Clicktoy: Interactive Video Game For Toddlers

Do you have small young children? Toddlers perhaps? If so do they ever go up to the computer and smash on the keyboard. It could inadvertently close that important presentation you were working on which could ruin your career. Or perhaps you need to somehow entertain a small child but don’t want them to accidentally format your harddrive? Then Clicktoy: The Meadow might be what you’re looking for.

What is Clicktoy: The Meadow?

Clicktoy is an interactive computer adventure for your Windows based computer. Think of it like a 3D Pop-Up book which is more interactive and entertaining.

Not only is it an interactive pop-up book, it also allows young toddlers to smash away at your keyboard so that you don’t need to worry about loosing vital data, or somehow inadvertently formatting your harddrive.

Computer Requirements

The computer requirements for the game are fairly basic and are as follows:

• CPU: Pentium IV 1.6GHz or AMD equivalent
• OS: Windows XP or Vista
• RAM: 256 MB
• Video Card: Geforce 5600 or better, ATI Radeon 9600 or better, Intel X3500 or better
• Sound Card: Any DirectX 9.0 compliant sound card

How is this different from other children games?

Clicktoy: The Meadow has a proprietary technology in place called ClickSafe. ClickSafe allows children to mash away at the keys while playing on the computer without getting into programs on the computer they should not be in. Think of it as a screensaver that does not vanish or need a password when keys are pressed.

You child can interact with the animals on the screen making them do various things with a press of a key. Some of the actions they can perform are (but not limited to): change between day and night, change the weather, or even make their very own music.

With four interactive scenes (eight if you include the night) your child can be entertained for hours on end allowing you to leave them unattended in front of the computer and knowing they cannot accidentally leave the game and access other parts of your computer.

After Thoughts.

I played around in The Meadow for a little bit mashing on the keys like a toddler might and did find that if your type has little patience, they might wonder why things don’t happen right away. Then I thought to myself, “would this really bug me if I was of the age of 1 or 2 years old?” For the next action to happen after pressing a key you would need to wait until it was complete for the next action to take place.

The game is cute and family friendly. The small fuzzy animals should be fairly well known (rabbits, squirrels, frogs, butterflies etc) and I am sure young children will find it fascinating for hours.

If you find your youngster is somehow mashing on the keys such as Alt-F4, or Ctrl-Alt-Del then you can disable those key sequences via the Options at the main menu. You can also disable the ‘escape’ key so they can not accidentally hit that either. If you do enable these features, you can exit the game by holding down ‘escape’ for 3-seconds.

Overall I do believe that Clicktoy: The Meadow is a great value. Not only can it keep you young children entertained (and perhaps yourself) but it will also ensure that you can leave your little one unattended at the computer while you go make a pot of coffee or some other small errand.

Granted I do not have children or do I know anyone near by who have children that I could borrow to have them smash away at my keyboard but I do believe this is a great little piece of software that some small children (and their parents) will enjoy.

Other Screenshots

I would like to thank the iPRGroup for allowing me to try out this small software. I would also like to recognize that Clicktoy was designed and developed right here by a local Metro Vancouver company based out of Coquitlam.