This is, IMHO, the best part about getting your kids into PC gaming vs giving them a console. I got very interested in scripting from seeing what scripts could

This is, IMHO, the best part about getting your kids into PC gaming vs giving them a console. I got very interested in scripting from seeing what scripts could do in Quake 3. Console gaming doesn't offer the same opportunities for learning / tinkering. This is not to say that games themselves can't offer a level of exploration / tinkering, but you're still confined to a locked-down, DRM'd, anti-cheat, closed-source appliance designed to just play the games, not create / modify them.