Code club updates - news from within our coding clubs

Game Dev Club: What is it all about?

At The Code Zone, we have a variety of unique online and in-person coding clubs for all ages to enjoy. Today, we want to highlight our Game Dev Club which focuses on learning the fundamentals of coding in Game Development.

Posted on July 05, 2024 club updates

Game Dev: Hackers – Midweek Showcase

Well hey there, coders and parents! Our weekly game this week is ‘Parcel Panic’ – a game that’ll have you multitasking, matching colours, and scoring points like nobody’s business!

Posted on June 27, 2024 club updates

Protect Earth in this new Hackers game! 🌎

Its your job to protect the world from Asteroids! Lets see what hacks our coders have made!

Posted on April 17, 2024 club updates

Paint Battle: A Splatoon Inspired Game

Gather round for this week's Modders game round up!

Posted on March 01, 2024 club updates

Hacker's Featured Game | The Asteroid Field

Ground Control to Major Tom... there's a lot of asteriods out here!

Posted on February 21, 2024 club updates

Santa's Little Helper

For our final game of 2023, we are playing Santa’s Little Helper

Posted on December 22, 2023 club updates

Santa’s Coming to Town

Ant here again from the Code Zone to give you all a quick catch up on our festive antics last week in our Game Dev Clubs.

Posted on December 18, 2023 club updates

Modders: Kitchen Chaos

This week in Modders, we have a brand new game called ‘Kitchen Chaos’

Posted on October 21, 2023 club updates

Hacker Highlight: Deep Sea Diver

We are starting this week strong with our latest game: Deep Sea Diver.

Posted on October 16, 2023 club updates

Hacker Highlight: Sword Thrower

Finishing off this week strong with our latest Game Dev Club Hacker Game: Sword Thrower!

Posted on September 25, 2023 club updates

Cops & Robbers

Zombies and Scientist!

Posted on September 20, 2023 club updates

Hacker Highlight: Ace Pilot

See Arabella's AMAZING Ace Pilot Game below - full of colour and her own mods 

Posted on September 14, 2023 club updates

Tunnel Traversal

We are back in Modders Club again today and we are working on Tunnel Traversal!

Posted on August 31, 2023 club updates

How Older Games Can Help us as Game Makers: The Legend of Zelda

Why are older games worth playing? We take a look...

Posted on August 28, 2023 club updates

Arch Enemy

What a day we've had here at The Code Zone!

Posted on August 22, 2023 club updates

Minecraft Round Up - Let's Play Monster Arena

In this week's Minecraft Mod Club, we are continuing our Minecraft Mini Game Series by coding our very own Monster Arena Game!

Posted on August 17, 2023 minecraft club updates

Colour Run

We are back in Game Dev Club and this week our hackers are playing 'Colour Run'.

Posted on August 14, 2023 club updates

Minecraft Round Up - Let's Play Dropper

In this week's Minecraft Mod Club, we are continuing our Minecraft Mini Game Series by coding our very own game of Dropper!

Posted on August 03, 2023 minecraft club updates

Bin It

The latest on all the mods and hacks available this week to test your kids' coding skills!

Posted on July 31, 2023 club updates

Shadowy Shootout

We are back at it again this week modding our Shadowy Shootout game

Posted on July 20, 2023 club updates

Coding for Grown-Ups

Since 2019, The Code Zone has been inspiring passion for coding in people of all ages.

Posted on June 28, 2023 club updates coding for grown-ups

Jetpack Jumper

Another week, another Scratch game for our GameDev Club members - this time we are playing Jetpack Jumper!

Posted on June 26, 2023 club updates

Minecraft Mod Club Round Up - Let's Take the Castle 🏰

We are shaking things up in our Minecraft Mod Club!

Posted on June 25, 2023 club updates minecraft

How is Coding linked to the Curriculum?

In 2014, changes to the national curriculum were made specifically in ICT to help with the introduction of coding to children, replacing ICT with ‘Computing’.

Posted on June 21, 2023 club updates diversity in code

Look out - it's a SHARK!

This week at The Code Zone, hackers are playing GameDev Club's latest game 'Shark Attack'.

Posted on June 19, 2023 club updates

Welcome Back to Game Dev Club!

We are making a bold come back with Battle Tanks!

 

Posted on June 07, 2023 club updates

Half Term Coding Fun!

A little round up of what happened over May Half Term!

Posted on June 04, 2023 game jam club updates

The Code Zone for Grown-ups - it's coming!

You asked...it's coming...we just need something from you...

Posted on May 17, 2023 coding for grown-ups club updates

Did someone say Pizza?🍕

The Code Zone's latest idle game: 'Click For Pizza'

Posted on May 12, 2023 club updates

Game Jam 2023: Hopping Mad Week 2

With Easter behind us we are diving straight back into the nitty gritty of picking up coding skills and ideating our own games in the Game Dev clubs.

Posted on April 16, 2023 club updates game jam

Game Jam 2023: Hopping Mad Week 1

Our Game Jam is Back this Half term!

Posted on April 09, 2023 game jam club updates

Can you 'Dodge It'?

A quick overview of what happened in our Game Dev Club!

Posted on March 26, 2023 club updates

A week of Flyie Drone...

Read all about what our children have been creating in our Game Dev Club!

Posted on March 16, 2023 club updates

Minecraft Mod Club: What's it all about?

Kids Love Minecraft....so let's make it education & fun!

Posted on February 26, 2023 minecraft club updates

Game Jam 2022 - It's Dangerous To Go Alone, Take This" Day 5

The end of a great summer of phenomenal Game Jams!

Posted on August 26, 2022 club updates game jam

Game Jam 2022 - It's Dangerous To Go Alone, Take This" Day 3

We've had some quite technical hacks and interesting visual changes today inside of Storm Survival!

Posted on August 24, 2022 club updates game jam

Game Jam 2022 - It's Dangerous To Go Alone, Take This" Day 2

The theme is "It's Dangerous To Go Alone, Take This". What "this" is, is up to you...

Posted on August 23, 2022 club updates game jam

Game Jam 2022 - Day 5

Last day of the floor is lava Game Jam 

Posted on July 29, 2022 club updates game jam

Welcome to the Circus 🎪

New term means fun new badges to earn!

Posted on June 07, 2022 club updates

The Mecha Bots are here

Easter has passed through and we're in to a brand new half term! 

Posted on April 25, 2022 club updates

April 25th Weekly Round Up

It was a Frog Feeding Frenzy this week at the code zone!

Posted on April 25, 2022 club updates

April 17th Weekly Round Up!

First of all I would like to wish everyone a happy Easter and/or Ramadan on behalf of all of us at the Code Zone!

Posted on April 17, 2022 club updates

Ant's Weekly Round up 10th April

Hold the Fort had some amazing creativity involved!

Posted on April 10, 2022 club updates

Tom's Round up 3rd April

Everyone loved this week's game Scaredy Crows - but what's coming up next?

Posted on April 03, 2022 club updates

Dell's Weekly Round up March 27th

We hear from one of our newest mentor's Dell, on what sounds like an eventful week of fun & games!

Posted on March 27, 2022 club updates

Tom's Round up March 13th

A little recap on Jungle Run plus what's coming next week!

Posted on March 13, 2022 club updates

Holly's Round Up March 6th

Another busy week training new mentors & new clubs!

Posted on March 06, 2022 club updates

Tom's Round up 27th Feb

Diving into what's been happening in the week @ The Code Zone!

Posted on February 27, 2022 club updates

Stars in Spring

A new term has begun and we're heading out of the snowy season and in to Spring where there are tonnes of stars to collect over the next 6 weeks!

Posted on February 22, 2022 club updates

We declare the Winter Olympics 2022, open!

Join us here at The Code Zone for two weeks of cool Winter Olympics coding projects!

To kick things off, we present to you the Opening Ceremony!

Posted on February 04, 2022 club updates

Tom's round up Jan 23rd

A big welcome to new teammates, a quick update of the hacks from last week, and the game coming up this week in the Game Dev Club!

Posted on January 23, 2022 club updates

Holly's round up Jan 16th

Have you heard of a Unimouse?  Well...this week we discovered it in one of our Game Dev Clubs!  Read more...

Posted on January 16, 2022 club updates

January & the Winter Warriors badge

Our new years week is over and we're back into the swing of things.  Here's an update of the last week from Tom, a round-up of last week and kicking things off this term with a new badge for you to get! 

Posted on January 10, 2022 club updates

Happy New Year!!

We hope you've had a great Christmas - welcome back for another fun-filled term of tech and coding.  Check out the new years badge as well!

Posted on January 01, 2022 club updates

Holly's Roundup Dec 19th

Holly gives us a round-up of the last week in the clubs, some featured projects and a sneak peak in to what's coming up next week!

Posted on December 19, 2021 club updates

Virtual Reality Safety

We have started using Virtual Reality in our clubs, but there are a few things to be aware of.

Posted on December 09, 2019 club updates