Overview
ToyMode gives several simple amusements suitable for small kids to play on iPhone/iPod touch. It is sort of a toy box on the phone. It is not just a so-called "Toy phone". What will attract kids is that the real phone becomes a toy for them.
Operation is very simple so that even small kids can play easily. Kids need to just touch and tilt iPhone/iPod Touch. By these simple operations iPhone/iPod changes screen, makes sounds, object in the screen talks to them.
It is excellent to keep your kids entertained while you are out at a restaurant, shopping, etc. without having a toy for kids. While kids are playing on "ToyMode", their parents can be free from amusing them.
Introduction
There are 9 types of games as seen below and each game has several contents to play in different scene.
Contents

- Terrestrial animals
- The animal moves with a movement of iPhone together.
Every time you touch the screen, different action is seen.
- Marine animals
- The animal moves with a movement of iPhone together.
Every time you touch the screen, different action is seen.
- Working vehicles
- The vehicle moves with a movement of iPhone together.
- Hiragana^Alphabet
- By selecting a letter, you will see the picture of an object which name starts from the letter.
It should be a good training for kids just starting to learn language.
- Conversation
- A selected person talks to you.
- A picture-story show
- After selected a story, it will give a reading of the picture book.
- Daily life
- Several events in the daily life change by touching the screen.
- Instrument
- A selected instrument makes sounds by touching the screen.
- Seasonal contents
- Play with slide puzzle of seasonal pattern.
- Patterns are to be updated every season.
Operational instruction
yHow to view contentsz
- Select a play kind from "Main menu".
- Select a content from "Sub menu".
- This is an example of the image display.
¦Click on the image and view some other images.
yOperation on each contentsz
- Operation on "Terrestrial animals", "Marine animals", and "Working vehicles"
- The object gets larger by pinching fingers out and gets smaller by pinching fingers in.
- The object moves to side to side by tilting iPhone, touching a side of the screen, and flicking left or right on the screen.
- Every time you touch the object, it makes an action.
- Operation on Hiragana/Alphabet
- By selecting a letter, you will see the picture of an object which name starts from the letter.
- Flicking on the list of letters shows the next list.
- Operation on "Conversation"
- Person on the screen talks to you by touching it.
- Operation on "Daily Life"
- It turns to the next scene by touching the screen.
- Operation on "Instrument"
- It makes sounds by touching an instrument.
- Operation on "Seasonal contents"
- Complete the pattern by sliding puzzle piece.
- Usage of buttons
replay
exit from the play
pause the picture-story reading
CAUTION
- When using headsets you can not hear a sound from the main body.
- In order to return to the main window from the menu window of the contents, flick the screen from left to right.
- For users of iPod Touch 2nd generation
In order to use recording function of "Picture-story show",
you are required to have microphone-equipped earphone. - For users of iPod Touch 1st generation
Recording function of "Picture-story show" is not supported.
Release history
- ver1.0 released: Mar 29, 2009
- First release.
- ver1.1 released: Apr 10, 2009
- Added some contents for each sub menu.
- English speaking version of "Conversation" and "Picture story show" is added.
- Sound selection on "Instruments" is added.
- ver2.0 released: May 21, 2009
- More contents for each sub menu.
- Recording function of original reading voice for "Picture-story show".
- Function of showing the the story at the bottom part of "Picture-story show" screen.
- Function of setting backgroud on "Main menu" and "Sub menu" from the image inside iphone.
- ver3.3 released: Apr 20, 2010
- Chinese language supported.
- Additional button on sub-menu screen to move to other sub-menu.
- Additional button on sub-menu screen to return to main-menu.
- Additional button on "Hiragana/Alphabet" sub-menu to switch the list display between "Hiragana" and "Alphabet".
- Some modification on BGM.
- Some modification on images.
- ver3.5 released: Sep 30, 2010
- Added a puzzle game as a limited period season-related content.
- Renewed design of "Hiragana/Alphabet".
- Added 27-character illustration to "Hiragana/Alphabet".
CompatibilityELanguage
- CompatibilityF
- iPhone/iPod touch
Requires iPhone 3.0 software update
- LanguageF
- English, Japanese, Chinese
Download
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