Day 4 - The Floor is LAVA Game JAM

By The Code Zone team 28 July 2022 1 min read

A little catch up with what's been going on in the online Game Jam today! Day 4

We have been seeing some wonderful work through the week for the first of our three big summer game jams!

We've been streaming each day if you'd like to see more of your young coders games that have been built from the ground up in motion!

As for today's afternoon game dev clubs Nikos created a fantastically whimsical roblox themed spin on our game of the week 'Parcel Panic'.

Max who has been doing such an amazing job today reading through his code and really engaging with his own problem solving approaches to hack ideas. Check out his hard work below that triggers a character to pop up and alert players to the end of the game.

Sidney brought us the start of his Ratchet and Clank inspired 'the floor is lava' game. complete with rising lava and platforming mechanics.

Franklin has also been cracking on with his own lava based platformer, except this time, in the style of the old classic 'doodle jump', he's also been incorporating a system where players will jump up and through the level.

Thanks

The Code Zone mentor Team!

About our game jams

A game jam is a themed build: we announce a theme, and children across the Academy spend a few weeks making something from it. There is no brief beyond the theme and nothing to finish by a deadline you can fail. Children share what they made on our own platform, where chat and sharing between members is moderated by mentors.

Jams are included in Academy membership. They are the part of the Academy where everybody is working on the same thing at once, which for a self-paced course is worth having.

The blog is in two halves. Guides are the evergreen explainers written by the mentors who teach the clubs, covering the questions parents actually ask: what comes after Scratch, how to support a coding-mad child when you cannot code yourself, and what works for autistic and ADHD children.

Club news is the other half, and it is where posts like this one live: game jams, Minecraft builds and weekly roundups, written up by whoever ran the session. Neither is marketing. If you want to know what the work actually looks like before you sign up to anything, club news is the more honest read of the two.

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