Protect Earth in this new Hackers Game of the Week!
Its your job to protect the world from Asteroids! Lets see what hacks our coders have made!
Prepare for impact as this week we are playing Asteroid Attack!
The fate of the planet is in YOUR hands! Your mission is to protect the Earth from an impending asteroid attack. Use your mouse to aim, and click to shoot the asteroids as they come hurtling towards the Earth. Destroy the asteroids at all costs! Humanity is counting on you!
The guided hack this week was to add in an awesome Easter egg with a UFO flying through! If the players are fast and can shoot the UFO before it leaves the screen then they’ll get LOADS of bonus points!
If you want to know more you could try out the coding skill “Spawn on the Edge” to look at the concept in isolation plus don’t forget all the great projects that help explain the game back on the dashboard.
What intergalactic adaptations did our hackers come up with this week? Some hackers added in lives so that the game lasts longer. Others created a super laser to take out loads of asteroids at once! Some focused on cool visual hacks using a particle effect to make the asteroids explode when hit. Fantastic work everyone!
What a week in the clubs looks like
Posts like this one are what actually happens in a session, written by the mentors who ran it. A Game Dev Club session is one hour a week, in a group of no more than six, with the same mentor every week, online or at one of our in-person clubs.
That cap is deliberate: it is what makes it possible for a mentor to notice when a child has gone quiet, or has rebuilt the same game four weeks running because they are avoiding something harder.
Children build their own games rather than working through a set course. Levels move down as readily as up, so the work always fits, and staying where you are is a perfectly good outcome. Every mentor is DBS-checked and STEM-certified.
Most children start in Scratch or MakeCode and move to Python and TypeScript when they are ready. Mentors write a note on every child after every session, which is how we know when somebody is ready to move up, and it is why a child who has gone quiet for three weeks does not simply go unnoticed.
More than a third of our members are autistic or have ADHD, based on what parents tell us when they join. Children can keep the camera off, type instead of speaking, take a break without it disrupting anyone, and step away and come back.
In 2025 we received the Autism Inclusion Award from the National Autistic Society, and in 2026 we were ranked second in the UK in Club Hub UK’s Top 100 Children’s Activity Providers.
More like this
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 an hour actually looks like before you book anything, club news is the more honest read of the two.
The first session is a free taster and we do not ask for card details. Book a free taster session, see what it costs, or read about support for neurodivergent children.
