Game Makers
Start with the Lemur Dash game everyone loved at the fair, then learn to change it and build your own. Along the way children pick up real coding (steps, loops, and choices) and the maths hiding inside every game, and on the last day they show a game they made themselves.
What is Game Makers?
A free club where 5 to 8 year olds learn real coding and maths by making games, starting with the Lemur Dash game everyone loved at the fair.
What will my child do?
Play a game, then learn to change it: steps, loops, and choices, plus the maths hiding inside. By the end they build a tiny game of their own.
Why learn it here?
Because a child who makes a game learns coding without noticing. Real machines at the Lab, a small group, ending with your child showing you their game.
How every day feels
What you will do
- Play the game
Start with the Lemur Dash game everyone loved at the fair.
- Give it steps
Learn sequences, loops, and choices, the building blocks of code.
- Maths inside
Score, speed, add and take away: the numbers behind the game.
- Make your own
Design a level, then build a tiny game of your own.
- Show your family
Show the game you made on the last day.
What you will be able to do
- Give a computer clear steps, in the right order
- Use loops and choices to change how a game plays
- Spot the maths inside a game: score, speed, add and take away
- Design a level, and build a tiny game of their own
You walk out with a game you made.
Your journey, step by step
12 steps, from the very first day to a real skill, ending in the Family Showcase Day.
- 1Play and notice
Play the Lemur Dash game and see what makes it fun.
- 2Steps in order
First, then, next: giving clear instructions.
- 3Do it again
Loops: repeat something without rewriting it.
- 4Move the lemur
Change the game with your own instructions.
- 5Score and speed
The maths inside a game (from Explosion Factory).
- 6Add and take away
Numbers grow and shrink as you play.
- 7If this, then that
Choices that change what happens next.
- 8Make a level
Design your own level for the game.
- 9Find the bug
Spot and fix what went wrong.
- 10Build a tiny game
Make a small game of your very own.
- 11Polish and playtest
Make it better, and let a friend play it.
- Family Showcase Day
Show the game you made.
Why this is different
Pick a time and book
12 sessions, the last is the Family Showcase Day.
12 sessions, 25 Jul to 17 Oct
On the last day each child shows a small game they made to their family, and takes home a certificate.
How to join, in three steps
- Pick a time above and reserve a seat.
- It is free, so your seat is held right away.
- Come to the Lab. We email a 6-digit code to check in.
Everything runs on the Lab machines, offline and on-device. Nothing to buy, and a grown-up gives consent at sign-up.
A parent books the seat and gives consent at sign-up.
Small group of 10. For ages 5 to 8.
Every learner finishes with a certificate anyone can verify.
The honest bit
Your child leaves having made a real game and picked up real coding and maths on the way. We do not promise prodigies; we promise what they build and show you on the last day.