{"id":19834,"date":"2020-01-27T00:01:02","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T00:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=19834"},"modified":"2020-01-22T00:14:47","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T00:14:47","slug":"my-pizza-family-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/27\/my-pizza-family-mobile\/","title":{"rendered":"My Pizza Family (Mobile)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Two young city dwelling siblings, Camilla and Alex, are making a video blog, or vlog.\u00a0 Their family is both Italian and Spanish, and they\u2019re documenting the rise of their family\u2019s pizza restaurant.\u00a0 It\u2019s fallen on hard times, but is about to have a grand reopening.\u00a0 Their newfound success comes from the fact they grow some of their own ingredients, and the family encourages their neighbors to join in and make a community garden in a vacant lot.\u00a0 Pretty normal stuff so far, but here\u2019s where it gets weird.\u00a0 The family gets advice from a group of talking pizza ingredients, like a tomato, dough ball, basil leaf, pepperoni slice, and more.\u00a0 My Pizza Family is an activity center for kids that focuses on family and community, as well as shape recognition and Spanish and Italian language learning, too!\u00a0 It\u2019s available to download on mobile devices, but reviewed on iPad here.<\/p>\n

The game has three short chapters that explains the plot of the game.\u00a0 In each chapter you may need to play a mini-game to progress.\u00a0 Most of the time, you just drag and drop scrambled letters to spell words in English, Spanish, or Italian.\u00a0 Then at the end of each chapter, they sing a song and dance.\u00a0 Then after that, the game turns a complete 180 and becomes a 3-D free roaming adventure where you control one of the kids and build a garden and grow vegetables for your neighbors.\u00a0 Or at least that\u2019s what I THINK you do.\u00a0 There were no instructions for the 3-D part, and the camera and movement controls were so bad I stopped playing at that point.<\/p>\n

Aside from the chapters, you can play some mini-games separately, like the spelling game.\u00a0 But when I played it, I had to spell out \u2018scissors\u2019 but the letters went past the screen so I couldn\u2019t complete it.\u00a0 You can also trace shapes of pizza, or put toppings on your own pizza and bake it.\u00a0 That was actually the best part of the game because it was neat to see what your designed pizza looked like after it had been cooked.\u00a0 You can also do the awful 3-D city exploration part separately, too.<\/p>\n

Aside from that and the broken spelling mini-game, the only other problem I had was the game as a whole just looks very amateurish.\u00a0 The graphics and animations look like it could\u2019ve been done back in the early 2000s.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think kids will mind the bad graphics, but it sure does look creepy when the characters dance and they tilt their head sideways and it looks like they just broke their neck!\u00a0 I like the idea and concept of the game, I just think it needed a little more time in the pizza oven.<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nothing violent or objectionable here.\u00a0 Letter and shape recognition is helpful to play, although I don\u2019t know if it\u2019ll keep kids interested for very long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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