It sends you on mini-quests (sort of) to find potion ingredients, which you add to your cauldron. “Okay, okay, first you have to play Wacky Wizards?” said my middle son August, who generally picked their game. So I went out into the game to mother my Blox brood. When we figured out I could play Roblox on my phone, everyone helped create my avatar. “Like, do I need another tablet? Do we have enough that I can play, too?” “Can I play Roblox?” I asked my kids, sort of tentatively. What if instead of bitching about endless screentime, I started playing with my kids? What if rather than glaring over my laptop, I logged on, too? I mean, it’s a blocky dude trundling around. I did miss all those long days in college playing Dance, Dance Revolution and Mario Kart (fall off Rainbow Row, take a shot). But I sure as hell could use an N64 - and I was so good at old school NES that I could defeat Ganon without downing the blue potion. I laughed that I never really mastered a PS2 controller. I recently talked to Joel Willis, Editor-in-Chief at The Dad and Head of The Dad Gaming, and we had a great conversation about how games - Rocket League in particular - had been a fun, effortless way for him to bond with his kids. I tend to bitch that they play too much, too often - all three of them in one room, staring at screens: one on our TV, headphones, and a Kindle Fire (he’s dysgraphic, so he talks to friends on Messenger Kids at the same time) two on tablets. My 9- and 7-year-old play with each other. During the pandemic, it’s become my 11-year-old’s social outlet: he talks to his (IRL) friends there. It’s technically free as long as you don’t drop cash on Robux, which we don’t. Theory: kids play games, kids code games. If you don’t have kids 5-12 years old, or live in a screenless void, Roblox is a platform made of millions of user-created games.
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