Video Games: Design and Code Your Own Adventure (Build It Yourself)

Video Games: Design and Code Your Own Adventure (Build It Yourself)

<div>Catch a glimpse inside a school bus and you’ll see lots of kids looking down. What are they doing? They’re deciding on strategy, building cities, setting traps for monsters, sharing resources, and nurturing critical relationships.<BR><BR>Over 90 percent of kids ages 2–17 play video games. In <I>Video Games: Design and Code Your Own Adventure</I>, young readers learn why games are so compelling and what ancient games such as mancala have in common with modern games like <I>Minecraft</I>. Kids will even create their very own video games using software such as MIT's <I>Scratch</I>!<BR><BR>Using a familiar, high-interest subject, <I>Video Games</I> introduces foundation subjects such as geometry, physics, probability, and psychology in a practical framework. Building Tetris pieces out of Rice Crispie Treats and designing board games are some of the hands-on projects that engage readers’ building skills, while writing actual game code opens digital doors readers may not have known existed.</div>