Game Jam Round Up: Robot Rivals

By The Code Zone team 1 min read

Celebrating National Coding Week with a Game Jam!

It's time for another game jam! We had a little bit of an impromptu Game Jam to line up with national coding week and their theme of AI!

For those of you who haven't heard of our Game Jams before: we give you a theme and a blank project (or one of our plethora of games) and set you all free to create a game or animation that fits the theme! 


Our members took this theme and made some awesome games, from the "Worlds Hardest Robot Rivals" to "Project city edition", "Lightning", "Wall-e's talk.", and more! Every sure did their best to produce awesome games for us! Remember that you can go to the "Game Jam" tab on the dashboard to play the games we've mentioned and more, and give them all some XP for their hard work. Until next time!

 

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How a game jam works

  1. Six to eight weeks of club

    An hour a week, the same mentor, a group of no more than six. Over a term the pieces stack up: events, loops, variables, functions, and whatever else the thing they are building turns out to need.

  2. Then the holidays, and a theme

    We announce a theme and stop there. No brief, no worksheet, and no deadline you can fail. It is the one stretch of the year with an unbroken run at a single idea, which is why most of the building happens here rather than in the term.

  3. Then somebody else plays it

    Finished games go up on our own platform and on this page, where sharing between members is moderated by mentors. Other children play them and award XP. Having a stranger pick up the thing you made is the part that keeps children coming back.

The games our members made

14 games 14 makers 210 XP awarded by other members Built in MakeCode and Scratch

Every one of these is playable in the browser, no account needed. Have a go at a few.

Scratch 36 XP (coding experience points)

Robochef

by Nicky

Help Chefbot cook something nice in the kitchen! ....make sure to get the recipe right... [there are some bugs in the…

MakeCode 20 XP (coding experience points)

Wall-e's talk.

by TaishaKARANTH

Watch this animation to learn about AI and coding, and meet the famous character Wall-e!! This requires no need for…

Scratch 20 XP (coding experience points)

lightning

by Brooklyn1

Scratch 18 XP (coding experience points)

Cyber Scuffle

by Lauren

How to Play Avoid the traps and attack the other robots. Be the last robot standing to win! Move : arrow keys Attack …

MakeCode 2 XP (coding experience points)

Robot Rivals

by LukeRobinson

Hehe robot big boom boom

MakeCode 1 XP (coding experience points)

Robot Rivals

by Flamingjo1

I am got the best game better than u bet 1 dollar and 50 pence

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.

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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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