Game Development in MakeCode Arcade & MineCraft

24 hours

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24 hours
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Design Thinking
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Could our school run Game Development in MakeCode Arcade and Minecraft?

We ran this course in 2025 for primary schools under IMDA's LEARN Roadmaps, at beginner and intermediate levels of 24 hours each, delivered under our partner Zenitant Pte Ltd. Students made retro-style games in MakeCode Arcade and built 3D worlds with block-based code in Minecraft Education. This page describes that run. If you'd like a similar course for your school, write in. For students ready to type real code, see AI-Driven Game Development on Phaser.

Domains
Design Thinking Game Development
Platforms
MakeCode Arcade Minecraft

Course Overview

In this programme, students will learn computational thinking skills and develop their own games on two widely popular platforms. Using the MakeCode Arcade platform, a beginner-friendly game development platform from Microsoft, students will be exposed to basic coding concepts and challenged to use code to solve logic programming problems in order to create their own retro-style games. Using Minecraft: Education's integrated coding editor, students will apply block-based coding to create exciting virtual 3D world environments. We believe that as students see their code take effect in a virtual 3D world environment, they will be excited to understand, explore and exploit the full capabilities of coding constructs such as variables, iterations and conditionals to create complex interactions. In 2025, schools could take beginner- and intermediate-level courses, for a total of 2 × 24-hour programmes.

Lesson Outcomes

  • Equip computational thinking skills

  • Learn the MakeCode Arcade platform and explore basic doing concepts

  • Use Minecraft: Education's coding editor to apply block-based coding to create virtual 3D world environments

  • Explore variables, iterations, and conditionals to create complex interactions

Details

Zenitant is a fellow Microsoft Global Training Partner, with whom we partnered to offer these courses to primary schools in 2025. Through our close collaboration, we have brought the annual 3d-tronics Micro-controller Challenge from 2018 to 2022. Please note that for the microcontroller course, schools needed to have their own micro:bit kits. Tinker Class is a distributor for micro:bit and accessories; please contact us at hello@tinkerclass.tech to place orders at a discounted education pricing. Training was provided under Zenitant Pte Ltd. — email us to find out more.

Course

Course Code

Hours

Details

Game Development in MakeCode Arcade & MineCraft

P-MICROSOFT-GAME-BASIC / P-MICROSOFT-GAME-INTM

24 hours

Suitable for schools with PCs, Macs, iPads, and Chromebooks.

What people say about our courses

The programme taught me that anything is possible. To be able to learn, from scratch, how to code an entire app and publish it on the App Store ― it's an experience that I'd recommend to anyone who's interested in coding! The community also kept me coming back long after I graduated. Truly a great programme.

Tinkercademy is a flexible, responsive and innovative partner, ready to always collaborate to develop cutting-edge coding programmes together with the school. They have depth of expertise, in both technology skills and pedagogy, to understand the needs of our students and engage them holistically.

My past year with the programme has been an incredible journey that I will cherish forever. I've always dreamt of sharing my work with the world, and thanks to the programme's supportive mentors, I turned that dream into reality by publishing my app on the App Store for everyone to use. Along the way, I made unforgettable memories and gained hands-on experience in app development.

Very useful workshop. Guidance and examples were very beginner friendly and easy for participants to follow and try during the workshop. Good to build confidence especially for absolute beginners.

Having the experience as ex-school teachers, Tinkercademy is able to utilise sound educational pedagogy… We continually receive good feedback from students… An Arduino teachers' workshop with Tinkercademy even inspired a couple of our Science teachers to design a term-long performance task.

Most of the time i didn't feel lost, it was thoroughly well explained. I also like the Kahoot quizzes at the end of each session.

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