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Re: [PLUG] Free Edutainment Software
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Sorry it's not free but I'm still going to plug the Professor FizzWizzle
series of games from GrubbyGames.com. They're awesome, they're addicting,
they're inexpensive, they're demo-able without paying, they run on Linux
(native) and Windows, they have great graphics, music, and playability, and
they're fun for ages 6-36 (age range tested so far).
I don't work for them, I'm not paid by them, I just love their products and
their compatibility with my Scientific Linux (RHEL based) desktop (although
there are two minor glitches: in the breakout style game, sometimes the
screen blanks even though I don't have any screen saver on, and I just have
to jiggle the mouse to get it to reappear; in the latest game one of the
puzzles is a mouse maze, and the mouse interface on my system is quite
unresponsive, forcing me to resort to use arrow keys and obtain much less
impressive solution times.
You can compare high scores to folks around the world; upon request, the game
downloads their central database of high scores. Every game has a kids' mode
where you can just have fun without competition nor anxiety nor "limited
lives". Lots of edutainment to be had (varying degrees based on which
game you're playing). Very well executed.
Dan W.
On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 03:29:41PM -0400, JP Vossen wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:15:48 -0400
> > From: Kevin Valentine <kevin.valentine@gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [PLUG] Free Edutainment Software
> >
> > JP Vossen wrote:
> >> I finally got around to making a short list of "Free Edutainment
> >> Software" at http://www.jpsdomain.org/linux/edutainment.html. There's a
> >> lot of good stuff for little kids, and amazingly most of it even runs on
> >> Windows. I've been meaning to do a quick list for a while and finally
> >> got around to it. Let me know of anything else that's good and I'll
> >> (eventually) add it.
> >
> > Thank you for providing all those links! I just used some of the
> > applications with my 2 year old daughter. She's still too young for
> > most of them but was able to play with a few. So far we've used the
> > ChildsPlay and GCompris suites. I'm looking for more in her age group.
>
> Yeah, my 2yo mostly likes Childsplay, including, inexplicably, the
> typing tutor, though I have to help him. Check out Ktuberling, she'll
> probably like that. It's a KDE app but runs fine under Gnome (I don't
> run KDE) except that it'll have to install a ton of deps.
>
> My 4yo loves Tuxpaint and "giving Tux a shower" in GCompris. I set up
> ~/.tuxpaint/saved/ as a symlink to a network drive so all her artwork is
> available on the 2 different PCs she uses. When she noticed this, she
> wanted to know how the picture got from one computer to the other, so I
> showed her the Ethernet cables. I figure TCP/IP is a little over her
> head just yet, but I have TCP/IP Illustrated I-III for when she's
> ready... :-)
>
>
> > Will let you know if I find any good ones.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Glad it was useful,
> JP
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