The tech-savvy Milliken points out that there’s a sneaky strategy in blending Nancy Drew’s trademark personality traits with a lot of things girls in that age range find fun, like playing dress-up and visiting horse stables: It’s a “great way to get the girls’ attention” while introducing kids to coding literacy. “There’s a chapter (in the game) where they don’t find any clues, but they help someone.” Milliken believes the traits that most appeal to Nancy Drew’s fans are the fact she is “smart, caring and brave.” Nancy Drew is “resourceful and also kind,” adds Milliken. With this new video game we’re “reaching the children of the core fan base.” “Our core audience is 10+ but the core demo is 18-34,” Milliken explains. Since 1998, the company has sold over 9 million copies of other Nancy Drew video games, Over the years, many women who grew up on the books have written to say they’re playing the games. The goal of the game is to “familiarize them with many of the basic aspects of coding as they play.” The game will use key computer science concepts, such as problem solving, pattern recognition, sequencing and other coding skills, as the player navigates the screen to find clues that eventually enable her to solve the mystery. And what better way to do this than through a Nancy Drew mystery? Penny Milliken, CEO of Her Interactive, felt the time was right to introduce girls to coding. Nancy Drew: Codes and Clues’ target users are young girls, ages five to eight. Her Interactive, the mystery video game publisher and Simon and Schuster licensee that acquired the video game use of the character in 1997, is now building the newest iteration of the teen detective for the mobile gaming platform. photo: Detective KamenakisĪs she enters her eighty-sixth year in spring of 2016, Nancy Drew adds a new skill to her arsenal of super-sleuthing abilities: coding. Nancy Drew will premiere on October 9 on The CW.A computer game introduces young girls to coding basics by giving them a fun mystery to solve - with the help of the original girl-detective, Nancy Drew.
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The series will also star Leah Lewis ( Charmed) as George, Tunji Kasim ( Nearly Famous) as Nick, Alvina August ( The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina) as Detective Karen Hunt, Maddison Jaizani ( Versailles, Into the Badlands, Tyrant) as Bess and Alex Saxon ( The Fix, The Fosters, Finding Carter) as Ace.Įxecutive produced by Noga Landau, Melinda Hsu Taylor, Josh Schwartz, Stephanie Savage, and Lis Rowinski, Nancy Drew is a production of CBS Television Studios in association with Fake Empire.
RELATED: The Nancy Drew Trailer Gives an Extended Look at the Supernatural Drama Whether the ghost is here to help, or hinder Nancy remains to be seen, but one thing’s for sure: Nancy’s going to have to unravel the clues from both the living and the dead to solve the crimes. And, when a supernatural presence begins to haunt Nancy’s investigation, she discovers that the current crime has an astonishing connection to the unsolved murder of a local girl. Nancy’s reawakening brings her into conflict with her widowed father, Carson Drew (Scott Wolf), who is dating Detective Karen Hart (Alvina August). The five of them must team up to clear their own names – encountering emotional entanglements and even more mysteries along the way.īuy the first ten books in the classic Nancy Drew series here. But when a socialite is murdered, Nancy finds herself a prime suspect in the crime, along with a group of other teens present at the scene: Nancy’s nemesis from high school, George Fan (Leah Lewis) a rich girl with a mysterious past, Bess Marvin (Maddison Jaizani) Nancy’s secret boyfriend, Ned “Nick” Nickerson (Tunji Kasim), and amiable burnout Ace (Alex Saxon). Devastated by her mother’s passing, Nancy swears off crime-solving while crossing off the days until she can re-apply to college.
Nancy Drew (Kennedy McMann) is a brilliant teenaged detective whose sense of self had come from solving mysteries in her hometown of Horseshoe Bay, Maine – until her mother’s untimely death derails Nancy’s college plans. RELATED: Some Mysteries Never Die in Nancy Drew Teaser
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You can check out the full key art now in the gallery below (via Deadline)! The CW has revealed the official Nancy Drew key art featuring Kennedy McMann as the brilliant teenaged detective. The CW’s Nancy Drew key art revealed: Everyone loves a mystery
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