Game Classification

TOGGOLINO CLUB SynthiCon AG (Germany), RTL DISNEY Fernsehen GmbH & Co. KG (Germany), 2002  

Informations Analyses Serious Gaming
 

Classification

SERIOUS GAME
(Newsgame)

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Purpose

Besides play, this title features the following intents:
  • Licensed title
  • Educative message broadcasting
  • Informative message broadcasting

Market

This title is used by the following domains:
  • Entertainment
  • Healthcare
  • Education
  • Humanitarian & Caritative
  • Ecology

Audience

This title targets the following audience:
Age : 12 to 16 years old / 17 to 25 years old / 8 to 11 years old / 3 to 7 years old
General Public

Gameplay

The gameplay of this title is Game-based
(designed with stated goals)

The core of gameplay is defined by the rules below:


TOGGOLINO CLUB The Toggolino Club is an online project of German kids TV channel SuperRTL which, for paying subscribers, contains literally dozens of exclusive educational flash games suitable for kids of three to seven years of age. All of those games feature licensed characters from the most popular TV shows running on SuperRTL, glued together by animated menus of the respective franchise.

As of the time of this writing (January 2010) the kids can play games of the following franchises:Bob the BuilderTimmy TimeWow! Wow! Wubbzy!Rupert BearChuggingtonHandy MannyThomas and FriendsHarry and His Bucket Full of DinosaursToggolinoPostman PatCaillouClever IslandKoala BrothersBarney & FriendsThe available games represent the whole bandwith of educational gaming for children in the pre-reading age or kids in the middle of learning to read, hence they're all explained by voice-overs. Furthermore, some franchises even offer the possibility to watch TV episodes or listen to some of its musical score. The Toggolino Club also offers ideas for off-screen use such as printing drawing patterns or crafting guidance.

Paying parents are able to create profiles for three kids per account, and can access extensive statistics about the site usage of each kiddie. [source:mobygames]

Distribution : Retail - Commercial
Platform(s) : Browser (Flash)

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