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What Do Kids Want?

-The CBBC wants to know what kids want from their online experience, and they're asking them directly. They've got an interest, of course -- the network is developing the Adventure Rock online world, along with another online play space based on its Tronji IP, through a partnership with development studio Nice Tech.

So in soliciting feedback from its young users, what did the CBBC learn? Says Callum from Birmingham, "I'd launch a football style virtual world, where you would start off in your back garden and gradually get better. Once you were good enough you would get signed for a team's academy and eventually make the first team. If your stats were really high you'd get picked for your international team."

Apparently the boom in virtual pets is right on in its target, as County Durham's Zoe enthuses, "I would put a virtual pet shop in mine because I'm simply crazy about animals! I'd also have a mansion where me and my dream pets could live and in the garden I would have giant stables or maybe even a ranch!"

Amy from Bouillac, France, wants a world where she can be a successful safari veterinarian, and Zara from London just wants a big palace so that she and her friends can see each other all of the time. Cute!

[Via CBBC]

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