
This International Women's Month, we’re celebrating women founders, creators, developers, and designers.
How Halfbrick cultivated Super Fruit Ninja connected Apple Vision Pro
Fruit Ninja has a juicy past that stretches backmost much than a decade, but Samantha Turner, pb gameplay programmer astatine the game’s Halfbrick Studios, says the Apple Vision Pro mentation — Super Fruit Ninja connected Apple Arcade — is genuinely bananas. “When it archetypal came out, Fruit Ninja benignant of gave caller beingness to the touchscreen,” she notes, “and I deliberation we person the imaginable to bash thing precise peculiar here.”

“The afloat interaction of effect destruction”: How Halfbrick cultivated Super Fruit Ninja connected Apple Vision Pro
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Behind the Design: Rebel Girls
The Rebel Girls app uses immersive audio experiences, gorgeous art, and clever interactive elements to spotlight its historical heroines. “We’re creating an omnichannel for girls,” says Jes Wolfe, CEO of Rebel Girls. “The app takes the champion of our books, podcasts, and audio stories and puts them into a flagship destination.”

Behind the Design: Rebel Girls
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Behind the Design: Wylde Flowers
This charming Apple Design Award-winning crippled is simply a cross-pollination of farming simulation, eerie mystery, optional emotion story, and exploration of tolerance and understanding. Also, you’re a witch who sometimes turns into a cat. “The Wylde Flowers acquisition is simply a spot antithetic for everybody,” says Amanda Schofield, cofounder, originative director, and managing manager of indie developer Studio Drydock. “It’s each astir self-expression and self-exploration.”

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Developer Spotlight: Rootd
When she started having panic attacks arsenic a assemblage student, Ania Wysocka (pictured above) wanted "to look for an app that could explicate what was happening to me,” she says. But erstwhile the hypnosis and therapy apps she downloaded didn’t person what she was seeking, she decided to make Rootd to demystify panic attacks and bring on-the-spot relief.

Developer Spotlight: Rootd
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Behind the Design: Overboard!
In the evocative execution enigma crippled Overboard!, you play not arsenic the detective but the murderer astir foul — Veronica Villensey, a fading 1930s starlet who’s tossed her hubby disconnected a cruise ship. To bring the communicative to life, creator and decorator Anastasia Wyatt trawled into the affluent imaginable of the game’s vintage setting, pulling designs from 1930s fashion, magazines, and adjacent sewing signifier books.

Behind the Design: Overboard!
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Behind the Design: Pok Pok Playroom
When the husband-and-wife squad of Esther Huybreghts and Mathijs Demaeght archetypal began dreaming up Pok Pok Playroom, they made a solemn vow: parents shouldn't request to mute the app successful a restaurant. “We didn’t privation media and jingles and jangles that get stuck successful your head,” Huybreghts laughs. “We wanted a quieter experience.”

Behind the Design: Pok Pok Playroom
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Developer Spotlight: Ground News
In 2017, Harleen Kaur launched Ground News, a quality aggregator that helps you spot however media outlets crossed the governmental spectrum are covering—or ignoring—a topic. Not lone does it fto you work sum from thousands of publications worldwide, it besides shows the governmental bent of an nonfiction oregon outlet (which is ranked by a third-party work and Ground News users themselves).

Developer Spotlight: Ground News
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Developer Spotlight: Prêt-à-Template
When Prêt-à-Template laminitis and CEO Roberta Weiand launched her app successful 2014, it rapidly became a darling among manner designers astir the world. With its room of templates, textures, and patterns, the app lets anyone sketch their imagination outfit.

Developer Spotlight: Prêt-à-Template
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Developer Spotlight: The Dyrt
Sarah Smith, an avid camper and cofounder of The Dyrt, was frustrated by however hard it was to find details connected a campsite earlier you booked. She wanted to cognize that, say, tract 2 was adjacent to a engaged road, portion tract 7 was on a river. She wondered wherefore cipher seemed to beryllium solving the problem. Then she had a thought that changed everything: “Why can’t I bash it?”

Developer Spotlight: The Dyrt
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