CrazyMouse, called Mallemuis in Dutch and Sourifou in French, aimsto teach children aged 6 to 9 to be careful and alert when working or playing on their PC. The main principles, that every (very) young internet user must always apply, are the following: inform an adult of your activities, make choices and do not give away too much about yourself online. These three principles are chronologically integrated in the game.

If everything goes well, the game is a metaphor for a successful surf session, during which the young but clever internet user visits the worldwide web without any problems and manages to use the internet as a useful instrument.

Of course there are obstacles. The hero CrazyMouse has to protect @topia against the attacks from SpamCat. During the course of the game the children must have or develop the reflex to catch good cheeses and to avoid the bad ones, just like they will have to do later with the useful and unreliable information that is circulating on the net.

At the end of a game the score is presented, but the player is asked to give his full name. Here the child should have the reflex to give a nickname and a false address. That is a habit which will come very handy later on, when dealing with the large number of commercial web sites that address children and teens, asking that question, and many others!