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.xyz 1 day ago
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.
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.org 1 day ago
TheracAriane@thebrainbin.org 1 day ago
@Malix l'm not a technology person 😄😄😄 Can you please tell me how to download them and play them offline ??🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓
Malix@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
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.
TheracAriane@thebrainbin.org 1 day ago
Malix@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
well, if we’re sticking to scummvm, they offer some free games on their site: 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.
eRac@lemmings.world 1 day ago
IIRC, the Steam releases of those are already using Scumm.
Malix@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
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.