Global Game Jam 2026
It's Global Game Jam time once again. This is an event that happens right across the globe as teams and individuals make a game over a single weekend based on…
Scratch Coding Ideas: Minecraft as a Card Game
What if Minecraft was a card game? Let's try and start to make such a game in Scratch. https://youtu.be/u81wAXT5Bvc
Creative Coding Workshops This Summer
This summer, our coding workshops for children will teach them how to make better games in Scratch. This is a favourite of ours, "Getting Out of Central Car Park with…
New and Popular After School Clubs
As the new school year begins, First Coding is getting ready to run new and familiar coding workshops. The popular Scratch and Python workshops return once again but there are…
Adding Gravity to Sprites
This is a quick tutorial on how to make your sprites jump more realistic in your games by applying gravity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYlBZGfYQzQ
Getting Creative with the Scratch Sprite Editor
Are you finding it frustrating that you can't design nice looking sprites and backgrounds in your Scratch games? Check out this short video and learn a few simple but effective…
The Game Ideas Generator
The workshops got off to a great start this week, in particular the BAFTA Young Game Designers course as students work towards creating their awesome games to enter into the national competition.…
You can be an Award Winning Game Designer
Game designers assemble! You could be an award winner game designer. This is First Coding's most exciting workshop yet! Join our 6 week game design workshop and build a game…
Our Second Featured Game
First Coding is making a series of Salisbury themed games that will help raise money for charity in the new year. The second game, Coffee Shop Simulator is finished and…
Creative Christmas Workshop
First Coding will be running the popular creative Christmas Coding Workshop next month for 7 to 11 year olds. Using Scratch, we'll be learning how to make our own animated cracker joke…