Thank you for the thread, albertoefg! I've gone into more detail about my
personal tmi bla bla bla everybody's got problems and why I need help
learning about gaming on IRC than I care to on the forums.
Right now hedgewars and Minetest are very big in my household. My youngest is
part of The Minecraft Generation (tm) and he says that Minetest is simply
better software and easier to configure. I'm not sure how many of the kids he
brought for the free [s]beer[/s] lemonade are going to stay for the free
speech, but that's my li'l activist and I'm proud of him anyway. :)
Jxself, the way you describe text games makes them seem right up my own alley
and probably not the worst idea in the world for Heather Jr. either; can you
recommend any specific titles we could check out? Preferably leaning a bit
more to the co-operative side than the competitive side and if they are
multiplayer, with an accepting, diverse, and multi-age community would be
nice.