extra points or capabilities to the player. The reaction of app reviewers has been unanimous. “I was very impressed with the lovingly-crafted design and detailed graphics while I was playing the game,” wrote a journalist on the German site Apps-News, and concluded: “Frog ClaSh is a brilliantly designed game of skill with an interesting principle and extensive scope.” A writer at Germany's online magazine Macwelt also praised the game – “varied, quick and easy to enter and exit” – and even gave it Macwelt's 'Recommended for iPhone' seal of approval.

High level of compatibility makes for fast work It took Till and Michaela Maginot five months to get to that point. “We started out by sketching the frog figures with pen and paper,” says Michaela. “Then I scanned the drawings and

®imported them into CorelDRAW Graphics Suite. After that it was easy to vectorize them using the quick vectorization func-tion. That enabled us to play around with the figures until we were 100 per cent satisfied with them.”

After that, the brother and sister team chose the colors. The frogs are blue, green, red and yellow; there's a deep blue pond, different shades of green for the grass and the reeds, and a

Ever find you get a bit bored when you're waiting for a plane or train? If you wile away the time with the new 3D app Frog ClaSh, you might find your transportation leaves without you. Brother and sister team Till and Michaela Maginot have designed a fun game with cool graphics –

®thanks to CorelDRAW Graphics Suite – that's been getting some great reviews.

The blue frog's long tongue shoots out and grabs a nice fat bumblebee for dinner. He smacks his lips and waits for the next tasty morsel. Insects and candy keep flying past the blue frog and his three colorful frog friends and you'll need to think fast to decide which ones to feed the frogs and which to avoid. Because if you feed your frogs a green insect or a piece of bubblegum, you'll give them indigestion – or even make them explode! Frog ClaSh is the name of the game – a new app for

® ® ®the iPhone , iPod touch and iPad . Four brightly colored and hungry frogs are sitting there, waiting to be fed by you. “Our goal was to create a simple game, but one that made the player think and improve his or her coordination and dexterity skills,” notes Michaela Maginot.

The game has eight stations and a total of 64 levels. Along with the insects, the higher levels also send other things towards the frogs – like packets, bombs and heart shapes – that award

A princely dinner for some frogs

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bright yellow sun. In other words, plenty of color. Michaela ®Maginot, a qualified graphic designer, used CorelDRAW Graphics

Suite for that too. “Freehand and Mesh Fill functions came in very handy for the surfaces and colors,” she says. She also

®used CorelDRAW Graphics Suite for the menu navigation, where she added other effects like Transparency. Michaela exported the files as PNGs or TGAs. “Compatibility with the programs was no problem at all,” she comments. “That was pretty new for me, as I've never worked in that way before. I

®was working with my CorelDRAW Graphics Suite and Till, as ® ®the game designer, was using his Adobe Photoshop . At the

beginning I thought: this is never going to work. It did though! We and the programs all worked well together!”

Michaela is a graphic designer and artist in her day job – she designs everything from advertising campaigns to marketing materials, especially for IT companies. So designing computer games hadn't been part of her repertoire before Frog ClaSh – but she found it really easy. A big part of that was the high

®level of compatibility between CorelDRAW Graphics Suite and ® ®Adobe Photoshop , as well as the wide range of creative options

in the Artistic Media tool. “Artistic Media allowed me to create lines of several different thicknesses and work with much more freedom.” She was also impressed with the broad choice of fonts, which she used for elements like logos and number combinations.

Once she was finished with the graphic design, her brother Till set to work on programming and turning the designs into three-dimensional frogs and backgrounds. The 28-year-old is a qualified multimedia engineer and works as a 2D and 3D graphic designer, web designer and programmer, as well as developer of games. He used the games development tool Unity3D for Frog ClaSh. “That meant I could quickly try out the graphic elements in a simulated game,” he explains.

More games on the horizonAlthough the game is approved for children of four and older, you do need a fair bit of manual dexterity to achieve a good score – especially as you advance through the higher levels. The frogs have become popular in Japan and China, as well as in Germany, and the game has already been downloaded over 340,000 times. It's often been mentioned in the “What's Hot” section of game review sites too. Frog ClaSh has its own

®website – created by Michaela Maginot with CorelDRAW Graphics Suite, of course – as well as a newsletter and mailings.

®“For this type of thing, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite is really easy to use,” says the experienced graphic designer. “For example, we did a postcard-based promotional campaign where I crea-ted high-resolution images from the 3D figures, copied them into the PDF for the print shop, and three days later I had the finished postcards on my desk. Fantastic!”

Michaela and Till complement each other well and work to-®gether just as harmoniously as CorelDRAW Graphics Suite

® ®with Adobe Photoshop . There are more games in the pipeline – a casual game and a more complex one for the iPad. But the sibling rivalry kicks in when they're playing against each other. “That's what I really like,” says Till with disarming honesty. “I just keep playing until I get a higher score than my sister!”

Brother and sister team Till & Michaela Maginot.

Information about the game at www.frogclash.com

Screenshots for all English-language iTunes stores.Yellow frog modeled in 3D. Vectors used for text and numeral typeface design.

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