Ooka Island Adventure 2.0 will automatically uninstall previous versions of the Ooka Island Adventure. Download version 2 now.

You can also remove earlier versions using the instructions below:

Depending on the type of computer and version of the operating system you are using, the uninstall instructions are slightly different. Follow the instructions below that correspond to your computer’s operating system.

• Windows 7 & Vista
  • Click Start -> Control Panel
  • Click ‘Programs & Features’
  • Click ‘Ooka Island Adventure’ and select ‘Uninstall’
  • A pop-up should appear to uninstall the game. Use the uninstaller to uninstall the game.
• Windows XP
  • Click Start -> Control Panel
  • Click ‘Add/Remove Programs’
  • Click ‘Ooka Island Adventure’ and select ‘Uninstall’
  • A pop-up should appear to uninstall the game. Use the uninstaller to uninstall the game.
• Mac OS
  • Navigate to the folder ‘Ooka-Mac’. (This folder, by default, can be found in the Applications folder).
  • Select the ‘Ooka-Mac’ folder and drag it to the trash.

You can install the Ooka Island Adventure on as many computer systems as you want and you will need to install the Ooka Island Adventure on every computer system where the game will be played. There are three ways that the game can be installed on multiple computer systems.

1. Download and save the game installer on each computer system where the game will be played. Double click on the game installer to install the game.
2. Download the game installer to one system and then use removable media (such as a DVD or memory stick. A CD will not work as it is too small and will not hold the game installer) to copy the installer to other computer systems.
   1. Download and save the game installer to a known location on your computer (if you will be installing the game on different types of machines, download both the mac and windows version of the game installer at this time).
   2. Copy the game installer(s) that you just downloaded to removable media.
   3. For every system that you need to install the game on, insert the removable media and copy the correct game installer to the system. Double click on the copied installer to install the game
3. Download the game installer to an accessible network drive and install the game on every system from the network drive. (This may require the assistance of a technician).
   1. Download and save the game installer to a known location on your computer network (if you will be installing the game on different types of machines, download both the mac and windows version of the game installer at this time).
   2. On every computer system where the game will be played, access the game installer from the network location and run the installer.

Because the Ooka Island Adventure is such a large game, when you download the game on a windows PC you need to click ‘Save’ and not ‘Run’. If you clicked on ‘Run’ when downloading the game you will need to start the download over again. Click here to download the program. If you clicked on ‘Save’ and can’t find the game installer that you just downloaded, do a search on your computer for ‘OokaWin2’ if you’re on a windows PC, or ‘OokaMac2’ if you’re on a Mac.

On Windows:

To create a shortcut to the game on your desktop, navigate to: C:\Program Files (x86)\Ooka Island Adventure\, right click on the Ooka Island Adventure logo and select 'Create Shortcut'.

*Note: Your computer may indicate that you can't create a shortcut in this location but a shortcut can be created on your desktop. Select 'Ok' if this comes up. This will create a new shortcut to the Ooka Island Adventure on your desktop. 

If you did not see this message, drag and drop the new shortcut icon, that was created, to your desktop.

On Mac:

Navigate to the Ooka-Mac folder in Applications. Click on the Ooka Island Adventure logo inside the Ooka-Mac folder and drag it to your dock.

The Ooka Island Adventure is a huge program. It requires 2GB of space on your computer and can take up to 2 hours to download. But don't let that get in the way of starting your Adventure! It is web-based, but is self contained, so that children are never directed to other online content. It is a safe and secure environment that is designed for learning and adventure! 

If you don't want to spend the time with the download, contact our customer support at 1-877-307-3616. We can send you a copy of the game in the mail and that installation takes only 10 minutes! 

When players successfully complete a level in an activity on Ooka Island, they receive a sticker reward and get one item unlocked in the Mist Mart. The unlocked item is displayed in the ‘Ookariffic Popup’ at the end of the activity. Players can then purchase the unlocked item from the Mist Mart during their free play session.

Certain items within the Mist Mart are ‘locked’ when the player begins the Ooka Island Adventure, and are unable to be purchased from the Mist Mart. These items are designated with a ‘lock’ icon in the bottom right hand corner of the item. As players successfully complete activities on Ooka Island these items are unlocked and are then able to be purchased in the Mist Mart. Unlocking items on Ooka Island does not make them available in the Pencil Playground but does makes them available for purchase in the Mist Mart. When you purchase an item from the Mist Mart it will appear in the Pencil Playground, clothing and costumes will appear in the Wardrobe inside the Pencil Playground.

Free Play lasts for eight minutes and when it finishes, the Ooka Island Adventure will bring the player back into Guided Play. When players are in the Pencil Playground or the Mist Mart, they will be moved immediately into Guided play. Players who are in one of the seven learning activities or in the Popcorn Library at the end of Free Play will finish the current activity or the book that they are reading, and will then be moved into Guided Play. If Free Play continues beyond eight minutes, the player should log out of the game and log back in to continue on the Guided Play path.

The learning flow consists of 20 minutes of guided curricular play in a variety of fun phonemic and phonetic activities and then 10 minutes of reading a new e-book in the Popcorn Library. After this 30 minute period of learning, the child has accomplished a lot of hard work and as a result is rewarded with Free Play! During Free Play, the entire island opens up and children can navigate freely throughout the island to explore and discover new surprises. The Free Play feature is enabled after a child completes a full cycle of the learning flow (see PDF).

Check out our Day of Play blog post to learn more about the learning flow! 

Each learning activity on Ooka Island focuses on a different skill that is essential for reading fluency and comprehension. You can learn more about the seven learning activities on Ooka Island and the skills they focus on here.

The Ooka Island Adventure has many innovative features. Check out our innovative features guide for more information.

The Ooka Compass is an in-game assessment that can be taken by any child/student with an Ooka Island Adventure account. The assessment won't bypass the activities to higher levels, as it's very important that the sequence of phonemic and phonetic activities (e.g. Cave of Sounds) are followed through so the child is strong and secure in the sound system, but does provide a way for players to skip books in the Popcorn Library to the appropriate reading level. Based on their achievement in the assessment, a player will either start higher up the book path at the Beginning level or they will start at the beginning of the book path in the Emergent level. 

Find out more about the Ooka Compass in our Innovative Features section.

Note: Because of hardware limitations, older netbooks are often unable to play the Ooka Island Adventure. 

Operating System: Windows XP, Vista, 7 or Mac OSX 10.5 & up

Processor:
Windows: Pentium 4 - 1.3Ghz or AMD Semperon 
Mac: Intel architecture 

RAM: 756MB (Windows Vista requires 1GB)

Monitor: Must support 1024x768 resolution

Graphics: DirectX 9-capable graphics hardware with 64MB Video Memory. (Most cards made after 2006 should be able to run the game).

Audio: Built in or external microphone & speakers

Hard Drive: At least 3GB of available space

Network: Persistent high speed internet connection

Operating System: Windows XP, Vista, 7, or Mac OSX 10.5 & up

Processor: Intel Core 2

Recommended: 1GB or more

Monitor: Must support 1024x768 resolution or higher

Recommended: Fully compatible DirectX 9+ dedicated graphics hardware with 256MB Video Memory

Audio: Built in or external microphone & speakers

Hard Drive: At least 5GB of available space

Network: Persistent high speed internet connection

Currently the Ooka Island Adventure is only available for Mac and Windows. 

There is an Ooka Island app available on the iTunes store called Ooka Tunes: Sing-Along Songs. You can find out more about our Ooka Tunes app here.

No. The Ooka Island Adventure 14-day trial has only one license available for a single player account. If you would like to create multiple player accounts, you will need to purchase the Ooka Island Adventure.

Yes. If you have more than 4 students for whom you want to purchase licenses, you need to select an annual license for 5 to 30 students and specify the number of students who will be using the Ooka Island Adventure. An annual license is valid from the date of purchase through to the same date of the following year.

We do not store your credit card information on our servers. All credit card information that you share with us is maintained by PayPal, our online merchant. Paypal automatically encrypts all information that is sent to their servers using a 128-bit encrypted SSL key. Once your information reaches the PayPal site, it resides on a server that is heavily guarded both physically and electronically. PayPal servers sit behind an electronic firewall and are not directly connected to the internet, so your private information is available only to authorized computers. Paypal Security. 

To cancel your subscription, contact our support team at 1-877-307-3616. Please have the email address you signed up with available, as you will need that information for account verification. Paid account subscriptions are nonrefundable.

The Ooka Island Adventure can be downloaded, played and purchased from any location in the world! 

We have three payment options for our customers who are outside of the US or Canada.

1. If you reside outside the US or Canada, but have a Canadian or US credit card, then you can purchase the Ooka Island Adventure through our online store. Just follow the online steps and you can easily purchase and download the program.
2. If you don't have a US or Canadian credit card but you have a PayPal account, you can still purchase the Ooka Island Adventure through our online store. Just follow the online steps and select 'PayPal' when purchasing the program.
3. If you don't have a US or Canadian credit card or a PayPal account you can still purchase the program. Just contact our Customer Service centre via phone at 1-877-307-3616 and they can process credit cards from other countries using our our in-house payment processing system. 

There are two parts to logging into the Ooka Island Adventure. The first login screen requires the parent/instructor to enter his/her credentials. Once the account information has been successfully entered the Ooka Island Adventure opens up the child login page. Children will not need to memorize a username or password as we use picture avatars for usernames and pictures for passwords. This allows children to easily remember their login credentials, while keeping accounts secure when a parent/instructor has access to multiple student/child accounts.

To begin the login process, double click on the Ooka Island Adventure game icon to start the game. After the opening credits and the Ooka Island video, you will be taken to the parent/instructor login page, where you can enter your parent/instructor login information. Upon successful entry of this information the game will open the student/child account login screen. Now that you have logged into the Ooka Island Adventure you can hand control over to the student/child for the selection of an avatar and the choice of a picture password. Once this is done the Ooka Island Adventure will log the child into the program and play can begin.

If you are seeing: “No child accounts present, click here to add child accounts” when you log into the Ooka Island Adventure then you need to login to the Ooka Lighthouse and setup an account for your children/student’s.

The Ooka Island Adventure has a two tier account structure. There is a login for the parent/instructor account which is created when you sign up for the Ooka Island Adventure. Assigned to each parent/instructor account are child/student accounts which are set up in the Ooka Lighthouse. Log into the Ooka Lighthouse now, to setup player accounts for your child/student.

The picture password assigned to a player account can be changed at any time. To change the picture password:

1. Log into the Ooka Lighthouse with your parent/instructor login information
2. Click on ‘Players’ under 'Manage'
3. Click on the player's name, whose password needs to be changed
4. Select a new password, by clicking one of the pictures available
5. Click 'Save' to save the new password

For ease of use, the game saves parent/instructor user credentials unless otherwise specified. To log into another parent/instructor account, click ‘Parent Logout’ on the left hand side of the child/student login screen. This will exit you out of the child/student login screen and bring you back to the parent/instructor login screen where you can enter a new login.

The player name for a child/student can be changed in the Ooka Lighthouse. 

1. Log into the Ooka Lighthouse, and click 'Players' under 'Manage'
2. Click the player name that you wish to change
3. Enter the new player name in the field labeled 'Desired Player Name'
4. Click 'Save'

Click 'Full Screen On', located on the Parent/Instructor or child/student login screen, to play the Ooka Island Adventure in full screen mode.

To play Ooka Island Adventure in windowed mode, click 'Full Screen Off' on the Parent/Instructor or child/student login screen.

Additionally you can use the shortcuts below to enter and exit Full Screen when playing the Ooka Island Adventure.

On a Mac:

• Open the game and begin playing
• Hold down the ‘cmd’ and ‘f’ key at the same time
• The game should switch to full screen.

**Use the same key combination to switch back to windowed mode

On a Windows PC:

• Open the game and begin playing
• Hold down the ‘alt’ and ‘enter’ key at the same time
• The game should switch to full screen

**Use the same key combination to switch back to windowed mode

The Popcorn Library is comprised of 2 parts (outlined below). If a player logs out before completing part 1, they have to start at the beginning of the book the next time they log in. If a player logs out during part 2, then they only have to start at the beginning of part 2 when they log back into the game.

If you are finding the game slow, check to make sure that your computer system meets the minimum requirements. The game will play on the minimum requirements but you may notice that it takes a bit longer to load activities than on the recommended hardware. If you are finding the game slow and are playing on a computer system that meets the recommended requirements try re-installing the game.

If that does not work, please contact our support team and they can look into the issue in more detail for you.

We have seen an issue with Lion's application restore feature that can affect the Ooka Island Adventure. If you are running Mac OS 10.7 (Lion) and you see a 'Restore Windows' Pop-up when you try to open the program, then follow the instructions below to correct the problem.

1. Quit or Force Quit the Ooka Island Adventure

2. Open Finder and select the Go menu, while in the Go menu, hold down the option key and select the Library menu which appears.

3. Once you are in the Library folder, look for a folder named "Saved Application State" and open it.

4. Inside of the "Saved Application State" folder find the applications folder named "unity.Ooka Island Inc.Ooka Island Adventure.savedState" and delete "unity.Ooka Island Inc.Ooka Island Adventure.savedState" by moving to the trash.

5. Try opening the Ooka Island Adventure, and it should open without any problems!

The Ooka Island Adventure is a fully contained world where children can immerse themselves safely. As a parent or educator you don’t have to worry about your child or student coming into contact with inappropriate language or content as the game is a private, secure world where players do not interact with other users they do not know. We have worked hard to make the Ooka Island Adventure a safe and secure place where your child can play.

The Ooka Island Adventure is accessed online but not through a web browser, so players are never directed outside of the game to other websites or to outside content.

All of the children’s progress data is stored on our secure servers which are housed in a secure facility and protected online behind a firewall. As the master account holder you determine how much information you want to share about your child or student and you are the only user with access to their information. Other users are unable to view your child’s progress data or information.