Welcome to the world of Freakatars, a place designed to inspire your imagination and expand your creativity. Whether you’re three or thirty, creating and collecting Freakatars is freakishly fun!

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Kid’s love to create. It’s built into us, and when we are young, it’s clear. We draw, paint, play. We make up games with our dolls, with our matchbox cars. We build roads in the dirt, and bake cookies in the plastic oven.

Freakatars is all about making stuff. No doubt there will be more, and I’ll talk about that in just a little bit.

The first thing you notice about Freakatars is that they are very very clear about being kid safe (see the Privacy Policy and Terms).

If the user being registered is under 13, they have to provide a parent’s email address. This is clear and safe. You don’t have to wait for the parent to click on an acceptance, the registration goes ahead, but an email is sent to the address informing the parent that their child has created an account on Freakatars.

Once you are logged in, pull on your big gloves, give your best mad scientist laugh, and dive into making your first Freakatar!

My kids loved the wealth of choice. There are enough separate body part types to allow imagination free reign.

You can have all sorts of arms and legs and heads and even light bulbs for ears! Not to mention some crazy eyes.

You can turn and flip and grow each of the parts. Every part is a separate entity, so you can have one leg much larger than the other, or one eye much smaller (or just one eye!).

Once finished, you “Name” the Freakatar.

The naming is a simple generator. If you don’t like the name, just click on the “New Freaky Name” button and you’ll get another one.

It’s a very wise move. These are Freakatars, of course they’re gonna have crazy freaky names! Which lessens the annoyance at not being able to type in your own name. Most kids (and people) aren’t going to make up rude or vulgar names, but most isn’t all.

There are two things to do once you’ve created a Freakatar.

Feeding your Freakatar is very simple. You select a piece of food and you “Buy & Feed”. There are wonderful noises throughout (by wonderful I mean all sorts of whirs and gurgles and burps).

When you create a Freakatar, it’s health isn’t full. So you go and feed it. At the moment all the food is the same price. Another smart move. Making sure separate parts of the engine are working before adding more logic is a sign of good development. Kudos 🙂

The other thing you can do is “Break the Bank”. Once a day your Freakatar gets to open up a vault. Inside is a random (within a certain limit) number of Freakies (currency). These go into your own total Freakies.

Freakatars has a lot of promise. I can see the beginnings of a wonderful engine (that’s the software developer in me), but more than that, even in it’s current beta stage it gives kids excitement and joy.

My kids want to know how their Freakatars are doing. Having a birthday is a big deal, another smart move (I’ve said that enough, ha). My kids want to feed their Freakatars and break open the bank.

I can only imagine there are a lot of great things to come.

So kudos to Adam (Jacobs) and the rest of the team! You have created something wonderful. All the best. My kids and I (and lots of other Folk no doubt) look forward to experiencing what you are building with Freakatars in the future.

Stu Andrews has his own blog here, and with his Family (Wife + 4 Kids) embarks on perilous quests like making stories with the multitude of toys lying around the house in The Plastic Detectives.