Bring physics to life!

Become a Monster Maker

Create monster eggs, hatch them and take care of your self-designed monster creations.

Use the sensor pods to determine how your monsters look. For example, if you measure a cold value with the temperature sensor, your monster will have long fur. Sound sensor and light sensor influence other characteristics of your monster. In this way, your real environment merges with the monsters in the game.

Create and collect a wide variety of monsters by constantly combining new readings. Of course, you can also use your sensor pods as a mobile lab. Measure with them what you want, when and where you want. Lab mode also gives you the ability to take long term and live measurements

Learning has never felt so much like playing.

In Monster Maker, kids use three sensor balls to take physical measurements from the real environment and transfer them to an app game. There, monsters with a wide variety of properties are created. If the temperature was low when measured, the monster has long fur. The sound and light sensors influence completely different characteristics, and so many new creatures quickly appear in the game world. It's clear that children keep reaching for the sensors, taking care of their monsters, playing with them and developing a feeling for physical units of measurement in the process.

Winner of the "Tommi 2018" children's software award in the "Electronic Toys" category

Frankfurt/Stuttgart, Oct. 15, 2018

The "Monster Maker" experimental kit from KOSMOS Verlag wins the "Tommi 2018" children's software prize in the "Electronic Toys" category. After the experiment kit had already convinced an expert jury, it had to withstand the rigorous test of a children's jury.
The conclusion: "There should be an experimentation game like this in school." The award ceremony took place at the Frankfurt Book Fair with patron Dr. Franziska Giffey, Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth.

With the KOSMOS "Monster Maker" experimental kit, monster fans aged eight and up explore their real environment and reproduce it in a digital game. How does it work? With various sensor balls for temperature, sound and light, they record different physical measurements from the environment and transfer them to a digital app game. There, cool monsters with a wide variety of properties are created on the basis of the measurements. In this way, the young researchers develop a concrete idea of physical units of measurement.

The children's jury's reasoning: "Monster Maker" wins third place at the TOMMI in the electronic toy category because experiments and monsters are a good mix. It is great fun to "capture" values for sound intensity, brightness and temperature with measuring balls. These values can be used to imprint monster eggs, place them on islands, and then color them. If the monsters are fed, two monsters get an egg that they have to hatch. There should be such an experimental game in school. (Source: Press release Kosmos-Verlag)

The fun factor Creating monster eggs, hatching them and giving them a home in the world of Sensoria - great fun for children and a great motivation to deal with the game and indirectly with physics again and again. Because in order to bring a new creature to life in the monster world of Sensoria, children measure light, volume and temperature with the help of three sensors (the sensor pots) and transfer this data to the app. The process starts immediately and you can watch excitedly as a new monster hatches from the egg. But what will it look like? It's simple: The children determine this themselves with their sensor pods! If they measure a cold value with the temperature sensor, for example, the monster gets a long coat. When it's warm, it becomes long. The sound sensor determines the size of the ears and the light sensor in turn influences completely different features of the monster and can, for example, make it glow.	The learning factor Almost without realizing it, the children deal with units of measurement, environmental influences and physical properties. Because in addition to the random principle when hatching the eggs, the app also repeatedly sets concrete tasks. For example, the monsters have to be provided with food, which is only produced when certain measured values are combined. And you're already asking yourself the question: How cold is 12 degrees and how do I get this temperature on a hot summer day? In addition to the story mode, however, the app offers even more opportunities for experimentation! With a separate measurement mode, children can explore their surroundings quite freely and use the sensors for measurements independently of the game. This mode additionally offers the functions long-term measurement and real-time measurement. All data can also be exported from the app and processed further.	Comprehensive service for long-lasting fun Kosmos offers high-quality products that provide new insights over a long period of time, promote creativity and stand for intelligent entertainment. The KOSMOS customer service is happy to help with possible problems and provide spare parts. Customer service is also available to answer questions and provide further information. KOSMOS products are developed and intensively tested according to high educational and safety standards. For all concerns about the products, the KOSMOS customer and spare parts service is the right contact.

• Innovation: Exploring your own world and transferring it to digital play - that's how experimentation works today
• With the measured values of the temperature, sound and light sensors, always bring new monsters to life in the free app
• Three sensor balls measure physical values from the real environment
• Playful learning effect: physical measured values are conveyed in a child-friendly way
• Recommended age: from 8 years