Thomas the Tank Engine Flash Game
The Kids Verdict

Today 4 local kids between 2 and 4 years old came to the office to try out our Thomas the Tank Engine Flash Games. It was really interesting to see what they thought about them and how difficult they were to play.

The game I had developed, Track Trouble, proved a bit too challenging for the 2-3 year olds, some of which had never used a computer before so where having quite a bit of difficulty mastering the mouse. For the kids this age Sioned's colouring in game and Ian's jigsaw puzzle game were better successes.

I was pleased though that 4 year old Oliver managed to play my game and said it was his favourite because 'it was the hardest'. He had had more experience than the others using computers and had played lots of games on the CBeebies site so was able to use the mouse well and even type his name.

It was an invaluable experience to see how kids would play our games and really helpful as we have a bit of time to change the games now to make them more kid-friendly before we present them to S4C next Tuesday.