Can anyone suggest me offline games for making kids practice control over the mouse ??😃😃😃
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.
If you’re running Windows:
https://win7games.com/I didn’t realise this existed so thanks from me. Also probably the best answer here.
@Zachariah@lemmy.world but can it be played on Linux ??🤔🤔🤔
In a VM or (probably) via Wine.
GCompris or TuxPaint are great for younger kids. They’re free/open source and have versions available for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
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My first thought was Minecraft. I‘m not sure if it‘s playable offline still but a google search makes me believe so.
It runs on basically anything, and if the kids in question are still super young, there should be a peaceful/creative mode without monsters to scare them or survival mechanics to worry about, making it essentially just more complex LEGO.
Oh I have the perfect game! This was one of the first games I let my kids try, just to get a hang of moving the mouse. It doesn’t use the keyboard at all. It’s called nodebuster, very “chill” game and only costs 2-3$. Also, the best thing I did, was buy a super small mouse, that fits their hands. They tried my mouse, but it was way to bulky. I saw instant improvement after I bought a small shitty 5$ mouse.
What helped me when I was a kid were games like Quake 3 Arena, Worms, and Mechwarrior 2, 3, and 4.
Q3A was because of the speed. you had to be fast with the mouse if you hoped to compete. Add to the fact that the bots in Q3A, at the time anyways, were quite good. you can play it offline with bots or even over a local LAN.
Again going back to a LAN staple but Worms is also good. you need precision with the mouse on that one. lots of geometry at play.
Finally the Mechwarrior games which really emphasize the mouse and keyboard combination. Torso Twisting and Flicking, positioning of your legs in regards to your torso, etc. really helps with mouse coordination.
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.
@SammyJK@programming.dev actually l’m looking for games that are not violent/aesthetically ugly.
Then Minecraft is what you’re looking for.
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Minecraft on peaceful difficulty isn’t violent at all. Hostile monsters don’t spawn, and while you can kill a pig or something, there is no reason or encouragement to since you don’t get hungry. As far as aesthetically ugly… that’s entirely subjective. I highly doubt your kids will mind how it looks (I sure didn’t). In fact, I loved the blocky style when I was a kid. Reminded me of legos.
Minecraft is gorgeous with a few mods. Or, more practically, a good modpack.
It’s also quite complex (with a good modpack).
And building requires a lot of mouse precision. And other kids their age are probably playing it. TBH among all these answers, it’s the obvious choice, if you ask me.
IIRC, this was the explicit purpose of games that came pre-installed on old computers like Minesweeper and Solitaire.
Minesweeper was to teach mouse precision, solitaire was specifically for click and drag.
Minesweeper also taught right-click vs left-click
Took me ~10 years before I learned about right click in Minesweeper 🥲.
And how much longer for left and right simultaneously?
Makes so much sense. TIL
@0li0li@lemmy.world what is til ??
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Tyl what til means!
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I answered elsewhere.
But a friendly warning, OP: you will get downvotes for using too many emojiis on Lemmy, heh.
This isn’t reddit. Use as many emojis as you like. 👌👌
Plants vs zombies. Go for the original, the remaster is dumb.
Nothing better than games they like
Minecraft is good for teaching a lot of stuff, depending on the age of the kids. A friend of mine has kids who are learning to read and type early so they can access what they want in creative mode, too
Shooter games? Counter strike can be played offline with bots and it’s free. Aimlabs is made specifically to improve aim, also free. Faster paced strategy games like Dota 2 also requires accuracy to click on monsters and enemies and can be played offline with bots and it’s free.
More story-oriented games of course could also work. StarCraft, company of heroes, command and conquer, age of empires, etc. For shooters there’s tons, but many have gore…you can try portal or slime rancher but I was playing doom and Wolfenstein and stuff like that when I was like 10 and whatever as did many of us…but well…not here to give parenting advice, shouldn’t listen to me.
Take a look at point-and-click adventure games. Deponia is a good example of this.
