LAN game for kids?

**Jason** · Posted: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 22:17:33 Post Subject: LAN game for kids?

Remember Blockland? I used to play that with my daughter on the LAN. Was cool, but kind of limited.

I am looking for a kid friendly LAN game like that. Hoping for something a bit more interesting, like real missions, or things to work on together. Should have minimal / no violence. And free, at least to try, would be nice.

Any ideas?

DeathStar · Posted: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 22:20:20 Post Subject:

You might take a look here...

FreewareFiles/Games

Kilamon · Rated XXX Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 707

netHack!

**Jason** · Posted: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:35:48 Post Subject:

Uhhh... am I Googling the wrong thing, or is that a text based game? We want eye candy! Grin

Kilamon · Rated XXX Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 707

netHack is an old school text game, yes. Play it and appreciate it for it is from that and it's older predecessors that we get our pretty eye candy of today. Besides, netHack is still very fun. Nothing is quite like running away from an ominous capitol D or investigating that little r.

edvallie · Posted: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:09:25 Post Subject:

Plasma Pong and Audiosurf are the only games I can think of without some degree of violence, both of which aren't intended for LAN play (but do have multiplayer modes, you just have to be playing from the same computer)

We had some kids at the last LAN we hosted playing warsow, but not exactly violence-free Grin

acruxksa · Posted: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:25:51 Post Subject:

My kids are playing Tribal Trouble
It's not a lan game, but does offer network play. It's fairly simple to limit it to just a couple players. I believe to play online you do need to register (ie......$$$$$) though.

It's kind of like a watered down civilization clone.

If you do turn up a good LAN based game for kids I'd be interested as well.

microcheap · Rated PG-13 Joined: 28 Dec 2007 Posts: 37

Yes, that was a great game. Too bad that game wasn't known a lot by gamers.

acruxksa · Posted: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 01:59:06 Post Subject:

BB,
There might be one in this list

http://www.garagegames.com/demos/browse/game/?platform=windows&sort=popular

There are several games that look acceptable for children, just not sure on LAN abilities, but Something might be LAN capable. I'm at work so I can't really check them out. I will be checking a couple of them out myself though when I get home.

**Jason** · Posted: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:36:18 Post Subject:

We downloaded a few from your link acruxka... No LAN games that we saw, but I was surprised that the hit game was the Bridge Construction Set:

http://www.garagegames.com/products/17

I liked it because it was like engineering... not sure why a 6-year old girl would like it other than our failed bridges falling into the river. Laughing