Re: Digest for hn-parents@googlegroups.com - 2 Messages in 1 Topic

[Jon-Erik Schneiderhan]

Agreed.  My 9 year old daughter plays it all of the time.  I've been very impressed with how creative she has been.  She was a bit frustrated at first because the game sort of leaves it up to you to figure out how to play ... but that in itself was a great lesson for her (reading the wiki pages to figure out how to craft different items).

The single-player is very safe for children - it basically drops you in a randomly generated world and you build stuff.  You build during the day and hide from "monsters" in the house that you build at night.

 

You may want to sit and think about allowing multi-player though.  I'm not comfortable letting her chat with strangers or explore completely user-build worlds so the single-player is all that is allowed in my house (unless I'm with her).  She's been content with the single-player though so it hasn't been much of an issue.

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 7 yo wants Minecraft - thoughts

Niels Olson <niels...@gmail.com> Mar 04 02:39PM -0800  

My son found it on his own, though he says I showed it to him. Is this okay for a 7 yo boy? Pros? Cons? How to limit his playing time?
 
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"Joël Franusic" <jo...@franusic.com> Mar 04 04:07PM -0800  

It's hard for me to think of a game that would be more suitable for a 7
year old.
 
I suggest setting up your own server so you can play with him :)
 


 

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