Eon plays a lot of games — Solar Smash, City Smash, all the smashing games — and watches gaming YouTubers for hours. Then, a few days before this video, he told his dad something that started this whole series: "I want to make a game of my own."
Two sides of every game
His dad points out there are really two roles:
- Players enjoy the game someone else built.
- Makers — developers — build the game, and then other people play it.
Eon has been a player his whole life. Now he's going to cross over and become a maker. That's a kind of superpower: instead of only playing what others made, you create worlds other people get to explore.
Honest about the journey
His dad doesn't sugar-coat it: "It's a really hard journey." But two things make it possible for a kid today:
- A guide who already knows the way (his dad is a real developer), and
- AI tools, which make building games far easier than it used to be.
Try it
Picture one small game you'd love to exist — a catch game? a maze? a smashing game of your own? Hold that idea. By the end of the Coding Lab, you'll know how to start building it for real.