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My Talking Angela

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Objectives

Talking Angela is the purrfect girl! She's smart and stylish, funny and sweet. And she's basically a fashion superstar!

Fans can now make this amazing kitty their BFF. They can enter her enchanting world, engage with her and watch how she responds; Angela will repeat everything when players talk to her! Fans get to adopt Angela as an adorable kitten and nurture her into a chic city kitty, unlocking new items and coins along the way.

Angela's fans can make her world as fabulous and glamorous as they want by personalizing her house: they can customize the view from her terrace and decorate each room with colorful, fun furniture and different styles and themes.

Fans of Angela know she loves fashion, and this new app allows users to play dress her up with the latest looks and accessories, and get special exclusive outfits and upgrades. They can even give Angela amazing hairstyles and do her makeup.

The app allows users to discover and play new mini-games with Angela. They can also collect hundreds of virtual stickers to place in a special album. Stickers can also be used to unlock amazing upgrades and traded with users' friends!

Strategy and Execution

The My Talking Angela app takes the idea of the virtual pet to the next level with personalization, interactivity, and fun! With unprecedented innovation, this app is engaging and family-friendly, bringing glamor, sparkle and endless amounts of entertainment and creativity to fans across the world.

Launched on all major platforms on December 3, 2014, My Talking Angela has already been downloaded over 58 million times to date, with fans across the globe playing over 2.5 billion mini-games in the app in its first month of release alone.

My Talking Angela includes all the iconic, innovative features that has brought the Talking Tom and Friends app franchise global acclaim in recent years. This cute kitty will talk back to fans and react to tickles and nudges in Angela's comic fashion. Learn more about Angela by visiting http://outfit7.com/character/talking-angela/.

My Talking Angela has ingenious learning capabilities; it has the ability to reinforce and teach the importance of caring for others. Users are responsible for baby Angela when they adopt her as a kitten and it is up to them to make sure she progresses through the nine amazing stages, including baby, toddler, tween, and adult. Angela also has life-like emotions and will respond and react to the user according to how they treat her; she needs feeding, bathing, and regular teeth brushing to remain happy and healthy.

Not only do the mini-games enable users to earn coins and make Angela a happy kitty, but some of them have benefits beyond the positive consequences of joyful play. Mini-games such as "Tiny Puzzles", for example, are fantastic tools for developing and strengthening cognitive skills like spatial reasoning. And those skills can benefit you whether you are a pre-schooler or a grandparent!

Modern day "virtual pets" have also been known to assist children with Autism and people with general behavioural, emotional and social difficulties (BESD). A safe and secure virtual world, especially one with such a life-like character as My Talking Angela, allows people with BESD to interact and learn to look after others, thanks to an environment that allows them both freedom to explore and the security of a reliable and rule-based space.

The app encourages kids and adults alike to indulge in creative play. They are able to unleash their imaginative and inventive sides by personalizing Angela's home and wardrobe. They can make Angela's world look any way they want. With customizable options for furniture, wallpaper, floors and decorations, not to mention the variety of "views" from Angela's terrace, fans can give Angela anything from a chic Parisian flat to a futuristic underwater house!

It is also possible to completely personalize Angela's appearance. There are amazing outfits and costumes to dress her up in and you can even give her gorgeous hairstyles and do her makeup.

Users will be amazed at how quickly Angela quickly becomes their new BFF! From playing games together to picking outfits and collecting cool stickers to go in Angela's special sticker album (and to use to unlock exclusive upgrades), there is never a dull moment with Angela!

The sky is truly the limit with My Talking Angela (but who knows? Maybe we'll offer a customizable option for that as well one day!). And if all of that wasn't enough – just as an added bonus – My Talking Angela is free to download and available on all platforms including Android, iPad, iPhone, and more.

My Talking Angela, as part of Outfit7's family-friendly suite of apps, is certified by PRIVO, an FTC approved COPPA safe harbor program designed to ensure privacy practices that protect children's personal information. My Talking Angela also includes age screening to prevent young children from using the sharing functionalities.

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Outfit7 Limited

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