Alright, here goes: I want to code a game, and I've decided on Checkers. I don't need any fancy GUI or anything (yet), all I want is suggestions on how you, the reader, would go about this.<BR><BR>I ...

Coding is one aspect of digital making. When you write code, you are writing instructions for a computer to follow. The instructions might just be "turn this graphic by one degree each second", or ...

But when my editor told me he vibe coded a Minesweeper remake, my wheels started spinning, and eventually went off the rails.

Have you ever dreamed of creating your own multiplayer first-person shooter (FPS) game but felt overwhelmed by the sheer complexity of it all? The coding, the assets, the servers—it can seem like an ...

ChatGPT just stunned me. Almost two years after I first asked an early version of the generative AI chatbot to help me code a game, I returned to ChatGPT 4o with the exact same prompt, and the results ...

You might be wondering what is vibe coding? if you've spent any time in AI and app development forums recently. The term is cropping up a lot, sometimes used in a jokey, disparaging context and ...

Samaira Mehta, who is 12, became interested in coding at age 6. Her friends didn’t share her enthusiasm. She thought a game might convince them that learning to code can be fun. So she invented a ...

As someone who’s had my children in the last decade, I can tell you that the pushy-parent movement sometimes makes me feel like I’m failing my kids because they can’t code. I’ve always been a bit ...

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When I played One Dreamer‘s demo back in June, I figured this could be something special. It looked to be a game about a failing game developer, presented using a combination of point-and-click, and ...

If you're a parent, then chances are you've heard endless debates about how screen time affects children. And while it's always a good idea to encourage your kids to put down their phones, tablets, ...