Press Release
Dizzywood Reaches Membership Milestone with Over 500,000 Registered Users
San Francisco, Calif.—September 3, 2008—Dizzywood, a virtual world and online game for children ages 8-12, today announced that it has surpassed 500,000 registered users. Since its beta launch in November of 2007, Dizzywood has experienced rapid growth with thousands of new users joining everyday.
"Getting to this scale shows how Dizzywood can both capture the imagination of kids and promote safe, high quality online interaction from them, by encouraging teamwork and collaborative play" said co-founder Sean Uberoi Kelly. "We're encouraged by the strong word-of-mouth growth we've seen, as well as the validation of our approach we've received through our partnerships with elementary schools and the YMCA."
Whether it's a visit to a Mayan-themed jungle or a vast underground cavern, Dizzywood offers kids the opportunity to explore and discover new worlds and environments unlike any other. Each adventure encourages children to use their imagination, cooperate with others, and participate in activities that promote caring, honesty, respect and responsibility, among other important values – all in a setting that is safe, interactive and fun. Also, many of the activities motivate kids with rewards that extend beyond coins, such as unique super powers or the ability to plant a virtual tree that translates into a real one being planted offline.
Dizzywood is free to use. Subscriptions will be available to access premium content in the future.
About Dizzywood
Dizzywood's mission is to inspire young people to use their imagination and have fun, while learning real-life values and skills. Dizzywood's creative, story-driven world offers children a safe virtual environment where they can explore worlds unlike any other, engage in challenging activities and cooperate with others, while developing important cognitive skills. Because Dizzywood's games and activities have endless variation, each experience is new and unique – keeping kids captivated and engaged. Kids are appropriately challenged with games and activities that earn players unique super powers and other creative rewards. For more information, visit www.dizzywood.com.
