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The Ethics of Kids Apps: Privacy, Security, and Monetization, pt. 1
Mobile Game Development for Kids: Privacy Developing apps for children is a delicate, difficult, but rewarding process. We’ve already discussed our reasons for doing so in our Why Create Kids Games?blog post. It is a wonderfully challenging experience – one that can re-open your eyes to the joys of childhood all over again, while battering your adult mind with...
ESRB: Keeping Our Kids Safe
I didn’t pay attention to film ratings until my kids were born. Then, once these bright, shiny new people were cradled in my arms, and I thought about the big, bad world out there, rating systems become very important. It was my job as their mother to protect them from, well… everything. I knew that life would start to rub off on these pure little souls, but I was determined to put it off as long as possible!
Connecting with your Kids: Creating Moments
As I kept thinking things through, I was able to put down that “parent-guilt” we all seem to give birth to on the same day our children come into the world. It isn’t the big moments that are important, it’s the every-day moments that make a life, that make that shared history that love and loyalty that life is built on
Video Games: Let Them Play!
Gaming has provided me opportunities to connect with my children. We spend time together doing what we all love. I speak with them – about life and humanity, emotions and honor, right and wrong, what we believe, what we want out of life. I can speak to them on a level in a language that we all understand. Without games I would never have had those opportunities.
Game Development: Getting Started
You feel like you have an entire world in front of you – one in which ANYTHING can happen! It’s like being a kid again, when your imagination was just as real as the world we live in, and dreams were sharp and vibrant and oh-so-possible. It’s exhilarating and frightening. There are so many ways to go, so many chances to make the wrong choice… or the right one!
Go On And Do It!
Seeing that glistening prize, whatever it may be, at the end of your rainbow is enervating and seductive. It pulls you along, entices and enthralls, but then, you find yourself at the top of a cliff. Oh, it’s a beautiful cliff with an amazing view, but you have to make the decision whether to jump or not. And you can’t predict quite how or where you’ll land.
Why Create Kids Games?
Kids have so many options now – games they can play on a phone Mom or Dad pull out of their pocket at a moment’s notice; tablets made specially for kids, designed to take the rough-and-tumble of toddler life; countless web pages with content created around their favorite cartoon characters, designed to teach creative play, the alphabet, math, drawing, spelling. The list goes on. So, why jump into a pool that already has so many swimmers?
