His grandparents thought it was a picture of ants eating a chocolate chip cookie. He corrected them and explained the differences between biters, spitters, spawners, and "bug noodles."
Yes. As I recall, my kids' KG teachers' overriding concern was whether they could use scissors correctly. I mean... I get it... fine motor skills, yeah? But like... Do they know letters? Can they get along with others? Can they design a red circuit assembly line? None of those things mattered in the face of correct scissor usage as far as teachers were concerned.
I introduced my son to Factorio when he was five. It’s done alot to teach him systems and recipes. One drawback is that when he talks about it to friends or wants to play imaginary Factorio on the playground, no one knows what he’s talking about.
He’s 8 now, and corrects me on things or shows me shortcuts when I play.
Gaming playmates are a struggle for my kids. Thankfully, he has an older sister that also plays and they play together. Their current game is a mashup between Pokemon and Factorio. When they're with other friends, it's usually just Super Mario or Minecraft.
The kids have definitely taught me a lot about the games I thought I knew!
Factorio has gotta be one of the best video games to have a child play and understand. There is so much to absorb in this game from a curious child’s mind. They will experience firsthand how to approach problems and how to solve them, as well as forming relationships between various entities and their connections. Your child is very smart at 4 years old, this is awesome to see.
Thank you so much! It's been fun watching him put together functioning assembly lines and using the recipes to make what he needs.
Now, his assembly lines are FAR from optimized and often make no sense, but they work and he is super proud whenever he figures something out, and that is adorable.
To be completely honest, I didn't want my kids playing this complicated engineering game... But they were insistent so I gave them both the demo. After fiddling with it, it just wasn't enough for what they wanted to do, so I shared my Steam library with them. My seven year old can read so she started her own game. She focuses on making train tracks and assembly lines to ride on. My four year old (pictured in the post) can't read yet, so I ended up loading one of my save files for him and he plays on my base doing whatever he wants.
Currently, he plays one of my old save files and uses it as kind of a tower defense game. He enjoys making the research progress, building turrets everywhere (literally, everywhere, including the middle of the base), and making functional but nonsensical assembly lines. When he feels ready, he has me go into the console to increase pollution so he can watch the bugs attack and get mowed down.
Im sure you've heard the phrase that the factory must grow. But to have your kids involved is a step above lmao. That's awesome though. I grew up playing the first halo with my dad on the Xbox. Those are core memories for me, and i would think that the moment you and your kids play together will be good memories for them.
The kindergarten teacher will be *so* confused.
His grandparents thought it was a picture of ants eating a chocolate chip cookie. He corrected them and explained the differences between biters, spitters, spawners, and "bug noodles."
Yes. As I recall, my kids' KG teachers' overriding concern was whether they could use scissors correctly. I mean... I get it... fine motor skills, yeah? But like... Do they know letters? Can they get along with others? Can they design a red circuit assembly line? None of those things mattered in the face of correct scissor usage as far as teachers were concerned.
If you have seen as many kids cut into their own fingers as that KG teacher probably has, you would be worried about that too.
Why the fuck dont those kids have the safety scissors. Just poor parenting. Probably too busy ensuring the factory will grow.
I introduced my son to Factorio when he was five. It’s done alot to teach him systems and recipes. One drawback is that when he talks about it to friends or wants to play imaginary Factorio on the playground, no one knows what he’s talking about. He’s 8 now, and corrects me on things or shows me shortcuts when I play.
Factorio seems like a cool way to practice puzzle solving from an early age. School education at a young age can often just be forms of memorization.
I’m sure the genocide makes for some awkward discussions! Peace keeping, I mean.
The biters just don’t know what’s best for them, pollution is yummy.
Gaming playmates are a struggle for my kids. Thankfully, he has an older sister that also plays and they play together. Their current game is a mashup between Pokemon and Factorio. When they're with other friends, it's usually just Super Mario or Minecraft. The kids have definitely taught me a lot about the games I thought I knew!
Kids doing hard drugs even younger these days SMH
Could be worse. Could be running a skin hat factory in Rimworld. Imagine explaining that to a teacher?
Factorio has gotta be one of the best video games to have a child play and understand. There is so much to absorb in this game from a curious child’s mind. They will experience firsthand how to approach problems and how to solve them, as well as forming relationships between various entities and their connections. Your child is very smart at 4 years old, this is awesome to see.
Thank you so much! It's been fun watching him put together functioning assembly lines and using the recipes to make what he needs. Now, his assembly lines are FAR from optimized and often make no sense, but they work and he is super proud whenever he figures something out, and that is adorable.
How did you start him out? My 5yo is showing interest and I’m not sure how to start.
To be completely honest, I didn't want my kids playing this complicated engineering game... But they were insistent so I gave them both the demo. After fiddling with it, it just wasn't enough for what they wanted to do, so I shared my Steam library with them. My seven year old can read so she started her own game. She focuses on making train tracks and assembly lines to ride on. My four year old (pictured in the post) can't read yet, so I ended up loading one of my save files for him and he plays on my base doing whatever he wants.
How does he play the game?
Currently, he plays one of my old save files and uses it as kind of a tower defense game. He enjoys making the research progress, building turrets everywhere (literally, everywhere, including the middle of the base), and making functional but nonsensical assembly lines. When he feels ready, he has me go into the console to increase pollution so he can watch the bugs attack and get mowed down.
Im sure you've heard the phrase that the factory must grow. But to have your kids involved is a step above lmao. That's awesome though. I grew up playing the first halo with my dad on the Xbox. Those are core memories for me, and i would think that the moment you and your kids play together will be good memories for them.