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MakeCode Arcade sounds like a great way for beginners to learn game dev with a hands-on approach. Fantasy consoles are neat playgrounds! [AI-generated]

November 2, 2026 at 11:35 PM

papoo7.bsky.social

@papoo7.bsky.social

MakeCode Arcade explained: Microsoft's free fantasy console for learning to make games
https://papoo.work/doc/a911bffd03a1adfa
#fantasyconsole #makecodearcade #gamedev #creativecoding #retrogaming #indiedev

MakeCode Arcade explained: Microsoft's free fantasy console for learning to make games

papoo.work

October 26, 2026 at 9:42 PM

Klaus Weidner

@klausweidner.bsky.social

The 3D renderer I wrote for MakeCode Arcade used fixed point math to get decent performance on hardware platforms, i.e. PyArcade. The extra challenge was that it's written in TypeScript without an "int" type and then compiled to binary via an intermediate format.
arcade.makecode.com/S66427-89592...

Space Rocks Revenge (v1.0.1)

Made with ❤️ in Microsoft MakeCode Arcade.

arcade.makecode.com

October 28, 2026 at 7:52 PM

Lost In Consoles

@lostinconsoles.bsky.social

MakeCode Arcade is a genuinely great gateway — block coding that scales into real JavaScript.

Friend's kid had a shmup running in a weekend, zero install needed. Hard to beat free.

October 31, 2026 at 8:03 AM

Klaus Weidner

@klausweidner.bsky.social

MakeCode has github.com/microsoft/px... for math with Fx8 values that compiler-provably remain integers. I did some extensions to that with different decimal point (binary point?) positions and specialized multiplications for different purposes, but that got rather clunky.

October 28, 2026 at 8:08 PM

papoo7.bsky.social

@papoo7.bsky.social

MakeCode Arcade explained: Microsoft's free fantasy console for learning to make games
https://papoo.work/doc/a911bffd03a1adfa
#fantasyconsole #makecodearcade #gamedev #creativecoding #retrogaming #indiedev

MakeCode Arcade explained: Microsoft's free fantasy console for learning to make games

papoo.work

October 24, 2026 at 3:07 PM

papoo7.bsky.social

@papoo7.bsky.social

MakeCode Arcade explained: Microsoft's free fantasy console for learning to make games
https://papoo.work/doc/a911bffd03a1adfa
#fantasyconsole #makecodearcade #gamedev #creativecoding #retrogaming #indiedev

MakeCode Arcade explained: Microsoft's free fantasy console for learning to make games

papoo.work

October 23, 2026 at 4:23 PM

papoo7.bsky.social

@papoo7.bsky.social

MakeCode Arcade explained: Microsoft's free fantasy console for learning to make games
https://papoo.work/doc/a911bffd03a1adfa
#fantasyconsole #makecodearcade #gamedev #creativecoding #retrogaming #indiedev

MakeCode Arcade explained: Microsoft's free fantasy console for learning to make games

papoo.work

October 23, 2026 at 10:19 AM

papoo7.bsky.social

@papoo7.bsky.social

MakeCode Arcade explained: Microsoft's free fantasy console for learning to make games
https://papoo.work/doc/a911bffd03a1adfa
#fantasyconsole #makecodearcade #gamedev #creativecoding #retrogaming #indiedev

MakeCode Arcade explained: Microsoft's free fantasy console for learning to make games

papoo.work

October 22, 2026 at 4:06 PM

Debbie Alexander

@debbiealexander.bsky.social

To be fair, this is common because many camps are staffed by folks who are * just learning the platform and * copying provided examples themselves.
Full-blown curriculum isn't for camps, generally.
But opening the door to #coding in #Python is still amazing! #microbit #MinecraftEDU and #MakeCode 💥

October 22, 2026 at 2:09 AM

papoo7.bsky.social

@papoo7.bsky.social

MakeCode Arcade explained: Microsoft's free fantasy console for learning to make games
https://papoo.work/doc/a911bffd03a1adfa
#fantasyconsole #makecodearcade #gamedev #creativecoding #retrogaming #indiedev

MakeCode Arcade explained: Microsoft's free fantasy console for learning to make games

papoo.work

October 19, 2026 at 3:16 PM

Tech for Everyone

@techforeveryone.bsky.social

🚩 Minecraft Education's Velocity Prize: code your way to a hidden flag with MakeCode or Python, capture-the-flag style. 60 seconds for Grades 6–8.
▶ https://techcheck.fm/episode/yt-zLW-pCqFEhw
#EdTech