A Day with the Wiggles

A Day with the Wiggles
	; Slipcase Cover Art
Released	24 November 1998
Produced by	Dataworks Australia; Plastic Wax
Developed by	Multimedia 21 Fund - Cinemedia

A Day with the Wiggles is the first Wiggles game for PC. It was published by Dataworks and developed by Plastic Wax and released on 24th November 1998, the day when the Toot Toot Show! was being performed in Melbourne.

This game won the AIMIA Award for Best Children's Game in 1998.

Gameplay[]

Come and join Anthony, Murray, Greg, Jeff and their friends in this entertaining and educational CD-ROM Activity Centre. With 12 fun games and lively songs and music, children will revisit the program time after time. Featuring beautiful 3D animation and plenty of adventure. A Day with The Wiggles is sure to be a hit with Wiggles fans of all ages.

Games include:[]

Greg's Magic Colouring Book: Greg has a wonderful magic colouring book. You can paint Jeff, Greg, Murray, Anthony, Dorothy the Dinosaur, Captain Feathersword, Wags the Dog and Henry the Octopus. To colour in, click on a colour on the paint palette, then click on the picture to begin colouring. The pictures also talk to you when you colour. To erase the picture, you have to click on the eraser to erase all the colours. To colour a different picture, click on the arrow to turn to the next page or click on the other arrow to turn to the previous page.

Storytime with Anthony: Anthony is reading a book called "Dorothy's Birthday Party", which is one of Anthony's favourite stories. As he reads the story, you will be able to help along by decorating the party invitations, choosing balloons with Wags, stack up the biggest to smallest present pile with Captain Feathersword, choosing flowers for Dorothy and even icing the cake. If you want to, you can click on the arrows to turn the pages but it's all up to you. At the end of the story, they all say surprise to Dorothy and she thanks them all for a nice surprise birthday party. You even get to see the stuff that you made at the party. WHAT A GREAT PARTY!

Murray and the Underwater Big Band: Play along with Murray and Henry's Underwater Big Band. To accompany the tunes, move the mouse pointer over any of the members of the Underwater Big Band that you want to play. And if you want to change a song tune, just click on the clamaphone.

Dreamtime with Jeff: Jeff is sleeping on a bench nearby a pond and Anthony is with him. He says Jeff has a smile on his face and he is dreaming about animals. What you have to do is match an animal to a shape of the same animal in Jeff's dream cloud. If you find a match, Jeff will magically change into the animal for a few seconds. You can even click on Jeff's face to wake him up for a short time or any other action but he will eventually fall back to sleep again.

Gardening with Dorothy the Dinosaur: Dorothy the Dinosaur would like some help with her gardening. Watch carefully where she plants her seeds. Pick up the watering can to water the seeds and you'll see some flowers grow.

Cooking with Dorothy the Dinosaur: Dorothy the Dinosaur loves to bake pies. She needs help to choose the ingredients. You'll need to find ingredients that start with the letter of the alphabet as shown in Dorothy's recipe book. Move the mouse pointer over the food on the shelves to hear their names. After that, Dorothy will put it in the oven to let it cook and you will see a lovely pie each displaying a letter of the alphabet. The pies are different to each other with the shape and colour.

Find Wags the Dog's Bone: Wags has lost his bone and he needs your help to find it by following five clues. Listen to Greg as he explains the clue. For example, he may say to look under the pot plant of red flowers, look in the vegetable garden, look in the pond or look in the sand pit among other clues. Click on the arrows to move around the backyard. When you find Wags’ bone, he will start to dance. But then the bone disappears again and so you can do more levels to help find Wags' bone again with different clues each time.

Juggling with Henry the Octopus: Henry the Octopus has great fun juggling brightly coloured balls. See if you can find the balls he asks for. You'll need to recognise colours and patterns to find the balls which Henry wants.

Captain Feathersword's Treasure Chest: Captain Feathersword has lots of treasure chests. He has so many that he has forgotten which key fits in which chest. If you can match the pattern on the key to the pattern on the lock, you'll help the Captain find his treasure.

Driving the Big Red Car: The Wiggles would like your help finding their way in the Big Red Car. Listen carefully to their instructions. For example, if they're going to a place like the bakery, move the mouse pointer over a building to hear its name. Click on the arrows to move the Big Red Car around and if you need help, click on the Big Red Car. Be ready to follow the roads off screen to find new locations.

Dancing with The Wiggles: The Wiggles are going to be dancing on stage. All you have to do is click on four types of dancing buttons below that will make a Wiggle to move in different single ways. And if you want to change to one of the other Wiggles to make them dance, just click on them.

Sing Along with The Wiggles: The Wiggles are showing song videos in their Wiggly theatre. Click on a video picture to watch The Wiggles perform. You can sing along with them in "We're Dancing With Wags The Dog", "Do the Wiggle Groove" and "Toot Toot, Chugga Chugga, Big Red Car". At the end, The Wiggles or Wags cheer for it.

Introduction[]

Welcome to A Day With The Wiggles, an activity centre CD - ROM for ages three and up. This program lets children join Anthony, Murray, Greg, Jeff and friends in 12 interactive games and plenty of lively songs and music. The activities address a variety of skills including memory building, following instructions, letter recognition, colour recognition, musical exploration and visual creativity. They also capture that special magic that has made The Wiggles Australia's most popular children's entertainers.

Main Menu[]

The main menu of the program provides a view of Wiggle Town. From here, you can click on any one of the 12 hot spots to play an interactive game. Each game has an introductory segment in which one of The Wiggles or their friends explains the activity. Exit animations follow the completion of each activity. Click the mouse at any time during an animation if you wish to bypass it. To finish the game, click the Stop sign at the bottom right of the screen.

Development[]

A Day With The Wiggles was released in 1998 on PC and Mac computers. It was developed by Plastic Wax with the assistance of the Multimedia 21 Fund - Cinemedia and published by Dataworks.

Awards[]

No 1 Best Seller Award - Dataworks 1998

Finalist - Best Children's Entrainment - ATOM Awards 1999

Best Game of 1999 - AIMIA Awards 1999

Credits[]

Voices[]

Greg Page - Himself
Anthony Field - Himself
Murray Cook - Himself
Jeff Fatt - Himself and Henry the Octopus
Paul Paddick - Captain Feathersword
Elisha Burke - Dorothy the Dinosaur
Paul Field - Wags the Dog

Goofs[]

In the song credits, Anthony Field's name is listed on Get Ready To Wiggle.
The intro of the game uses the 1991 version of Get Ready To Wiggle even though there were was a remade version that existed as far back as 1996. although that version could have been instrumental only for live versions.