Jon Howard
Executive Product Manager, Children's Future Media
Blog posts in total 8
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Own It: Wellbeing and isolation update
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Own It, the app: Six technical challenges
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Ö÷²¥´óÐã Three launches new Top Ten Comedy Kit
The Top Ten Comedy Kit is an extension of the award-winning Ö÷²¥´óÐã Digital Maker Kits - a system that has already produced game makers for Doctor Who, Children in Need and Technobabble; music visual creators for Ö÷²¥´óÐã Introducing and Ten Pieces; and storytelling tools for EastEnders and Blue Peter.
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Going for Gold with Pudsey’s Gigantic Game
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Make It Technobabble kit: from consumers to creators
The Make It Technobabble game maker kit is built using web standards – HTML5/Javascript. By building as a HTML5 webapp now means that as the kit matures it can take advantage of optimisations and new developments to come on the web.
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The CBeebies Playtime App
As the CBeebies Playtime app launches, Jon Howard explains how the team built the app, implemented learning benefits into the featured games, and how it’s been designed for a dual audience of parents and their young children.
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CÖ÷²¥´óÐã Connected Studio: 10 problems to solve
Mobiles, tablets and connected TVs are here. They form an ecosystem of web connected devices that provide the potential for amazing experiences. The ability to share an experience across devices brings great possibilities, but also responsibilities. As part of its brief the CÖ÷²¥´óÐã Connected st...
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CÖ÷²¥´óÐã Game Workshop at Games Britannia
I'm Jon Howard, Development Manager for Games in Children's Future Media. As part of my role I run the Children's Future Media Games Stream which is responsible for developing all of the games on CÖ÷²¥´óÐã and CBeebies websites - overseeing agency builds as well as making many hugely successful in-...