{"id":17591,"date":"2018-03-28T00:01:27","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T00:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=17591"},"modified":"2018-03-08T18:38:44","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T18:38:44","slug":"american-girl-world-ios-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/28\/american-girl-world-ios-android\/","title":{"rendered":"American Girl World (iOS, Android)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/american_box\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-17589\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/AMERICAN_BOX-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/AMERICAN_BOX-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/AMERICAN_BOX.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>American Girl is a popular line of toy dolls, and now you can read about their adventures with the new free-to-play American Girl World app.\u00a0 It\u2019s available on iOS and Android devices, but reviewed on iPad here.\u00a0 The app takes the form of an interactive story book, with each book on the app featuring one of four characters.\u00a0 The first character you can read about, Z. Yang, is an aspiring filmmaker.\u00a0 But when she wins a film contest audition, can she juggle that, her school projects, and dealing with her friends?\u00a0 After that you can read about the next friend with a bunch of in-game coins, and the last two stories cost real money.<\/p>\n<p>In the game you\u2019ll mostly read text and dialogue, but sometimes you must tap on the screen to perform certain actions and make choices.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure if the choices you make greatly affect the story, but it certainly provides plenty of replay value, and the stories are pretty long, too.\u00a0 When you do these actions and choices, it\u2019ll take off \u2018energy.\u2019\u00a0 When you are out of \u2018energy,\u2019 you must wait a while for it to fill up again, or you can buy more.\u00a0 When you tap on things on the screen, you may get coins, more energy, or level up icons.<\/p>\n<p>When you level up, you\u2019ll receive gifts like even more coins and energy.\u00a0 You\u2019ll mostly spend coins on outfits for your characters, which you can dress them up in to customize their look in the story.\u00a0 Really the only main problem I had was the lack of instructions on certain interactive spots, like it took me a while to figure out you had to slide notes onto a cell phone, for instance.\u00a0 While I think American Girl fans may dig this app, if it were up to me, I\u2019d rather just buy them a American Girl doll or real book or something.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/american_screen\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17590\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/AMERICAN_SCREEN.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/AMERICAN_SCREEN.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/AMERICAN_SCREEN-150x84.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/AMERICAN_SCREEN-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nothing violent or objectionable here.\u00a0 Reading skill is a must for the text, and parental supervision is recommended for the in-game ads and purchases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Girl is a popular line of toy dolls, and now you can read about their adventures with the new free-to-play American Girl World app.\u00a0 It\u2019s available on iOS and Android devices, but reviewed on iPad here.\u00a0 The app takes the form of an interactive story book, with each book on the app featuring one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17591"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17593,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17591\/revisions\/17593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}