Online Childrens Games

Does your kid talk endlessly about Tilted Towers and V-Bucks?

How the latest video game craze mixes up the fundamentals of game design and human psychology to make itself compelling

f your child is keeping their grades up and maintaining friends and hobbies, then their gaming activity is likely not a disorder or addiction.

Help for parents bewildered by the sense that the game has swallowed their children, especially since the mobile phone version was released in late March.

'I've never seen a game that has such control over kids' minds. '

“We are noticing the negative effects of this game, particularly on boys and most concerning, on boys in K-2,” it said.

Shellharbour public school in NSW told parents: “The ability to communicate online whilst playing these games is leading to moments of online bullying, the use of inappropriate language and abuse.”

This is the teenage boy’s version of the topless selfie that parents of girls worry about.