Coding Games Workshop
Now booking! Suitable for years 3-13 pupils (aged 7-18)!Our popular Coding Games Workshop has been updated for 2024/2025 with new projects!
Our popular Coding Games Workshop teaches the basics of coding and game development.
This workshop, led by a real-world game developer, teaches coding fundamentals with a very practical workshop, giving pupils plenty of hands-on time with code, creating arcade-style games.
We have over a dozen projects for all age ranges and abilities – including simple “snake-like” arcade games, top-down dungeon crawler games, platformer games, and online multiplayer games! We will tailor the projects we deliver to your group.
Primary Schools and Early Secondary Schools
This workshop can be booked for students as young as seven (Year 3 and up) and is incredibly visual and accessible – it really is a wonderful introduction to the world of programming.
GCSE-Level and Above
Schools booking this workshop for older students (GCSE-level and above) will also have the option of a project which uses GameMaker Studio, a professional game-making suite.
Our Coding Games Workshop is broken down into project-based sessions and can be run as a full-day or half-day workshop, depending on the depth of content you’d like us to cover.


We’ll begin by creating several arcade-style games with your pupils, replicating some of their favourite types of games, in code.
Using either Microsoft’s MakeCode programming language with Primary School/early Secondary School students, or optionally GameMaker Studio with older secondary school students, they’ll get to design their own artwork and characters and, throughout the session, they’ll learn how to move objects, change their size and rotation, and detect collisions (the building blocks of almost every game!), and we learn how to code if and while statements that make games work.

Your students will love seeing their ideas come to life, and they’ll be able to save and continue working on their projects in the future.
Throughout the session, the games we will create with your students will get more complex, as we introduce more advanced coding concepts. For schools booking a full-day workshop, they’ll even have the chance to produce a side-scrolling platform game!
Our Coding Games Workshop is extremely practical – we want pupils to get hands on with code, and experiment!

In addition to providing you with follow-up lesson plans, and the source code for projects we create during our workshops, we can also provide online follow-up sessions, which is a super-cool and fun way for your pupils to stay engaged with coding and a great way for us to check-in and see how your pupils are doing and help them take coding further!


We run our Coding Games Workshop with pupils from Year 3 Primary School classes up to Secondary School GCSE level and above!
With Year 3-Year 9 students, we use a visual programming language and tool, which converts “blocks” into real code! For older age groups, we also offer workshops using professional game development tools, which gives pupils a real advantage when it comes to Computer Science and Computer Skills.
Our Coding Workshops...
Introduction to Coding Workshop for Years 2, 3, and 4 (aged 6 - 9)
Coding Games Workshop for Years 3 - 11 (aged 7 - 16)
BBC micro:bit Workshop for Years 5 - 11 (aged 9 - 16)
Python Workshop for Years 7 - 11 (aged 11 - 16)
Getting Started with Website Design and Development for Years 9+ (aged 14+)
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