Moshi Monsters is an online video game created for children where gamers can adopt a virtual monster like a pet. The video game released in 2007 and it has quickly grown to tens of million accounts around the world. Moshi Monsters can be played inside your internet browser making it very accessible and simple to begin playing.
Moshi Monsters is a social networking website designed for children aged 7 to 11, though I have seen monsters tagged with ages from 5 to 68. The site designers say that fun, education and safety are the guiding themes for the website. The site combines solving puzzles, working to earn points, making purchasing decisions, caring for a pet, and making connections with others on line in a safe environment. Children adopt their own monster pet, which they then play with, care for, and keep happy. There are six monsters to chose between:
the Katsuma—an anime-inspired rabbit;
the Diavlo—who blows up like a volcano when annoyed;
the Furi—reminiscent of Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street;
the Zommer—a zombie doll with a missing eye;
Luvli—the flirty heart shaped monster;
and the cuddly little Poppet.
After customizing their monster with different color combinations, children are provided with a home for their monster. Participants play games and puzzles to earn rox (currency that they then use to buy toys, home decor, clothes and food for their monsters). Opportunities to learn about budgeting and making decisions between different expenses are part of this process as well. The fastest way to earn rox is by playing puzzles. Puzzles provide an educational component, challenging children to improve their spelling, arithmetic, spacial skills, logic, vocabulary, and more in entertaining ways. The puzzles get harder if the player is doing well, and get easier if the player is struggling. The child's monster acts as a cheerleader, showing great enthusiasm when a child improves their performance. In addition to puzzles, Moshi Monsters has games. One example is earning rox by serving ice cream cones to impatient monsters. This improves mouse control and speed. It also communicates to youngsters that they must work to earn money before they can spend. It may help some youngsters gain empathy for overworked food service personnel. Monsters get sad if they aren't visited frequently enough, and get sick and hungry if they aren't fed. Monsters do not die, however, unlike some other virtual pet games. Sick and sad monsters can be restored to health with food, tickling, shopping, and doing well on puzzles. Players can meet other players at the forum, or on the street in Monstro City. They can go to see the other players' monster homes and admire the often humorous items they have bought with rox to decorate their homes. A lot of thought has been given to safety. Parents must give approval before a child can join. The site does not collect personal information about users, photographs cannot be posted on the site, notes to friends on their pin boards cannot include phone numbers, email or street addresses. There are automatic filters to prevent inappropriate posts to personal pin boards and forums. Unkind posts do get through sometimes, and when this happens the recipient can report the post or even block the poster. Bullying or abuse of the rules can result in the site owners banning a child from the site. There are no ads from outside companies on the website, and basic adoption of a monster and use of the site is free. However, there are frequent reminders that the paid level provides access to many interesting opportunities. Parents may find themselves being pestered to upgrade their child's access to the website to member access, at the cost (as of late April 2010) of $6 a month, or $30 per half year, or $50 per year. There are quite a number of grownups who play Moshi Monsters—grandparents, parents, teachers, even one or two library students and librarians. The monsters are adorable, the puzzles can be challenging, and it is interesting to see how other players have decorated their monster's homes. Home page: http://www.moshimonsters.com/ Information for parents: http://www.moshimonsters.com/parents Cost of membership: http://www.moshimonsters.com/membership/pricing Tour of Moshi Monsters (2 minute introductory video): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKdAmD_C1p4 Survey of children's online community sites: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/31/business/31virtual.html Reviews: http://www.gamezebo.com/online-games/moshi-monsters/review http://prigg.thisislondon.co.uk/2009/04/a-monster-exhibition.html Here is a video of the game in which the work serves ice cream to earn rox: http://www.youtube.com/user/moshimonsters#p/u/5/7ZRuHUEjSaE
Clockwise from top left: orange Katsuma, black and red Diavlo, purple Zommer, red Luvli, pink Poppet, brown Furi
Monster house of a non member.
Fairy Tale Castle, with multiple rooms inside. Children must become paying members for their monster to live in such a house, though non-members can visit all the members' only homes.
Monster tree house, multiple rooms, members only.
Mountain Mill house, multiple rooms, members only.
Monster celebrating its person doing well on a puzzle
Moshi Monsters is a virtual pet website where you can play, learn, and chat to friends. There are various kinds of games including some you may have already played. You get to choose a pet monster from 6 different types; Poppet, Luvli, Zommer, Furi, Katsuma, and Duvlio.
Moshi Monsters is a website where players can adopt a virtual pet monster and collect Moshlings. The monsters have to be fed and played with. Players can also buy clothes and other items for the monster. Players earn credits (called 'Rox') by solving puzzles and playing simple games.
We all have played video games in our childhood but some games become special and leave an everlasting memory. Well, a game called Moshi Monsters which is popular among young ones and has 80 million registered players, is shutting down on December 13, 2019.
In the game, players are required to choose a pet that they can nurture. The game features six pets which include the following: Diavlo, Luvli, Katsuma, Poppet, Furi, and Zommer. Players can roam around Monstro City & they can also do daily challenges to earn in-game currency called Rox.
Players can also communicate with each other while playing the game. They can also personalize their room and do other in-game quests. Moshi Monsters game was released on April 16, 2008, and was created by Michael Acton Smith.
Mindy Candy has developed the game. It is an online game that runs on the Adobe Flash Player engine. The success of the game can be inferred by the number of players it garnered in just one year.
Moshi Monsters registered 10 million players by the end of 2009. Mindy Candy extended the Moshi franchise by releasing Moshi Monsters Village in July 2013 for Android devices. Moshi’s universe was further extended with the release of Moshi Karts in February 2014. Moshi Karts is available on iOS devices.
In June 2014, Moshling Rescue game was released for both Android & iOS devices. Amid these new releases, the popularity of Moshi Hunters took a steep fall in 2013 & Mindy Candy suffered a loss of £2.2m due to a drop in sales. The company also planned to re-launch the game in 2015 but it never happened.
Cut to now, Mindy Candy has decided to shut down the game on December 13, 2019. Game developers have also released an official statement on the Moshi Monsters website. You can check its complete details down below.
Dear Moshi Fan, Roary Scrawl here!
The Moshi Monsters web game will be closing down at midday (GMT) on 13th December 2019. Thank you for joining us on the first part of our monsterific journey and helping us make Moshi Monsters such a splat-tastic online experience!
If you are an existing paid subscriber, your subscription will not auto-renew and will lapse within the next 30 days. Regardless of the date on which your subscription stops, you will be able to access the game and enjoy full subscription benefits until the site closes on 13th December.
If you are a free user, nothing will change until the site closes on 13th December.
In the meantime we want you all to enjoy your final days with us, so enter these one-time use codes at http://www.moshimonsters.com/secretcode to unlock special Moshi goodies:
NOV2019ROX
2019FIREWORKS
2019REDRAINBOW
2019ORANRAINBOW
2019YELLRAINBOW
Moshi Monsters Online
2019GRERAINBOW
2019BLUERAINBOW
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The closure of Moshi Monsters will surely sadden the fans, but they can still play other Moshi Universe games including: Moshi Twilight Sleep Stories and Moshi Monsters Egg Hunt.
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