Can anyone suggest me offline games for making kids practice control over the mouse ??😃😃😃
Plants vs zombies. Go for the original, the remaster is dumb.
Submitted 4 months ago by TheracAriane@thebrainbin.org to games@lemmy.world
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Bunbury@feddit.nl 4 months ago
fartsparkles@lemmy.world 4 months ago
GCompris or TuxPaint are great for younger kids. They’re free/open source and have versions available for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I answered elsewhere.
But a friendly warning, OP: you will get downvotes for using too many emojiis on Lemmy, heh.
joyjoy@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
This isn’t reddit. Use as many emojis as you like. 👌👌
Mestone@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Eggman
khannie@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Luanti (or Voxelibre which is a slightly closer clone of minecraft). My 6 year old is absolutely champion with the mouse from this.
If you want voxelibre you install luanti first then search for it under the “games” section.
rozodru@pie.andmc.ca 4 months ago
What helped me when I was a kid were games like Quake 3 Arena, Worms, and Mechwarrior 2, 3, and 4.
Q3A was because of the speed. you had to be fast with the mouse if you hoped to compete. Add to the fact that the bots in Q3A, at the time anyways, were quite good. you can play it offline with bots or even over a local LAN.
Again going back to a LAN staple but Worms is also good. you need precision with the mouse on that one. lots of geometry at play.
Finally the Mechwarrior games which really emphasize the mouse and keyboard combination. Torso Twisting and Flicking, positioning of your legs in regards to your torso, etc. really helps with mouse coordination.
SammyJK@programming.dev 4 months ago
Minecraft, The Sims and Minesweeper. Minecraft specifically on Peaceful Creative settings so the kids can do creative stuff without scary monsters. Trine Enchanted Edition could also work, but with parental supervision.
TheracAriane@thebrainbin.org 4 months ago
teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
Then Minecraft is what you’re looking for.
Krompus@lemmy.world 4 months ago
🤦
Nelots@piefed.zip 4 months ago
Minecraft on peaceful difficulty isn’t violent at all. Hostile monsters don’t spawn, and while you can kill a pig or something, there is no reason or encouragement to since you don’t get hungry. As far as aesthetically ugly… that’s entirely subjective. I highly doubt your kids will mind how it looks (I sure didn’t). In fact, I loved the blocky style when I was a kid. Reminded me of legos.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Minecraft is gorgeous with a few mods. Or, more practically, a good modpack.
It’s also quite complex (with a good modpack).
And building requires a lot of mouse precision. And other kids their age are probably playing it. TBH it’s the obvious choice, if you ask me.
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
My kids learned mouse usage with GCompris at the age of 4 or so.
It has very basic ones for absolute beginners with high motivation factor.
And the rest of the educational package is also great, stuff for all ages in there.
Also free, open and multi-platform.TheracAriane@thebrainbin.org 4 months ago
@Multiplexer gcompris is a gui app ???🤔🤔🤔
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
Yes, actually it kinda brings its own kids friendly GUI.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 4 months ago
www.gcompris.net/index-en.html
It’s made by kde, and for kids, so I wouldn’t expect them to release a TUI interface. Especially for mouse control or touchscreen training.
lowleveldata@programming.dev 4 months ago
Doom
Aristoxene@feddit.fr 4 months ago
Nothing better than games they like
FierroG@lemmy.world 4 months ago
What age range? I’ve seen “house flipper” give great results, I think in general those simulator games that give the dopamine hit of completing tasks are good incentives, especially chill games (nothing time based, let them take their time). I’ve found something like “a little to the left” is not actually great for that, it requires precision and an eye for pattern recognition that just causes frustration when you think you got it but nothing happens.
TheracAriane@thebrainbin.org 4 months ago
FierroG@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It’s no the prettiest out there but it’s not ugly at all, there’s no place for violence since you don’t even see any other character outside of emails
caut_R@lemmy.world 4 months ago
My first thought was Minecraft. I‘m not sure if it‘s playable offline still but a google search makes me believe so.
It runs on basically anything, and if the kids in question are still super young, there should be a peaceful/creative mode without monsters to scare them or survival mechanics to worry about, making it essentially just more complex LEGO.
BreakerSwitch@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Minecraft is good for teaching a lot of stuff, depending on the age of the kids. A friend of mine has kids who are learning to read and type early so they can access what they want in creative mode, too
Malix@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
depends on the age of your kids, buuuut: if they’re fairly young, maybe spyfox/putt-putt/pajama-sam/freddi-fish games? those can be found on eg. steam, and should run fairly painlessly from there.
Basically they are point & click adventure games aimed for younger kids. I’m in my 40’s and kinda do enjoy spyfox as well x)
The games are fairly old (afaik mid-to-late 90’s, or so), so graphics are fairly low res by today’s standards, but they’re essentially just playable cartoons with mild puzzles, all dialogue is spoken (subtitles are an option) and no real fail states.
TheracAriane@thebrainbin.org 4 months ago
@Malix l'm not a technology person 😄😄😄 Can you please tell me how to download them and play them offline ??🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓
Malix@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
If you want to just, remove steam from the equation, eg. for no-internet kids’ computer:
basically: buy them from steam, then just install them. Then, just copy the game files somewhere else, install scummvm & add the games to scummvm to play them.
Scummvm is just an app which runs these older adventure games on wide variety of systems, incl modern windows (the games are occasionally so old, windows doesn’t support them natively at all). Scummvm is fairly straightforward to set up, basically just click “add game” -> browse to where the game is -> ok -> it is now in scummvm, click “Play” to play it.
If you’re asking about “yar har har, me mateys, and a bottle of rhum” -methods, that’s an excercise left for the reader.
ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org 4 months ago
Damn Freddie Fish was one of the few games in the city library about 25 years ago. Always ditched choir practice to play, loved it!
eRac@lemmings.world 4 months ago
IIRC, the Steam releases of those are already using Scumm.
Malix@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
ye. ended up checking some of the games’ store pages. There’s a note about scummvm.
Dunno if they keep the scummvm updated though, not that it matters much unless there’s an issue with a specific game. IIRC Indy Atlantis is bundles with decade+ old scummvm, though it’s been a while since I checked.
nyctre@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Shooter games? Counter strike can be played offline with bots and it’s free. Aimlabs is made specifically to improve aim, also free. Faster paced strategy games like Dota 2 also requires accuracy to click on monsters and enemies and can be played offline with bots and it’s free.
More story-oriented games of course could also work. StarCraft, company of heroes, command and conquer, age of empires, etc. For shooters there’s tons, but many have gore…you can try portal or slime rancher but I was playing doom and Wolfenstein and stuff like that when I was like 10 and whatever as did many of us…but well…not here to give parenting advice, shouldn’t listen to me.
Zachariah@lemmy.world 4 months ago
If you’re running Windows:
win7games.comTheracAriane@thebrainbin.org 4 months ago
@Zachariah but can it be played on Linux ??🤔🤔🤔
Zachariah@lemmy.world 4 months ago
In a VM or (probably) via Wine.
B0NK3RS@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I didn’t realise this existed so thanks from me. Also probably the best answer here.
Alawami@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Kovaaks / aimlab. OSU
TheracAriane@thebrainbin.org 4 months ago
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Aimlabs is quite literally a mouse precision training game. It has different ‘tests’ and courses for different skills.
Very effective in short bursts, but your kids might find it boring after awhile.
5ibelius9insterberg@feddit.org 4 months ago
Turn based strategy or point&click adventures could be a good start.
TheracAriane@thebrainbin.org 4 months ago
@5ibelius9insterberg could you give some examples ?? Suitable for absolute beginners ??🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓
plateee@piefed.social 4 months ago
Old LucasArts or Sierra games like Escape from monkey island or Kings Quest would be good.
Plus they teach kids to hoard everything because you never know if you needed that custard pie to defeat the Minotaur in act 4.
Slaskvatten@lemmy.world 4 months ago
IIRC, this was the explicit purpose of games that came pre-installed on old computers like Minesweeper and Solitaire.
Iunnrais@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Minesweeper was to teach mouse precision, solitaire was specifically for click and drag.
tulliandar@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Minesweeper also taught right-click vs left-click
Drigo@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
Oh I have the perfect game! This was one of the first games I let my kids try, just to get a hang of moving the mouse. It doesn’t use the keyboard at all. It’s called nodebuster, very “chill” game and only costs 2-3$. Also, the best thing I did, was buy a super small mouse, that fits their hands. They tried my mouse, but it was way to bulky. I saw instant improvement after I bought a small shitty 5$ mouse.