Can anyone suggest me offline games for making kids practice control over the mouse ??😃😃😃

  • Slaskvatten@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    18 days ago

    IIRC, this was the explicit purpose of games that came pre-installed on old computers like Minesweeper and Solitaire.

  • Malix@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    5·
    18 days 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. (and if you want to make them steam-free/offline, you can just copy the files from those games elsewhere and use eg. scummvm (https://scummvm.org/) to run them. But that’s entirely optional & up to you. afaik steam bundles them with scummvm anyway).

    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.

      • Malix@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        1·
        18 days 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.

      • Malix@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        0·
        18 days 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.

          • Malix@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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            18 days ago

            well, if we’re sticking to scummvm, they offer some free games on their site: https://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.

  • SammyJK@programming.devEnglish
    2·
    18 days ago

    Minecraft, The Sims and Minesweeper. Minecraft specifically on Peaceful Creative settings so the kids can do creative stuff without scary monsters. Trine Enchanted Edition could also work, but with parental supervision.

  • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    18 days ago

    I answered elsewhere.

    But a friendly warning, OP: you will get downvotes for using too many emojiis on Lemmy, heh.

  • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    1·
    18 days ago

    My kids learned mouse usage with GCompris at the age of 4 or so.

    It has very basic mini-games for absolute mouse- and keyboard-beginners and has a high motivation factor.

    And the rest of the educational game package is also great, stuff for all ages in there.
    Also free, open and multi-platform.

  • khannie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    18 days ago

    Luanti (or Voxelibre which is a slightly closer clone of minecraft). My 6 year old is absolutely champion with the mouse from this.

    If you want voxelibre you install luanti first then search for it under the “games” section.

    edit: This will run on a potato and is installable from the play store if you have a chromebook for example.

  • FierroG@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    18 days ago

    What age range? I’ve seen “house flipper” give great results, I think in general those simulator games that give the dopamine hit of completing tasks are good incentives, especially chill games (nothing time based, let them take their time). I’ve found something like “a little to the left” is not actually great for that, it requires precision and an eye for pattern recognition that just causes frustration when you think you got it but nothing happens.