Learning to code by
making games

A practitioner-led editorial hub for teachers and parents navigating digital creation tools. From the classroom to the living room.

For educators For parents

Chunky interlocking building bricks stacked slightly off-axis, with one brick tilted away from the stack as if just placed.

For schools

The Classroom Hub

Practice reports from real schools, curriculum-ready lesson plans, and tools that survive 45 minutes with 25 students.

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For families

The At-Home Hub

Cut through the marketing noise. Find the right tool for your child's age and interests, and support them without being a programmer.

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Featured paths

Guided routes through game creation, structured for different skill levels and settings.

Pocket Code intro
Build a first mobile game from blocks. No prior experience needed.
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Game logic in class
Variables, conditions and character interaction, mapped to lesson slots.
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Games that matter
A module on narrative, ethics and designing for an audience.
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Latest from the field

Practice report

Coding in Spanish pilot schools: what held up

Two Andalusian schools, 308 pupils, two academic years. What the trial asked of an ordinary lesson slot, and what its published evaluation actually establishes.

Evidence

Teachers called it desirable, pupils shrugged

The same term produced two different verdicts. What a neutral rating from teenagers tells you, and why the novelty wearing off was a good sign.

Parent guide

The phone is full of instruments

Tilt, rotation, brightness, position. Every one of them is readable by a child writing a game, in a single block, without maths.

Tool database

Compare platforms and courses

Creation tools examined against classroom constraints rather than feature lists. The method is stated on the hub, including what we have not tested. The comparison is new and deliberately small.

Open comparison hub

Platform	Typically used from	Access
Pocket Code	Lower secondary	Open source, mobile
Scratch	Upper primary	Free, browser
Godot	Upper secondary	Open source, desktop

Legacy project status

This domain hosted the EU Horizon 2020 project “No One Left Behind” (2015–2017), which brought Pocket Code into classrooms across Europe. We keep its findings reachable.

The project was run by a consortium of seven: Grupo Empresarial INMARK, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, TU Graz, Nottingham Trent University, Hochschule der Medien, GameCity, ZED Worldwide.

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Learning to code bymaking games