Make an escape game

What your kid actually makes

A three-room puzzle game: their rooms, their ghost, their puzzles. Each room has one thing locked and one way to open it. The family plays it from a link.

How a sitting goes

Draw the hero and the ghost on paper and snap them. Give each one power cards: when something happens, what it does. Then tell Tek what goes in the room, drag the key, the door, and the platforms where you want them, and play it. One room is a playable game, and three is the full house.

What AI does — and what your kid does

Your kid draws the characters, picks every power card, places the pieces, and plays every room before the premiere. The AI turns the drawings into game characters, paints the rooms and the cover, suggests where the pieces go from your kid's words, checks that each room can be beaten, and makes a theme song. Your kid can change anything it suggests.

What they're really learning

Game design is rules: a lock, a key, and what happens when you're wrong. Building a puzzle someone else can solve means thinking like the player, which is the hard part.

Good to know

• Made in the Game Studio.
• Spooky, not scary. The ghost chases, and it never hurts anyone.