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Wednesday 5 March, 2008
GAMEPLAY
After playing this game for another hour, I found myself growing bored of it, until my baby started to learn to walk. It was an exciting moment, as if a parent was seeing his or her child walk for the first time. This game makes you think you’re a parent. The game isn’t difficult to play at all. It’s very simple, since you are just a pair of hands multitasking is a bit hard to do when you’re caring a child; one quick and swift movement of the mouse can delay your efforts into whatever you are trying to do in the game.
It’s a bit frustrating trying to care for three children at once. I’ve sent a good majority to “Grandma’s”, and I am a little sorry to say but I played mostly with the baby that I liked most. The game does loses its momentum once you’ve realized that you baby can’t do much else once it’s already learned to walk and talk. Caring for these babyz has made me very worried about my sanity.
DESIGN
The design elements of this game were simple enough. Each room was designed as a part of a house; there was the bathroom, nursery, kitchen, playroom, living room, and even a backyard. The game is interesting in the beginning and it maintains to a certain degree of the players interest and then the game surprised you when you’re baby is given the chicken pox or has the flu, you have to help the baby get better, it’s a great way to keep the player’s interested, but soon after the players will become bored because there is nothing left to do.
The game doesn’t offer anything more than just what it is. It offers the player an opportunity to play parents for a short while. This game does not help to foster social interactions, it’ll only spark the curious interest of bystanders but that’s as far as interactions go. This game offered me no ideas for my game. There was nothing to gain from this game.
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