App Detail » Picture Perfect Puzzle

What's New

Fixed the bug with IAP in iOS 6.

App Description

Picture Perfect Puzzle is a 3D puzzle for little ones – but a puzzle with a twist. The child has a store of pieces and has to put them together to match the picture in front of her. The pieces have to be assembled in a specific, logical sequence. The child discovers, or rediscovers, the importance of doing things in the right order: she has to put on the socks before putting on shoes. The twist is that as the child plays, unbeknownst to her she is designing her first algorithm.

The game contains several puzzles of varying complexity. The first is the Pool Puzzle: only 4 pieces and only one correct way to put them together: first you pour water in the pool, then place the pool mattress on the surface of the water, then plop the boy on the mattress, and finally put the hat on the boy. This introductory puzzle is so simple and intuitive that children pick up the rules of the game without any instructions. In fact, there are no instructions or text of any kind in the game, making it accessible to kids who can’t read yet.

The other puzzles are more challenging, some of them even admit multiple solutions.

Two Game Modes
Every puzzle has to be assembled in two different ways before one can move on to the next puzzle – once in the Direct mode, and then in so-called Movie mode.

In the Direct mode the child assembles the pieces by dragging them one by one from the Parts Store to the Workspace. She can see partial results of the assembly at all times. If she made a mistake and put a particular piece in the Workspace too soon (e.g. she put the shoes on before putting the socks on), she can retrieve the piece and put it back in the Parts Store – but first she has to remove and return to the Store all the pieces covering it up.

As the child works, the sequence in which the pieces are assembled in the Workspace is recorded at the top of the screen in the Film Strip. Before moving on to the next puzzle, the child has to assemble the same picture once again, in the Movie Mode, this time using the Film Strip alone without the help of the Workspace.

In the Movie Mode the child has to drag the pieces from the Parts Store directly to the Film Strip, gluing together a movie. She still has to order the pieces in logical order in the Film Strip, but without the benefit of seeing the intermediate results in the Workplace. In fact, she is not so much assembling the picture out of the pieces as she is designing an assembly algorithm.

App Changes

• June 15, 2014 Initial release