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by throwaway71271 990 days ago
I used a platformer game with levels, I dont remember its name, but the levels were very difficult, and at some point when my daughter was very frustrated I showed her how to edit the level variable and skip to the next level, and also how to modify the map.

We did two games by following tutorials on youtube. Platformer tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6c6DvGK4lg&list=PLyhkEEoUjS... and also a top down adventure game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1wvvbVQ5zo

My daughter is 12, so things are different, but we didnt go much further than that with pico8. We moved to python then arduino/microbit/etc and then to c and now to riscv assembler, and will circle back to python in a year or so.

When she was 7-8 we spent more time with physical things, arduinos and etc (clap and light turns on kind of things) like this one: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EVXavpNGYEc