Talking Tom & Friends: World Beginners Guide: Tips and Tricks you need to know

Talking Tom & Friends: World is the first Talking Tom & Friends game to be made specifically for kids. It’s a set of characters and scenes designed to encourage your kids’ imaginations to run wild. This game doesn’t have a fixed story or rules – it’s a sandbox in which kids can tell their own stories and make their own rules.

While Talking Tom & Friends: World is extremely intuitive to play, there’s a whole lot of content to explore. So you and your kids might benefit from a few gentle nudges in the right direction, as well as a couple of tip-offs about some of the game’s more secretive features. So, here are 5 tips and tricks to get your kids started in Talking Tom & Friends: World.

Talking Tom & Friends: World: Top 5 Tips and Tricks explained

1. Create your own Characters

Talking Tom & Friends: World features all six Talking Tom & Friends characters – Talking Tom, Talking Angela, Talking Hank, Talking Becca, Talking Ben, and Talking Ginger, as well as a supporting cast of new characters who populate the various scenes throughout the game world.

But your kids can also create their characters, and these characters can look like anyone (or anything!) they like; they can even make themselves! And that means that this is the first time that your kids can immerse themselves in the Talking Tom & Friends world.

To access the character creator from the main screen, tap the button in the top-left corner or tap on the blank character sign next to the house with the blue roof. Or to access it from within any scene, tap the button in the bottom-right corner.

Tap one of the empty character slots, then design your character by choosing from the huge range of options. Start by choosing whether your character is a human, rabbit, cat, or dog, then customize every detail, including their face, hair, clothing, accessories, and makeup.

If you can’t decide what your character should look like, tap the dice button to create a random character. You can tap it as many times as you like until a weird and wonderful random creation appears. And you can always tweak any random character using the menus and options.

Once your kid is happy with their custom character, tap the check mark, and you’ll see their creation alongside Talking Tom and his friends. Now, when you enter any scene, you can tap the button in the bottom-right corner and drag the newly created character into the scene.

2. Design your own Home

Tap on the pink house with a purple roof to enter an empty house ready for your very own custom renovation. To add furniture and decorations to each room, tap on the chair button in the top-right corner, and a menu will appear on the right-hand side of the screen. From top to bottom, the tabs on the menu are: bedroom, living room, kitchen, bathroom, garden, decorations, and shop.

Scroll up and down each menu and add items to the house by simply dragging them off the menu and placing them where you want them. And you can put anything wherever you want it. Do your kids fancy putting an oven in the middle of the bedroom? Go for it! How about putting toilets in the kitchen instead of dining chairs? That’s unhygienic, but allowed in this game.

Once your kid has created the perfect dream home, tap the check mark in the top-left corner, then tap the button in the bottom-left to add some characters to take advantage of the bedside oven, dining toilets, or whatever other home improvements your pride and joy has made.

3. Make Movies

Talking Tom & Friends: World doesn’t just let your kids tell their own unique stories; it lets them record, keep, and share them too. To make your very own mini movie, go to any scene, then tap the button in the top-right corner and tap the movie camera button.

After the countdown from 3, everything that happens in the game will be recorded until the stop button is tapped. So, for example, before you record, your kid could create a cheerleader character, put pom-poms in her hands, then position her next to the basketball hoop.

Then they could make a recording of themselves scoring a hoop and then making the cheerleader dance. That’s just one possibility among millions. The only limit is your kid’s imagination!

When you tap the stop button, you’ll be shown a preview of your movie. Tap SAVE to save the video to your device, or tap SHARE to share the video via email, social media, or a messaging app. Or if your kid decides they don’t want to keep the video, simply tap the X button to return to the scene.

4. Check out all the Different Scenes

On top of the customizable house, the base game also includes three more scenes to explore, customize, and interact with. Every one of them has loads of interactive features to discover, but here are just a few of the highlights.

Home

The house with the blue roof is a ready-made home for kids to move into and get comfortable in. Try dropping a character in the pool (in a swimsuit or fully clothed) and then use the buttons in the bottom-left to make them swim or blow bubbles. And one of the coolest features of the house is the kitchen, where kids can use the stove to combine different foods and make new dishes. Look out for recipes taped to the wall or even on the TV.

Cool School

This is three scenes in one. There’s the school hallway, the schoolyard, and the classroom. Kicking goals and shooting hoops in the schoolyard is tons of fun, but the best features are in the classroom (tap on the door in the hallway to go in).

Kids can draw pictures and play games on the whiteboard, and on the right-hand side of the classroom, there’s a science lab where they can make weird and wonderful potions. Don’t forget to have someone drink each potion to find out what it does!

Tasty Treats Bakery

Tap on the building shaped like a cupcake to enter the Tasty Treats Bakery. On the left-hand side, your kid can bake and decorate cakes, as well as serve drinks and snacks. And on the right-hand side, there’s a party in full swing.

The coolest thing here is that you can change the whole theme of the party at the touch of a button. Tap the pink button on the wall for the Wedding theme, the blue button for the Mermaid theme, and the green button for the Dinosaur theme.

5. Browse the In-game Shop

There’s a lot of fun to be had in the base game scenes, but if your kids want more (and don’t they always?), then a whole variety of other scenes are available to buy from the in-game shop. Tap on the building with a shopping cart on its roof to browse the shop, or tap on any of the locked buildings on the main screen to buy a scene either on its own or as part of a bundle.

Train Adventure

Tap on the train station, then drag whichever characters you want onto the train. Tap the red button to get tickets, then tap the green button to start the journey. The train has all the features you’d expect, including seats, toilets, snacks, and even beds.

But the most fun part is the driver’s cab. Push the blue lever to make the train go faster, and pull the cord to sound the horn. And when you want to arrive at your destination, tap one of the red hand buttons.

Doctor’s Office

If your kids are feeling a bit under the weather, tap on the building with the green cross on the roof. The fun part in the Doctor’s Office is making the patients better. But to do that, they have to get sick first. In the middle part of the doctor’s office, there are some germs in jars. Drag one of them to any character, and they’ll get a booboo. But then drag one of the green tablets or pink syringes to the same character, and they’ll get all better.

Car Workshop

Tap on the building with a wrench and a tire on the roof to enter the Car Workshop. At the left-hand end, there’s a car waiting to be serviced. If your kids don’t like this car, tap the blue button to send it out, then tap the green button to bring another one in.

Move the car through the different sections of the workshop, using the tools to service, respray, and wash it. At the end of the workshop, tap the blue button to send the car away, or tap the green button to take it for a test drive.

Spaceship

If this world isn’t fun enough for your kids, they can try travelling to another one – just tap on the rocket launchpad. Once on board, pull the yellow lever to travel to far-away galaxies, and tap the red button to turn the gravity off. Whoah!

The Mega Mall

See that building that looks like a giant shopping bag? That’s the mega mall! Tap it to go on a spending spree. If your kids like feeding characters and dressing them up, then this is the place to be. There’s more food and clothing here than anywhere else. There’s also a toy store with a claw machine (put money in the slot to make it work). And if your kids run out of money, there’s even an ATM with unlimited funds!

Candy Cottage

Does your kid have a sweet tooth? Yes? Then tap the building that looks like a house-shaped cake. This is Talking Ginger’s favorite scene, in case you hadn’t guessed. Keep feeding him (or any other character) candy until he’s all worn out, then put him in the candy bed for a well-earned nap.

Angela’s Hair Salon

Tap on the building with scissors on its sign to give characters a makeover at Angela’s Hair Salon. The most important part of the salon is at the right-hand end. Put a character in the chair, then use the green buttons on the machine to choose a style.

Tap the red button to apply the style, then add some accessories. Next, pop the character on the stool and apply one of the huge selection of colour sprays. Here, kids can also use the scissors to change the hairstyle, or the clippers to remove the hair completely.

Pet Shelter

The building with a pawprint and a bone on it is the Pet Shelter, so tap on it to go visit some furry friends. Here, kids can pet, wash, and feed a variety of super-cute critters. But feed them enough and they will inevitably go poop. Fortunately, there’s a poop bin available, so just drag the poop in there. And then go wash your hands.

Angela’s Apartment

The pink building next to the school is Angela’s apartment block, so tap on it to visit her apartment. If your kids have ever played My Talking Angela 2, then this will look pretty familiar, and a lot of the activities are the same, too. They can feed Angela (or any other character) here, dress her up, wash her, brush her teeth, or just settle down for a bit of relaxing self-care.

Baby Daycare

Tap the building that looks like a baby’s bottle to visit the super-cute Baby Daycare scene. The fun part here is the slide, and no, you don’t have to be a baby to use it. Make sure you put each baby on a potty pretty regularly; otherwise, an accident may happen.

But if one of the babies does dirty their diaper, then just pop them onto the baby changing station and drag a fresh change of clothes onto them. And you can dispose of the stinky outfit in the penguin-shaped bin.

Tom’s House

The house with the red roof is Tom’s house. Tap on it to enter a scene that should be pretty familiar to fans of My Talking Tom 2. Here, Tom, or any other character, can play with toys and games, eat, sleep, wash, and, of course, go to the toilet.

Beach Getaway

For pure relaxation, the best place to go is the Beach Getaway, which is on the beach next to the houses. There are no demanding activities here. It’s all about chilling out in the sun and taking things easy. Just make sure characters apply plenty of sunscreen before spending the day sunbathing.

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