Creativium - Paper Theater for iPad review

Building construction paper landscapes is a fiddly affair. No matter how many times you map out the positions of your cutouts, some errant breeze always pops up at the last minute to slide them out of place. Creativium - Paper Theater looks to eliminate this problem by setting up the paper dioramas inside of your iPad.

In the app, you're greeted with an undeniably child-friendly woodland scene with cute animals blinking up at you. Tapping around on the environment can cause certain animals to wake up or wander about, but most stay where they are.

When you find a particularly choice view in the paper wonderland, you can conjure up a virtual camera in-app to take a picture of what you see. It's all pretty and good fun, but it gets old rather quickly.

Toddlers will eat this up, apparently

The problem with the app as it stands, however, is that it only presents one diorama for you to play with and your options for playing are rather limited. Tapping on critters doesn't elicit much - if any - of a reaction, and there?s only one area that you can really customize.

This area - a castle - is cute enough, and the ability to festoon it with streamers, balloons, clowns, and wizards is nice but after you take a picture there's really nothing to do with it.

No doubt children, with attention spans shorter than your average app reviewer, will see the novelty of Creativium wear off quickly. Compounding this issue is that there's only one diorama available for them to play with, so there aren?t many options for those looking to fiddle and wander.

Creativium doesn't need to add more for children to do to redeem it as an app, it just needs to add more areas for them to play in. Having virtual paper playworlds at your fingertips is something any kid could sink their baby teeth into, but the key to keeping them interested is variety.

At current, Creativium doesn't really provide much of that.

Pros

Cute presentation, bright and bold graphics make it easy for children to tell shapes apart

Cons

Not much to play with, only one game world to speak of.

Price: $99c / 69p

Score: 1/5

Creativium - Paper Theater

Source: http://www.padvance.com/story/Creativium-Paper-Theater-for-iPad-review

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