| Lightbot | |
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| Developer(s) | Lightbot Inc. [1] |
| Publisher(s) | Brad from code.org |
| Designer(s) | Danny Yaroslavski [1] |
| Engine | OpenFL |
| Platform(s) | Web, Android, iOS |
| Release | 2008 |
| Genre(s) | Educational |
Lightbot is an educational video game for learning software programming concepts, developed by Danny Yaroslavski. Lightbot has been played 7 million times, and is highly rated on iTunes and Google Play store. [2] [3] [4] Lightbot is available as an online Flash game, and an application for Android and iOS mobile phones. [5] Lightbot has been built with Flash and OpenFL. [1]
The goal of Lightbot is to command a little robot to navigate a maze and turn on lights. [6] Players arrange symbols on the screen to command the robot to walk, turn, jump, switch on a light and so on. The maze and the list of symbols become more complicated as the lessons progress. [6] While using such commands, players learn programming concepts like loops, procedures and more, without entering code in any programming language. [6]
