Animal Jam Classic
2010
- role-playing (rpg)
- educational
- kids
- open world
- multiplayer
The story
Animal Jam is a safe, award-winning online playground for kids. Personalize your favorite animal, chat, play mini-games, learn fun facts, and so much more.
What it’s like
Bright, cartoonish colour in a flat, rounded art style: meadows, treehouses and tidy woodland burrows rendered in saturated greens, sky blues and sunny yellows, with little animal avatars bouncing across the screen. The soundscape is a chirpy loop of xylophone-like tones, nature ambience and cheerful chimes that rises when you enter a new room and fades into the background once you settle in. Movement is slow and unhurried, so the rhythm is gentle, with long stretches of wandering, decorating a den, or drifting between mini-games rather than any sustained tension. The feeling is warm, bubbly and low-stakes, a little like a sun-filled school playground after the bell. Its people are small, friendly creatures making casual conversation, and any arc lives in collecting, customising and making new friends. Intensity is effectively nil: there is no violence, gore, fear or cruelty, and chat is moderated for young players. It suits an afternoon of gentle, screen-based play, or a parent looking for something safe and harmless to share with a child. It is made for kids who want a cheerful, creative corner of the internet, and for adults who want something soft and undemanding to watch over a shoulder.
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