pleased to announce the launch of Mix Master for Sears playable here. The 8th versions of this game, subsequently NDi’s most popular to date, has once again received rave reviews with an over 90% approval rating and almost 400,000 players in the last month. It’s no wonder this game just keeps rockin’…check back soon for more news about new features!

The Minimops are online!

September 1, 2009 – NDi Media is proud to announce the launch of www.minimops.com, a website dedicated to young kids. The Minimops are cute little doodle characters who join kids in fun games and activities such as playing music, drawing rainbows, making puzzles, connecting the dots and growing flowers! Stay tuned for frequent updates of new and exciting content!

NDi releases “The Well”: The first webisode featuring Hans Hans

September 1, 2009 - “The Well”, an original NDi animated webisode has made its debut on Nickelodeon and here for non-US resident. In this two minute webisode, Hans Hans is mislead by one of Loki’s shape shifting tricks and loses his precious parcel: A mysterious Egg for Freya! What’s more, Hans is thrown into a Well, leaving Loki alone with the Egg... and his cooking gear!

Will Hans get out in time to save the Egg, and his delivery?

NDi Media signs a deal with National Geographic Games

August 7, 2009 - NDi Media is pleased to announce this new agreement with National Geographic Games to create a Virtual World of Music, set to be launched in January 2010. More news to follow...stay tuned!

Embark on Hans Hans the Biking Viking’s newest adventure:
Leaving Loki’s Lockup on nick.com!

Loki has managed to lure Thor into the dungeons of his castle (promising a tasty sandwich), hoping that this will induce the great God to give up his mighty magical hammer. Meanwhile, Hans Hans shows up at the dungeon’s gates with a package for Thor, only to fall in one of Loki’s traps as well! Hans must now navigate with his companions through the depths of Loki’s lockup, in hopes of retreiving Thor’s hammer and finding a way out.

• Navigate through 11 puzzling levels! Play the game by switching between up to 4 characters!
• Hans Hans, athletic jumper, special device activator
• Thor, the mightiest of all, boulder crusher and object mover
• Freya, young goddess, controls plants and shoots her bow
• Discover the fourth character yourself!
• Includes side-objectives in each level: the Rune hunt
• Follow the unfolding events and story throughout the game
• 3 beautiful animated videos
• Game can be saved and continued
• Fully voiced cast of characters
• Rich musical score and custom crafted sound effects

PLAY HERE!

READ THE REVIEW ON JAY IS GAMES (Casual Gameplay)

Excerpt from the review: "Everyone's cartoon personalities are so well carved: Hans's unshakable devotion for package delivery, Freya's boldness and obvious irritation with her less competent allies, Thor's unending desire for sandwiches, and Loki's evil scheming with a dash of incompetence are all easy to pick up."

NDi Media delivers McDonald’s DJ Music Party for Nickelodeon

June 26th, 2009 – NDi Media is proud to announce that its’ popular music game launched today on the Nickelodeon website. Following the success of Mix Master and Mix Master Beats (MTV/Addicting Games), NDi has been commissioned to create yet more versions for some well known brands. Check out the DJ Music Party here. Congratulations go out to the team at NDi for a job well done!

NDi Media attending the Vancouver International Partnering Forum

April 20, 2009 – NDi President Neil Smolar will be attending the Vancouver International Partnering Forum May 12-13, 2009. Held at the Vancouver Convention and Exhibition Centre in downtown Vancouver, this business matchmaking event brings together top Canadian and International digital media executives for two days.

Neil Smolar has extensive knowledge and interest in production, marketing, and business development, particularly licensing, partnerships and financing. Please contact schutter@ndimedia.com to arrange a meeting.

NDi’s own Hans Hans the Biking Viking picked up by Nickelodeon

March 9, 2009 – NDi Kids is proud to announce that its’ own property, Hans Hans the Biking Viking, has found a home with Nickelodeon Kids. Hans Hans was originally conceived by Meinert Hansen and developed further with the creative team at NDi.

Hans and friends will appear on Nick’s in a puzzle game called Leaving Loki’s Lockup. Hans Hans, Freya and Thor must coordinate their unique powers to solve Loki’s crazy conundrums. Stay tuned for development updates and launch date!

NDi attending the Flash Game Summit

March 2, 2009 – NDi Kids Creative Director, Vincent Regimbald, will be attending the Flash Gaming Summit on Sunday, March 22nd at The Solarium in San Francisco. Please contact regimbald@ndimedia.com for a meeting.

With over 8 years of experience with Flash animation, Vincent has worked in the development of a variety of Flash animated projects. In the past years he has worked on Brady’s Beasts, Mama Mirabelle, Iggy Arbuckle, and many other games for National Geographic, Discovery Education, Scholastic and Warner Bros.

NDi at the Game Developers Conference

February 23, 2009 - Neil Smolar, President of NDi Kids, will be attending the annual Game Developers Conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco from March 23rd – 27th 2009. Please contact Joanne at schutter@ndimedia.com to arrange a meeting.

Considered the most important event on the industry calendar, GDC offers a variety of tutorials, lectures, and roundtables by industry professionals on game-related topics covering programming, design, audio, production, business and management, and visual arts. The conference is intended to provide valuable insight into the future of gaming and new opportunities in mobile games, outsourcing, and digital distribution.

NDi’s second installment of Mix Master for Nickelodeon a hit!

February 20, 2009 - NDi’s game Mixing Studio, renamed as Mix Master for Nickelodeon’s Addicting Games portal, was a hit back in November with the original version. NDi is pleased to announce that the sequel was launched in early February and has proven to be a great success as well.Mix Master Beats provides a variety of new pop, metal and techno grooves for all tastes to enjoy. The game has already gotten close to half a million plays and ratings are a whopping 95% positive. Check it out and come back soon for a 3rd installment!

NDi Kids at the Kidscreen Summit

January 12, 2009 - Our Executive Producer Patricia Lavoie will be representing NDi Kids at the Kidscreen Summit in New York City from February 11th-13th, 2009. We’d be delighted to put our talents to work for you, please contact lavoie@ndikids.com to arrange a meeting.

Patricia Lavoie has been writing, directing, and producing film, television and new media for more than 25 years. Before joining NDi Kids Patricia spent seventeen seasons writing scripts and songs and developing curriculum for Sesame Street in Canada. Ms. Lavoie was responsible for producing the award-winning Wimzie’s House (112 x 30 min), for CBC, Radio-Canada and the prestigious Ready-to-Learn block of PBS. Other series credits include the mixed media PBS Caillou series, 52 episodes of Lassie (YTV, Animal Planet), 46 hour-long episodes of Emily of New Moon (CBC), the tween science series SciSquad (TVO, Discovery Channel USA), as well as several feature-length international coproductions with Australia, New Zealand,  France, Japan and the USA.

After many seasons of producing series television and movies for kids and families, Patricia took the leap and joined the online world at NDi Kids. Her multi-media credits include the Mama Mirabelle’s Home Movies website for PBS Kids/National Geographic Kids Entertainment (recently awarded the Parent’s Choice Award), as well as NDi Kids’ Wumpa’s World, and Hans Hans the Biking Viking, also an NDi property. She is now looking to extend NDi’s market from the broadcast world to the world of advertising, marketing and promotion.

NDi Kids’s Wumpa’s World live on Corus Entertainment’s Treehouse

December 30, 2008 – Wumpa’s World was officially launched on Treehouse.com, Corus Entertainment’s online portal for preschoolers. Playing online with Wumpa is just about the most fun a preschooler can possibly have in front of a screen. Wumpa’s World is filled with blue arctic skies, sunny days, aurora borealis nights and characters that will delight both preschoolers and their parents.

NDi Kids’ Wumpa’s World launches on PBS Kids Play!

December 22, 2008 - Wumpa’s World has arrived in PBS KIDS PLAY!, a broadband subscription service that offers a comprehensive early childhood curriculum for ages 3 to 6 using interactive games and activities. PBS KIDS PLAY! offers original games based on popular PBS Kids programs such as Curious George, Bob the Builder, Thomas & Friends as well as NDi’s online exclusive property Wumpa’s World. Wumpa’s World is an Arctic playground that explores shapes, patterns, and music in an environment of natural beauty. Kids can dive under the Arctic ice with Qitu the Seal to catch fish of all shapes and colors in Wumpa’s “Once a Fish,” learn the major scales by playing with the aurora borealis in “Sky Music” or engineer structures from the ground up in “Inukshuk.”

In its first nine months, PBS KIDS PLAY! received high recognition for its original broadband content, including:

• 2008 Parents' Choice Recommended Award Winner

• "Outstanding Products of 2008" iParenting Media Award Winner

• "2009 Teachers' Choice(SM) Award for the Family" Winner

In addition, Wumpa’s World and others will be featured at the Kids@Play Summit at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada January 8-11. Press Release

NDi’s Mix Master launched on Nickelodeon’s Addicting Games site

November 21, 2008 – NDi’s Mix Master, also known as The Mixing Studio, was launched as the “featured game” of Nickelodeon’s Addicting Games portal at midnight. Reviews are pouring in as already over 600,000 people have played the game, posting comments like “This game is FANTASTIC!!! One of the most creative games ever!” and even calling it a “mini Guitar Hero”. Make some music of your own here!

NDi Kids featured in this month’s Qui Fait Quoi

November 17th, 2008 – NDi Kids’ own properties Detective One and Hans Hans the Biking Viking are featured in the article titled Nouvelles Couleurs (“New Colours”). The piece discusses the rising popularity of the multi-platform animation industry in Quebec. Neil Smolar, President of NDi Kids, was interviewed for the article. Among other things, he points out that webisodes (especially shorts) can have some very interesting branding implications. See the article here.

Wumpa’s World officially launched on Corus’ Treehouse site

November 14th, 2007 - Embark on a whole new set of adventures with Wumpa! Along with the complete cast from Wumpa’s World, which kids have come to know and love, this arctic playground offers a whole new set of fun animations and games to play. Wumpa’s World is an NDi Kids property licensed to Corus Entertainment in Canada.

NDi’s President to speak at Web Conference

November 4, 2008 - Neil Smolar, president and co-founder of NDi Kids, will be speaking at a local event for l’association des juristes pour l’avancement de la vie artistique (l’ajava). The panel will take place here in Montreal on Friday, November 7th. The ajava association is involved in Quebec entertainment laws and promoting the industry in general. Neil will be demonstrating NDi’s web productions and talking about various business models. Please contact info@ndikids.com for more details.

NDi Kids at the Montreal Game Summit

October 27, 2008 - NDi Kids Technical Director Louis-Philippe Maurice and Creative Director Vincent Régimbald will be attending the Montreal International Game Summit this November 18-19, 2008 at the Palais des congrès de Montréal. NDi Kids, located in Montreal, would be pleased to meet any interested parties during their visit here. Please feel free to drop us a line at info@ndikids.com to coordinate a meeting.

NDi Kids celebrates its 7th Anniversary

October 24, 2008 - NDi Kids celebrated its 7th Anniversary on October 20th, 2008. Over the years, many talented people have contributed to this success. NDi wishes to extend its heartfelt gratitude to all of those who have helped make NDi the thriving studio it has become. Special thanks to NDi’s business partners for their support: Telefilm Canada, the Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund and the Business Development Bank of Canada. Thank you.

Another Mixing Studio license for NDi Media from ZDF Enterprises

October 15, 2008 - NDi Media has just inked another licensing deal for its very own property – The Mixing Studio. Worldwide distributors ZDF Enterprises have signed on to include the Mixing Studio as part of a multi-facetted media launch for their TV series The Elephant Princess. Scheduled to begin airing this October on multiple networks internationally, The Elephant Princess follows the exotic adventures of a rock playing teen who suddenly becomes princess of a magical kingdom..

NDi Media licenses its own Mixing Studio game to Nickelodeon’s Addicting Games

October 1, 2008 - NDi is producing original music and artwork for the Addicting Games Mixing Studio, set to launch this fall. The Mixing Studio is an original NDi Media game in which players mix, save and share songs they create themselves. Conceived by professional composers, The Mixing Studio’s sound loops are specially designed to create a great sound no matter what. Check back soon to try it out.

NDi Media games launched on AG KidZone

September 22, 2008 - Produced by NDi Media, the Strawberry Shortcake Mind your Manners game and the Care Bears Belly Ball are now live on American Greetings’ kids portal AG KidZone http://www.agkidzone.com/games.action. NDi Media was commissioned by American Greetings to create several games for their brands Strawberry Shortcake, Care Bears and stay tuned for the Sushi Pack game Mission Control, coming soon. Congratulations to the team at NDi media for their stunning work.

NDi Media wins Parents' Choice Award

September 4, 2008 - NDi has been recognized with a Parent’s Choice award for the creation of the Mama Mirabelle Home Movies  web site. PBS and National Geographic Kids Entertainment selected NDi to create the site based on its expertise with preschool brands. Congratulations go out to all involved in this winning success: Nikoo Asadi (Project Manager), Tina Nawrocki (Animation and design), Louis-Philippe Maurice (Lead programmer),  Vincent Regimbald (Creative Director), Patricia Lavoie (Producer), Neil Smolar (Executive Producer) in addition to all the folks at PBS and National Geographic. Be sure to check it out here: pbskids.org/mamamirabelle

NDi Media’s Patricia Lavoie to attend Mipcom 2008

August 2008 - Our Executive Producer Patricia Lavoie will be representing NDi Media at Mipcom in Cannes, France from October 13th – 17th. Please contact lavoie@ndikids.com and/or schutter@ndikids.com to arrange a meeting.

Patricia Lavoie has been writing, directing, and producing film, television and new media for more than 25 years. Before joining NDi Media Patricia spent seventeen seasons writing scripts and songs and developing curriculum for Sesame Street in Canada. Ms. Lavoie was responsible for producing the award-winning Wimzie’s House (112 x 30 min), for CBC, Radio-Canada and the prestigious Ready-to-Learn block of PBS. Other series credits include the mixed media PBS Caillou series, 52 episodes of Lassie (YTV, Animal Planet), 46 hour-long episodes of Emily of New Moon (CBC), the tween science series SciSquad (TVO, Discovery Channel USA), as well as several feature-length international coproductions with Australia, New Zealand,  France, Japan and the USA.

Ms. Lavoie co-produced the Gemini-nominated Moi/Me Too broadcast on Radio-Canada/CBC and her tween drama Mental Block premiered on YTV.  Her most recent series, Cotoons, won the Grand Prize for Excellence from The Alliance for Children and TV. Her multi-media credits include the Mama Mirabelle’s Home Movies website for PBS Kids/National Geographic Kids Entertainment (recently awarded the Parent’s Choice Award), as well as NDi Media’s Wumpa’s World. Hans Hans the Biking Viking, also an NDi property, is currently in production.

National Geographic Online Magazine signs another contract with NDi Media

July 2008 - National Geographic is back for more from NDi Media. NDi has been commissioned to create an application for dog lovers everywhere. Visitors will be able to share pictures and information about their dogs with other users. A highlight of the application will be its refined browsing and searching experience.

American Greetings games to launch

June 2008 - NDi is currently producing four games for the American Greetings brands Strawberry Shortcake, Sushi Pack and The Care Bears. Be sure to check them out this summer.

Warner Bros. commissions games

April 2008 - NDi Media is delighted to announce the production of three new games for Warner Bros., one of our favorite recurring clients.

Ideas coming to life

February 2008 - Meinert Hansen, creator of both Hans Hans the Biking Viking and Detective One, recently dropped by the NDi studio to say hello. Pictured at left are Meinert and NDi’s Nicolas Martin, whose artistic talents are featured in Detective One.

NDi Media creates Mama Mirabelle website for PBS and National Geographic

September 2007 - NDi Media is proud to announce the Official Mama Mirabelle site, online now! NDi Media has created both an Official as well as a Premium website to compliment and extend the Mama Mirabelle brand and television series. Mama Mirabelle is an elephant adventurer who shows her live action animal videos to animals she cares for like Karla (a zebra), Bo (a cheetah) and Max (her baby elephant son). The immersive website produced by NDi’s Patricia Lavoie, includes interactive games, music, videos, songs, printable materials and offline activities.

Scholastic goes digital with NDi Media!

September 2007 - On the heels of its success with Scholastic, NDi Media was hired by the digital division of Scholastic, eScholastic, to create games to accompany their book series. NDi Media is proud to announce it will be launching three new interactive websites for eScholastic, due to be delivered this winter.

Treasure Hunters is an exciting pirate quest game which complements the Scholastic book of the same name. Aimed at 9 to 11 year olds, players get cues in the book which prompts them to check out the website. Kids must solve a variety of puzzles to get to the treasure and can then redeem points to attain their own avatar, compare their treasure ranking with others in the community, swap treasure with them, and collect stamps of different places they have visited on the map.

In Ultimate Space, visitors are treated to a flash digging game, with missions based on Scholastic book themes. Geared mainly towards boys from 9 to 12 years old, the site also features NASA videos, a Space Club section, and premium members will even get complementary access to slooh.com, where they can use points accumulated in the game to purchase space station parts and décor!

Last but certainly not least, Friend2Friend promises loads of fun and camaraderie for girls between the ages of 9 and 12. The site is based on books by Scholastic whose themes range from friendship to school to fashion to boredom busters. Once logged in, users will be able to create their own websites (with their own URL!). They can then add photos and pictures which can be rated by other users. They can also participate in message boards, check out how many of their friends are online, answer polls and much more!

NDi Media does arithmetic with Scholastic!

September 2007 - Considered a separate project but also residing on Scholastic’s upcoming Study Jams website, Step-By-Step is composed of a series of 85 mathematical exercises, presented in a simple, step-by-step format.

NDi Media rocks with Scholastic!

September 2007 - NDi has licensed its Mixing Studio to Scholastic for their upcoming Study Jams website, set to be launched later this winter. This music mixer allows players to mix and record their own tracks, and even download mp3’s of songs they create themselves!v

There are two modes in the Mixing Studio: jamming and recording. Players can simply play around with different sounds which loop continuously. The player assigns loops to the different tracks, mixes the audio, activates a few stingers, and changes their mind as they please. When they feel they have created something they would like to keep, they can record a song with a beginning and an end. Players can then listen to their composition (Play), name and save their recording to the studio playlist (Save), or discard and record new mixes or songs (Record).

NDi delivers Barney for HIT Entertainment (formerly the Jim Henson Company)

August 2007 - NDi Media is pleased to have the opportunity to work with such a well known brand. This game offers a fun introduction to music for very young players. With the infamous Barney as their companion, children use memory recognition to guess which song they are hearing while bopping to the beats. Here’s what Jennifer Vaux, Director of Children’s Programming, had to say about NDi:

“I would just like to thank you and your team for the fantastic job they have done on the Barney interactive titles.  You have a very talented team whom I highly recommend working with as we are very pleased with the product they have delivered on two interactive titles for this new and difficult platform.”

Supercitizens game delivered to TVOntario

March 2007 - A series of mini-quests, this game is meant to show kids what being a good citizen means. Professor Atlas and his superhero team - Atomic Guy, Nifty Girl, Fly Girl and Enviro Girl - grapple with some very big issues in their lively and sometimes challenging world. In a specially timed release, NDi Media delivered this game to coincide with kid’s spring break. Challenge yourself at http://www.ndimedia.com/tvo/

NDi, PBS and Corus Entertainment license Wumpa's World 3: A New Mission

January 2007 - NDi's own wise, loveable walrus and friends are back in action with a new, fun filled mission! Kids will be able to visit the immersive environment on PBS' Premium website. NDi greatly appreciates the generous support of Telefilm New Media for this production.