I had a very similar experience tapping out with this game. I thought one of my kids would love the humor (spoiler: he did) but the wonkiness of using touch for steering combined with the difficulty of controlling of the “cars” themselves and the fact that you had to restart from the beginning made him more frustrated than I’ve seen him in a long time. But he really wanted to love the game, and after a few loops of playing then getting frustrated we deleted it.
Hopefully they had some more kid accessibility options in the future...
I've found a great deal of joy in sharing gaming with my son! In many ways, it was like time traveling and meeting the child I once was discovering games.
I've written a bit about it, but playing every 2D Mario game with my son last year was a powerful experience that taught me much about who I was and who I've become:
I had a very similar experience tapping out with this game. I thought one of my kids would love the humor (spoiler: he did) but the wonkiness of using touch for steering combined with the difficulty of controlling of the “cars” themselves and the fact that you had to restart from the beginning made him more frustrated than I’ve seen him in a long time. But he really wanted to love the game, and after a few loops of playing then getting frustrated we deleted it.
Hopefully they had some more kid accessibility options in the future...
Wow, that first clip was so wonderful to hear. It's nice to have moments like that captured for the future.
I've found a great deal of joy in sharing gaming with my son! In many ways, it was like time traveling and meeting the child I once was discovering games.
I've written a bit about it, but playing every 2D Mario game with my son last year was a powerful experience that taught me much about who I was and who I've become:
https://radicaledward.substack.com/p/mario-daddy
Ok i need to download this leggy car game.
goo deal
Look, the typos are gonna follow me here. I gotta get an editor lol