TOWNSCAPE – a new program for small children

[arnolde]

I made a "kind of game" for my nearly four year old son to show him how computing used to work back in my childhood. It's inspired by a german card/jigsaw game which is even older than the CPC, so in a sense it's "double retro".  This was made mainly for my son, but your kids might enjoy it as well, it's pretty self explanatory.

Download it on Ich.io

...and have fun!

[cwpab]

Interesting... How does this "special" German jigsaw game work? I can't deduce much from the screenshots.

[Gryzor]

Heh, really nice! Too bad my little one doesn't seem to comprehend how the fuck a screen can be not a touch screen

[arnolde]

Heh, really nice! Too bad my little one doesn't seem to comprehend how the fuck a screen can be not a touch screen

That's exactly what this is about ;-)

[arnolde]

Interesting... How does this "special" German jigsaw game work? I can't deduce much from the screenshots.

It's not so much a game but rather an activity. Kids can put together their own pictures of cities or towns with ready-made tiles, showing cars, houses, streets, park etc. It was a toy with square cardboard tiles that could be arranged in a frame back then and I loved it as a kid.

I might post some kind of "making of" later if anyone is interested.

[Gryzor]

Interesting... How does this "special" German jigsaw game work? I can't deduce much from the screenshots.

It's not so much a game but rather an activity. Kids can put together their own pictures of cities or towns with ready-made tiles, showing cars, houses, streets, park etc. It was a toy with square cardboard tiles that could be arranged in a frame back then and I loved it as a kid.

I might post some kind of "making of" later if anyone is interested.

Funny thing, that's a 'game' mine has been playing since yesterday on his iPad

[genesis8]

Heh, really nice! Too bad my little one doesn't seem to comprehend how the fuck a screen can be not a touch screen

That's exactly what this is about ;-)

I see a good solution to make past and present united, add support in your game for the Amstrad Magnum Phaser, double fun for your kid and showing how we did it the good way !

:-)

Why using touching support when we can shoot it ?

[XeNoMoRPH]

[ervin]

This is very nice!

If I could offer one suggestion... the scrolling of tiles would be more comfortable if it moved one tile row at a time, rather one character row at a time. 

[arnolde]

This is very nice!

If I could offer one suggestion... the scrolling of tiles would be more comfortable if it moved one tile row at a time, rather one character row at a time.

Yes, in principle I agree, but I thought that this way, the concept of scrolling through multiple rows of tiles might be easier to understand for modern kids.

[arnolde]

add support in your game for the Amstrad Magnum Phaser

Wow, that's a crazy idea! I never had a shooter back then and I was never really aquainted or used to that input method. But I will think about adding supprt...