Back with v2! My 9 year old updated The Gamey Game based on your feedback

My son has been learning to code. Today he’s releasing v2 of his math battle game, The Gamey Game. He’s excited to share it with you all!

The Gamey Game v2: https://www.armaansahni.com/game-v2

He’s also written a blog post about how he made this game: https://www.armaansahni.com/how-i-took-the-gamey-game-to-the...

He originally released v1 of the game a few months ago and got great feedback from this community. A big thank you for the feedback, it led to some great conversations and provided a ton of motivation for him to keep moving forward.

v2 was built using HTML, JS, CSS. All written by hand in VSCode. No frameworks, no build steps. He made all the graphics himself and also recorded all the audio.

Note that both parents are programmers so he has lots of hints and guidance along the way. He also leverages Google Gemini to answer coding questions (syntax, how to do something, etc), but the LLM isn’t coding for him and it isn’t available to him directly in his editor.

For the blog post, we talked about the target audience and came up with an outline. He then dictated his blog post directly into Google Docs. Finally, we went through a few rounds of feedback/edits (for more clarity, more words, etc).

Other links:

v1 Game Link: https://www.armaansahni.com/game

v1 Blog Post: https://www.armaansahni.com/how-i-coded-a-game-using-ai/

v1 Discussion Thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42312121

From my 8yo, Luke: Put a tornado on. Let us be other things. Mega Boss Battle with an extra-strong one. Maybe the extra-strong one can be the tornado. Maybe if you're another thing, you could battle the wizard.

I like the background music, but I didn’t notice any other sound effects when I’m playing the game.

So cool