During the COVID pandemic, as many students learned from home, edutainment sites benefitted form major investments. Funterra (by SMART Tech), a monster-theme edutainment platform for kids K-6, was one of those sites, which Conflare designed and launched prior to my joining the company. After launch, I took over maintenance of the site. This included taking solo client calls around several important features and updates

Funterra’s game and video education platform included a dashboard where parents and teachers could manage child accounts. On the dashboard lived payment information and personal account settings, as well as snapshots of child progress.

I implemented a flag during account creation to ensure that parent and teacher accounts had separate views from child accounts.

Funterra’s at-home edutainment included both videos and games. The browser games were created by a 3rd party and then uploaded to the Nova dashboard, where a page view and relations could be made. I modified the layout styling of each game iframe code to ensure it played at the proper aspect ratio, in and out of full screen mode. I completed lots of testing, cache busting, and (obligatory) game playing to ensure the kids had an awesome experience across the site.

In the first two years after launch, while I was consistently putting out new features, Funterra saw traffic gains of 10x what was anticipated, and grew the user base to 60k subscribers.

Unfortunately, as SMART Tech shifted their goals, more resources were put into Lumio, Funterra’s counterpart. The project was ultimately terminated in 2024, and the old site was stripped and redirected to Lumio.