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That's pretty awesome, I really feel like I need to up my Dad game. Do you mind sharing a game or screenshot so I can see what's possible? My four year old is

That's pretty awesome, I really feel like I need to up my Dad game. Do you mind sharing a game or screenshot so I can see what's possible? My four year old is really struggling with the alphabet, I'd like to make a Shooter for him called "Destroy Z", where he would have to identify letters and then go kill them.

kick 7y ago
Godot's download size is pretty small, and there's a small demo included, along with a few other demos that are similarly pretty small files that you can download directly from the client, mostly MIT-licensed, including a first-person shooter demo, I think. Grab some freely-licensed assets (there are a bunch of them, they're pretty easy to find with the obvious search queries, mostly CC-licensed), then the code for what you want should be pretty easy to hack up in a couple hours. GDScript, while not very elegant, is simple enough to where you should be able to learn it pretty quickly (it's aimed at non-technical people), and if you don't want to use it, you can use other languages, too. Some of the ways it does things is a bit confusing, but if you keep docs and a search engine close-by, you'll figure it out; good luck, it's always nice to see parents who care so much!
matt_morgan 7y ago
This would be super easy and fun to do in Scratch. For sure someone has done a similar game you could borrow to start. Also: don't worry about a 4YO struggling with letters. It's OK. But do make the game anyway.
reificator 7y ago
I feel like there's room in the typing game genre for an easy mode meant to teach kids the alphabet. Something like https://zty.pe/ https://zty.pe/ or Type to Learn mashed up with Reader Rabbit. I know there's a lot of disdain for them but I credit a lot of my early development to edutainment games. Difficult to pin down their actual effect of course.

kick 7y ago

Godot's download size is pretty small, and there's a small demo included, along with a few other demos that are similarly pretty small files that you can download directly from the client, mostly MIT-licensed, including a first-person shooter demo, I think. Grab some freely-licensed assets (there are a bunch of them, they're pretty easy to find with the obvious search queries, mostly CC-licensed), then the code for what you want should be pretty easy to hack up in a couple hours. GDScript, while not very elegant, is simple enough to where you should be able to learn it pretty quickly (it's aimed at non-technical people), and if you don't want to use it, you can use other languages, too. Some of the ways it does things is a bit confusing, but if you keep docs and a search engine close-by, you'll figure it out; good luck, it's always nice to see parents who care so much!

matt_morgan 7y ago

This would be super easy and fun to do in Scratch. For sure someone has done a similar game you could borrow to start. Also: don't worry about a 4YO struggling with letters. It's OK. But do make the game anyway.

reificator 7y ago

I feel like there's room in the typing game genre for an easy mode meant to teach kids the alphabet. Something like https://zty.pe/ https://zty.pe/ or Type to Learn mashed up with Reader Rabbit. I know there's a lot of disdain for them but I credit a lot of my early development to edutainment games. Difficult to pin down their actual effect of course.