Publish web developers collaborate with 6-year-old son to create games

For small children, smartphones and tablet devices are a good playing tool and there are many people who are passionate about gaming apps and have no experience of returning smartphones. However, the curiosity of children seems to be directed not only to playing games, but also to the act of making games, so that an engineer discloses how a child got battled by a child and made a game together I will.

Building a Game With a 6-Year-Old
http://johnpolacek.com/2014/11/29/building-game-6-year-old/

Web developer John Polakkec is blogging that he developed a game with a 6-year-old son on Thanksgiving weekend.

Mr. Polakhak made use of the skills cultivated as a web developer and was able to learn the alphabet with a tablet terminal for his son Jack for a few years ago "Match the Letter"Was developed. Match the Letter as an application without advertisementFree on Google PlayIt is being done.

The situation of Jack kun playing while studying with Match the Letter can be confirmed in the following movie.

The Match The Letter Game - YouTube


Mr. Jack who enjoyed learning the alphabet with Match the Letter complained to Pola Check as "I want to make a game too!" However, Jack at that time was a child who could not write sentences, so Pola Check decided to give up giving up the development of the game application at this time.

Jack who became first grade primary school student and able to write letters well, still had a feeling of "I would like to make a game", so if so, Polakaek cooperates with Jack on Thanksgiving weekend I decided to develop a game with. It seems that Jack had already conceived the idea of ​​"making side-scroll car games", Jack was in charge of character design and design of the game, pola check who heard that image coded work We decided to cooperate and make games.


Work was created by Jack Jack hand-painted design of characters and obstacles on November 26,Hello worldPolaCheck created a sample page of. Pola check actually moved the car character in the game on November 27, Jack designed the control button. On November 28, Mr. Polakaek encoded the buttons and prepared for opening as an open source program, while Grant two years older was in charge of play checking. Looking at how the game character actually moves on the tablet terminal, Jack said that he was excited that he was "great, fun! And completed on November 29, as an open source programPublish to GitHubIt was decided to be done.

The completed game 'Free Summer' is on the website below. You can actually play with the browser.

Free Summer - A game by Jack and John Polacek
http://johnpolacek.github.io/free-summer/


The fact that the experience of "making games with parents and children" was a fun and exciting experience for children Jack and Pola Check of his father, as I enjoyed recording and publishing the situation at this time on my blog It can be easily guessed from. In the world of sports and actors, there are many examples of "parent-child hawk", but from now on, in the world of IT, exciting being given to parents of engineers, excellent creators who received hands from early on are likely to appear one after another.