Joseph, aged 11, says: “The app has cute graphics, and I like the music. It helped me understand better how to save, what is needed to run a business, and why adults find it difficult sometimes to spend and save.”
Ben, aged seven, did even better at reaching his savings targets than his older brother. He says: “I liked the game - it helped me know how to save money and what I can spend things on.”
Pigby’s Fair is one of several free apps and online tools developed by RBS to help customers learn about and improve their finances.
Learning to save the fun way
Produced and designed by the makers of Wallace and Gromit - Aardman Animations – Pigby’s Fair aims to help children learn about saving money through a fun 3D game set in an animated 3D fairground.
Pigby takes the role of showing players around the fair as well as encouraging players to set up savings goals. The player gets to get run their own stall at the fair – getting creative to make stock to sell to all to the fair’s visitors. They then have to choose whether to spend their earnings on making more stock, playing attractions such as Crockery Smash or Zap, or saving into the bank. Only by saving well does the player get to unlock the bigger and better stalls and games.
Pigby’s friends also feature and the players can visit their stalls and check up on how they are doing against their savings goal.
Download Pigby's Fair in the Google Play or iTunes stores.
