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Welcome to our 1st Magical Park Blog Post

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Hello everyone, my name is Melanie Langlotz and I am the founder of Geo AR Games, the creators of the revolutionary digital playground app, Magical Park. Where the idea came from... I had the idea for Magical Park in 2011 when I realized that I couldn't get my stepdaughter, who was 7 years old at the time, to go to the park anymore. She was completely hooked on computer games and the park just didn't seem exciting to her anymore. That's when the lightbulb went off and I realized that if we could bring the game content she loved, which at the time were fairies, to the park in the form of an augmented reality app, it would make the park a lot more interesting and exciting for her. Prototyping So, we began developing the app in 2012, building a few early prototypes that gave us the confidence that the idea would work. I still remember giving my mobile phone to a 14-year-old boy at Victoria Park in Auckland, New Zealand. We had planted a life-size T-Rex in the park which was se...