this post was submitted on 19 Dec 2023
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As we all know, Roblox is garbage tier gameplay structured around psychological cues to get children to fill an endless pit with fake money bought with real money.

So I banned my kid from it. He used it a little bit socially with a few friends of his. What online or local multiplayer games should I help him to replace it with? (He's 10, so please don't recommend Diablo 4 or anything else that has quite that much gore)

He and his friends have an Xbox Series X|S at home.

Edit: keep your judgemental shit out of here. His whole social group (5 kids he knows from school) got banned on the same day. Me and the other parents are trying to be nice and replace it with better quality games so it isn't just a punishment.

Edit2: Thanks guys. I got him Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge

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[–] GreenEnigma 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Factorio teaches programming?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

I’m a professional programmer and factorio scratches the same itch as designing systems.

It teaches you about constraints, modular design, pub sub architectures, input output flow, etc.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Not really. It will feel like programming if you already know how to program, but I don't think it will teach you programming anymore than any other problem solving activity.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

You can learn to create logic circuits in order to aid automation