Game Jam: Evolution

By The Code Zone team 1 min read

We all hope you are enjoying your time off at half term! Are you ready for this half term's Game Jam event, Evolution...

We all hope you are enjoying your time off at half term! Are you ready for this half term's Game Jam event? 

The Code Zone Game Jams are a free event for all our members where our young coders are given a fun and unique theme. They have to come up with their very own game or animation that matches the theme using Scratch, MakeCode or Python. Putting all the skills they've learnt in our Game Dev Clubs to the test! 

This half term's theme is.... Evolution! We have had some fantastic games and animation entries from our members :)
From 'Star Evolution', to 'Ghost Maze' and 'Frog Evolution' - the mentors at the Game Zone have LOVED all of your entries, especially the Pokemon Evolution ones!

All children who took part have earnt themselves this cool Game Jam badge (the icon above!) to add to their profile as well as lots of xp given by both the mentors and their fellow young coders. 

Be sure to check out everyone's projects below and give them some much deserved xp for their hardwork!

Keep an eye on this space for our next Game Jam - we can't wait to see what you all code next for us :)

Until then, happy coding!

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

18 games 18 makers 366 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.

MakeCode 36 XP (coding experience points)

Evolution Game Jam

by IanGalloway

Hello! All you need to do is sit back, relax and watch the "film" !

MakeCode 30 XP (coding experience points)

DODGE CARBS

by JamesWhiffin

Welcome to a game called Dodge Carbs. You are guinea pig. His name is Guiney. Dodge the CARBS AT ALL COSTS. AND EAT ALL…

Scratch 15 XP (coding experience points)

Frog Evolution

by Nicky

Frog evolution !! Use WASD to move your frog around ! Collect coins, avoid the evil frogs (both big and smol), and keep…

MakeCode 14 XP (coding experience points)

Evolution Is Cool

by Lewis the Mentor

This is essentially my first TypeScript Project, enjoy! Controls: Space/Z to evolve. That's it. That's literally it…

MakeCode 10 XP (coding experience points)

ghost maze

by LukeHayes

survive, pick up the powerups, and kill the ghosts for points the black powerup is a gun with 6-15 ammo which can be…

MakeCode 9 XP (coding experience points)

almost impossible game

by Louis1

g et the tela torting thing by moving the shadow. also press ascz at the same time for somthing awsome! (ignor the…

Scratch 9 XP (coding experience points)

Evolution Game Jam

by JoshuaMathers

Hi! This game is named Evolve, and it involves a lot of clicking. Figure out the way to play while you're playing!

Scratch 8 XP (coding experience points)

Evolution Game Jam

by Memo

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MakeCode 7 XP (coding experience points)

Evolution Game Jam

by MohammedAmanHossain

Don't move left or right until you evolve, then enjoy?

MakeCode

Food Evolution Game Jam

by kinglegend7497

It kind of a hard game for you if you can't press buttons fast enough. You have to press all the arrow buttons, b and…

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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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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