Coding Elective Game Design

Start by building simple arcade games and then build your own platformers, RPG and physics games.

Tynker gets kids coding with confidence. Access this and 5,000 more fun activities today!

Learn These Essential Coding Skills

Write Code Visually

Explore Tynker Workshop in detail, the fastest and most fun way to code.

Animate with Drawing Tool

Learn how to draw custom characters.

Sprite Animation

Take control of the Animation Tool and create totally custom animations

Interactive Storytelling

Put on a play, tell a joke, or create a comic book! It’s all up to you.

Game Design

Explore how you can make simple games with actor movement and more.

Designing a UI

Make user friendly games and projects by creating a menu, buttons, and other ways for users to control your programs.

Events and Messaging

Explore practical ways of exchanging information and coordinating the action on Stage.

Critical Thinking

Break big problems down into smaller ones. Find and fix logical errors in programs.

Music Composition

Play notes, synthesize sound, add sound effects, and much more — with code.

Pen Drawing

Explore angles and geometry in a fun, visual way by drawing shapes and patterns with the Pen Blocks.

Cartesian Coordinates

Take control of 2D motion in your projects by exploring how x- and y-coordinates can position and move actors on the Stage.

Debugging

Explore practical techniques for finding and fixing common errors.

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  • Robotics
  • Hardware
  • Web Development
  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • Processing (P5.JS)
  • Data Science
  • Advanced CS

Tynker is designed to progress with your child. A three year plan accelerates their coding mastery from block coding to advanced text languages.

Choose a Plan to Accelerate Your Learning

Choose Live Online Courses

Choose a Plan to Accelerate Your Learning

Choose a 3-Year Self-Paced Plan

20% OFF

Yearly

$25 $20 /month Now $240 billed annually cancel any time
20% OFF

Lifetime*

$780 $624 one time payment 28% savings over Quarterly
20% OFF

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$30 $24 /month Now $72 billed quarterly cancel any time
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Quarterly

$30 $24 /month Now $72 billed quarterly cancel any time
20% OFF

Yearly

$25 $20 /month Now $240 billed annually cancel any time
20% OFF

Lifetime*

$780 $624 one time payment 28% savings over Quarterly
* Lifetime plan details are available here.

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  • Beginner

    Minecraft Modding: Sandsville Sorcerer

    Embark on a magical quest while mastering the art of crafting Minecraft skins, items, blocks, mobs, and more!

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    Embark on 30+ exciting missions to create skins, mythical creatures, fascinating structures and code mob behavior, all while enhancing  computational thinking skills. Students will learn to edit Minecraft skins, items, mobs & build structures with Tynker.

    Learning Objectives

    • Create custom skins for players
    • Design a mythical animal and bring them to life
    • Modify mobs behavior using code
    • Foster creativity while designing intricate structures
    • Enchant tools to defend village from mobs
    • Introduction to computational thinking via Minecraft Modding
    • 30+ Activities
    • Skill Level: Beginners
    • Format: Online 1-on-1 Lessons
    • Classes: 4 one hour sessions
    • Schedule: Anytime, any day
    • Required: Windows 10 or above with 4 GB RAM and Minecraft Bedrock version installed
    • Minecraft Bedrock System Requirements

    Skills

    Critical Thinking Sequencing Computational Thinking Creative Building STEM: Plants and Animals Commands Mob Editing Use of Inventory 3D Structures Modding Spawning Enhancements
  • Intermediate

    Minecraft Modding: Cosmic Chronicles

    Explore new biomes as you create intricate Minecraft structures, mods, and games using visual coding.

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    Embark on 30+ exciting missions to build structures using coding, survival skills and fundamental redstone techniques, all while honing the coding skills. Students will learn to edit Minecraft skins, items, create mods & build complex structures with Tynker.

    Learning Objectives

    • Learn survival hacks in Minecraft
    • Build faster using code
    • Enchant items in Minecraft
    • Explore different biomes
    • Learn to create basic redstone circuits
    • 30+ Activities
    • Skill Level: Beginners to Intermediate
    • Format: Online 1-on-1 Lessons
    • Classes: 4 one hour sessions
    • Schedule: Anytime, any day
    • Required: Windows 10 or above with 4 GB RAM and Minecraft Bedrock version installed
    • Minecraft Bedrock System Requirements

    Skills

    Critical Thinking Creative Building Coding Fundamentals Design Thinking Curiosity & Innovation Mob Editing Crafting Underwater Structures Modding Enhancements Survival Hacks
  • Advanced

    Minecraft Modding: Redstone Revelation

    Become a redstone master as you craft planetary havens, powered rails, TNT cannons, and code-driven traps.

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    Embark on 30+ highly complex missions to build innovative habitats, mine, and create transportation systems, all while mastering the art of redstone engineering. Students will learn to build complex structures, redstone mechanisms, and mod with Tynker.

    Learning Objectives

    • Learn about ores and how to process them to extract material
    • Build strong problem solving and reasoning skills by building structures and crafting items using code
    • Learn planning by playing effectively using limited resources
    • Foster critical thinking by working with redstone mechanisms
    • Learn game mechanics in Minecraft
    • 30+ Activities
    • Skill Level: Intermediate to Advanced
    • Format: Online 1-on-1 Lessons
    • Classes: 4 one hour sessions
    • Schedule: Anytime, any day
    • Required: Windows 10 or above with 4 GB RAM and Minecraft Bedrock version installed
    • Minecraft Bedrock System Requirements

    Skills

    Critical Thinking Problem Solving Coding Fundamentals Game Design STEM: Circuits and Engineering Mob Editing Redstone Mechanics Modding Dispenser Pulsar TNT Cannon Command Blocks
  • Beginner

    Minecraft Modding: Sandsville Sorcerer

    Embark on a magical quest while mastering the art of crafting Minecraft skins, items, blocks, mobs, and more!

    Create your schedule: anytime, any day.

    % OFF

    Classes

    $0 $0 / class

    $0 one time payment

    Book a Class

    Money-Back Satisfaction Guarantee*

    Show Hide Course Details

    Course Overview

    Embark on 30+ exciting missions to create skins, mythical creatures, fascinating structures and code mob behavior, all while enhancing  computational thinking skills. Students will learn to edit Minecraft skins, items, mobs & build structures with Tynker.

    Learning Objectives

    • Create custom skins for players
    • Design a mythical animal and bring them to life
    • Modify mobs behavior using code
    • Foster creativity while designing intricate structures
    • Enchant tools to defend village from mobs
    • Introduction to computational thinking via Minecraft Modding
    • 30+ Activities
    • Skill Level: Beginners
    • Format: Online 1-on-1 Lessons
    • Classes: 4 one hour sessions
    • Schedule: Anytime, any day
    • Required: Windows 10 or above with 4 GB RAM and Minecraft Bedrock version installed
    • Minecraft Bedrock System Requirements

    Skills

    Critical Thinking Sequencing Computational Thinking Creative Building STEM: Plants and Animals Commands Mob Editing Use of Inventory 3D Structures Modding Spawning Enhancements
  • Intermediate

    Minecraft Modding: Cosmic Chronicles

    Explore new biomes as you create intricate Minecraft structures, mods, and games using visual coding.

    Create your schedule: anytime, any day.

    % OFF

    Classes

    $0 $0 / class

    $0 one time payment

    Book a Class

    Money-Back Satisfaction Guarantee*

    Show Hide Course Details

    Course Overview

    Embark on 30+ exciting missions to build structures using coding, survival skills and fundamental redstone techniques, all while honing the coding skills. Students will learn to edit Minecraft skins, items, create mods & build complex structures with Tynker.

    Learning Objectives

    • Learn survival hacks in Minecraft
    • Build faster using code
    • Enchant items in Minecraft
    • Explore different biomes
    • Learn to create basic redstone circuits
    • 30+ Activities
    • Skill Level: Beginners to Intermediate
    • Format: Online 1-on-1 Lessons
    • Classes: 4 one hour sessions
    • Schedule: Anytime, any day
    • Required: Windows 10 or above with 4 GB RAM and Minecraft Bedrock version installed
    • Minecraft Bedrock System Requirements

    Skills

    Critical Thinking Creative Building Coding Fundamentals Design Thinking Curiosity & Innovation Mob Editing Crafting Underwater Structures Modding Enhancements Survival Hacks
  • Advanced

    Minecraft Modding: Redstone Revelation

    Become a redstone master as you craft planetary havens, powered rails, TNT cannons, and code-driven traps.

    Create your schedule: anytime, any day.

    % OFF

    Classes

    $0 $0 / class

    $0 one time payment

    Book a Class

    Money-Back Satisfaction Guarantee*

    Show Hide Course Details

    Course Overview

    Embark on 30+ highly complex missions to build innovative habitats, mine, and create transportation systems, all while mastering the art of redstone engineering. Students will learn to build complex structures, redstone mechanisms, and mod with Tynker.

    Learning Objectives

    • Learn about ores and how to process them to extract material
    • Build strong problem solving and reasoning skills by building structures and crafting items using code
    • Learn planning by playing effectively using limited resources
    • Foster critical thinking by working with redstone mechanisms
    • Learn game mechanics in Minecraft
    • 30+ Activities
    • Skill Level: Intermediate to Advanced
    • Format: Online 1-on-1 Lessons
    • Classes: 4 one hour sessions
    • Schedule: Anytime, any day
    • Required: Windows 10 or above with 4 GB RAM and Minecraft Bedrock version installed
    • Minecraft Bedrock System Requirements

    Skills

    Critical Thinking Problem Solving Coding Fundamentals Game Design STEM: Circuits and Engineering Mob Editing Redstone Mechanics Modding Dispenser Pulsar TNT Cannon Command Blocks
* Lifetime plan details are available here.

3-Year All-Access plans include:

  • 70+ courses
  • 5,000+ activities
  • Block Coding
  • Text Coding
  • 3 Mobile Apps
  • Minecraft Modding
  • Game Design
  • Robotics
  • Hardware
  • Web Development
  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • Processing (P5.JS)
  • Data Science
  • Advanced CS

Tynker is designed to progress with your child. A three year plan accelerates their coding mastery from block coding to advanced text languages.