Re: [kidsgames] a few games found at freshmeat.net

[Christopher Sawtell <csawtell@xtra.co.nz>]

On Wed, 06 Oct 1999, Mark Knox wrote:
> > my wanderings today took me to freshmeat where, after doing what I went
> > there to do, I put "kids" in the search form, to which it got 3 hits.
> 
> Wow.. only 3 hits.. That's a pretty sad result. I guess we'd all better
> get to work :)

otoh, We could go to the canonical `games for unix' ftp site and start
evaluating.

http://www.freebsd.org/ports/games.html

`Hundreds of them', and many of them really pretty good fun.

My son aged 10, and several of his friends, find x-digger just great.
It is not only a hand-eye co-ordination program but many of the scenes or levels
have a logical deduction component. It's particularly good once you realise that
a single word edit in the source code gives you a game author mode which
allows you to make new scenes.

We have had great fun with it.

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