Coding Games Workshop

Chaos Created School Workshop

We can visit your school in: All UK Regions

Why book 'Coding Games Workshop' with Chaos Created

Our fun and educational Coding Games Workshop is led by real-world game developers and will teach your pupils the basics of coding and game development, through engaging and practical projects. Your students will create their own arcade-style snack games which they can play from home and share with family and friends. They will also have the opportunity to work together on a real mobile game! This workshop will boost their confidence, creativity and problem-solving skills.

We’ll begin by creating several arcade-style games with your pupils, replicating some of their favourite types of games, using Microsoft’s MakeCode visual programming language.
They’ll have the opportunity to design their own artwork and characters and, throughout the session, they’ll learn the fundamentals of coding, including variables, loops, collisions, movement and motion, and conditional programming. Throughout the session, the games we will create with your students will get more complex, and your pupils will be able to play their games from home, and share them with family and friends.

During the final section of each workshop, we look at a real game on the app-stores which we’ve deliberately broken. Using the skills the pupils have picked up throughout the first two parts of the workshop, they will work together to help us fix the game and adding new code to the game in the form of a new power-up! Pupils get to write real code (in C# or JavaScript), with suggestions and support from their friends. This gives every pupil confidence and support, and a real sense of achievement and teamwork as they learn real world coding skills.

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What activities are available during this educational workshop?

Game making
Arcade game making
MakeCode and GameMaker Studio
Unity option available for A-level students

Which Curriculum Subjects do you cater for?

Computing

Curriculum topics available: Coding, Game Design.

Through our game-making projects, pupils will not just learn about how to code games through projects led by real-world app and games developers, but also learn about computing more generally. They will learn how to use art tools to create characters and backgrounds for their games, create sound effects and music for their projects, and more. Our coding workshops focus on improving digital literacy as a whole.

What size groups do you cater for?

A class-sized group (up to 30), and we have a full-day, deep dive version of this workshop available, along with a half-day version (which allows us to work with two classes in a day). We have versions of this workshop available for Primary and Secondary schools with projects for different ages, experience and abilities.

Do you offer access for visitors with disabilities?

Yes Please let us know more about your group and we will get back to you with more details about the suitability of what we offer.

Do you cater for visitors with Special Educational Needs (SEN)?

We run our workshop with students of all abilities and regularly work with SEN students, specialist schools and groups. Please contact us to discuss this.

Anything else?

What makes our workshops unique is that they are delivered by real-world app and games developers. Our games and apps have been featured on BBC Click. We aim to not just teach your pupils skills, but to inspire them to pursue coding further.

Who are Chaos Created?

Chaos Created is a web design and app and games development agency based in Portishead, Bristol. They have worked with well-known clients such as Tesco, Nokia, Carphone Warehouse, TES and TeenTech and have also produced innovative and acclaimed games and apps such as Timedancer, Zombies Ate My City, and Langeroo. Their Code Created initiative is designed to teach young people how to make apps and games, improve digital literacy, increase diversity in the tech industry and inspire the next generation of innovators.