My daughter started elementary school, and I got her her first computer. I was looking for some educational games for her to learn math and reading.
I was really disappointed with what I found.
I found a bunch of old (win 3.11 era) games.
Or games smothered in advertising and in app purchases. If you have a small child that doesn't speak English, these buttons are really problematic. Not because she'll buy something, but rather because they take her away from the game, and she needs my help getting back.
I realise that the fact that we are not an English speaking family, is severely limiting my options here. I guess that with English or any other +100million speaker language, my chances of finding something better are higher...
But after tiring of searching on google, I thought to myself: It would be easier to write her some games myself. The logic for games for 1st graders is really simple. You just need to make the graphics/sound engaging.
So as I am writing a simple math game, I got to thinking: Is there already an opensource edu-platform out there? Something that is designed to be easy to localise by other game-dev Dads/Moms? I mean the simplest games should be quite simple to port across languages.
If not, then I think I just found myself a hobby project :-)
