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My darling wife was volunteering at the world-famousPonoka Stampede(props to my cowboy homies).
She saw a kid playing some cool games and asked what they were.
“, I imagine the child said.
“Your husband should check it out and write about it on MakeUseOf.com.
His article will go straight to the front page of Digg and be Twittered near and far.”
Did I mention I imagined that he said this?
The sky is purple in my world.
In any event, I did check out Roblox.
Not only is it fun, it has some great features.
In this one, the characters are blocky, and reminiscent of those little yellow Lego fellows.
It’s kind of like Sims, where you get to build your own buildings and towns.
Parent’s - take note of this site.
But as a grown-up kid, I want the games!
There are a lot of games on this site, many of them user-built.
I found a flying saucer and got in it, but I couldn’t go anywhere.
You don’t really die, you just regenerate.
The Roblox-created game,Crossroads, was really fun, too!
Some of them hang out there regularly and talk to each other and team up.
That was so much fun, my wonderful one had to tell me to get back to writing.
I wish she wouldn’t use the cattle prod, though.
Sure, the game play seems juvenile, but guess what?
It’s supposed to be.
The point is that this is an online gaming community that thekids themselves can create.
They can do that through the Roblox Studio.
It strongly resembles the Visual Basic Studio and allows you to design your own spaces and games.
Maybe give your kids a couple months of using the site in general, before commiting to that.
I fail to see the downside to Roblox.
