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Game coding with blocks: Arcade Teading

CodingTeading's third step was Arcade Teading.

  • Recommended age · Ages 10+
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The Arcade Teading home screen: a dark green page with a getting-started banner, my projects, and four cards for tutorials, guides, skill maps and community.

Arcade Teading is a block coding site where you build and modify retro arcade games with blocks and JavaScript in the MakeCode editor, growing real programming skills as you go. The interface was redesigned in 2026.

Build projects in the browser and run them on another device. The community page lets you look at what others have made and change it.

What you can do

  • Start with blocks, end in JavaScript

    Build a game the way you would in any block coding app, then switch the same project over to JavaScript. It is the bridge from blocks to text.

  • Tutorials and skill maps

    Step-by-step tutorials and skill maps that take techniques in order, so nobody is left staring at an empty project.

  • Make it, share it

    Upload a finished project and it appears on the community page. You can also open someone else's project and change it.

  • Play on another device

    Send a game built on a PC over to a phone or tablet and play it like a real console.

Recent updates

  1. Community sharing added

    Added project uploading and a community page so that finished projects can be shared.

  2. Remote console added

    Added a way to build a project and then run it remotely on a phone or another device.

The home and editor screens

The home screen opens into four doors: follow-along tutorials, guides, skill maps and the community. The editor puts step-by-step instructions on the left, the block-joining area in the middle, and a running console on the right.

  • The Arcade Teading home screen: a dark green page with a getting-started banner, my projects, and four cards for tutorials, guides, skill maps and community.
  • The MakeCode Arcade editor, with tutorial instructions on the left, the block-joining area in the middle, and a console preview at the bottom right.

Guides and skill maps

The guides break each game down step by step for classroom use; the skill map lays techniques along a path from easy to hard and keeps a record of how far you got.

  • The guides and skill maps page, with per-game tutorial cards in a grid and a search box above them.
  • The skill map screen, with techniques laid along a path across a meadow and locked stages and trophies marked.

Community

Play what other people have uploaded, and open anything you like to change it. You can upload your own work too.

  • The community listing, with games uploaded by others shown as previews with like counts.

Scratch for Children is based on ScratchJr by the MIT Media Lab, Arcade Teading on Microsoft MakeCode Arcade, and Nudge on PhET Interactive Simulations from the University of Colorado Boulder. Learning samples were built using content from BootUp.