Didi & Ditto

Didi & Ditto
Genres	Edutainment
Developers	Kutoka Interactive

Didi & Ditto is an edutainment software series created in 2003 by Kutoka Interactive. The series consists in three grade-based titles for preschool (ages 2 to 4), kindergarten (ages 4 to 6) and first grade (ages 5 to 7).

Gameplay

After the player picks either Didi (the red beaver girl) or Ditto (the blue beaver boy), an introductory cinematic tells a story and sets the player's mission. The mission consists in exploring Didi & Ditto's interactive world to collect a number of items by winning educational activities. Collecting all the items means completing the mission and seeing the conclusion cinematic.

The difficulty level set by the player at the beginning of the game corresponds to different and more challenging question sets in the educational activities. Optionally, the player may bypass the entire entertainment part of the game and enter a menu of all educational activities.

Didi & Ditto's world

Didi and Ditto are two beavers living in Jako's Valley, a fantastic and colourful world. Living in the Valley are several characters that appear in each game:

• Zolt: He is a purple vegetarian wolf.^[1]
• HipHop: He is a fast-moving yellow rabbit.
• Couki: He is a curious puppy always putting his nose where it will disturb Grumpy Bug.
• Grumpy Bug: He is an old grumpy bug who likes to be left alone. He is kind of a hermit.
• Hootdini: He is a magician owl. For some reason, his magic tricks never seem to produce the expected result.
• Ouisy: He is a prairie dog with an odd laugh.
• Venus: She is a blue and white chicken who has not yet given up on trying to fly.^[2]
• Blue Bear: He is a timid blue bear who's always hiding behind a tree or a rock.
• Fly Guy: He is an athletic insect who dreams of making it to the Olympics.
• Tiny Turtle: She is a blue turtle with a red shell.
• Comedy Ann: She is the Whoopi Goldberg of Jako's Valley.
• Frank Frog: He is singing green frog.

Titles in the series

• Didi & Ditto First Grade: The Wolf King
• Didi & Ditto Kindergarten: A Feast for Zolt
• Didi & Ditto Preschool: Mother Nature's Visit

Technology

All Didi & Ditto's games were developed with the Macromedia (later Adobe) Director multimedia application authoring platform.

The in-game animations were made with Softimage XSI before they were imported as sprites inside Director. The animated 3D cinematics are also made with Softimage's technology and exported as QuickTime movies.

Notes

1. ^ "Didi & Ditto - Their friends and their foes - page 1". Kutoka.com, retrieved on 2009-06-17
2. ^ "Didi & Ditto - Their friends and their foes - page 2". Kutoka.com, retrieved on 2009-06-17

External links

• Didi & Ditto titles at Kutoka.com