{"id":101,"date":"2016-10-17T20:00:35","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T00:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tootsbook.com\/tootsbook\/?p=101"},"modified":"2016-10-17T18:48:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T22:48:39","slug":"how-will-child-accounts-sign-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tootsbook.com\/tootsbook\/2016\/10\/how-will-child-accounts-sign-in\/","title":{"rendered":"How will Child Accounts sign in?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tootsville has always been accessible to children. In earlier versions, in fact, the game was marketed mostly<\/em> to children!<\/p>\n

Providing an online, multiplayer video game for children is pretty tricky. We need to comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) in the USA, as well as common-sense privacy guidelines. We also want to keep parents \u201cin the loop\u201d and encourage shared game play time.<\/p>\n

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Our guidelines for \u201cbeing nice\u201d within the game world (including the \u201cdiamond icons\u201d system) are a topic for another time.<\/p>\n

Of course, the best experience is side-by-side game play. If your family is lucky enough to have two computers, or a computer and a tablet or advanced mobile phone, you can sign in simultaneously and play along with one another. In the future, we’ll also offer things like \u201cSidekick mode\u201d and split-screen game play for PC users with game pads.<\/p>\n

Today, we’re revealing an early draft of our new child account sign-in<\/a> design. This is how children under age 13 will sign in to the game in future.<\/p>\n

First, parents will create their own account, and create a Toot character for their child to use.<\/p>\n

Later, when their child returns to the game, we’ll have a special log-in control that they can use. They’ll give the name of their Toot character and some kind of information, like a password.<\/p>\n

This will send off an e-mail to the parent, who may be able to receive it even on (for example) a mobile phone that is not itself able to join the game. They can reply to that message or click a link to authorize their child’s log-in, and set a time limit for play.<\/p>\n

Check out this Wiki-Wiki page<\/a> for more details. We welcome suggestions on how to improve this design! We still have a lot of work ahead of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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