Welcome to Chaz Rapley's Children's games Web
Site where games for young children can be downloaded
free. They are designed to run on a PC with Windows version 98 and
later. This site is centered around my interest in developing
simple computer games for young children, using the visual programming
language Delphi. I am an enthusiast programmer, rather than
professional and am interested in making contact with other
enthusiasts, both in Delphi programming and children's games.
The games are developed from
scratch, so are original and are aimed at exploiting the flexibility of
computer-based games as well as being simple in concept and
use. This site features examples of these games all of which
can be downloaded free for you to try out straight
away. You can only play the downloaded programs, you
cannot play any of the games directly on this web site.
Another robot arrived in the
January 2007 update. This is a Jewel Robot that can go into
dangerous caves and mines to hunt for hidden jewels. You have
to guide the robot through the black dark mines to find all the hidden
jewels as quickly as you can. Click Jewel Robot in the green
panel on the left to find out more.
In the February
2007 update a fun memory type game called SwopIt has been added to the
site. At the start of this game the player sees a
multi-coloured shape which is then broken up into pieces and scattered
around the play area, mixing in with other similar but differently
coloured pieces when the PLAY button is clicked. The player
has to then remember and re-assemble the original shape by clicking and
swopping places with the pieces in the play area. Click
SwopIt in the green panel on the left for more details. Also
in the February update, a new minimum for Level 2 of the game Pokemon
Get-together from Tammy Andrade - many thanks Tammy!
Another memory
type game was added to the site in the May 2007 update. This
one
is called Where Were They? When playing it you have
to remember the original positions of
objects. At the start of a NEW GAME, the position of a few
objects
such as teddy bears are shown and then when the START button is clicked
the position of these objects are changed at random. A robot
is
available to move the objects back to their original positions using
the arrow keys on the keyboard. Click Where Were
They? in the green
panel on the left for more details.
In
the September 2007 update a new game called Balloons was
added.
In this game the player has to click on a group of two or
more
balloons to burst them (with a loud bang!) and score points.
The bigger the group the higher the score - it increases
rapidly
with group size. The object is to get as high a
score as
you can from the randomly arranged balloons. Click
Balloons in the green
panel on the left for more details.
A
children's version of the ancient game of Mahjong was added to the site
in the November 2007 update. In this simple version, called
'Match
Them', the tiles are laid out in patterns, all in one plane.
The game play is the same as in Mahjong with the player
clicking
two identical available
tiles one after the other to make them disappear.
To be
available, one of the long sides of the rectangular tile has to be free
(not in contact with another tile). The
object of the game is to clear all of the tiles.
Click 'Match Them' in the
green panel on the left for more details.
In
the January 2008 update a new game called All Green was added to the
site. The object of this game is to clear old rubbish cans
from a
playing field to make the field All Green. Clicking cans or
playing field with the mouse changes any adjacent cans to field or
field to cans but the part clicked remains unchanged. Click
All
Green in the green panel on the left to find out more.
The March 2008
update sees the first of a series of word based games introduced to the
site. This one is called 'Make Words' as the player tries to
make words from a given set of letters to get the highest
score
they can. A robot is used to push the letters around to form
two
and three letter words. Click 'Make
Words' in the green panel on the left to find out more.
Another
word based game has been added to the site in the May 2008 update.
This one is called 'Word Spree' with the object of forming as
many two and three letter words as you can in a given time. As
with 'Make Words', a robot is used to push the letters around to form
words. In each play, letters are generated at random in the play
area for the robot to push and you can have as many plays as you like
in the given time span. Click 'Word Spree' in the green panel on the left to find out more. I would welcome any comments you have
on these two word-based games, particularly on whether or not you think they manage to
combine having fun with some gentle learning.
A
very tired skater has glided onto the site in the June 2008 update.
She wants an ice-cream and needs some help with some pushes from you
so she can glide to it. The object is to get her to the ice-cream
with as few pushes as you can . Click 'Skater' in the green panel
on the left to find out more.
If you are interested in the
programming aspects, using Delphi, there is a Tutorial page (click
Tutorial in the panel on the left) that looks in detail at the tangled
fishing lines game Fishing.
If you download one of the programs, or have any comments about the games or this site, please email me (by clicking my name below).
Some of the higher levels in the games may need some help from a grown-up! Let me know if you have any suggestions for other games. There is also a sister site which has topical versions of some of my games that you can also download free. If you want to visit the site, click the following link:
Now make your choice from the list in the green panel on the left (click here if there is no green panel and list showing) to investigate further.
Last modified: June 2008