{{http://diablobasher.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/doom01.jpg|class=thumbleft|The Ultimate Doom title artwork}}
-It's no wonder kids would like a game which is "//widely regarded as one of
-the most important titles in gaming history//", according to the Wikipedia.
-The first 7 hits for the common word "[[http://www.google.com/search?q=doom|doom]]"
-are about the game itself. Then come the film adaptation and various fan sites.
+It's no wonder kids like the game which, according to the Wikipedia, is "//widely regarded as one of
+the most important titles in gaming history//". This is no exaggeration: the first 7 hits for the
+common word "[[http://www.google.com/search?q=doom|doom]]" are about the game itself. Then come
+the film adaptation and various fan sites.
Anyway, how can we blame kids for playing games? After all, many of us played
Doom and many other types of "inappropriate" video games throughout our childhood.
solutions to transfer activities directly (their old version of Sugar does not
allow direct sharing from the journal).
-So, what we going to do about it? Do we lock the system down so kids could
-only install signed applications? So much for the "child ownership" principle.
-
-Do we develop a couple boring educational games, in the hope they will keep
-our kids from playing the "//#1 game of all time//"? I'm sure it will work :-)
-
-Or we could admit defeat and give them the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_WAD|level editor]]
-too, channeling some of this passion towards learning advanced concepts of 3D graphics
-and game deisgn. Over 13,000 maps were created for Doom by young artits of any age and
-nationality. Later games from ID Software came with a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuakeC | programming language]]
-which enabled users to create entire new games from the same engine.
+So, what to do now? Do we lock the entire system down so that kids could
+only install applications that we approve? So much for the "child ownership"
+principle.
+
+Do we develop a couple of boring educational games, in the hope they will keep
+our kids from playing the "//#1 game of all time//"? I'm sure that will work :-)
+
+How about admitting defeat and giving them the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_WAD|level editor]]
+too? It could redirect some of the existing passion towards learning about advanced concepts
+of 3D graphics and game deisgn. Don't underestimate the latent creativity of gamers: over 13,000 original maps
+were created for Doom by young artits of any age and nationality. Later games from ID Software included
+a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuakeC | programming language]] which enabled users to create entire
+new games with relative ease.
+
+ **Update**: [[http://selfdotblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/selfpresentation.html | Marten Abente]],
+ my Paraguay Educa colleague who added 3G broadband support to Sugar, noted that he had been creating
+ [[http://selfdotblog.blogspot.com/ | many game maps]] when he was just 16. At the university, he worked
+ with a friend to creat an entire 3D game engine from scratch using [[http://www.libsdl.org/ | SDL]]
+ and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL | OpenGL]].
=== Those inappropriate cartoons ===
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