Hope the Younger learned some programming this summer: Scratch, and there’s no reason not to because it is both FUN and FREE. You can download it and post your creations here:
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Sure Games Are Fun, But…
What if you could be learning something when you played games, wouldn’t that be swell? Okay, well, wouldn’t it at least make your parents happy? Who knows, but maybe they’d give you some extra screen time if you could say you were doing something educational. And on this site you can do something educational, and keep playing games (that is until your screen time runs out!):
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Fatworld!
Fatworld is a free downloadable video game. It looks fun, and may teach something too (oh no!).
Their website explains:
FATWORLD is a video game about the politics of nutrition. It explores the relationships between obesity, nutrition, and socioeconomics in the contemporary U.S. The game’s goal is not to tell people what to eat or how to exercise, but to demonstrate the complex, interwoven relationships between nutrition and factors like budgets, the physical world, subsidies, and regulations.
It’s one thing to explain that daily exercise and nutrition are important, but people, young and old, have a very hard time wrapping their heads around outcomes five, 10, 50 years away.
You can choose starting weights and health conditions, including predispositions towards ailments like diabetes, heart disease, or food allergies. You’ll have to construct menus and recipes, decide what to eat and what to avoid, exercise (or not), and run a restaurant business to serve the members of your community.
FATWORLD comes with numerous foods, recipes, and meal plans, or players can create their own from the foods in their pantry or their imaginations.
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Beautiful Ball Collects The City
Wow. I know nothing about video games, but this video sure makes me want to change that. The ball just keeps rolling on, gathering up everything in it’s path of destruction. It’s kinda glorious. And it kinda reminds of me the giant ball in “Raiders Of The Lost Brick“. Maybe “to destroy IS to create”.
