New Action Game Focuses on Coding Skills
Kuato Studios has released its
second 3D action game designed to teach students coding skills.
Kuato
has introduced Code Warriors, which
requires players to input increasingly sophisticated code as they move
through
the game. With the game, targeting children aged 8-16, players learn
how to
write and debug their own programs.
The
game — which focuses on algorithmic thinking,
sequence and selection — includes a real-time dashboard that allows
teachers to
monitor students' progress on a variety of coding skillsets and
pinpoint
specific areas for improvement.
Code
Warriors follows the 2013 release by Kuato
of its first coding game, Hakitzu Elite, which has been
downloaded more than
400,000 times and is used in more than 100 schools around the world.
With
Code Warriors, players must instruct their
robot warriors through a series of missions using JavaScript. Set in a
futuristic
combat atmosphere, players must move their warrior to the other side of
the
arena to defeat the opposing robot's power core. They must write code
to move,
strike and perform battle functions.
Code
Warriors is available through Windows and
Apple browsers and can be downloaded
for free.
"Learning
to code is a hugely beneficial skill to learn from a young age," Kuato
Studios CEO Mark Horneff said. "Digital skills have become
an economic imperative and what better way to start building these
skills than
by capitalizing upon the engagement they have with computer games."
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