Mind Candy

Moshi Monsters passed the 15 million registered Monster Owners mark on Saturday, March 6^th. In honor of our latest milestone (or is that mill-stone?), we’ll be celebrating in LARGE style at The London Aquarium this month. We’re giving away 100 Golden Tickets to 100 lucky Monster Owners, each of whom are allowed to bring one guest and one parent or guardian to Mind Candy’s monstrous event we’re calling The 15 Million Monster Party. If you can get yourself to London March 24^th, you are encouraged to enter the contest!

The event will be action-packed with face painting, candy floss, goodie bags, Toad soda, games, Moshi staff celebrities, and the world premiere of our “Hey Moshi!” Dance with a choreographer and group dance instructions. Who knows? Maybe Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s sons will enter. The Mirror quotes Sarah Brown on February 13^th stating that the boys play Moshi Monsters. Everybody wants a Golden Ticket, even Prime Minister’s sons. We’d love to see The Brown family learning the “Hey Moshi!” dance, that’s for sure.

Speaking of news articles and celebs, our own Mr Moshi, Michael Acton Smith, the CEO of Mind Candy and creator of Moshi Monsters, was featured in Wired Magazine recently.
The Monster Mash-Up article, talks to Wired about our plans to bring Moshi offline. We can’t reveal everything but we can encourage you to read the article.

And since we’re on a news roll, we may as well talk about our very own community news written by Monsto City Editor-at-large Roary Scrawl. Roary is our resident content genius who translates all the happenings into English for us each day. He also comes up with brilliant contests. We had a record-breaking number of entries for Valentines Day this year, with well over 17,000 Secret Admirer Shout Outs. We knew even our most dedicated Monster Owners wouldn’t be able to read 17,000 shout outs so we chose the top 1,000 and posted them over a week or so.

On a different note, Moshi Monsters participated in Safer Internet Day this year, February 9^th. Monster Owners around the world learned about online safety by taking the Safer Internet Day Quiz. We take online safety seriously at Mind Candy. In fact, we’ve recently purchased Crispthinking.com’s NetModerator ™ software, which we plan to integrate in the next month or so. And we recently upgraded to Inversoft’s filtering system in our Forums. Rebecca Newton (@RebeccaNewton) is a featured speaker this month at the San Francisco GDC 2010 (Game Developer’s Conference). Michael Acton Smith (@acton) is also speaking at the GDC 2010 Summit. Many of the Mind Candy team are attending the event. We’ll report back next week on how it all went.