Game Design Video Series – Part 2
It's target time! In this episode we'll be looking at how the random targets in the game are coded. Every Friday they’ll be a new video showing how we make…
Game Design Video Series: Part 1
Welcome to the first episode of our Scratch game design series. Every Friday they'll be a new video showing how we make the game Lockdown Letters. Click the video below…
Step by Step Video Guides to Game Design
JOIN FIRST CODING AS WE MAKE A LOCKDOWN COMPUTER GAME Starting Friday 24th April First Coding is about to start making its first computer game inspired by the current lockdown.…
Half Term Code Cracking
If you were one of the pupils who made their own Caesar cipher apps last term, you maybe interested to see this post from the Science Museum. Can you crack…
New Coding Clubs
Three new coding clubs kick off this week. The pupils will be learning how to code their own text adventure games in Python. These games were a huge part of…
Game Design Resources for Children and Teens
Discover how to make money from Scratch games. Use handy game design guides to build your own games. Help your child bring their ideas to life. First Coding resources deliver…
A Summer of Workshops
The summer workshops may not be over yet but I'm already so impressed with the standard of work being produced. Whether it's the young coders who are giving Scratch a…
Game Jams
Weekly game jams such as the one held over at WeeklyGameJam are a great way of getting inspired and experimenting with new game design ideas. It's also a great way…
Virtually Anything
I have been so impressed over the last few months at the standard of work coming out of the various clubs and courses I run, I've always wanted to give…
Christmas Competition Winners
Here are a couple of winners from the Christmas Python coding competition I ran this month in one of the schools here in Salisbury. Each pupil had a couple of…