There's a new frogg in town. Probably the youngest active Ingress player.
Originally shared by Sebastian Willing
There's a new frogg in town. Probably the youngest active Ingress player.
It's such a great fun to see her handling such an complex app without any reading at all. It took her minutes to learn hacking and one farming session to learn how to submit portal photos, link portals and attack evil blue resonators.
(No, it's not her smartphone. She's allowed to use it for Ingress only.)
There are no evil blue portals.
ReplyDeleteThere are no evil green portals.
There are, however, evil blue and green agents.
I'm Resistance and in the last week I've met 3 Enlightened agents who don't fit evil. I hope this child learns the strategic route, not the evil route :)
Not sure if nimble fingers would be advantageous when glyph hacking or if small fingers would be more likely to miss the hit box around the dots...
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone know why the TOS don't approve it ?
ReplyDeletegoulven Kerbellec they removed the age limits
ReplyDeleteChems Mum oh great ! thks. My kids thks you too !
ReplyDeleteMy youngest made level 8 when he was six. He loves to make fields... Although mommy has threatened to take away his far away keys after some serious random links, his response was but we could field it, so we made a sliver field. #familytimre
ReplyDeleteGlad to see younger agents in the care of capable adult agents. My family now holds 5 blue agents and we love it. The youngest two are not allowed to play without parental supervision. This is for safety
ReplyDeleteInteresting. Does that mean Google has lifted the age restriction on Google+ and Gmail accounts?
ReplyDeleteThey lifted the age restriction a long time ago... in a galaxy far, far away.
ReplyDeleteMy little ones are completely understood on when and where they are allowed to play. My teenager is allowed to play by herself but with that, i would rather she always go with someone
ReplyDeleteThe way that they've set up the tutorial on the game, you don't have to read, it's got audio and visual set up for it so there's really nothing to read at all.
ReplyDeleteFelix Sanchez ingress helps with reading. My son could read library, memorial, and fire department add some of his first words!
ReplyDeleteI like how my kids will learn about GPS and maps
ReplyDeleteI just looked it up. Gmail and Google+ still have a 13+ age requirement. The Ingress TOS doesn't specifically list an age limit but refers to the Google TOS. Can you sign up for Ingress without a Gmail account?
ReplyDeleteThis is probably one of those "We aren't going to tell you that you can but we aren't going to tell you that you can't" situations. Personally, I don't have a problem with kids playing with their parents. It's a fun game and it gets people out and about. As a parent, though, I am leery of teaching kids that it's okay to lie about your age so you can get what you want.
Ingress TOS: https://www.ingress.com/terms
Google TOS: http://www.google.com/policies/terms/
Google Acct Age Requirements: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1350409
My son who is 11 also enjoys the game and linking fields. Passing through level 6. Daughter still just likes to hack at age 7. We all had fun in Madison at the anomaly.
ReplyDeleteSince share my wifi, game play is monitored at this time.
Robert Landsparger well put! That's the best way to do it, as you get full control over whether or not their devices connect to ingress or not. In my house, they start fighting and I click the tethering off .....that usually stops the fighting
ReplyDeleteI think 13 refers to COPPA in the US, which is a legal requirement as far as I know.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I'm all for early education for youngsters, under supervision. If we can teach them young they're less likely to be caught out when older.
I don't think I want my child having to deal with the a**holes and trolls that games such as this tend to attract until he's much older.
ReplyDeleteYou don't need a gmail account to play ingress.
ReplyDeleteMy 7yo is no longer allowed to field. Lol. She bawls hysterically out of excitement. To the point she gives herself the hiccups.
ReplyDeleteMy 11 yo does nothing but hold keys. He calls himself the keymaster.
And my 9 yo. Well he is named puking warrior for a reason. We've had to stop playing due to car sickness several times. With him screaming at us to hand him a trash bag keep going.
The thing I enjoy the most is not just that it gives us an excuse to "video game" outdoors as a family. But that my kids have learned about teamwork and strategy. As well as that they are taking part of something bigger then just our little world around us. True to the Ingress catchphrase.
Scott GrantSmith A gmail account is not required. A different email address is fine
ReplyDeleteThe old carousel deployment was great for teaching kids the cardinal and intermediate points of a compass.
ReplyDeleteTim Bowermeister Cool. I didn't know that. I guess I'm just so dependent on Google services that I don't think of that.
ReplyDeleteStephanie Blaser
ReplyDeleteYou see pics of kids playing at anomalies all the time.
ReplyDeleteWould the gmail 13+ tos be like "13+ or parent permission"? I remember some game and toy website commercials are say that
ReplyDeleteCarol Luk no, Google Account is still 13+, parent permission or not.
ReplyDeleteBUT there is Google Apps for Business which has no age restrictions so it's possible to have gmail for kids this way (and similar on Google Apps for Education). You cannot activate G+ on these accounts, however, or the whole account will be suspended.
I have a G+ profile on my business account....where did you get that info
ReplyDeleteMy kids have Gmail through their school and Google Apps for Education. Which according to the Google Apps for Education FAQ, "Ensuring the safety of student data is important to us. We contractually require Google Apps for Education schools to get the parental consents that COPPA calls for to use our services, and our services can be used in compliance with COPPA."
ReplyDeleteHow do you get a business account?
ReplyDeleteWatch about signing kids up through work or school accounts. When you/they leave you can't move ingress to another account.
ReplyDeleteSet up another G+ account for yourself that they can have when they're 13.
Zeke Cao I think they were saying if you activated Google+ on one of the accounts held by someone under 13
ReplyDeleteMy two boys play (7 and 12) The original reason I wanted to get in to ingress over a year ago was so I could use it to find interesting places to take the kids for summer. Now a year later the whole family plays. Instant Level 7 farm where ever we go is great. My boys cant play with out me or mom because we tether them on our phones. The kids started "Playing " with us last year at 6 and 11 but didn't actually get accounts till this year when the age restrictions were lifted. ( November 15 was when the age restrictions were lifted for those who are curious) They started on our old cell phones, that had horrid GPS drift, and when we were sure they would stick with it we went ahead and spent the money to give them Nexus7's.
ReplyDeleteThey both attended their first anomaly in KC last month and are infatuated with the idea of going to another.
Ingress is a GREAT game for young players because it IS different from most online games in the aspect you have to go out to Physically visit the locations. You can learn about places, people, and things you may have never noticed before. You have to interact with the opposing faction FACE TO FACE. Which means that the "Xbox mentality:" So many young gamers have nolonger works.
Sadly there are agents in both factions that though not children still think along the "Xbox mentality " and prefer to troll, trash talk, and generally be poor sports over comms even when they are not so in person. Thankfully Ingress is starting to blur that line and people are pretty respectful in comms after a few weeks of playing.
I love the visiting places too. We have Fort Vancouver here. I've taken my kids a billion times and they could have cared less. Now their like. Mom. So why is this portal important. And actually listen. Lol. When we have farms, listening to my son in the back, this portal used to be the house of a general... Etc. Is great! Or when they were learning about Lewis and Clark. All of the Lewis and Clark Markers here are portals. So they come home excited because they remembered something from a historical portal and everyone in class thought they were cool for knowing that.
ReplyDeleteScott GrantSmith some report Google Apps for education accounts can get ingress... No age restriction
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