Welcome to Pixalate’s CTV & Mobile App Manual Reviews According to COPPA, a series containing the detailed factors the Trust & Safety Advisory Board educators used to assess an app’s child-directedness.
The educators manually review thousands of mobile apps available in the Google Play & Apple App Stores as well as connected TV (CTV) apps from the Roku Channel Store and Amazon Fire TV App Store using the COPPA Rule factors shown below & make those results available to the public at ratings.pixalate.com.
This post takes a look at a popular mobile app (1 million+ downloads) from the Google Play Store. Our reviewer discusses how the subjective factors set forth in the COPPA Rule apply to the app and factor into the reviewer's determination as to whether the app is child-directed or general audience (i.e., it is not targeting children).
The teacher will indicate the factors they relied upon in their assessment using the 10 factors shown below that reflect the 10 child-directed factors in the COPPA Rule.
Raccoon Adventure Simulator 3D is a lively simulation game where players get to see the world through the eyes of a crafty clever raccoon. In the gameplay, players set out on an exciting journey through an interactive city environment and forests. Gameplay includes developing your raccoon, completing tasks, finding food, avoiding humans, building a house to live in, and traveling through the city while avoiding predators. The goal is to stay alive and flourish while taking on challenges to survive. The visual content and animation have 3D colorful charming graphics that use animated characters and activities directed to a mixed audience.
Players have to obtain rewards and coins to gain access to new abilities, complete missions, and collect accomplishments for different activities in the game.
There are advertisements throughout the game that pop up while playing, such as, “Pixel Art,” which is child-directed with a mixed audience, and “Testerup,” which is directed to a general audience.
There is no age gate. It is rated T for Teen in the Google Play store.
Privacy:
The developer’s privacy policy states, “Services do not address anyone under the age of 13…I do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13.
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Screenshots of Raccoon Adventure Simulator 3D
Pixalate’s Trust and Safety Advisory Board was created to bring in individuals with experience using child-directed apps in the classroom to review and assess which apps are child-directed. This manual review process serves to quality check Pixalate’s automated review process. See our full methodology for more information.
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