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Re: A parent's gaming curriculum - teaching gaming to your kids.
"Not very likely I'll accept parenting advice on a game dev forum" oh I suspect you were not looking for advice at all..Just wanted to hear how good your ideas about child rearing are "Besides, what you say essentially undermines whatever school stands for. Because school does the exact opposite of what you're suggesting.… -
Re: A parent's gaming curriculum - teaching gaming to your kids.
While I applaud you for being a proactive parent (Seeing that minecraft was becoming a problem) I do wonder if you are over-structuring things just a little bit. Is it a situation where your kids might be interested in something that may be be age appropriate but you feel might be too complex, so you dont let them try it?… -
Re: A parent's gaming curriculum - teaching gaming to your kids.
@RN Movies, books, and music are used to help teach kids, why can't games? Any game with content creators and editors would be a good place to promote creativity and see how the game works. Minecraft can be used to teach simple machines, circuits, logic gates, triggers, etc, too bad it became too addictive. Paper Mario is… -
Re: A parent's gaming curriculum - teaching gaming to your kids.
@RN - Noted, thanks! @JedTheKrampus - Read above. I do, and they love it. @Blond - Disagreed, IMVHO games are on par with books and movies if done right. They also train the brain at certain tasks it's not very good at. @Kwramm - I'll watch out for becoming that. But please try to assume more of me. @ZacD - I share your… -
Re: A parent's gaming curriculum - teaching gaming to your kids.
Ad.1 - Good call! They like Sim City. Got to add Heroes of Might and Magic series to it, and space sims/space trading . HOMM is gonna be great to show evolution of technology and game mechanics. Ad.2 - Surprised - not likely :) . They nag me to let them sculpt in 3d. They also draw 'concept art' of stuff they want me to… -
A parent's gaming curriculum - teaching gaming to your kids.
Caution: Longpost is long! :smile: I've got kids. They're awesome. And I believe gaming matters. It's the best, most awesome and complex content generated by human beings. I want to get my kids hooked on gaming, but do it in a 'proper' way. Show them some classics, show them some history. Show them the really hard-to-beat…
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