Blockly Games is a series of educational games that teach programming. It is
designed for children who have not had prior experience with computer programming.
By the end of these games, players are ready to use conventional text-based languages.
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Puzzle is a quick introduction to Blockly's shapes and how the pieces snap together.
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Maze is an introduction to loops and conditionals. It starts simply, but
every level is more challenging than the last.
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Bird is a deep-dive into conditionals. Control-flow is explored with
increasingly complex conditions.
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Turtle is a deep-dive into loops. Use nested loops to paint a picture. Then
publish your art to Reddit for the world to see.
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Movie is an introduction to mathematical equations. Use math to animate a
movie. Then publish your movie to Reddit for the world to see.
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Pond Tutor introduces text-based programming. Levels switch back and forth
between blocks and actual JavaScript in a text editor.
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Pond is an open-ended contest to program the smartest duck.
Use either blocks or JavaScript.
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Blockly Games is a Google project to encourage tomorrow's programmers. The
games are designed to be self-paced and self-teaching. Feel free to use Blockly
Games both inside and outside the classroom. All code is open source, see
the developer's website
for more info or to download zip files for offline use. Please
give us your feedback
as we continue to grow.
If you enjoy Blockly Games, we recommend the following sites for further challenges:
- App Inventor — Use Blockly to write apps for your Android phone or tablet.
- Wonder Workshop — Use Blockly to program robots, then switch to text-based programming.
- Codecademy — Dive into JavaScript, Python, Ruby, or PHP.