IanDisney's Toontown Online
August 31st 2007 12:50
Toontown Online (more commonly known as Toontown) is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game created by The Walt Disney Company and billed as the first such game intended for kids and families. Designed for children as young as seven, the depth of the game's content has drawn in many older players as well. Toontown's 3D virtual world takes its theme from the colourful style and humour of classic animated cartoons, packaged into an online game experience that is designed to be social, non-violent and kid-safe.
In the game, each player takes the role of a Toon — a cartoon character based on an anthropomorphic animal: a dog, cat, mouse, duck, rabbit, horse, monkey, bear or pig. Players choose the species and customize the look of their toons when they first start the game. The game tutorial explains that Toons must work together to rid the streets from the ongoing menace of the "Cogs" — robots dressed in business suits who are trying to transform the bright and cheerful Toontown into a gray, corporate world. For example, when a Cog enters a building in Toontown, it changes into a "Cog building" — a drab gray office building.
To battle the Cogs, Toons use "gags" — silly weapons that are reflective of the slapstick humor found in classic cartoons: cream pies, seltzer bottles, banana peels, dropping anvils, squirting flowers, and so on. Perhaps just as appropriately, both the Cogs' names and their weapons are taken from business slang: Micromanager, Spin Doctor, Red Tape, Power Tie, and the like. By defeating all the Cogs found in a Cog building, it reverts back into a Toon building. Defeating Cogs also earns experience points for the player in various gag tracks, eventually leading to new and more powerful gags.
To play Toontown, visit the official site here.
*This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation Licence. It uses material from the Wikipedia article Toontown Online.
**This image is used here under fair use. It came from the same Wikipedia page as above.
In the game, each player takes the role of a Toon — a cartoon character based on an anthropomorphic animal: a dog, cat, mouse, duck, rabbit, horse, monkey, bear or pig. Players choose the species and customize the look of their toons when they first start the game. The game tutorial explains that Toons must work together to rid the streets from the ongoing menace of the "Cogs" — robots dressed in business suits who are trying to transform the bright and cheerful Toontown into a gray, corporate world. For example, when a Cog enters a building in Toontown, it changes into a "Cog building" — a drab gray office building.
To battle the Cogs, Toons use "gags" — silly weapons that are reflective of the slapstick humor found in classic cartoons: cream pies, seltzer bottles, banana peels, dropping anvils, squirting flowers, and so on. Perhaps just as appropriately, both the Cogs' names and their weapons are taken from business slang: Micromanager, Spin Doctor, Red Tape, Power Tie, and the like. By defeating all the Cogs found in a Cog building, it reverts back into a Toon building. Defeating Cogs also earns experience points for the player in various gag tracks, eventually leading to new and more powerful gags.
To play Toontown, visit the official site here.
Toons battling Cogs inside a Cog Building.
*This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation Licence. It uses material from the Wikipedia article Toontown Online.
**This image is used here under fair use. It came from the same Wikipedia page as above.
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