I'm looking for something to run when dd (dear daughter) comes up to the keyboard to "play".

(Something more engaging and reactive than a pass-locked screen saver.)

Assume the child is coordinated enough to push one key at a time, but prefers not to.

Googling has not been terribly successful. Suggestions?

Man that is a great idea.
Cant you PM if you find anything.
My dd always seems to get to the buttons that cause the most damage quickly.

Regards,
Blair.

I could only find kids software.
http://www.linuxforkids.org/
I'll keep looking......thanks for the idea.
Regards,
Blair

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Check out this article.

Thanks for the link.

Blair

I've been rather underwhelmed with the selection so far. I happened to be poking around sourceforge and found these:

* http://sourceforge.net/projects/colors/
Colors is an entertaining educational game designed for children ages 0-2. If a character is pressed a sound will be played and the screen will change colors. Optionally, characters can be displayed and heard instead of sounds. Requires SDL
1.2.x

* http://sourceforge.net/projects/childsplay/
Childsplay is a 'suite' of educational games for young children. It's written in Python and uses the SDL-libraries to make it more games-like then, for instance, gcompris. The aim is to be educational and at the same time be fun to play.

I've tried out Colors and it seemed pretty appropriate (needed to edit the makefile and a hard coded path in the source to build a slackware package for it, however). I have not yet had an opportunity to try out Childsplay.

I don't understand....mine just get on with it and find their own level..Konnect4, Kolf, Pingu, RTCW, MOHAA....all played for ages by various of my kids.
I think i started most of them on KPaint (or even M$ Paint) from about the age of 2.

Forget about educational games....games that are educational are rarely fun enough to play for more than 10 minutes and the whole point of playing is to have fun, not to learn.
Potato guy was always a favorite as well..Tuberlings a plenty in my home folder ;-)

Thanks.

Blair