Is it my fault for wanting more time to myself? Does my child not have enough patience? The answer, as is often with parenting, is there are no real answers.
Very cool read! Thanks for sharing. I was always curious what Game Builder Garage was like and now I know it might not be a great fit for my daughter and I. However, she has started drawing some abstract "Choose your Adventure" stuff on scrap paper, so she is kind of accidentally diving a bit more into this realm. She's just churning out "assets", asking me to choose some clothes to wear, and then when I make a choice she gets to work drawing me wearing the clothes. Then it's a hallway and I have to choose "left or right" and when I pick one, she goes and draws what's in the room. There are certainly more efficient ways to do this, but I'm just letting the unbridled creativity flow (she's 7) and we can work on honing it later if that's what she wants. It's a joy and I know I'm gonna keep this stack of papers forever.
That's so cool! I'm hoping I can get my girls interested in fun tabletop play like that. They're both quite imaginative, but actually keeping them focused on a game-like structure can be a challenge...
Very cool read! Thanks for sharing. I was always curious what Game Builder Garage was like and now I know it might not be a great fit for my daughter and I. However, she has started drawing some abstract "Choose your Adventure" stuff on scrap paper, so she is kind of accidentally diving a bit more into this realm. She's just churning out "assets", asking me to choose some clothes to wear, and then when I make a choice she gets to work drawing me wearing the clothes. Then it's a hallway and I have to choose "left or right" and when I pick one, she goes and draws what's in the room. There are certainly more efficient ways to do this, but I'm just letting the unbridled creativity flow (she's 7) and we can work on honing it later if that's what she wants. It's a joy and I know I'm gonna keep this stack of papers forever.
That's so cool! I'm hoping I can get my girls interested in fun tabletop play like that. They're both quite imaginative, but actually keeping them focused on a game-like structure can be a challenge...
So sweet! :D And hey, you could eventually scan the drawings and assemble them into a game using something like Twine (https://twinery.org/) or Tuesday (https://kirill-live.itch.io/tuesday-js)
Ooooh that's a neat idea. Thanks for sharing!!