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Hey Dusk here with a game review of Animal Jam.

Sky High, the most popular game in Aj.

Animal jam is a fun MMO made by National Geographic where you play as a animal. You choose between non-member animals such as a seal, koala, wolf, penguin, bunny, turtle, etc. It is set in a land called the Land of Jamaa which has many different areas that each have their own area. The games currency is gems which can be received by playing a large amount of games such as Sky High. The main area is Jamaa township which has the arcade, stores, pillow room, club geoz, (Both are hangout rooms but the Pillow room is used for adoption.)

Jamaa Township

The game has dens which can be customized by furniture bought in stores. Many of the store items are member-only but if you look at every non-member item then there are a lot of items. The game has many player-made aspects such as adoption in the pillow room. (shown at bottom right). Some players say "adopt me, i'm a baby" or "i'm a orphan" or simply "adopt me" while they are in the pillow room. Other players go to the pillow room and say to the wanna-be adopted player "So and so i adopt you" and then they say usually "my den". At the persons den they roleplay a mother/father and a child. Some people make themselves dogs and some people adopt multiple people and make them siblings. Member have huge dens compared to non-member dens and lots of other items so generally the members adopt more and many people say "Adopt me, members only". Also there are clans from Erin Hunters "Warrior Cats" usually in dens or Sarepia Forest. They roleplay hunting and fighting. Animal Jam has new features "every other week" and million of players play it and eventually almost every player becomes a member or has been a member before. Animal Jam is compared to Club Penguin a lot but mostly favored over it because of the nicer community and cheaper membership as well as more players. Animal Jam has a educational side to where players watch movies or click on animals or plants in each area excluding Jamaa Township for a fact of the animal which they put in their "Journey Guide" once when you get every animal fact in a location you receive a gift, usually a den item. Animal Jam also has a unique culture with legends hinted throughout the game with various items. The legends include Alphas, special animals that protect Jamaa and its residents. A lot more bits and pieces of Jamaa lore was in the Beta version that got removed in the later versions. These things had a very special part called Adventures where you fight the games rivals called Phantoms and help the Alphas restore peace to Jamaa as well as receive special prizes and gems. A group calling themselves the "Jaamaasian Movement" headed by a player named Snowyclaw (Her blog link: http://animaljamspirit.blogspot.com/) wanted Animal Jam to name every single alpha and to have the beta parts of the AJ lore once more. They succeeded and even more Jamaa lore is throughout the game then beta including Adventures which came being Member-only but a few adventures are for non-members. Below are some pictures of Animal Jam and you can decide to play it or not.