As seen on VentureBeat by Dean Takahashi: FriendsLearn is in the final stage of its Kickstarter campaign to raise $50,000 for a new version of Fooya, its 3D online food-fight game. The title has the serious mission of educating people throughout the world about the relationship between food, health, and wellness. Read more at http://venturebeat.com/2013/03/17/friends-learn-wrapping-up-its-kickstarter-for-food-fight-game-with-push-into-india/
With Over Thirty Percent of the World’s Population Overweight or Obese, Game Entrepreneurs Bring Burgers, Fries and Subtle Learning to Fuel the Fight Against Humanity’s Global Health Crisis Can crowd-funding help fight the global obesity epidemic? FriendsLearn, a startup company of 13 incredibly talented students, engineers and game developers, led by a successful serial entrepreneur, [...]
Are you ready to Fooya?! We need a hero to combat the evil Dr. Who and his “minions”. After countless hours of play-testing, our team has launched a beta-version of Fooya on Facebook. Thanks to all the brilliant feedback from our alpha-testers! Combining the cutting edge of “learnification” with the goal of tackling a global [...]
The first alpha version of fooya was unveiled at the DEMO Conference in Silicon Valley on April 19th 2012. Bhargav Sri Prakash, CEO of FriendsLearn, introduced the audience to the benefits of “learnification” and discussed the vision for using social and mobile games as an engagement medium, for delivering impact at scale, on the world [...]
The concept of designing learning compulsion loops that combines engagement, information and assessment, is the core of evaluating educational impact of information. The platform that FriendsLearn has created as a result of our pipeline of learning experiences on mobile devices and social networks, powers the experience through game mechanics but works in close synchronization to [...]
The FriendsLearn team is thrilled to launch the official gamified advising adventure from the United States of America, on behalf of EducationUSA and the US Department of State. This game-based approach to advising millions of international student aspirants from around the world, is the first of its kind and is a pioneering application of gamified [...]
The Future of Media Conference at Stanford brought together some of the brightest minds in the business of media and what became apparent, was that richer and more immersive media will soon be computable on our mobile devices. As I processed this imminent reality and ways in which this is going to impact the world [...]
We have been working hard on putting the finishing touches on the Facebook App that many of you have been asking about. This version of the gamified advising adventure is designed to share your experiences on the social platform and makes it easy for you to tell your friends about all the great things you [...]
We are thrilled to announce the launch of the world’s first and only gamified advising adventure for college aspirants! The US Department of State’s EducationUSA has launched this cutting-edge approach to helping inform, engage and compel all international students to the United States of America. This powerful step reaffirms the FriendsLearn team’s commitment to defining [...]
