Bit Loopy Games

Over the next few months BitLoopy will be shutting down. Due to a lack of time for development, support and maintenance, we have decided to close the company. Thanks for your support.

We’ve been deep in Unreal Engine development for over 18 months now. It’s been an interesting and rewarding period. Unreal Engine 5 is such a deep platform that understanding and leveraging its power takes time. We’ve discovered eye opening features, empowering functionality and frustrating blockages (the documentation could be better), but ultimately, our time has been hugely productive. A…

TTUltra is going on sale!

TT Ultra is going on sale! As before, any purchases are one-off payments. We are not moving to subscriptions. At the time of publishing (and in the UK) the prices have dropped to: Basic features £0.89Standard features £1.79Basic to standard upgrade £0.89 Enjoy.

Why does TTUltra use multiple choice and not keypad entry?

When we released TTUltra we had made a deliberate decision to use multiple choice answers. Many time table apps use a keypad to enter the answer and initially TTUltra did the same. However, we felt that it was not the best solution because the actual entering of the number can cause problems. This is particularly true if you are trying to answer as quickly as possible. It’s all too easy to hit…

Why TTUltra avoids repeated questions and other types of question it can ask.

One of the banes of randomness on a computer is that it’s not really random. Instead, it’s a mathematical pseudo-random formula and, with small sets of options (such as one or two times tables), it can repeat the “random” choice two or even three times in a row. The only computer we know of that has a true random number generator is the specially built ERNIE series. Why does this matter? Well,…

TTUltra has received a reviewed from Garry Froehlich on the App Friday blog at Moms With Apps. Moms With Apps has been posting since 2010 and it’s great to get a mention from such a long standing blog.

Practising efficiently - how TTUltra learns to help your child practise.

Practise what you don’t know, not what you do. One of our developers came across this quote while learning to play the guitar and thought it was a good way of expressing efficiency in learning. However, while it is great quote, we felt it slightly missed the mark. After all, if you don’t occasionally practise what you’ve learned (refresh your skills) then they will eventually become dulled.…

The Engine - is it time for a change?

One of the less enjoyable aspects of games development is the writing of the engine – all the editing tools, graphics and sound systems, level loading and management, menu systems, AI, UI, etc, etc… Essentially, all the back-end code you need to make a game run but which doesn’t actually form part of the gameplay or levels. Fortunately, written well, this code is very reusable. As a company we…

See your child’s progress

TT Ultra is as much about letting parents see how their children are doing as it is about helping children to improve their times tables. It was a primary design goal that parents would get at least one graph to see their children’s progress, even in the free version of the app. This overall graph line is built up from multiple sources: the number of questions answered; the speed of answering…

Learn the way you want to

The free version of TT Ultra comes with a starter pack of times tables unlocked and with most of them selected. However, you don’t have to stick with that. You can focus on one or two tables or add variety by selecting all of them. If your child’s homework says to practise the 2 times table, then just select it. Need to practise 1, 2, 5 and 10? That’s fine, you can choose all of those or any…

TT Ultra is now available - a novel times tables practise and learning app for iOS with a space-race twist.

Bit Loopy has now released its first educational app – TT Ultra – with the aim of giving children a new way to practise and learn their times-tables. Like many people we have primary school age children in need of a new way to improve speed and accuracy with times tables. So, we thought it would be a great idea to create an app which is a little more fun and a novel way of helping children…