Lemon Lane: a 7-day lemonade stand game for kids, playable in the browser
A short game I made for kids around 8–12: watch the weather, pick how many cups to make and what to charge, and see what's left at the end of the week. About 15 minutes, no account, no ads, progress saves in the browser. If you play it with a kid, what price did they land on by day seven? Made with help from AI tools.
https://lemon-lane.pages.dev/Open linkView original on lemmy.cafe
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I distinctly remember playing a game, probably identical to this, in the early days (90s) of the internet. And now we're reinventing the wheel with Ai. Sigh.
Yeah, it's not a new idea, and that's on purpose. Lemonade Stand goes back to the 1970s, and there were lots of web versions after that. I wanted a small version a kid can finish in a week, where the lesson is just cost vs price. The AI was a coding assistant for building and testing, not the design. Do you remember if the one you played had the weather forecast too? That's the part kids seem to like most.