{"id":4473,"date":"2021-03-16T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T17:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tynker.com\/blog\/?p=4473"},"modified":"2023-10-26T23:40:13","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T06:40:13","slug":"celebrate-and-create-with-leprechauns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tynker.com\/blog\/celebrate-and-create-with-leprechauns\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate and Create \u2013 with Leprechauns!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Celebrate and Create \u2013 with Leprechauns!<\/h2>\n<p>What&#8217;s better than playing games? Making them! With Tynker&#8217;s powerful creativity tools, kids can make games that are as fun as the ones they love to play. Kids learn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tynker.com\/parents\/curriculum\/programming-basics\/\">beginner<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tynker.com\/parents\/curriculum\/\">advanced programming concepts<\/a> as they create side-scrollers, platformers, arcade and 2-player games, and so much more.<\/p>\n<p>Show your young coders a cool example of what they can quickly create with code as they play our St. Patrick&#8217;s Day coding game, made with our Level Editor tool. Remix the project to extend the game with new levels!<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">Catch the Leprechaun<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<!-- iframe plugin v.6.0 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"\/ide\/embedded?p=54fca85c84aafa172100005e&#038;controls=yes&#038;autostart=no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"sf-button large accent standard \" href=\"https:\/\/www.tynker.com\/ide\/?p=54fca85c84aafa172100005e\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"text\">Remix This Project<\/span><\/a>\n<p>The Level Editor tool makes it easy for kids to create immersive 2D worlds of their own and quickly add all the elements they need for a great game: actors that jump, flip, and fight; enemies and boss characters; immersive scenes; scrolling backgrounds (levels); scorekeeping; health points; and more.<\/p>\n<p>As kids think about how to make their game great, they put logic and programming concepts into action. 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