Coding Elective Game Design
Start by building simple arcade games and then build your own platformers, RPG and physics games.
Beginner Level
Code at Your Own Pace
8 Courses
512 Activities
Earn Certificate
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What's Inside!
With Tynker, kids use beginner-friendly drag-and-drop programming tools to create games, animations, and much more. Watch your code come to life! What will you create?
What You'll Learn:
- Explore computer science fundamentals, as you invent your own playable arcade games.
- Learn how to move actors on the Stage using cartesian coordinates — and add custom animations too.
- Start with the basics by recreating classics like Pong and Snake, then move onto sophisticated games that use randomness, scorekeeping, and physics.
- Keep score with variables, organize your code with functions, and much more.
No Prerequisites
Recommended for Ages 6+
How It Works:
Start a Course
From your student dashboard, select EXPLORE and search or browse to Tynker’s Game Design courses. Choose any one of the Game Design courses that sounds appealing. We recommend starting with Glitch Manor if your child is a first-time coder.
But there’s no wrong place to begin! You can sample as many courses as you like to find the right fit.
Completing Lessons
All Tynker lessons are self-guided. Each interactive lesson includes concept introductions, coding puzzles, step-by-step tutorials, and assessments. As you advance through each course, your work is automatically saved, and you can restart wherever you left off. You’ll unlock badges and achievements, too, as you make progress.
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Beginner
Minecraft Modding: Sandsville Sorcerer
Embark on a magical quest while mastering the art of crafting Minecraft skins, items, blocks, mobs, and more!
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Course Overview
Embark on 30+ exciting missions to create skins, mythical creatures, fascinating structures and code mob behavior, all while enhancing computational thinking skills. Students will learn to edit Minecraft skins, items, mobs & build structures with Tynker.
Learning Objectives
- Create custom skins for players
- Design a mythical animal and bring them to life
- Modify mobs behavior using code
- Foster creativity while designing intricate structures
- Enchant tools to defend village from mobs
- Introduction to computational thinking via Minecraft Modding
- 30+ Activities
- Skill Level: Beginners
- Format: Online 1-on-1 Lessons
- Classes: 4 one hour sessions
- Schedule: Anytime, any day
- Required: Windows 10 or above with 4 GB RAM and Minecraft Bedrock version installed
- Minecraft Bedrock System Requirements
Skills
Critical Thinking Sequencing Computational Thinking Creative Building STEM: Plants and Animals Commands Mob Editing Use of Inventory 3D Structures Modding Spawning Enhancements -
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Intermediate
Minecraft Modding: Cosmic Chronicles
Explore new biomes as you create intricate Minecraft structures, mods, and games using visual coding.
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Course Overview
Embark on 30+ exciting missions to build structures using coding, survival skills and fundamental redstone techniques, all while honing the coding skills. Students will learn to edit Minecraft skins, items, create mods & build complex structures with Tynker.
Learning Objectives
- Learn survival hacks in Minecraft
- Build faster using code
- Enchant items in Minecraft
- Explore different biomes
- Learn to create basic redstone circuits
- 30+ Activities
- Skill Level: Beginners to Intermediate
- Format: Online 1-on-1 Lessons
- Classes: 4 one hour sessions
- Schedule: Anytime, any day
- Required: Windows 10 or above with 4 GB RAM and Minecraft Bedrock version installed
- Minecraft Bedrock System Requirements
Skills
Critical Thinking Creative Building Coding Fundamentals Design Thinking Curiosity & Innovation Mob Editing Crafting Underwater Structures Modding Enhancements Survival Hacks -
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Advanced
Minecraft Modding: Redstone Revelation
Become a redstone master as you craft planetary havens, powered rails, TNT cannons, and code-driven traps.
Create your schedule: anytime, any day.
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Course Overview
Embark on 30+ highly complex missions to build innovative habitats, mine, and create transportation systems, all while mastering the art of redstone engineering. Students will learn to build complex structures, redstone mechanisms, and mod with Tynker.
Learning Objectives
- Learn about ores and how to process them to extract material
- Build strong problem solving and reasoning skills by building structures and crafting items using code
- Learn planning by playing effectively using limited resources
- Foster critical thinking by working with redstone mechanisms
- Learn game mechanics in Minecraft
- 30+ Activities
- Skill Level: Intermediate to Advanced
- Format: Online 1-on-1 Lessons
- Classes: 4 one hour sessions
- Schedule: Anytime, any day
- Required: Windows 10 or above with 4 GB RAM and Minecraft Bedrock version installed
- Minecraft Bedrock System Requirements
Skills
Critical Thinking Problem Solving Coding Fundamentals Game Design STEM: Circuits and Engineering Mob Editing Redstone Mechanics Modding Dispenser Pulsar TNT Cannon Command Blocks
3-Year All-Access plans include:
- 70+ courses
- 5,000+ activities
- Block Coding
- Text Coding
- 3 Mobile Apps
- Minecraft Modding
- Game Design
- Robotics
- Hardware
- Web Development
- Python
- JavaScript
- Processing (P5.JS)
- Data Science
- Advanced CS
Tynker is designed to progress with your child. A three year plan accelerates their coding mastery from block coding to advanced text languages.