Escape the Haunted House

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 rooms, the ghost, and the trapped hero. Then decide what's locked in each room, what the key is, and what the ghost does when you get it wrong. Blocks turn those rules into the game. One room is a playable game, and three is the full house.

What AI does — and what your kid does

Your kid designs every room, every puzzle, and the ghost. The AI turns the drawings into game art and helps with the blocks. It never invents a puzzle.

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

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