

Smashbox Arena is part multiplayer dodgeball and part first-person shooter. VR Platform: HTC Vive, Oculus Rift Developer: BigBox VR, Inc. Some people might consider it violent for very young kids. Why it's fun for kids: It's fun, easy to play, and you can make and play your own mini-golf courses! You can play courses created by other users as well. The included courses are both fun and challenging, but the real replay value comes from the game’s “course creation mode.” Yes, that’s right, you can design and play your very own mini-golf courses, and you don’t even have to tear up your parents’ backyard to do it! You can even share your course with the world when you’ve finished making your masterpiece. This game can be just as frustrating as mini-golf is in the real world, but, honestly, that frustration is what makes it challenging and fun for all ages. That doesn’t mean it’s easy to play though. Remember going on family vacations when you were a kid and ending up at a miniature golf course? They always had some cheesy pirate or dinosaur theme to them, but you were a kid and you loved that stuff, so it was awesome.Ĭloudlands VR Minigolf attempts to distill that “putt-putt” experience and bring it into the VR world, and they have done a pretty great job of making it into an immersive experience.Ĭloudlands is bright and colorful and the controls are easy to use. VR Platform: HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, OS VR Developer: Futuretown Like real world mini-golf, it can get frustrating. Why it’s fun for kids: It’s an entirely new medium that they’ve never explored before. Once you know the controls, then it’s all just raw creativity. The controls are intuitive and become second nature within a couple of minutes of use. There are so many possibilities that you can lose yourself in Tilt Brush for hours. You can paint with fire, smoke, neon light tubes, electricity, or whatever your heart desires. You don’t have to use traditional brushes, either. You can draw things that have depth, and then you can scale them up or down, walk around them, erase them, or change them-whatever you can imagine. Tilt Brush is essentially a 3D VR paint program that allows you to create drawings in three-dimensional space. Tilt Brush takes that same experience of exploring an entirely new medium and brings it to a new generation of kids (and their parents as well). You were in awe of it because it was a completely new medium that you had never used before. Remember when you got your first computer and you opened the paint program that came built into the operating system? You spent at least an hour or two trying out different brushes, colors, stamps, and blending tools. VR Platform: HTC Vive, Oculus Rift Developer: Google It might be tough for kids to get started.
