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July 25, 2011
 If you've wanted to share the Family Car Games app with your friends, it's now available also as a Kindle download: http://www.amazon.com/Family-Car-Games-ebook/dp/B005EBZVYA/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1311693549&sr=8-6.
Just found out that cool music and culture festival, South by Southwest, recommended FCG for families driving down to Austin!
Here's a roundup of what people are writing about Family Car Games:
WomensDay.com (2011) “With 100 no-equipment-required activities appropriate for the entire family, the Family Car Games app tells you how to play each game.” Small Victories - Stop & Shop supermarkets blog (2011) “Family Car Games features instructions for over 100 games. It may not directly save you money, but keeping everyone in a good mood on a long drive might just save your sanity!” Official South by Southwest blog…(2011) “Family Car Games - This app has it all with over 100 games to choose from. Family Car Games is great, especially if you don't want to be glued to technology for the whole trip because you don't actually use your phone to play. Rather you use the app to search for a game, read the rules, and then you are on your own!” FOX News.com - New Ideas for Road Trip Games “June 30 - Do you have one of those new-fangled scan functions on your car radio? Then fasten your seat belts and prepare to play “Catch That Song,” included in the iPhone app "Family Car Games" created by Ruth Greenwood, her husband, and their two teens” Parenting on Yahoo! Shine: The Best Apps to Keep Kids Busy on Long Trips “The appeal: One hundred activities entertain on long stretches of interstate. Helpful factor: The alphabet and license plate games will eventually play out. Arm yourself!” AOL ParentDish.com by Kathy Peel - 5 Essential iPhone Apps for Family Travel “Stop spending your road trips bickering or making the kids count cows or Volkswagens! Family Car Games will likely keep a few families together, with its endlessly distracting roster of games to choose from. No equipment necessary — except your phone and a playing partner. Over 100 creative, fun, challenging games, including word games, puzzles and (our favorite) “Grandma Is So Weird”. Lisa’s Travels blog:”Best iPhone Apps for Family Traveling (2011) “Gone are the days when you have to buy a new game or tow a box of games for that long road trip to keep the kids’ annoyance level down. For just a few dollars you will have 100 games available for the kids to go gaga over.” The Dirty Shirt – parenting blog “I recently had the chance to review this app and used it for the first time on a car trip to run errands, not a long trip but I can tell you it was a quiet trip with the kids playing nice and laughing. This is a great idea and I am actually looking forward to our next road trip.” Galavante.com - luxury travel website “Shake your iPhone to unveil a database of 100 inventive games sure to keep families entertained and competitive for hours. Once you’ve selected a game, read the instructions, drop your iPhone, and game on!” Plus...
Daily Candy brought Family Car Games to their many city editions, from Boston to Seattle in http://www.dailycandy.com/kids/all-cities/article/103762/Travel-Apps-Road-Trip-Tips Travel Apps for Family Road Trips.
The AppCast featured us on their Apps for Kids - On Travel - podcast...and the guys really understand what this app is all about: http://iphone.30minuteslate.com/archives/3294 .
July 4, 2011
Happy Independence Day!
Yes, we celebrate your family's independence from backseat DVD hypnosis, squabbling over who gets to hold the iPhone or iPad, freedom from driver boredom...and celebrate the union of adults and children freely engaged in fun and games while criss-crossing our great nation!
The Family Car Games iPhone app has some new friends...the AppCast featured us on their Apps for Kids - On Travel - podcast...and the guys really understand what this app is all about: http://iphone.30minuteslate.com/archives/3294 .
Women's Day named Family Car Games as one of their Top 10 Road-Trip-Ready-Kids Apps: http://www.womansday.com/Articles/Life/Travel/10-Road-Trip-Ready-Kids-Apps.html -- also featured on Yahoo! Shine.
And Daily Candy brought Family Car Games to their many city editions, from Boston to Seattle in http://www.dailycandy.com/kids/all-cities/article/103762/Travel-Apps-Road-Trip-Tips Travel Apps for Family Road Trips.
iPhone Top Apps also named Family Car Games as one of their 7 Must Have iPhone Applications For Happy Traveling This Festive Season http://iphonetopapps.info/7-must-have-iphone-applications-for-happy-traveling-this-festive-season/
May 26, 2011 Happy Memorial Day weekend, if you're in the US and Happy weekend to all! Who's going to be traveling over 100 miles this weekend? Even though our own kids are now 13 and 17, we still play the family car games that are in the app we developed (in fact, older elementary school kids, middle- and high-schoolers will enjoy the games most.) We still play Pica Firma Nada, Honore Categories, A-to-Z-Story as we tackle US-1 or 90 or back roads. Plus I'd like to give you our an odd new game we can't figure out why we like so much...but you try it out and tell us! Nameless Phrases...it should go fast...silliness helps. Taking turns, someone says a 2-word phrase at random...like Bus Station. Next person says a phrase that either starts with Station or rhymes with it ("Nationwide"..."Wide load" ... "Load and lock" (we're not strict about the two words). That's it. But for some reason, we try to top each other in silliness or in creating a story and this (technically) pointless game has us howling. We warned you--take it away! Thank you to all the beautiful families around the world who continue to purchase our app and play together. We love knowing that at any time of day, someone somewhere is enjoying happy, free, loving family fun...thank you to Japan and Sweden and the UK and Mexico and Canada and Italy and the Ukraine and Ohio and East Flatbush and Canoga Park (you didn't think I'd leave you out, did you?) We salute our armed forces families...and send love to all. May you truly enjoy each other as long as you share a roof and that ever-busy car. Love from Todd, Ruth, Anna, and Gabe, the creators of Family Car Games!! Hello and welcome to the website for the Apple iPhone/iPod Touch app: "Family Car Games" that gives you instructions for 100 gear-free games the whole family can play! Guessing games, word games, singing games, memory games, games for under 5s, games using the car radio, lots of brand new games, a few old favorites...minivan-tested, all ways to have FUN...and bring your family closer together.
If you haven't gotten the app yet, here's the link to the iTunes App Store page:
Thanks for all the recommendations from our first 6 weeks on the market! Read all about it at our new blog: http://www.familycargames.blogspot.com
Mom-to-mom note: Tired of carsick, squabbling kids? On road trips, we used to rely on printable travel games to keep 'em busy, but found our kids got woozy staring at papers, or computer games...or they'd fight over who got to use the Gameboy. The nice thing about Family Car Games is that once you pick a game to play...you can put the iPhone away, until it's time to find another fun game. With 100 games, you won't run out of activities!)
We hope you enjoy our family travel game app, FAMILY CAR GAMES, and find our site useful. Please leave us a comment...we'd love to know who might be driving by us playing Love is Like a Shovel or the Cheeseplate Game!! And we'd like to know which travel game is your favorite.
Happy playing!
The Greenwood Family
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