Hi Paul, one site I would, and do recommend for youngsters is club-penguin[1]. They are pretty strict on what is allowed and also have stuff to educate.
regards, Phill. P.S., Yes, I am a 'daddy penguin' and have 14 puffles! 1. http://www.clubpenguin.com/ On 26 August 2012 18:17, paul sutton <zl...@zleap.net> wrote: > On 26/08/12 17:28, Bruno Girin wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > 18 months ago, I installed Ubuntu on a netbook for a friend's daughter. > > Now that she's nearly 6, she still loves the netbook and wants an > > upgrade with more interesting games on it. At the moment, the netbook is > > running 10.10 for netbooks (Unity interface) with gcompris, TuxMath, > > TuxTyping, TuxPaint and a couple other things. > > > > I was planning to upgrade to 12.04 and install Scratch and TurtleArt. > > Other than that, I would welcome any suggestion of fun software for a 6 > > year old. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Bruno > > > There is powdertoy, which is a physics type simulator, It may sound more > suitable for older kids but these days children can really surprise > adults so to me its simply worth installing to have a go. Its kinda fun > however exploring different materials etc. > > sure the tux games are also good, how about things like pingus, wormux > (or whever that is called now) , games like mahjongg and shisen and > other puzzle games may be good too, I am sure there is a suduku game > out there too, > > other than that there are lots of general games out there, I am playing > 0AD which is an RTS game, in alpha but it works really well. > > look at software centre under games there seems to be lots of puzzle > type games out there, > > i guess there is always nethack, :) for the true geek experience. > > There doesn't seem to be that many games aimed directly at girls, one > of the reasons we need more female programmers I guess. > > Paul > > > > > -- > > > > -- > http://drupal.zleap.net > skype : psutton111 > http://www.linkedin.com/pub/paul-sutton/36/595/911 > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > > -- > <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/>https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw > >
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