Building a Game with a 6-Year-Old

In plain words

This is an open-source game created collaboratively between a developer and his 6-year-old son over a weekend. The project includes all necessary files on GitHub for others to build custom versions with their own children. It follows an earlier educational game called Match the Letter, designed to help young children learn the alphabet. The project is suited for parents interested in introducing their kids to game development and coding concepts.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

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Agentic Software Development, Camping/Cooking Tips and more... I just open sourced a game I’ve been working on with my 6-year-old son Jack over Thanksgiving weekend. Want to work with your kids to make your own custom version? All the files you need are on Github . A few years ago, I made a game called Match the Letter to help Jack learn his ABCs (still available for FREE on Google Play – no annoying ads either). A couple years later, he asked me to teach him to make a game. I told him he’d need to know how to code and to do that, he needed to learn to read. Fast forward to 1st grade, and he reads pretty well. The day before Thanksgiving, I was working at home (because my job is cool like…from johnpolacek.com

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