When I first entered college, every time my parents asked me what my major was, it was difficult for me to explain to them in one sentence that I was not majoring in playing games, but in making games, but not in the way they imagined making games (they would ask to see the games I made). Not long after I graduated from college, I joined Chule and became a real player. I play games every day, but I still can’t explain in one sentence why playing games is considered work...

I always want to find a more appropriate way to let them understand what I am doing, and even let them experience the sense of accomplishment that I feel when I finish the headline before the deadline (...). Later, I thought of a not-so-good solution. I downloaded a lot of games that I like and often play to them on the iPad, taught them how to operate them, and told them what’s fun about the game.

I once read an answer on Zhihu: When you were a child, the world you saw was brought to you by your parents. Now that they are old, they blindly believe in those poisonous chicken soups and pseudoscience, and have no idea what your job is. It is up to you to show them the bigger world.

Tomorrow is Father's Day, and I want to use seven games to get closer to my dad and show them my world.

Don't Starve: Pocket Edition: I'm starving! Cook for me quickly!

“Don’t Starve” is the first game I bought on Steam. I really like this little game of running around trying not to starve to death. Every time the hunger level hits the bottom and trying to keep myself full gives me a unique sense of accomplishment.

"Don't Starve" is an adventure survival game. You are abandoned in a strange and wild land. You need to collect food, build houses, avoid and defeat monsters to survive. Each game will be played on a new random map, with a lot of exploration and collection elements, and the PC version's support for MODs also makes the game more playable.

The online version added later also made the game full of unique fun. Every time I was starving to death with my friends, I would yell to them in YY: "I'm starving to death! Cook for me! I've tied a lot of spider webs, don't let me starve to death!"

I especially like the hunger value setting in the "Don't Starve" game. Eating full gives me a unique sense of accomplishment

My dad is particularly interested in me playing games like this where little people run and jump. He often asks me: "What are you doing, little person? You're starving again." As an adventure game with extremely low operating difficulty and high online entertainment, I highly recommend it to all older dads.

Although “Don’t Starve: Pocket Edition” cannotQuickly connect a group of people to play together, but if you sit next to your dad and teach him how to find food quickly without starving to death, it might not be a good opportunity to draw closer to the parent-child relationship.

Don’t Starve: Pocket Edition is available for iPhone and iPad with iOS 8.0+, is 300 MB in size, and costs 30 yuan.

Radiation Island: A more realistic, bigger world

If your father is like my father, he has little interest in cartoon characters and will not play games without you. I strongly recommend you take him to play Radiation Island.

Also as an adventurous sandbox survival game, in "Radiation Island", players live alone on an archipelago. They not only have to fight beasts like tigers, lions, and bears, but also fight highly aggressive zombies that can be seen everywhere.

More realistic and exciting hunting scenes

So all player activities are centered around making more advanced weapons and more supplies. However, there are also some advanced weapons such as guns and crossbows that players cannot make on their own. They can only be obtained by picking them up at designated locations or by trying their luck to drop them from enemies.

These elements make "Radiation Island" as a mobile game extremely rich. Although I prefer "Don't Starve", I think that for fathers, the combat attributes of real scenes are definitely more attractive to them.

Radiation Island is suitable for iPhone and iPad with iOS 7.0+, size 775 MB, priced at 18 yuan.

Frenzy Racing: Throw the mines and throw the rockets

More than ten years ago, when I owned my first game console, the Xiaobawang Learning Machine, I often played games with my dad late into the night. Usually he would accommodate me and play a few games of "Eskimos on Ice" or "Rainbow Island" with me. Most of the time we would both play "Tank" or "Violent Motorcycle".

Especially the "violent motorcycle" was still used on the computer simulator.The game never gets tired of playing, and the winner is determined by the father and daughter kicking each other to see who knocks the other off the motorcycle first (thinking about it is a bit perverted). Over the years, no racing game could give me the simple and crude joy and excitement of "violent motorcycles".

But "caRRage" can be regarded as an accident, because the game is not only about racing. You can pick up rockets, mines and acceleration devices on the road. You can trap your opponents and change the course of the game at any time - squeezing, bumping, and setting traps for other players. These techniques are all allowed in the game.

I like this design so much. After all, what’s so strange about pure racing? There are too many racing games like that. Beating and trapping each other is the true meaning of racing games!

caRRage is available for iPhone and iPad with iOS 8.0+, size 76.6 MB, free with in-app purchases.

Sky Force Reloaded: One of the games I don’t want to delete from my phone

Compared with those fresh barrage games and Japanese barrage games with many cute girls, "Sky Force Reloaded" is more suitable to be recommended to dads.

The most well-known "Arrogant Eagle" was born in 2004. It is one of the best airplane games in the Saipan era. 2 years later, developer Infinite Dreams continues its efforts and launches "Arrogant Eagle: Reloaded". These two games were ported to Apple and Android platforms in 2009 and 2010 respectively.

"Arrogant Eagle: Reloaded" released a PSP version named "Arrogant Eagle" in 2011. Then in 2014, "Arrogant Eagle 2014" was launched, which was a remastered version of "Arrogant Eagle". Then in 2015, "Arrogant Eagle 2014" was ported to PC and launched "Arrogant Eagle Anniversary Edition".

Finally this year, 2016’s “Arrogant Eagle: Reloaded” is a remake of the old “Arrogant Eagle: Reloaded”.

I am a person who has little interest in barrage games, but since I downloaded "Arrogant Eagle: Reloaded" on my phone, I have tried to delete it several times to free up some phone memory but failed. I especially love the sound effects and graphics of this game, which is full of the fun and texture of old-school games. The operation is simple, and the difficulty of the game itself is not too low to make people get bored quickly.

If your father happens to be a person who is obsessed with WeChat masturbation, you might as well recommend him to try "Proud Eagle: Reloaded". The operation is responsive and the enemy planes in the game are easy to target.It is easy to see clearly, and there is no problem for people with presbyopia to play.

Sky Force Reloaded is available for iPhone and iPad with iOS 8.1+ and Android 5.0+ devices. The iOS version is 257 MB in size and the Android version is 232 MB. It is free with in-app purchases.

Three Kingdoms: One of the games you can’t let go

My dad is a big fan of Landlords. How obsessed is he? This is the person who when my mother calls him to serve food, he can play a game on the computer between the two dishes. Although there is no game that I can be so addicted to, there are still games that I want to play when I turn on the computer, and that is - "Three Kingdoms".

The mobile version of "Three Kingdoms" has only one very serious problem. Whether the network is stable or not will determine your outcome to a certain extent

I tried to teach my dad this game of wits and courage several times but failed because he didn’t like the lengthy introduction of hero skills in “Three Kingdoms” and the fact that he had to read a bunch of words every time he played. But I still recommend it to him every time I play this game, because this kind of "conspiracy" game of guessing people's thoughts is very suitable for him.

To a certain extent, the mobile version of "Three Kingdoms Killing" is far from as good as the face-to-face killing and the client, but it is not a bad idea to play a game while waiting for the subway and killing addiction. The prerequisite is to ensure that the network is good enough, otherwise you may be depressed and smash your phone if you are disconnected at the critical last-minute moment.

Three Kingdoms is available for iPhone and iPad with iOS 5.1+, size 193 MB, free with in-app purchases.

Three!: Simple and easy mini-games

Before I knew "Three!", an original game that was plagued by plagiarism, "2048" was already very popular. Almost all my friends around me were playing this little game, and the circle of friends was filled with various variants of the game for a certain period of time. For example: farmers become workers, bureau chiefs become county magistrates, etc.

Various weird mini-games of "Three!" variants

This is not my father's style of gaming, but the father of a friend of mine has been playing small games on his mobile phone for a long time. He likes the kind of simple games that he can pick up and pick up at the side of the road when driving a taxi. The variant mini-games of "Three!" are full of fun that he can understand and like.

If your father doesn't like those little games with "weird little people" running around, you might as well download "Three!" for him and tell him how to simply arrange and combine these numbers to play the game. Maybe he will find fun quickly and understand why you hold your phone all day long!

Threes! for iOS 6.0+iPhone and iPad and Android 4.0+, iOS version size is 66.2 MB, Android size is 48 MB, priced at 18 yuan, there is a free version.

Human Resource Machine: Use games to tell him how the program works

"Human Resource Machine" is a simulation programming game. The game tells the story of a new programmer (player) struggling in the workplace.

In the game, players need to write code to deliver "goods" according to the manager's needs. The game vividly animates the process of running the code. Rather than simply saying that "Human Resources Machine" is a game, it is better to call it a science popularization of "how to become a programmer" that is full of game interest.

As for the game itself, "Human Resource Machine" shows non-programmer players the work of programming from simple to complex, and leads them to understand and deepen the mysterious codes themselves.

The little man kept running around, completing the carrying activities with huge dark circles under his eyes

When I first started playing this game, because I had problems with logic and arithmetic, I invited my father, who was almost 50 years old and didn’t understand the working principle of the program, to play the game with me. I explained to him what programming is and how the computer runs the program according to the rules.

He happily tried it out like a child who had just learned something new, and quickly and accurately figured out how to place the steps that I didn't understand at all.

Human Resource Machine is suitable for iPhone and iPad with iOS 8.0+, size 67.1 MB, priced at 30 yuan.

Maybe sometimes, it’s not that parents don’t want to understand how those high technologies work, but that they lack someone to guide them and find fun and rules.