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[alinagentry90]

Why Coding Games for Kids? 

Here are some Reasons why coding games for kids.

Develops Problem-Solving Skills: Coding games present challenges that require logical thinking and problem-solving to overcome, enhancing critical thinking abilities.

Encourages Creativity: Kids can express their creativity by designing their own games, characters, and storylines, fostering imagination and innovation.

Promotes Persistence: In coding games, kids learn to persevere through trial and error, building resilience and determination.

Introduces Computational Thinking: Coding games introduce kids to computational thinking concepts like sequencing, patterns, and algorithms in a fun and interactive way.

Prepares for the Future: Coding skills are increasingly valuable in today's digital world, equipping kids with essential skills for future careers in technology.

Fosters Collaboration: Many coding games encourage collaboration and teamwork, promoting social skills as kids work together to solve problems or create projects.

Boosts Confidence: Successfully completing coding challenges and seeing their creations come to life boosts kids' confidence and self-esteem.

Makes Learning Fun: By gamifying the learning process, coding games make learning to code enjoyable and engaging for kids of all ages.

[sharmasoumya906]

The Art of Game Development

It takes a team to make a game - everyone brings their own skills to build something bigger together.

Roles in the Process:

Designers plan how the game works and feels.

Developers build the logic and systems.

Artists design the visual style, characters, and environments.

Sound teams handle effects, music, and voice.

Producers organize schedules and keep progress on track.

What Makes a Game Work:

Gameplay mechanics – What the player can do.

Progression - How challenges and rewards evolve.

Player choice - Decisions that shape outcomes.

Pacing - Managing highs, lows, and flow of the game.

Final Thoughts:

Each part of development plays a role in building something engaging, interactive, and fun to explore.

[cosmiclearning]

💻 Syntaxia - A thrilling retro-style dungeon crawler

💻 Syntaxia - A thrilling retro-style dungeon crawler that challenges your coding skills and logical thinking! Dive into the pixelated world of Syntaxia and solve programming puzzles to progress through its mysterious dungeons. 🕹️✨ In this video, I explore the fascinating mechanics of Syntaxia, blending coding and adventure in a way you've never seen before. Whether you're a programming enthusiast or a fan of unique indie games, this game is bound to captivate you! Watch as I tackle coding puzzles and uncover secrets hidden within the dungeon. If you love coding challenges, pixel art, and innovative gameplay, this video is perfect for you. Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more unique gaming content! 💡 🎮 Play Syntaxia here: https://spelkollektivet.itch.io/syntaxia 📢 Shoutout to Spelkollektivet for creating such a unique and engaging game.

[hema1986]

Tired of playing games? Time to code them! Learn Python and create your own Ping Pong and Tic-Tac-Toe in just 5 days! Only a few hours to go!

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[kakzulfa-blog]

Mari kita siapkan putra/i kita untuk memiliki kemampuan #coding dengan mengikuti workshop @coding.is.fun yang diselenggarakan Minggu, 17 Nov 2019 Di E-Kids Cendekia Jl. Dakota Sukaraja II Ruko Dakota 27 G, Bandung Pukul 13;00 - 15:30 Anak-anak akan dikenalkan dunia coding dan praktek membuat game menggunakan pemrograman visual language. Coding tidak hanya bisa membuat game saja tapi bisa juga membuat aplikasi, animasi, bahkan membuat robot. Yuuuuk daftarkan putra-putri Anda pada kegiatan ini. #codingforkids #codinggame #coding #codingchallenge @infobandung_ @infobandungkota @infobandung_juara @car___info (di Pondok Petir, Sawangan, Depok) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4mL3VNA2vD/?igshid=sgja46eltsra

[codingforworldwide]

Best Scratch Games for kids

  1. Catch the Cheese: Scratch Games for kids This game is perfect for preschoolers and kindergartners. Players use the mouse to collect cheese while avoiding obstacles.

  2. Scratch Cat: This game teaches kids the basics of coding by helping them create their own interactive stories, games, and animations.

  3. Space Blaster: In this game, players use the arrow keys to move their spaceship and shoot aliens.

  4. Dinosaur Dash: Players help a dinosaur jump and dodge obstacles to reach the finish line.

  5. Scratch Music Maker: Kids can create their own music and learn about sequencing, rhythm, and beats. 

 6. Draw With Friends: Kids can draw and collaborate with others online in real time.

  7. Paint By Numbers: Kids can complete intricate coloring pages and learn about patterns and shapes.  

Read more https://goglobalways.com/blog/best-scratch-games-for-kids/

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AARK Learning’s presents Logical thinking ability and improving problem solving skills through CODING because “Programmers are the Present Age Genius!!”

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[alinagentry90]

Exciting and Educational Online Games for kids

Dive into a world of excitement and learning with our curated list of online games for kids! These interactive experiences offer a perfect blend of fun and education. 🌟 Here are some examples of  Exciting and Educational Online Games for kids.

ABC Adventure: Embark on a journey through the alphabet with engaging games that enhance letter recognition and phonics skills.

Math Mania: Make learning math a blast! Interactive challenges and puzzles help kids grasp concepts like addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division effortlessly.

Science Sleuths: Spark curiosity with science-based games that explore topics like biology, physics, and astronomy. Hands-on experiments and virtual labs make learning a thrilling adventure.

Geography Quest: Travel the world from the comfort of your screen! Explore continents, countries, and cultures through interactive maps and quizzes.

Art Galaxy: Unleash creativity with artistic games that encourage drawing, coloring, and design. Foster imagination while developing fine motor skills.

Coding Carnival: Introduce kids to the basics of coding through playful games. These activities enhance problem-solving abilities and lay the foundation for future tech skills.

Language Legends: Build language proficiency with vocabulary challenges, word games, and storytelling adventures. Develop reading and writing skills in an entertaining way.

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Learning Through Play

I quite enjoy programming, so as one of my genres that I wanted to mix in my Game and Play Design project was the programming video game genre. In this genre you can find games like Human Resource Machine, Zachtronics’ games, and Hacknet (more of a hacking game, to be fair). 

Educational games are often seen to be boring or sub-par when compared to games that are primarily focused on other areas. I want to challenge this idea in DEV-WICK. Arguably, programming games are an evolution of the puzzle game genre, which are technically educational (you’re required to learn new mechanics), although typically have no real-world application, other than say exercising your brain. These games present the player with a problem and the means to solve it—the rest is up to them. 

The video I linked above, by the Youtuber Chadunda, discusses how games teach programming, in particular analyzing the game Human Resource Machine, where players create sorting algorithms and other programs. The game teaches basic programming concepts, in addition to teaching the lesson that algorithms have quality. For instance, in the game TIS-100 (Zachtronics, 2015), players are presented with a graph showing how their algorithm compares with the rest of the players that attempted the very same level. Now things get competitive, and for some, they’re hooked after that, trying to squeeze every last drop of efficiency out of their work in order to top the leaderboards.

In my game DEV-WICK, I want players to program a killer robot, but I want the programming to not be as daunting as it is in TIS-100, for example, which mirrors assembly language coding (see below).

For the moment, I’ve created a basic programming language in Unity inspired by Scratch (for simplicity and UX’s sake).

I did some playtesting prior to making what can be seen in the image above in order to find out what programming blocks would be entertaining and useful in DEV-WICK. I playtested with both programmers and non-programmers to get a feel for what would be most accessible while still providing a decent degree of control in the game. I feel like what I’ve got at the moment should be good, lots of potential for visual gags and cinematic moments (convenient, since the action film genre is another genre I intend to mix into DEV-WICK).

[urukyra]

Clone - The Game

Big news! We started our next 4 week gamejam, so I am forced to stop tweaking and bid Goodest Boi a fond farewell (I migrated that devlog to itch after we launched). We’re making a new game! Well, not completely new.... 

Last year, Isaac, Jordan and I made two basic levels of a puzzle game, Clone involving strange cubes, buttons, doors, floating islands and a trombagun. We put it on itch here (free,  for Windows and MacOS). And that was the end of that...

Or was it? 

I enjoyed working with these guys so much (their humour carried us through many noob Gitkraken mistakes that cost us heaps of rework). They’re potentially lightning in a bottle. So I’m super excited to announce that we’re teaming up to level up Clone!  

We brainstormed, aka Jordan and Isaac cracking jokes, I mean, tossing around new art concepts, level and puzzle designs. I’m not sure what they decided, but I was really taken with their idea that wee gnomes run away with your cube at critical moments.  

@YoobeeSchool I greyboxed the level design in Probuilder to test out Isaac’s new puzzle concepts...but somehow Gitkraken didn’t push that and its not on Github either. 

So, at home (Easter break) I quickly greyboxed some probuilder rooms, with wee navmesh gnomes running around to random rooms. So far so cute. The gnomes are short so fit through holes the player can’t.

Next task: get a gnome to carry a  cube ...easy, I thought. Parent the cube to the gnome and away we go. And at first, that worked. 

But the cube has mass and physics; it got knocked on walls and buttons, and by other gnomes. The results were hilarious.

I have a few ideas to try and make it work. If I can, my next goals are to code the actions I want (stealing and delivering cubes to the player), and importing a rigged character instead of the little yellow minion capsules...

These wee characters may or may not make it into the game but if they do, Spoiler Alert! the player may or may not find out, that they take these cubes to an altar as offerings to their idol. 

Stay posted, loyal fans!

[123designsrq]

Make Your Own Games

PYXA is the new way to learn and play games. This all-in-one game system lets you explore your own talents and creativity. It comes with all the parts you need to build your own console and program your own games. It plugs into your computer for easy access to coding and transfer, or you can download and use one of the pre-made games from Creoqode. Have fun learning the basics of code and bringing your very own games to life.

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Practice: Coding Game

In many skill-sets, we use practice drills to improve technique, control, speed. A musician will practice scales and patterns, a martial artist will practice Kata, a swimmer will do drills to improve parts of the stroke, but what about us developers? I’ve seen the idea of drills for developers before in sites like CodeKata but I always thought there was not much need to practice. At least not if you’re working full time in development.

The Coding Game website hosts coding challenges. You can enter online competitions where you run your code against other peoples.

There is also a practice section. In the practice section, there are a whole bevy of puzzles ranked Easy, Medium, Hard and Very Hard.

I’ve been working through the easy puzzles. They are all do-able, but I wouldn’t let the ‘easy’ tag put you off, even the easy ones take a little bit of time to figure out and get right.

The puzzles usually present some back story like ‘Batman is looking for the Joker’ or ‘program the gun turrets on the dock in The Matrix’. The back stories do add a little bit of fun to the challenge. All of the challenges I’ve done so far, boil down to some computer science 101 algorithm: Binary Search, Hash Table, Sorting Lists etc.

The coding challenge usually go like the following:

Read in the data description

Establish array, list or other set of the correct size and dimensions to store the incoming data

Run a loop reading in more data

Calculate the output according to the challenge

Write the output to standard out.

Each puzzle comes with a set of tests of different inputs to test your algorithm and there are additional unseen tests when you submit your code for scoring to discourage hard coding the answers.

Sometimes, you will have to take the performance of your algorithm into account in order to pass some of these tests. For example, one of the tests may be a very large data set and you will need to calculate the correct answer within a time limit.

In addition to all that, there will be a little video that shows, when you run your solution. It will show an animation of your results: in the Batman challenge, you will see Batman searching the building, in the Mars Lander challenge, you will see your spacecraft descending to the planet

Once you have submitted your solution, you can look at the most highly rated solutions. This is a fantastic way to learn how to improve your coding style. Yes you have passed the challenge, but have you much more code than is actually needed?

Some puzzles form part of a series. You may solve the Batman puzzle in medium, then you will find a harder variant of it in the higher difficulties.

When I started off, I was writing classes, static methods, maintaining lists and generally had 100 - 150 lines of code for these easy problems. Looking at other peoples solutions, I learned that often the challenges can be solved in the input loop. I certainly feel this has benefited me a lot as I now actively seek to cut down the number of lines of code to as few as possible. You might also pick up some new techniques, for example, a lot of the highest rated solutions in the ‘easy’ category, use Linq expressions and lambdas

The website rewards you with experience points when you complete a challenge, leveling your profile up, and recording achievements.

CodingGame is an absolutely fantastic site. Great for practicing your coding skills, measuring them against others, shaking off the mental cobwebs.