We believe in pedagogical approach to game production and online safety, where we want to inform users, and their parents, about the positive aspects of being online and the world around them. I believe that games can provide a platform for informing children about social issues. BooniePlanet is aimed at younger children and their families where charming characters can be cared for by the users.Īll the games that we develop can be used by having one sign in process to develop a unique social network of games.ĭo you think that games are a good way to educate young people about important social issues? BlockStarPlanet offers a unique way to share creativity between friends, even between countries by enabling users to build their own creations. Two other games, BlockStarPlanet and BooniePlanet, were launched in 2013 by the MovieStarPlanet ApS studio. MovieStarPlanet now has over 400 million registered users in 16 supported countries around the world. The game was launched in other European countries in 2011 and then in Australia, New Zealand and the US.
The game became very popular and was launched as a private enterprise in Denmark, Norway and Sweden in 2010. MovieStarPlanet was started by the current CEO, as an educational tool for Danish children to learn English by producing animated movies with English manuscripts. MovieStarPlanet has been around since 2009, can you tell us a bit more about the game? Being a registered social worker with over 20 years’ practice based child protection experience, it has helped me on these issues. These are important issues that need to be addressed professionally. Other workshops look at providing Moderators with skills to identify and escalate online grooming activity and endangerment cases where user may talk about suicide ideation and non suicidal self injury. This includes workshop based training in relation to identifying and preventing Cyberbullying. I also develop and undertake training for Moderators and other staff on child safeguarding issues. My role, therefore, is also to help keep the multidisciplinary staff group, computer engineers, moderators, graphic artists etc., aware of this perspective when designing, maintaining and moderating games for children. It is important that all staff working at MovieStarPlanet are aware of child safeguarding issues throughout the game development process. This includes Governmental Agencies and NGOs, Law Enforcement Agencies, Parents and other groups that are involved in keeping children safe online. I am responsible for liaising and making partnerships with external stakeholders in relation to child safeguarding issues. This complex task involves making the games we produce fun and safe for children to engage with their peers. This is the result of hard dedicated work on growing the BlockStarPlanet and BooniePlanet user base, and at the same time, making new exciting features giving the kids a reason to come back day after day.Your official title is Head of Safety at MovieStarPlanet, can you tell us a bit more about your responsibilities and activities?Īs the Head of Safety at MovieStarPlanet ApS, my role is to make sure that all the games that we produce are compliant with child safeguarding standards and legislation in the 16 countries where the company is operational. Working at MovieStarPlanet is always fun, but the last few weeks, the smiles have been a little bigger.īlockStarPlanet and BooniePlanet, both MovieStarPlanet apps, reached important milestones in their growth plan.īooniePlanet reached an amazing 500,000 Monthly Active users, while BlockStarPlanet reached the 1 million milestone. MovieStarPlanet apps, BooniePlanet and BlockStarPlanet, reach new milestones, and supports the ambition of creating the best and biggest social network for children 8-15 years. March 16th, 2018 MovieStarPlanet apps reaches BIG Milestones
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