Fun Was the Goal, But Learning Sneaks Up On Teen Game Developer
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Then he found a website where he could spend hours playing the kind of online game called a “first-person-shooter.” One of the function keys on his computer now stood for a new command: R = “Reload gun.” Does that sound like the opening of another tragic article about a schoolyard shooting?He loaned some of the money to his older sister to pay her college tuition, and he’ll be heading for UCLA to study engineering in the fall.But Yuan’s story shows a hopeful side to the vast number of entry points now open to kids online, where they can give full play to their imaginations and their native desire to create something original and useful.Young people who grew up on the Internet are used to having the power to delve deeper into information sources and find answers to their own questions, Silvestrini says.Players pay for these goods in a virtual ROBLOX currency called Robux, which can be earned on the site or bought—from the iTunes store or in the form of pre-paid cards at Walmart.