Whyville

Whyville is an educational Internet site geared towards children from ages 8–16. Its goal is to engage its users in learning about a broad range of topics, from science and business to art and geography. The game is reported to be one of the most popular virtual worlds with a player base of more than 7 million. Whyville has received a number of awards from independent parent groups for its educational value and safety. For example, Whyville has r... More

Initial release date:

  • Mar 1999

Uses game engine:

top ↑

Similar topics in Freebase

  • HiPiHi

    HiPiHi is an online 3D virtual world game founded by Xu Hui and Rao Xuewei in Beijing in the People's Republic of China. It is the first Chinese virtual world game that allows virtual netizens to freely roam around. Users can explore, trade, communicate and create things in their virtual...
  • Re-Mission

    The Re-Mission video game for teens and young adults with cancer was released by the nonprofit HopeLab on April 3, 2006. The game is a Microsoft Windows based third-person shooter based in the serious games genre. The game was conceived by Pam Omidyar and designed based on HopeLab research, direct...
  • Rise: The Vieneo Province

    Rise: The Vieneo Province (abbreviated to Rise) is an Internet-based virtual world that has been in development since January, 2003 and was offered commercially beginning in April, 2006. Through a downloadable client program, users interact with each other through motional vehicles and avatars,...
  • Club Caribe

    Club Caribe was one of the first graphical online worlds. It was available in the 1980s on the exclusively Commodore 64 online service Quantum Link. Originally available in limited release as Habitat, Club Caribe was eventually released to the public as an extension of Q-Link's "People Connection"....
  • BoomBang

    BoomBang is an online virtual world for children (8–18 years) developed in Spain by the multimedia division of Run Design. Upon launching the site on April 7, 2004, the team involved in this development founded BoomBang Games. BoomBang has over 2 million registered players, but has many fewer...
  • Habitat

    Lucasfilm's Habitat was an early and technologically influential online role-playing game developed by Lucasfilm Games and made available as a beta test in 1986 by Quantum Link, an online service for the Commodore 64 computer and the corporate progenitor to America Online. It was initially created...

These people have edited this topic:

Edit this topic
Edit and Show details

Add or delete facts, download data in JSON or RDF formats, and explore topic metadata.

Freebase Logo
What is Freebase?

Freebase is a huge collection of facts, built by people like you. Freebase connects facts in ways other sites can't, giving you new ways to explore millions of subjects.
You can help improve it!