This Halloween, you are invited to celebrate the spookiest time of the year at JumpStart.com!
To start the fun, grab your friends and head to the Jumpee Creator to design the perfect Halloween get-up. A swashbuckling pirate? A pretty princess? A stylish cat? A spooky ghost? The possibilities are endless!
Then it’s time to select the perfect [...]
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We hope you’ve gotten a chance to check out just how cool MarineLand is, and want to make sure you found one of our favorite games!
It is time to strut your stuff on the Merllywood Runway! You can find this game first by entering MarineLand, swimming through Ship Wreck Reef, splashing your way through Rubble [...]
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Last week, JumpStart launched our new multiplayer features, officially making the virtual world at JumpStart.com a massively multiplayer online (MMO) game! Now, players can interact with each other via facial expressions (emoticons) and dance moves. And soon, we’ll be introducing canned chat, which will allow players to communicate via age-appropriate, pre-selected phrases.
We’d love to hear [...]
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Hey JumpStart fans,
Come check out our new and improved YouTube channel! We’ve put up high-quality versions of our videos, added descriptions, and made the whole channel easier to use. You’ll also find our playlist of fun, educational songs that you and your kids will love to sing along with, like this one:
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Is your child a JumpStart whizkid? Well, now your little prospector can see how he or she stacks up against other players in JumpStart’s GhostTown Grab with the new high scores board.
See those silly names? Next time your child plays JumpStart, he or she will be prompted to select a combination of words from pre-made [...]
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– From the Desk of Glenn Seidel, Game Designer–
Have you ever been to the circus and watched a performer on tight wire spin plates and keep their balance? Finding the right balance between characters, story and game play is pretty similar. It can be tricky not to let one element over whelm the other two. [...]
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Can you guess what he’s spelling at the end?
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