Draft:Ketnet Kick

KetnetKick was an interactive 3D computer game developed by Ketnet, a Flemish youth-televisionchannel of production house VRT, which was available on CD-ROM.

KetnetKick is the first cross-media “PC2TV” product of the VRT (from PC to TV and vice versa). It is a multimedia application for PC that allows children from the age of 6 to become familiar with the interactivity between PC/internet and TV in a playful way.

KetnetKick stands for Ketnet Interactive Community for Children and is a virtual platform to build an interactive children’s community around four central elements: playing, creating, communicating, and informing. In virtual 3D studios, players can compose music, improvise dances, make drawings, build a racetrack, and play games. These creations were used in Ketnet broadcasts, allowing children to actively participate in Ketnet TV. Four years after the launch of the first game, Ketnet launched KetnetKick 2 in 2008. Since then, updates and support for the first KetnetKick have been discontinued. A final update was released that made the game playable without broadband internet and players can no longer send creations to Ketnet1.