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key: mechanic/children--care-routines
type: mechanic
id: children--care-routines
lang: en
title: Character care and everyday routines
summary: >-
  Players notice a character’s state, choose a care action and observe its
  result.
updatedAt: '2026-10-22'
status: active
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tags:
  - Children’s games
  - 'Toys, imagination and everyday scenes'
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  - id: source-8a1fcae563bb4232
    title: 'Sago Mini World: toys and play situations'
    url: 'https://sagomini.com/world/'
    verifiedAt: null
  - id: source-12394e8203bade5f
    title: Wobbledogs
    url: 'https://store.steampowered.com/app/1424330/'
    verifiedAt: null
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  - catalogId: children
    id: care-routines
    title: Children’s games
    url: 'https://gamemechanics.pro/en/mechanics/children/#care-routines'
    categoryIds:
      - play
supersededBy: []
attributes:
  preview:
    updatedAt: '2026-10-22'
    title: Character care and everyday routines
    description: >-
      Players notice a character’s state, choose a care action and observe its
      result.
    image:
      src: images/mechanics/general-wobbledogs-07.webp
      width: 1440
      height: 809
      game: Wobbledogs
      sourceUrl: 'https://store.steampowered.com/app/1424330/'
      originalUrl: >-
        https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1424330/ss_7c1d0feb4ba10ec0ac38869239c7e4f8f33fc456.1920x1080.jpg?t=1783596978
      credit: Animal Uprising / Secret Mode
      rights: >-
        Game imagery © its respective rights holders. Publisher-distributed
        screenshot from Steam; all rights reserved. Excluded from MIT and CC BY
        4.0.
      caption: A pet’s condition connects feeding and rest
      alt: A pet’s condition connects feeding and rest
      markers:
        - x: 22
          'y': 88
          label: Meters show the selected pet’s needs
        - x: 56
          'y': 63
          label: A pet interacts with food
    tips:
      - Connect a caring action to an observable condition and a clear result.
    examples:
      - title: Wobbledogs
        url: 'https://store.steampowered.com/app/1424330/'
endsAt: null
provenance: >-
  Play-focused selection adapted from the original children-education taxonomy,
  with original editorial additions dated 2026-10-20. Developer sources support
  specific examples, not the entire classification.
license: CC-BY-4.0
codeLicense: MIT
attribution: gamemechanics.pro contributors
catalogKey: catalog/children
---
# Character care and everyday routines

id: children--care-routines
type: mechanic
key: mechanic/children--care-routines
lang: en
status: active
url: https://gamemechanics.pro/en/knowledge/mechanic/children--care-routines/

Players notice a character’s state, choose a care action and observe its result.

## At a glance

![A pet’s condition connects feeding and rest](https://gamemechanics.pro/images/mechanics/general-wobbledogs-07.webp)

[Wobbledogs](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1424330/) · Game imagery © its respective rights holders. Publisher-distributed screenshot from Steam; all rights reserved. Excluded from MIT and CC BY 4.0.

1. Meters show the selected pet’s needs
2. A pet interacts with food

- Connect a caring action to an observable condition and a clear result.

- [Wobbledogs](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1424330/)

## How it works

Players notice a character’s state, choose a care action and observe its result.

## Variants

### Variants

<a id="care-routines-variants"></a>

- Feed a character with chosen food <a id="care-routines-1"></a>
- Bathe and dry a character <a id="care-routines-2"></a>
- Settle a character to sleep and change the lighting <a id="care-routines-3"></a>
- Choose an object for an expressed need <a id="care-routines-4"></a>
- Take a pet along a chosen walking route <a id="care-routines-5"></a>
- Tidy up after shared play <a id="care-routines-6"></a>
- Switch the character providing care <a id="care-routines-7"></a>
- Resume an everyday scene from its saved state <a id="care-routines-8"></a>

## Design example

Hypothetical pet home: choose food, play together and prepare a sleeping space.

## Context and limits

An action map for children’s digital, board, active and mixed games. An instructional goal is optional: children can invent stories, explore toys, compete or enjoy play itself. Select age suitability, reading demands, controls and pace separately; different implementations can suit different ages. Learning tasks and instructional support have their own reference.

## Connected materials


## Sources and provenance

Play-focused selection adapted from the original children-education taxonomy, with original editorial additions dated 2026-10-20. Developer sources support specific examples, not the entire classification.

- [Sago Mini World: toys and play situations](https://sagomini.com/world/) (id: source-8a1fcae563bb4232)
- [Wobbledogs](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1424330/) (id: source-12394e8203bade5f)

CC-BY-4.0 · gamemechanics.pro contributors