Is your child a designer at heart? Help them apply their design skills to video game design using Scratch and this book! This book introduces simple programming concepts over the course of three projects a child can follow to create a video game. The projects use the free Scratch platform, which can be downloaded from the web or accessed in a browser.

"Made by the people who make the For Dummies book!"--Cover. "Dummies Junior"--Series statement from publisher's newsroom.

Introduction: all about Scratch -- Project 1: design a classic videogame -- Project 2: supersnake -- Project 3: a-maze-ing game -- Project 4: attacking the clones -- Author notes.