A friend recently told Adam about this game he’d downloaded for his kids. Then we went and got it too, and I must say it’s pretty cool.

It’s called Toybox and it is, like it sounds, this assortment of toys you manouvure with your mouse. The game can be ‘played’ on your desktop or whatever window you’re got open and working on.

See?

Toybox

On that open toy panel, down the bottom there’s a yellow rectangle. If you click on that it changes the background to this purple cheque, its ‘own’ area, which is where Keira prefers to play.

Might be a nice distraction on wet – or extra hot – days.

You can download it from here.

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