Slide-a-ma-jig iPhone App – A sliding mix-n-match character creation activity

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Slide-a-ma-jig is a sliding mix-n-match character creation activity with over 14 million possible combinations!!! New character updates are being added every couple of weeks so that number just keeps growing!

The creator of Slide-a-ma-jig, (Chuck Gamble), has gotten many letters from folks calling Slide-a-ma-jig the perfect “waiting-in-line” app for their kids. Just what he made it for! Slide-a-ma-jig isn’t directly educational but it’s creator hopes it inspires creativity, joy, and mild bewilderment…

Version: 1.0.5
Website: Lucky Radish Amusements

Remember your childhood mix-n-match books? Each page had a character sliced into strips, and you flipped the strips to combine them into zany new creations. (Obama’s head on Limbaugh’s belly? Stop the madness!) Slide-a-ma-jig reinvigorates that childhood magic with whimsical and wonderfully drawn figures, combined with a symphony of cartoon sound effects. Kids love it, and adults will find it hard to resist, too.

Change of scene: You control not only the foreground character but also the background. The app comes with 20 different scenes; tap the button at lower left to bring up a new photo backdrop from moonscapes to street scenes. The arrows in the top corners cycle through the app’s characters, fresh and ready for scrambling.

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Monster mash: Slide-a-ma-jig comes with over 25 characters, each with five parts you can shuffle. Swap heads, bodies, legs, feet, and headgear to create over 14 million different creatures. Swipe the body part to slide, or shake your iPhone or iPod Touch to get a random combination. Drum stings and wacky sound effects accompany your every move.

A Review of Slide-a-ma-jig By Josh Clark of O’Reilly Best iPhone Apps

Thought I’d include a bit more info about Slide-a-ma-jig’s creator, Chuck Gamble. I discovered Slide-a-ma-jig after Chuck got in touch with me this summer to let me know about his creation, which he says he was inspired to create for his own kids:

In my own efforts to make my iPhone more useful I decided to create something for my daughters to play with. Slide-a-ma-jig was inspired by those old mix-n-match cards sets I had as a kid. As I started working up drawings I was reminded of what I DIDN’T like about those card sets… the characters were only divided into 3 parts and those parts didn’t always match up very well. So I worked really hard at improving that formula by dividing the characters into 5 parts and making sure the parts matched up as flawlessly as possible.…By the way… my daughters are actually in the game as the Herpetologist and the BubbleGum Wrangler.

Chuck’s an animator, designer, artist and, of course, iPhone programmer from Chippewa Falls, WI. You can find out more about his latest adventures (and his company Lucky Radish Studio) in this profile from a local magazine: C.huck’s Good Luck

You can see a demo by clicking Watch the demo below: