Media articles
The lovely Lauren Harradine of Powerup! interviewed Kathy at AVCon and reported on the state of the game at the time. She really understood Frog's Princess:
There are many wonderfully useful life skills that videogames teach children; critical thinking, perseverance, planning, and communication, for a start. But it’s harder to find games that really delve into the emotional lives of children and present them with ways to navigate their way through in a really empowering, compelling way. "
Thank you, Lauren! https://powerup-gaming.com/2019/09/05/kathy-smart-on-fairy-tales-self-empowerment-and-developing-frogs-princess/
Show reel
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Game awards
The laurel for a 2021 South Australian Screen Awards nominee graces the Frog's Princess demo poster.
Nomination is for Best Game Award.
Frog's Princess was long-listed in the New Media Writing Prize 2022,
Studio awards
Kathy won a Winnovation Award in the Art section of the 8th annual South Australian Women in Innovation Awards, 2021.
Kathy won a Rising Star award at the IGEA Australian Game Developer Awards 2021
Podcast
Kathy was delighted to be interviewed by Kosta and Alex on Live Booleans, where they talk all things games and game development, centred on the burgeoning game ecosystem in Adelaide, South Australia. Part of the interview discusses the making of Frog's Princess.
Academic papers
Paper published as part of the inaugural Games For Change Asia-Pacific Festival 2021 entitled Frog's Princess: Making a Diverse, Inclusive and Accessible Visual Novel.
Paper published as part of ACM SIG CHI conference [Association of Computing Machinery Special Interest Group Computer-Human Interface conference] October 2018 - more details in our Academia page. Published at dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3270316.3270595
Conferences
Kathy's talk at the Games For Change Asia-Pacific Festival was called Frog's Princess: Making a Diverse, Inclusive and Accessible Visual Novel.
Presented at the Australian Fairy Tale Society conference in June 2021
Demonstrated at Game Plus Demo Nights in April, June and October 2021.
Presented at the Australian Fairy Tale Society conference in June 2020
Presented at the Electric Dreams Conference in February 2020
Exhibited at AVCon Indie Games Room and AVCon Obscure Games Room July 2019
Exhibited at Resilient Kids Conference June 2019
Demonstrated at inaugural GamePlus Playback session in Adelaide July 2019
Exhibited at the ACM SIG CHI PLAY conference in Melbourne in October 2018
Exhibited at The Melbourne Playground at ACMI in October 2018
Fundraising campaign
Second Kickstarter campaign was successful in October 2019
Novel
After Frog's Princess was announced co-winner of the Buzz Words Magazine prize for best Middle Grade First Chapter in the 15 May 2018 issue of Buzz Words, an excerpt from the novel was published on the Buzz Words Books website on 26 July 2018 http://www.buzzwordsmagazine.com/2018/07/the-frogs-princess.html. We reproduce that excerpt on our Story page.