# Game Development in MakeCode Arcade & MineCraft

> Run in 2025 for primary schools: students made retro games in MakeCode Arcade and built 3D worlds in Minecraft Education, at beginner and intermediate levels.

[View programme page](https://tinkercademy.com/programmes/imda-minecraft-2025/)

- Audiences: Students
- Duration: 24 hours
- Domains: Design Thinking, Game Development
- Platforms: MakeCode Arcade, Minecraft
- Published: 2026-04-18
- Updated: 2026-10-22

## 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.

Compare: [AI-Driven Game Development on Phaser](https://tinkercademy.com/programmes/imda-phaser-2025/)

## 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](https://zenitanteducation.com/) 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](mailto:hello@tinkerclass.tech) to place orders at a discounted education pricing. Training was provided under Zenitant Pte Ltd. — [email us](mailto:yjsoon@tk.sg) 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. |

## Enquiries

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