Find them all: Learning Animal Game For Children - KNB media

This review of Find them all: Learning Animal Game For Children was completed by the Australian Council on Children and the Media (ACCM) on 15 December 2016.

About the app

This section contains details about the app provided by an ACCM Reviewer.

ACCM review

This review of Find them all: Learning Animal Game For Children contains the following information:

• The level to which the game was reviewed
• App description
• Reviewers comments
• In App purchasing
• Online information
• Gambling
• Advertising and product placement
• Gender stereotypes and sexual references
• Coarse language
• Game playing behaviour which may be of concern to some parents
• Other

The level to which the game was reviewed

Levels played include: Animal search, night fall search, in-app photo taking, jigsaw puzzle, animal quiz

App description

In the free version of Find them All: Learning Animal Game, the player learns basic facts about animals that live on farms and in the wild, what they look and sound like and what they are called in English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, and Traditional Chinese. The user can take and collect photos, turn them into jigsaw puzzles and take quizzes. 

Reviewers comments

Reading skills are not required for this game as all instructions are spoken. In order to progress through the game the player needs to stay focussed, as certain options like taking photos (an in-app screenshot), receiving animal facts, creating jigsaw puzzles, taking quizzes etc., only unlock once certain tasks are fulfilled. The facts and quizzes are useful and informative, and the option to listen to the animals’ names in other languages raises awareness of and interest in other languages.

The game does not require internet connectivity, creation of a user account or provision of any personal details. While the actual content is suitable for young children, parental guidance and/or co-playing is recommended as the app advertises paid extensions, gives incentives to rate or share the app on Facebook, and provides the option to print an album. Some options (e.g. game settings, review writing, purchases) directed at parents are protected through a maths problem (e.g. 9x4) which could be solved by a child. In-app purchases can be deactivated in the device’s general parental control settings.

In App purchasing

• Additional worlds containing more animals from other continents can be purchased. This requires access to the App Store.

Online information

• The app contains special offers which encourage players to like or share the game on Facebook and rewarding them for doing so with an additional world for free.

Gambling

• At time of review, the reviewer found no simulated gambling content.  If you discover simulated gambling content in this app, please contact us with the details so we can update our review.

Advertising and product placement

• The app promotes paid in-app add-ons (additional worlds) and related games. 

Gender stereotypes and sexual references

• The app contains no gender stereotypes or sexual references. 

Coarse language

• The language is appropriate for young children and no coarse language was detected during the review.

Game playing behaviour which may be of concern to some parents

• At the time of the review, the game did not require or foster any game playing behaviour that may be of concern to parents.

Other

N/A.

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