Tablet games for kids should come with real toys too: Storied Myth

Too much screen time for young kids is no good.
Children are drawn to tablet-based games, no doubt, but they also need to get lost in imaginative experiences through real stuff. Many of those imaginative experiences, Storied Myth cofounders Kabir Seth and Rubina Singh explained in their presentation, come in the form of stories. That’s why they want to give children ongoing narratives, featuring characters they come to feel kinship with, that yield imaginative connections.
“That’s why Storied Myth believes it’s very important to have a bridge between digital and physical storytelling,” said Singh.
A part of the Storied Myth model is a monthly shipment with each new instance of the story. The shipment will include some object that’s part of the story. The way the object fits in, however, is by use of augmented reality. The tablet the young person is reading the story on will ask them to interact with the object and it will recognize the object and see if they’ve done the right thing (which is usually, it sounds like, solving some sort of puzzle).

At @NYMediaCenter Demo Day! We'll be talking about bridging the gap in online & offline storytelling. #storytech pic.twitter.com/NaYyEab9Eu

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The team is looking for a seed round now, largely to market the product through Facebook and mommy bloggers.