I fear I may have done my daughter a disservice.  Perhaps not, but of my three she is the most transactional in her game preferences.  She enjoys earning points so she can use them for new stuff, and she’s been insane for her own trading cards since her older brother has gotten into Pokemon.  So for Christmas she received a booster pack of Bellasara trading cards.

Now, I don’t know how familiar you are with CCG’s (collectible card games), but Bellasara is nicely done, especially since there doesn’t seem to be any actual “gameplay” with the cards (unlike Magic: The Gathering, or Pokemon).  Each card has a different horse, a different saying and a long cryptic number.  You go to the bellasara.com website and input the number to have the horse added to your stable.

She’s spent every spare minute of the past two days on that website, despite the extremely slow rate at which it runs on her machine.  Did I mention she’s 5?

The interesting thing is that this has suddenly sparked an even greater interest in games in general (or perhaps we just coincided with one of those “developmental stages” all the books tell you about.  She’s been playing Patapon, Lego: Batman, Spore, now she started Prince of Persia, but has asked to go to Tomb Raider instead because she likes playing a female lead better than a male.

She and I may someday have something in common after all 🙂