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I started putting together a "book" when I was teaching my 6 year old a bit about coding. It uses a BBC Micro emulator and BBC BASIC as the intro language. Never got around to finishing it... http://c4k.rabidgremlin.com/

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However it did encourage him to want to make games... this is the first one: http://ackson.nz/

I did the coding but it was his concept, he did all the graphics (scanned pictures he drew), the font (generated from his handwriting) and sound effects (that's him making all the sounds).

He also built the levels and used a music generator to create the background music (not in the version that is on the website yet). This was all done in Unity with a lot of prefabs to make it easy for him to build the levels.

I'm totally going to introduce him to PICO-8 (see link below) next to see how he gets on :)

Nice game! Its super fun. Wll be playing it with my kid when she gets home later today. May you share the source code? I haven't dabbed in unity and it would be nice to see how you built it (and maybe hack it a bit).

Glad you liked it. He'll be super-stoked to know that people are playing his game :)

I'll see what I can do re sharing the source code...

holy camoly that is adorable!

Totally.. he even invented the company "Ackson" (for Ackerman & Son) and the company logo you can see in the corner of the main screen (him and I holding hands).

He is a pretty awesome kid :)

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