This is a video game I made for Scout to help her practice using a gamepad.
Play it! You'll need at least one gamepad and Firefox or Chrome.
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It's hard to find nice games that fit the search "two player gamepad-enabled couch-co-op suitable for four year olds".
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Game design for a four year old is quite nuanced. To make a fun game without all of the normal risk reward mechanics basically comes down to "make rude noises".
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It's 360 lines of ClojureScript, rendered in the browser DOM with React. It took me a handful of evenings over a period of one month to develop.
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I don't play many games, but the gamepad is probably my favourite human-computer interface.
Source code: https://github.com/chr15m/fubbles/
Update
Fubbles is the first game I have made using the new infinitelives ClojureScript library for game development that my friend Crispin and I have been building.