Kuato Studios has announced the launch of Marvel Hero Tales, a new educational storytelling app based in the Marvel universe.
- Marvel Hero Tales offers a brand-new way to experience Marvel stories while helping to develop the language and reading skills of 9-11 year olds.
- The app will feature familiar Super Heroes like Spider-Man and Ms. Marvel who will help players improve their vocabulary and expressive language by creating their own comic books.
- The app’s unique learning experience will encourage children to be the Superheroes of their own stories by letting them personalize their own experience through the use of Narrative Action System.
- Marvel Hero Tales will follow characters as they “level up” by completing activities such as word collection and comprehension of words.
- These words are then used by the player to co-author their own story by building sentences that transform into their very own comic book panel, with their choice of words directly affecting the outcome of the mission and stylized look.
- Finally, the user will be presented with their very own co-authored book that can be read and shared with friends or family, but above all cherished as a token of one’s own success and achievements throughout the journey.
- Kuato Studios, an award-winning developer and publisher of narrative focussed mobile apps, also plans to add regular updated content to both characters and storylines.
- For Marvel Hero Tales, the studio worked closely with the Centre For Applied Language Studies at the University of Portland Oregon, as well as teachers and schools in the UK, to develop specific vocabulary content for the app which is based on the Corpus of Contemporary American English and mapped to US and UK literacy grade standards.
- Marvel Hero Tales is available to download now on the App Store and Google Play Store.
What they’re saying:
- Mark Horneff, CEO of Kuato Studios: “This is the most personal project I've ever been involved with, not just because of my love of the Marvel Universe, but also because as a child with undiagnosed dyslexia, school, and particularly reading, was incredibly challenging for me. I remember one day when I was 8, my Mum picked me up from school and gave me a copy of Spider-Man – my very first introduction to Marvel. From that moment on I was hooked; I read it cover to cover every day. Those adventures fed not only my imagination, but my confidence as a storyteller and my passion for reading. My hope is that Marvel Hero Tales will inspire a new generation of Marvel readers and storytellers, and in some small way, allow that 8-year-old to repay some of the debt I owe to Peter Parker.”