Today marks the beginning of an exciting new chapter for our company. We have closed our offices in Berlin and found a new home in the city of Bristol in the beautiful south west of England. Why did we leave our beloved Berlin? Read all about it here.

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Professor S. visited the Frankfurt Book Fair 2015! On October 18th we staged the first interactive “playing” of our time-travel adventure, together with Andreas Garbe (ZDF), the German Foundation for Digital Game Culture and The German Trade Association of Interactive Entertainment Software (BIU).

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We are looking back at an inspiring day. This year, the German Startups Association of German startups organises another installment of the famous Startup Days @ IFA TecWatch in Berlin. It’s the place to be for “the most innovative ideas in technology and technology products”. 

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We called off our first Kickstarter campaign. Summer time and the holidays were not on our side and we could have made the wires glow a little more. We are taking home a ton of experience and are looking ahead. →

What will the future hold in terms of games? With our media library in mind, we sent our colleague Ulrike to the gamescom in Cologne. The world’s largest computer and video games convention ended last night with a record number of 345,000 visitors. →

3, 2, 1… We have launched our crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter. We are bringing Professor S. into children’s homes worldwide, complete with six exciting time travel destinations – whether they already play the game at school or not. →

Generation Y is succeeded by generation game, a group consisting of gaming enthusiasts, young and old. This group was the focus of today’s Generation Game event at Haus der Berliner Festspiele, put on by Kompetenzzentrum Kultur- und Kreativwirtschaft des Bundes. →

How are we learning in the digital age? How are new media integrated into class? And what is the essence of the education concept real world gaming? LudInc founder Jan von Meppen answers these and other questions in a conversation with grundschulklick. Read the interview here.

Yesterday, the ceremony for the European Innovative Games Award took place at Deutsches Filmmuseum in Frankfurt/Main. Prior, our learning adventure Professor S. had come through against 93 contestants from all over Europe and was among the three finalists. →

We are excited to announce the winners of the Professor S. raffle. In what year do Professor S. and Jeanette land in the chapter Knights and Castles? This is the question that the contestants had to answer. →

With square eyes and heaps of impressions in our luggage, we have just returned from Stuttgarter Kinderfilmtage (Stuttgart Children’s Film Days) 2014. Framed by the motto “Strong Children – Strong Films”, the program of films covered five days. →

We are excited: Friday will see the beginning of our practical seminar “Transmedia Storytelling”, which we co-host as part of our partnership with Witten/Herdecke University and Prof. Dr. Julia Genz from the Faculty for Humanities and Arts. →

Compared to other countries, German students achieve a mere mediocre ranking when it comes to media competence. This is the conclusion of the International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS) that was published on November 20th 2014. →

Over the past months, our heads have been spinning. There is definitely a lot going on. And it seems to pay off: Professor S. has been named Pioneer in Ashoka’s Re-imagine Learning Challenge in cooperation with the LEGO Foundation. →

The annual re:publica took place from May 5th through 7th 2015. Europe’s largest conference focused on digital society, web 2.0 and social media had education as a central theme with this year’s motto re:learn. →

Having been named Pacesetter in the Re-imagine Learning Challenge by Ashoka and the LEGO Foundation, we happily participated in today’s Ashoka Google+ Hangout, hosted by David Gauntlett of the University of Westminster. →

Students of Schäfersee Elementary School in Berlin welcomed a special guest to class earlier this week. Radio reporter Silvia Kurschus witnessed first-hand the excitement and challenges of helping Professor S. during his time travels. →

The Academy for Children’s Media is a unique institution in Germany, offering training programs for authors, with a focus on content catered to children. →

We are excited to read John Townsend’s detailed article How This Time-Traveling Professor Is Re-Defining Play And Learning in Forbes Magazine. →