For Investigative teens
Game Lab
Build a playable game in Python, with AI as your coding partner.
- The hobby
- Making games instead of only playing them.
- How it helps at school
- Variables, logic and sequencing are algebra in disguise. When the game breaks, you find the bug and fix it, which is how problem-solving actually gets practised.
- The question that hooks them
- “What happens if I change this line?”
Weeks 1–4 · learn
- · Python basics: variables, loops, conditions
- · Asking AI to explain an error, not just fix it
- · Reading code AI wrote and checking it runs
- · Game loop, scoring and levels
Weeks 5–8 · build
A playable game you designed, for example a cricket batting game or a quiz on your own syllabus.
How AI is used: AI explains errors and suggests code. You read every line before it goes in, and you can explain how your game works without it.