Our Mission
BuzzyTV creates opportunities for social learning through multiplayer games. We are a games platform with a difference, our goal is to empower and educate through delivering live interactive play experiences to students and educators.
The experience we deliver
Local multiplayer technology allows our cloud service to turn any screen into a live game, which anyone in the vicinity can join and play, as their mobile or tablet becomes the controller for the screen. The space becomes alive merging technology with learning and fun, appealing to the human nature of playfulness.
Our aim is to turn mobile use on its head: it becomes a tool to access a world of social play, as you collaborate and compete live with those around you. We take those 10 minutes of smartphone or tablet self-absorption and turn them into 10 minutes of discovery, creativity and social interaction: you are looking up, engaged and alert, discussing, playing and contributing in a shared screen experience.
Your Support
Join our mission to foster inquisitive and curious minds through the process of creating, sharing and playing games. Supporting our startsomegood campaign will mean that we can connect and include 10 special needs schools in our global leaderboard. These 10 schools will be sponsored to receive our games service and reporting tools for free for a whole year. The result will mean that students can share their learning via a truly fun and engaging new medium, and contribute to the leaderboard with original games content. If we make it, your donation will go directly towards empowering these students and igniting discussion through playful blended learning experiences.
Blended Learning
One third of all teachers report difficulties in engaging and re-engaging students (Grattan Institute), stress also takes its toll in schools, affecting mood and academic performance. Our tools instantly drive up alertness and engagement, encourage teamwork and collaboration even among those students who usually hold back on social interactions.
"I was intrigued by the idea of students being able to all interact
collaboratively and in a social way with a common medium. The idea that
students can compete and learn while enjoying themselves is a concept
that drives me and I truly feel that BuzzyTV has the potential to make
learning fun."
- Shane Nairn, teacher librarian LIHS
BuzzyTV is launching a global school leaderboard of multiplayer games, where students collaborate and compete as well as learn to create and share their own original content with other classrooms. We get to know each other through games!
Imagine a classroom in Sydney creating a trivia game about Australian animals to be played by a class in Shanghai, Miami or Mumbai. The experience breaks down the 4 walls of the classroom, fostering a world view and a sense of participation in a global type of learning experience - our product is inclusive and game-changing in this way, we aim to deliver the same experience to all!
Stretch Goal partnership with Lusio Rehab: live multiplayer games for children with disabilities
BuzzyTV is proud to announce a collaboration with Lusio Rehab, a company creating a wearable device that enables users to play real-time games as they complete a physical rehabilitation program. So far, Lusio has engaged people affected by Cerebral Palsy, and have used their device and games to stimulate the player and create movement in sync with the rehab program. The collaboration means that BuzzyTV will integrate with the Lusio device to enable multiplayer games for students that have limited mobility, and deliver the same experience to all by creating an inclusive learning environment.
Reaching our stretch goal would mean further R&D with Lusio into achieving seamless integration with their device, making gameplay truly inclusive. 10 special needs schools on our global leaderboard for now is just the minimum, and every $600 reaching above our stretch goal will translate into another school being given access to the tools.
Thank You, let's make the world more playful!
Team BuzzyTV
A BuzzyTV collaborative game; Alyssa & Mike with Matt (Me3D); Laura at Vivid Ideas Pitch the Future; the BuzzyTV team's VR Pop-Up multiplayer experience in Wollongong with Silicon Vagabond
A Campaign brought to life during Pitch the Future
