Rabbids Coding by Ubisoft
© 2019 Ubisoft
This 32 level coding game for beginners takes place on a space ship full of clever Rabbids (mutant rabbits). Beginning with simple commands to navigate Rabbids and robots to goal points, the game gradually builds its challenges alongside your expanding tool set until you're building complex if-else conditional and looping functions in the least amount of code blocks possible. If you've used Scratch or any similar drag and drop programming tool before, you'll warm up to this right away. If not, the game does a nice job explaining the fundamentals. Some things to note: Rabbids Coding requires a membership to Ubisoft's game service, called UPlay, and as of this review, it is only available for Windows. Too bad, because this type of experience would work well on a mobile device. We liked the open-ended sandbox mode, where you can freely mess about with the commands. We made a simple unending loop where a robot infinitely dropped sausages. Another item on the wish list is a level editor where you could make your own challenges. This would increase replayability. The bottom line? This is a solid base level introduction to programming for beginners in a playful setting.
Windows
Teaches: programming, logic, conditionals, recursion, problem solving, math
CTR Rating: 80%