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Slasher do you do your art from scratch? Or is it created using a photo? It’s a cool style. Very unique.

The Shadow?

I think it's like 'Employee of the Month' at McDonald's. You sort of recognise someone/something's value regardless of when they/it joined the community.

Not obvious to me.

Congrats guys!

Oh man I love me some crayfish! Those look amazing!

Wow the artwork looks great! You should get your Steam pre-order page up so we can wishlist it and not lose track of the project.

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Got 2 rooms set up....

This already looks good

I started playing it yesterday, Ponch. Really enjoying it!

I recommend Mess Goblins fom Dropped Monocle Games. Even if your kid might need some help solving the puzzles, it has very child friendly themes

https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/1881-mess-goblins/

Thanks! We'll give it a try. Btw I think I was telling you in another thread that my son and I LOVED Doors. Nice, simple concept that gets right to the gaming without too much (any?) pretext. Was a great find!

Thank you all for your suggestions! Few quick thoughts that might be helpful to other parents looking to shortlist some titles. We tried:

Let's Cook - Great game with a great concept, but very heavy on the reading. I can tell you as a parent that that game + a voice track on an iPad would make the developer some very nice $$$ return!

Kitten - We tried to find Kitten Catastrophe and Space Cat vs the Virus, but neither were available. 'Kitten' is a very difficult sidescroller. The first level involves tearing up items in a house, which was fun, but probably too difficult for kids under about 10 or so.

Play Xylophone - Was very fun for a few minutes!

Mr Bear teaches English - Very nice game! Probably more appropriate for a 3YO, but a very nicely put together program.

Number Rescue - Definitely the highlight of the batch we played! CaptainD, mate you've got all these layers to you that none of us know about. I had no idea this game even existed! You should do a followup series with these characters. It's a really good concept!

We'll try some of the other suggestions later today (weekends here are Friday-Saturday).

Awesome thanks for the suggestions, guys. Keep em coming! 

Helten - honestly either is fine, but we prefer voice acted titles as my son is only 5 and it’s gets tiring reading scripts aloud. (Also lets me pop off for a minute to help my wife with dinner or whatever while he continues playing.)

(Please feel free to shamelessly post your own game if it fits the above description! )

[Games for very young children (mostly just click around the screen)]

Just a thread to aggregate some of the AGS titles for varying age groups. Please feel free to suggest something. (Bonus for games with voice tracks!)

I'm going to shortlist some of the findings in this initial post for the other parents out there:

Games for very young children (mostly just click around the screen)
Apple Farm https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/1475-apple-farm/
Mr Bear Teaches English https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2369-mr-bear-teaches-english/
Play Xylophone https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2419-play-xylophone/

Games for roughly 5-year-olds+ with speech tracks or very little/age appropriate reading
Number Rescue https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2024-number-rescue/
Doors https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2437-doors/

Games for roughly 5-year-olds+ with lots of reading (i.e. need to play through entirely with mum/dad)
How the cat saved Christmas https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2316-cornelius-cat-in-how-the-cat-saved-christmas/
The Uncontrollable Pest https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/1963-cornelius-cat-in-the-uncontrollable-pest/
Let's Cook! https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/1990-let-s-cook-with-koala/
Mess Goblins https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/1881-mess-goblins/
Toffee Trouble in Creamville https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2047-toffee-trouble-in-creamville/
Be Your Own Hero https://byo-hero.itch.io/byo-hero

Kid friendly platformers
The Decorcist https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/1887-the-decorcist/

A terrible movie called Bruser?

Thanks Slasher. Yeah it was a rushed job. More just happy to participate. Hopefully I’ll find time in future months to pull something more complete together.

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I’m sorry - the game is really just a few interactions. If you click an item from your inventory on the elephant you win.

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Awesome work, Hobo! I really loved this little game. The whole thought bubble approach was very creative.

OK I updated the link to my game in my above post. You can also get the game here: https://srv-file22.gofile.io/download/9lHBfJ/thewhiteelephant.zip

You can use this. I’m sorry for the delay. I’ll have a working download link up in the next few hours.