Computer Coding Games for Kids: A Step-by-Step Visual Guide to Building Your Own Computer Games

Making a game is a lively way to meet the ideas behind computer coding. In Computer Coding Games for Kids, Jon Woodcock takes young readers from the basics of what makes a game work to building their own projects with Scratch. The emphasis is on seeing code in action: each game gives a concrete setting for exploring how interactive play is designed and assembled.

Start with the ingredients of a good game

Before the projects begin, the book introduces game atmosphere, different game types, and how coding works. That context helps readers think about more than simply making something move on screen: games also have rules, goals, and a feel of their own.

Learn Scratch by making things

A getting-started section introduces Scratch and its interface, then the book moves into a sequence of game-building guides. Projects include Star Hunter, Cheese Chase, Circle Wars, Jumpy Monkey, Doom on the Broom, Dog’s Dinner, Glacier Race, and Tropical Tunes. The changing styles of these games give learners varied examples to follow as they explore coding through play.

From following steps to making changes

The final section looks beyond the initial builds, with material on remixing and further Scratch learning. It encourages readers to treat a working game as a starting point for experimentation—an inviting next step for curious young creators.

A first coding book for game-minded kids

With its visual, project-led approach, this book is suited to children who want to understand coding by creating games, and to parents or other adults supporting that first exploration. Carol Vorderman provides the foreword; Jon Woodcock is the credited author.