Reader Rabbit: Kindergarten
TLC / Mattel
In the 1990s, The Learning Company was a leading consumer software development house for educational and forreign language consumer software on CD-ROM. Popular product lines such as "Reader Rabbit" and "Learn to Speak" were household names in the US in the 90s, with their respective market shares sometimes exceeding 60%. In the late 1990s Mattel aquired TLC, and I left the company shortly thereafter.
My Responsibilities
I started as a software technician creating in-house tools for the "Learn to Speak" line of products using Delphi (Object Pascal), and later became a junior engineer with significant responsibilities for both the "Travel Talk" line of products, and "Reader Rabbits Kindergarten." All of these products were coded in Visual C++, and the latter featured and in-house developed DirectX graphics engine. This engine gave allowed us to take interactivity and animations for this kids product to a new level.
- Visual C++
- Windows