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A kids traffic mat in Elm

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Re: A kids traffic mat in Elm

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Post by trenchgun »

falcor84 wrote: post #12

An amazing project, kudos! I wonder if there is some reasonably priced flexible display I could use to make this into an actual "mat" for kids to play on. EDIT: I just found this; anyone here with experience with this kind of tech? https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006497423497.html

> I could use to make this into an actual "mat" for kids to play on.

Ok so what I actually would for something like this, is having the traditional play mat, and in addition to that, have a digital-physical hybrid traffic simulation with programmable physical cars driving around, and remotely steerable toy car that your kid could drive around the traffic.

Re: A kids traffic mat in Elm

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Post by tetris11 »

klemola wrote: post #4

Whoa, didn’t expect to make it here. Thanks, OP! This has been a fun (and rather long) project. I craved for a simple city builder that a toddler could play and understand. You might want to start from the first devlog entry to see where Liikennematto came from. You can play Liikennematto in your browser on itch.io[1] (the link is buried at the end of the article). [1] https://yourmagicisworking.itch.io/liikennematto

It plays pretty well on my 8 year old phone (hint to others: make adjacent dots, don't drag)

Re: A kids traffic mat in Elm

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Post by k99x55 »

Good intention but car-centric infra is the worst example we can give to our children.

You should teach how to build those streets for people first, bicycles second, public transportation third, cars last.

Build for people not for machines.

Bicycle are all age inclusive, all ability inclusive. Cars is the most discriminatory mode of transport.

Those crosswalks should be continuous: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OfBpQgLXUc

Re: A kids traffic mat in Elm

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Post by actuallyalys »

MisterTea wrote: post #3
playingalong wrote: post #2

Like SimCity.

More like SimTown: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimTown I played it long ago and was pretty simple and fun. More kid friendly for sure but it didn't have traffic from memory.

There wasn’t traffic in the sense of sums complaining about heavy traffic, but I believe the game had car animations. I definitely remember pedestrians and cyclists.
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