[veesahni]

My son has been learning to code. Today he’s releasing v2 of his math battle game, The Gamey Game. He’s excited to share it with you all!

The Gamey Game v2: https://www.armaansahni.com/game-v2

He’s also written a blog post about how he made this game: https://www.armaansahni.com/how-i-took-the-gamey-game-to-the...

He originally released v1 of the game a few months ago and got great feedback from this community. A big thank you for the feedback, it led to some great conversations and provided a ton of motivation for him to keep moving forward.

v2 was built using HTML, JS, CSS. All written by hand in VSCode. No frameworks, no build steps. He made all the graphics himself and also recorded all the audio.

Note that both parents are programmers so he has lots of hints and guidance along the way. He also leverages Google Gemini to answer coding questions (syntax, how to do something, etc), but the LLM isn’t coding for him and it isn’t available to him directly in his editor.

For the blog post, we talked about the target audience and came up with an outline. He then dictated his blog post directly into Google Docs. Finally, we went through a few rounds of feedback/edits (for more clarity, more words, etc).

Other links:

v1 Game Link: https://www.armaansahni.com/game

v1 Blog Post: https://www.armaansahni.com/how-i-coded-a-game-using-ai/

v1 Discussion Thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42312121

[PebblesRox]

I love the new features! I also appreciate the details of what software you used to create the game. My kids have been building stuff in Scratch and I want to have something available for when they’re ready for the next step, so it’s nice to have all these ideas for what they can use.

[veesahni]

there are incredible tools available today, the child just needs the will.