Mind Candy

Last Thursday we hosted our Mind Candy bi-weekly invention… a little something we call GAME JAM!

Participants were divided into three teams that used a brilliant and hilarious online service called, ‘Video Game Name Generator’ to select their game name at random.

Selecting the names of the games...

Thus was born: Wondrous Lawn Mower Rider, Future Sewer Studio, and Super Skydiving Showdown - These names haven’t developed into massively popular games in the past  (…hard to believe – I know!)

Luckily we came across them and game magic began. Teams had one hour to bring their game concept to life with or without their computers. (Craft supplies were also welcome for those that are more hands on.)

Working on creating 'Super Skydiving Showdown..'

Craft supplies come out for 'Wonderous Lawn Mower Rider'

Research for 'Future Sewer Studio' begins...

The game results were shared with everyone in our Friday ‘Show and Tell’ session. What bizarre games will we come up with next!?

Super Skydiving Showdown

Wonderous Lawn Mower Rider

Future Sewer Studio

-  Guest written and photography by Megan Kane

Our CEO, Michael Acton Smith landed himself on the front cover in the May issue of WIRED Magazine! His appearance on the cover leads to the feature “How To Create A Global Brand From The UK.”

 Michael isn’t the only celebrity in the office though as a few other Mind Candies got to star in the shoot too! In the far, far background yes…but we’re still there! 

It’s been a busy few weeks for the Moshi Music team as we released the first ever music album ‘Moshi Monsters: Music Rox!’ on April 2nd.

The debut album stormed the official UK album charts coming in at number 4 – ahead of iconic music artists including Madonna and Lost Prophets! Achieving a top 5 for a debut album with no radio or TV play is some feat so we’re really proud of our little musical monsters!

To support the album we hosted an exclusive media launch party at the Hard Rock Cafe in London, which was well attended by media, competition winners and celebs including McFly, Sophie Ellis-Bexter, James Bourne and Matt Willis from Busted and Javine Hylton. Zack BinSpin performed a world exclusive and there was lots of fun with more performances, Moshi tattoos, sweeties, candyfloss, a photobooth, the real McNulty pup walking the red carpet and Mr Moshi arriving in this Moshified Mini!

Mr Moshi arrives at The Hard Rock Cafe in the Moshi Mini!

McFly and Mr Moshi at the album launch party

On the day of launch we ran an event at HMV’s flagship store on London’s Oxford street for fans to see Zack perform his single and meet Mr Moshi to get their albums signed. The first 50 fans received goody bags and everyone received sweets and a Moshi mag. Hundreds of fans turned up with some queueing from as early as 5am – now that’s Moshi dedication :)

The big queue of fans outside HMV in Oxford Street, London!

Zack Binspin performing his single

Check out all the music action in this video!

Last Friday, (March 2^nd) was National Doodle Day. This is a fund raising day for Epilepsy Action, working to raise support and awareness for people with epilepsy. Our Mind Candy Art Club pioneered a project, getting all staff involved by doing our very own group doodle! As being ‘playful’ is one of our favourite company values, over the course of the day everyone pitched in with doodles and scribbles of all shapes and sizes, creating the finished product as the Mind Candy logo.

 Mini art in the form of monsters, cities, birds, cars, swirls, and rocket ships were to name a few of the fantastic specimens of our handy work. We raised cash for Epilepsy Action too, and a snazzy time lapse video was created from the hours of doodling we put in!

 - Guest written by Megan Kane