Want to help out?

Dear You,

It's a bit difficult to get people excited without being able to post screen shots and videos of Matchoo in its current state but I'm excited! The screen shots and videos will start going live in July.

Remind me - what will Matchoo be when it ships?

Matchoo is a matching educational application. It's card based and features a robust learning algorithm that will target the things you need to work on and ensure you revise things you already knew. It leverages years of R&D in how to help people memorize information.

Matchoo utilizes Unreal 4.0, an advanced game engine capable of delivering the most exciting content. This beast of a system is currently toned down to some very simple content while we get our feet on the ground but was chosen to enable future development to be basically limitless. The engine allows for easy integration of 3D animations, graphics, physics and even VR. Initial gameplay utilizing the physics engines has proven very appealing and there is a lot to come from here.

Matchoo allows users to develop their own content, to challenge other users to play this content and then to market it to the broader Matchoo playing public. Users develop the educational content and Matchoo dresses it for maximum appeal and fun with a variety of gameplay styles available at the click of a button.

Matchoo is built on the backbone of Amazon Web Services. That's right - the same delivery system used by a host of big name big data companies. This provides a stable and secure platform on which we can store user content and deliver it to the right place at the right time, fast.

Matchoo is aimed at educators, geeks and anyone who needs to learn something new!

Who can help out?

• Artists - we need UI and 3D art built. There is capacity for both core application art and development of content that will be deliverable within Matchoo's marketplace.
• Programmers - lots of work to be done, database management, gameplay (think arcade style, with words and images as your pieces, lots of mini games to be developed), systems engineering, multiplayer, more!
• Web developers - We need a content building system on the web. Oh and sooo much more!
• Unreal blueprint developers / Designers - Some effort has been made to integrate blueprints into Matchoo and further work will be done.
• Teachers - Development of content for courses.
• Community outreach - A People Person who is interested in talking to organizations about how they could benefit from using Matchoo's services.
• Content developers - Expert on sporting trivia, music trivia or salt water fish of the Pacific North West? Bilingual? Share your knowledge with simple to design multiple choice questions and answer pairing. Use images and words to challenge peoples understanding, and help educate them.
• Testers - If you would like to play Matchoo's upcoming Beta (September 2016) then send an email to the address below with a subject of "Sign Me Up". There will be no spam, but you will receive an email to join the Beta program when the time comes.

Some level of applicable industry experience is desired, at the moment people looking at Matchoo average 15 years of industry time but less is fine.

Do I get paid!

Sadly no! At least not at this point. So far all work on Matchoo has been voluntary. This may however change as the longer term vision is to pay for a core group of application developers who drive the application itself forwards and also develop a mechanism for delivering future revenue back to top content developers in a wider community.

If starts making money every effort will be made to distribute back to those that helped this happen but the aim right now is to make something both lovely and useful.

I'm still interested, how do I get involved?

If you are interested in getting involved and helping out let us know - email contact@matchoo.org.

Regards,

Tom