Fred Rogers Productions · Daily Puzzle Game
Daily Donkey
A bite-sized preschool puzzle game with a new challenge for every day of the year, encouraging resilience, perseverance, and short repeatable play sessions.
Daily Donkey is a bite-sized puzzle game for preschoolers, with a unique challenge available each day of the year and a Random Puzzle mode for revisiting earlier puzzles.
The game is designed around resilience and perseverance. Players can retry difficult challenges, return the next day for something new, or co-play with a grown-up without being pushed into long sessions.
I took on Daily Donkey during Beta 2 and guided it through Gold, coordinating final development, review, QA, and launch preparation. I also designed and refined many of the game’s daily puzzles, balancing variety and difficulty while keeping each challenge approachable for preschool players.
Daily Donkey became my first shipped project at Curious Media and launched on pbskids.org and the PBS KIDS Games app.
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