Cartoon Network Launches Mini Match
Cartoon Network New Media, cable television channel Cartoon Network's online publishing division, has announced Mini Match, a new 3D virtual world focusing on multiplayer match-ups and social gaming.
Players create customizable avatars in Mini Match, exploring environments based on adventure themes in Cartoon Network shows, such as Ben 10 and Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends. They will also play multiplayer games featuring characters and content from the channel's programs.
In the virtual world, players will be able to chat with one another using a custom dictionary loaded with only kid-appropriate words and phrases. By chatting, players can work together to solve puzzles and discover more about the Mini Match world, earning new avatar gear and in-game abilities.
Mini Match will be joined this fall by Cartoon Network's other MMO in the works, Cartoon Network Universe: FusionFall. Developed by Seoul, Korea-based studio Grigon Entertainment, FusionFall will focus on getting players to work in groups, featuring lots of platformer elements and a multitude of Cartoon Network characters.
Said Paul Condolora, senior vice president, digital for Turner Broadcasting System Inc.’s Animation, Young Adults and Kids Media Group: “Mini Match opens up a whole new world of gaming to our online audience. The action-adventure theme complements some of our most popular shows and provides kids with a safe virtual destination for social gaming. Kids can come and enjoy the multiplayer games or insert themselves into the fabric of the Mini Match story by joining the ranks of ninjas, pirates, space pilots and other characters, customizing their ‘Minis’ with the gear those adventurous characters bring.”
Comments
Good Mini Match
Posted by: Carlos Monzon | July 11, 2008 7:36 PM
i want a new mini match
Posted by: ethan | August 13, 2008 7:58 PM
My son tried playing MiniMatch yesterday with my husband's permission and it crashed our PC twice. My system is slowed down to a snail's pace and I believe the new spyware on my system may have been linked to MiniMatch. I now have to spend time running spyware on my computer to fix it!
I plan to blog this problem later today on my own blog.
Posted by: ChristineMM | August 18, 2008 8:43 AM
I just visited the Cartoon Network Mini Match site and realized your article has a factual error.
The chat the kids do is free text but certain words are banned from being used. That is different from what you stated which is "will be able to chat with one another using a custom dictionary loaded with only kid-appropriate words and phrases".
Those are two VERY different things.
In the Mini Match and other sites that allow free text chatting but say they ban certain words from being typed in I wonder how they can get around so many abbreviations or even the abbreviations for "parent in the room" and "parenting watching".
Here is a list of such abbreviations if parents want a sample of what can and is being said with abbreviations in text message and in Internet chat.
http://www.netlingo.com/emailsh.cfm
Posted by: ChristineMM | August 18, 2008 9:35 AM
My name is isidro what is your name.
Posted by: isidro | October 3, 2008 2:58 PM
hi!
Posted by: megan | October 12, 2008 5:35 PM
am new and i kant wate to play difernts games.I well respete the rulls wall playing. I well af a a grat evanther.I well respet other.Im going to have a blas!
Posted by: Nelson duartes | November 30, 2008 6:30 PM
mini match is the best game i've ever played!
Posted by: stoyan | February 28, 2009 9:31 PM
mini match the best game can u please put it back on
Posted by: Jeramy Perez | March 27, 2009 3:01 PM
i wish cartoon network would put mini match back on
Posted by: itachi | April 5, 2009 11:03 PM
any hot girls here please answer
Posted by: itachi | April 20, 2009 9:17 PM
well just to telll you people mini match close like febuary 17 th it is dumb but it say you have to download a new software to play the second mini match i am kevin from mini match the best fighter who ever steps fooot in mini match i had a gang named the dark shadow and i was in andys gang so you people you can beat me on mini match 2?well go on it i made mini match 2 it is very hard to find you just cant type in mini match 2 and exepct it you could be the first one to play so try and you could meet me i am always on and it is diffrent in my versoin you can say what you want to say and do almost anything you can shop and stuff and try to find could you be the first one??-Jonah A.K.A Kevin
Posted by: Jonah | May 9, 2009 11:26 AM