Enhance Your Child's Computer Experience and Foster Their Creativity

Enhance Your Child's Computer Experience and Foster Their Creativity

Computer games may be fun for us adults, but many parents are concerned about how they will affect their children's growth and development. Our biggest concern is that our children will become obese, withdrawn loner types if we allow them to play video games for longer than an hour or two each day. We believe that reading aloud to our kids or having them read aloud to us is the best thing to do. But instead of battling them, why not make use of them? Video games aren't going anywhere. Allowing your child to play video games while encouraging their creative growth is possible, as demonstrated in this essay.

One complaint from parents about video games is that, unlike reading aloud to children, they don't encourage creative thinking. To help your child's imagination flourish when playing video games, here are seven ideas

1. Make profiles of characters

There are characters in some video games. Many people are familiar with and invested in these characters because of the Harry Potter video games. But in other games, the characters could be less developed. Your child can take this chance to give the characters more depth. They can make up a background for the character, including their family, hometown, educational background, interests, emotions, etc. Then, they can draw or sketch situations from their past, present, and future that feature the characters they've chosen. At last, your little one can make a profile for the pet, friends, family, coworkers, droids, etc. who are a part of their character's life.

2. Make storyboards

Many video games, when you get down to it, are really just interactive tales. This means that your kid can use their favourite video game characters in their own imaginative tales. Imagine this as a real-life counterpart to the video game. You may even put yourself in the shoes of a game developer and imagine yourself working on the next installment of the game.

Based on what works best for you and your child, there are a few different methods to tackle this. A screenplay, cartoon-like graphics, scenarios with only photographs, or pictures with words can all be created.

3. Keep a journal

Your kid may find it fascinating to put themselves in the shoes of the characters. Coincidentally, this is an excellent method for fostering empathy in children. Make your kid keep a journal in which they describe their experiences like a character in a book.

4. Create a digital environment

The creation of a virtual environment by one of my sons is quite remarkable. He has meticulously mapped out the entire fictional world, written descriptions of every living thing (over a hundred in all, with illustrations), and chronicled its entire history. Your kid can make a whole new virtual environment, or they can build on top of an existing one.

5: What's Making Dinner

Why not have your little one create unique dishes for the virtual world's cuisine if they enjoy cooking? Which dish do they prefer? Tell me about the national dish. These "recipes" could be based on actual, edible dishes or on something completely inedible (watch out for your child with the latter!).

6. Use your hands

When it comes to learning, some kids are more kinesthetic than visual. If your kid falls into this category, they might enjoy making papier mâché or clay replicas of their favourite video game characters. Even better, you may use your garden or backyard to build life-size models. Take an old tree stump or log as an example; you may use it to carve a character.

7. Make Your Own Video Game

Making your own game is the most original thing you can do in the video game industry. If you're lucky, you might be able to turn your enjoyable work into a real video game because computer game developers follow a technique that's comparable to some of the ones outlined here.

To make your own video games, you can utilise any one of a multitude of available software tools. Nonetheless, if you're not a "techie," it's likely best to go with one that doesn't necessitate any sort of programming or sophisticated computer knowledge.

Examples of such software include "The 3D Gamemaker," which enables you to make games with the simple gesture of pointing and clicking. You can create your own games using the 3D Gamemaker's library of scenes, music, and 3D objects. To make your game more unique, you can scan in your own photographs, record your own sound effects, and import your own 3D models. However, this isn't quite as creative as designing a game from scratch.

In multi-choice adventures made with the Multi-Choice Creation System (MuCeS), the player selects an option from a menu based on her best judgement in each given scenario.

Just two of the many possible outcomes are illustrated above. The idea is that making video games is something everyone can do; a "rocket scientist" isn't necessary. You have no idea how excited your children will be when they get to design their own video games. Gaming on a computer will change forever!

While some parents worry about the negative impact of video games on their children, pairing them with the "offline" activities for kids to create stories outlined here will not only encourage your child's imagination but also provide a great time.