Toca Boca


Toca Boca is a Swedish app development studio focused on child-friendly applications for tablets and smartphones.
According to the company's website, "We make digital toys and games that help stimulate the imagination." The company is owned by Spin Master and based in Stockholm, Sweden.
Originally an art collective, Toca Boca was founded from Bonnier's Research and Development unit. The studio began in September 2010, and its first application was released in March 2011. The majority of Toca Boca applications are digital toys. The name Toca Boca translates from Portuguese to "touch the mouth." It was chosen because of its simplicity and play on words.

Applications

Toca Boca has released 44 digital toys that have been downloaded more than 275 million times around the world, making it the No. 1 paid app publisher in the App Store. Various applications developed include:

''Helicopter Taxi''

Helicopter Taxi, the first application released by Toca Boca, was a digital toy that integrated augmented reality effects. Using a device's camera, the player designates six horizontal surfaces in reality as "The Beach," "The Tall Building," "The Factory," "The Hospital,"
and "The Hangar." The physical locations do not need to match the landing description, however, and the surfaces for landing do not need to be exact or consistent. The toy's characters consist of two pilots and five passengers, and the objective is to pick up as well as bring the passengers to their destination by moving about with the device to simulate the helicopter flying.
This game was later discontinued.

''Toca Tea Party''

The second application released by Toca Boca, Toca Tea Party, imitates a tea party, primarily through roleplaying. The player is able to design their table by selecting the tablecloth, dishes, music, and drinks. Interactions such as "eating," "drinking," "spilling," and "cleaning up" exist. Party guests may consist of toys and/or people with the touch screen support for multiple users simultaneously.

''Toca Kitchen''

Toca Kitchen allows the player to interact by choosing how to prepare a food in order to feed one of the four characters. Each character has his or her own preferences of ingredient and style, evident through the character's reactions and willingness to eat a product. Food can be obtained infinitely many times and there are few limits to the number of times a food can be processed.

Toca Life Series

Toca Life is a series of games that encourage the player to imagine stories
for characters in the game. The player can drag the character around
the screen with their finger and make him/her eat, sit, etc. In the series, there
are different locations the character could go to based on the game's
theme. There are groups such as Kids, Elders, Babies, and Creatures. The player can add more than one
character to a scene. Dressing up the characters was introduced in Toca Life: City.

Toca Life: World

Toca Life: World was released in November 2018—it connected all of the existing standalone Toca Life apps into one interconnected universe. It is free to download, and players are invited to play the free version, or to customize the app with whatever options they find the most interesting.
If a player already purchased any of the Toca Life games, then they will have access to those apps within Toca Life: World. Players can play with the characters from the individual Toca Life apps inside any of the Toca Life: World locations.
List of Toca Life Installments :
A list of applications released to the market is as follows:
The term digital toy is sometimes used to differentiate certain apps from more typical virtual games. While most aspects between the two are the same, Toca Boca distinguishes digital toys as more "open-ended" with fewer rules. However, neither are thought nor proven to have a more or less harmful or beneficial impact on players. While these "digital toys" are aimed towards children, it does not mean they are just for children.

Awards

Toca Boca has won:
2019
2018
2017
2015
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2013
2012
2011