The other day, my son was playing with one of our Playmobil play sets with his grandmother. He was trying to decide on the best way to move one of the figures to a different location, and she said that he could just go around the side.
"I can't do that," he replied, incredulous that she would even suggest such an outlandish thing. "There's an invisible wall right there!"
I am a producer at EA Salt Lake, working on kid-friendly games (woo-hoo!), as well as a columnist for whattheyplay.com, the videogame guide for parents. Before that, I... 1) worked on not-so-kid-friendly games at EA Chicago 2) was a columnist for the AOL Games - GameDaily Family Gaming Guide, and 3) taught a college course on the history of the video game industry.
Playing video games with my 2 young kids is a great way to connect with them. The key, of course, is to find games that are both fun and age-appropriate, which isn't always easy. The whole point of GameFam is to help parents with this critically-important task. Since I'm doing it anyway for my kids, I figured that parents of young kids might enjoy not having to add to their already-too-long To Do Lists.
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