Can anyone suggest me offline games for making kids practice control over the mouse ??😃😃😃

  • nyctre@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5か月前

    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.

      • plateee@piefed.socialEnglish
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        5か月前

        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.

        • AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          5か月前

          I had the Island of Doctor Brain as a kid, I enjoyed it and was able to beat it at seven or eight years old but the puzzles might be a bit much for any younger kids (iirc there was a tower of hanoi puzzle that was an interesting challenge) and I’m guessing the first game, Castle of Dr Brain, was at a similar level.

          Those were aimed at kids but even those might be too much of a challenge depending on the age of the kids in question. And we’re not even going to talk about how quickly I got stuck in Space Quest as an adult.

  • Malix@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    5か月前

    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. (and if you want to make them steam-free/offline, you can just copy the files from those games elsewhere and use eg. scummvm (https://scummvm.org/) to run them. But that’s entirely optional & up to you. afaik steam bundles them with scummvm anyway).

    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.

    • ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.orgEnglish
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      5か月前

      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!

      • Malix@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        5か月前

        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.

          • Malix@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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            5か月前

            well, if we’re sticking to scummvm, they offer some free games on their site: https://scummvm.org/games/#games

            the freebies are in general fairly old (like early-to-mid 90’s dos stuff), but work fine on scummvm, hence they’re offering them there. AFAIK all of them are controlled by mouse only.

            Not all of them are suitable for all ages though.

            Flight of the Amazon Queen is a story set in 40’s, about a pilot for hire and his small plane crashing into the amazons while transporting a movie star. Overall theme is cartoony/goofy/comedy, with a bit of juvenile humour ( by modern standards). There are some things some could find unsuitable for children, I guess.

            • rubber breasts, used in non-sexual way to build a costume to fool gangsters
            • the “bad guys” are essentially ww2 germans (but not referred as such, iirc their faction isn’t even given a name, I think)
            • some alcohol & tobacco references
            • very mild innuendos.

            Beneath a steel sky - postapocalyptic oppressive world, although a bit cartoony/comical and oddly british considering the story takes place in australia. Banger adventure game but does contain few violent deaths. I played this during my early teens, but I wouldn’t suggest letting very young kids have a go at this.

            The rest of the games on there I either haven’t played or can’t recommend.

            But, since you asked for games for kids to learn to use mouse, I suspect the kids in question are like 5-7? These 2 games aren’t probably for them yet.

      • Malix@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        5か月前

        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.

  • BreakerSwitch@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5か月前

    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

  • caut_R@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5か月前

    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.

  • FierroG@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5か月前

    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.

  • Slaskvatten@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5か月前

    IIRC, this was the explicit purpose of games that came pre-installed on old computers like Minesweeper and Solitaire.

  • Drigo@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    5か月前

    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.

  • fartsparkles@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5か月前

    GCompris or TuxPaint are great for younger kids. They’re free/open source and have versions available for Windows, macOS, and Linux.