Orli Yakuel, at GO2WEB2.0 has shared a brand new online application that targets children, aged 4 – 14, and which offers a “galaxy” of digital creativity and digital fun that can be shared with family and/or  online friends around the world.

Shidonni invites you to create a virtual world by drawing it.  You begin by drawing a walking or flying creature, and then the world it lives in.  The animal or bird is then animated and  brought to life.  (These “living” creatures can even eat food that you prepare for them.) There are games and puzzles for the Shidonni creatures to play, and you can invite creatures that have been created by friends anywhere in the world to join you in your world.

Shidonni’s developers have deliberately created a non-violent world where shooting games are not the norm. Neither is the Shidonni website populated with any intrusive advertising!  Before you can use Shidonni, you need to download and install Microsoft’s cross-platform Silverlight plug-in.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a video must be worth at least a million.  So, here’s a video that fills out my brief introduction to Shidonni.