[mdlug] Suggestions for games for an elderly parent?

[Robert Adkins]

This is an excellent game:

http://www.wesnoth.org/

Totally open source and has been available for Linux since the very
beginning.

I take breaks from it, have done so since 0.85.x or somewhere abouts that
revision and when I come back to it... The game is just better than before.
They are always adding new things to it.

I think that it has or can be forked into a "full" traditional RPG, instead
of the turn-based strategy RPG that it is.

The only "annoying" thing about it has been the music... It's far to
repetative.

-Rob


> -----Original Message-----
> From: mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org 
> [mailto:mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org] On Behalf Of Ingles, Raymond
> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 11:50 AM
> To: mdlug at mdlug.org
> Subject: [mdlug] Suggestions for games for an elderly parent?
> 
> My dad has asked me for some computer games for his 
> birthday... this Sunday. (Oy.)
> 
>  He's intelligent and has a sense of humor, but has limited 
> computer gaming experience and tends to learn 'computer 
> things' by rote. My parents run Ubuntu Linux, so any games I 
> got for them would have to be Linux-based or run well under 
> Wine. He's healthy but doesn't have the twitch reflexes (or 
> the interest in violence and gore) of the typical teenager, 
> so FPS games aren't going to fly.
> 
>  He's enjoyed Peggle and a few Flash games. I'm thinking an 
> RTS or a turn-based strategy game might work. A driving 
> simulator with a force-feedback steering wheel might work, 
> given that it ran well under Wine or had a native Linux version.
> 
>  So... any suggestions, or genres I haven't come up with?
> 
>  Sincerely,
> 
>  Ray Ingles                                               
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