The world’s first children’s individualized animated cartoon portraits in computer games
KiddiesGames.com is offering individualized animated cartoon-like portraits of children, to be featured in personal versions of children’s computer games or E-cards. We believe that we are the first and only software producers in the world to offer such a personalized product – a child of the customer’s choice in a real computer game or E-card.
KiddiesGames.com is introducing this very unique and original product in time for the Christmas 2004 season. Imagine a fun educational computer game where the cute child on the screen is your child ! An adorable cartoon animation drawing of your child ! Or imagine the delight of Grandparents and Aunts and Uncles when they receive a very cute singing E-card where the child on the screen singing to them is their own Grandchild or Niece or Nephew !
It’s such a novel and adorable idea that KiddiesGames.com is aiming, with this innovative product, to distinguish itself from other software producers. KiddiesGames.com is promoting it as “a wonderful and very original and unique gift idea for a special little person in your life”.
The personalized games and E-cards are being offered by auction at eBay, because the manual process involved in making such an individualized piece of software is labor-intensive, which means that mass-production is not possible. The customer sends a photo of their child to KiddiesGames.com, who’s artist makes a gentle cartoon animation drawing of the child. This is put into a children’s computer game or E-card and made available only to the customer, who can then share the game or E-card with all their family and friends.
The feedback from the first eBay auction is positively excited :
“JUST AWESOME, LOOKS JUST LIKE HER! GREAT IDEA! A+++++++++++++”
Here at KiddiesGames.com we then started receiving correspondence from other potential customers who had missed the auction and wanted to know how to get their own version of this unique product. We believe that we are creating a novel new product who’s demand will explode when people understand just how special and unique it is. As we finish one auction, we start another.
The choice of computer games and E-cards that the individual child’s cartoon portrait will be put into are found at http://www.KiddiesGames.com. The games are fun, brightly-colored, educational and free, and targeted to babies, infants, toddlers and preschoolers. They are also suitable for children with special education needs. The games are available in English, French and Spanish, and feature big, happy, multicultural children’s faces that invite children and their caregivers to play on the computer and engage them in the game’s activity. The E-cards are found at http://www.KiddiesGames.com/en/ecard.php, and the individual child’s animated singing cartoon portrait will be put into one of these adorable, free E-cards. They are targeted at both children and adults.
The eBay auctions for the individualized children’s games take place at :
Various types of portraits or momentos of our children are available these days – photography, oil painting and pencil drawing. Now there’s a new type of children’s portrait. It is being described as “Awesome”. A cartoon-like animated portrait of the child in a fun, educational children’s software game or E-card !
Dialogue launches language, the mind, but once it is launched we develop a new power, "inner speech," and it is this that is indispensable for our further development, our thinking. "Inner speech," says Vygotsky, "is speech almost without words...it is not the interior aspect of external speech, it is a function in itself. ...While in external speech thought is embodied in words, in inner speech words die as they bring forth thought. Inner speech is to a large extent thinking in pure meanings." We start with dialogue, with language that is external and social, but then to think, to become ourselves, we have to move to a monologue, to inner speech. Inner speech is essentially solitary, and it is profoundly mysterious, as unknown to science, Vygotsky writes, as "the other side of the moon." "We are our language," it is often said; but our real language, our real identity, lies in inner speech, in that ceaseless stream and generation of meaning that constitutes the individual mind. It is through inner speech that the child develops his own concepts and meanings; it is through inner speech that he achieves his own identity; it is through inner speech, finally, that he constructs his own world.
It is certain that we are not "given" reality, but have to construct it for ourselves, in our own way, and that in doing so we are conditioned by the cultures and worlds we live in..
quoted from L. S. Vygotsky in "Thought and Language", quoted by Oliver Sacks, and Oliver Sacks in "Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf" by Oliver Sacks, pages 72-73
Small children should be supervised by a caregiver when at a computer,
to ensure no accidents occur that could hurt the child and that no equipment gets broken.