We wanted to make a stylish and simple game that would introduce young girls to computer programming. We've heard that many girls are turned away from studying engineering because they get the impression that it's an entirely masculine field - that they are not welcome, that they do not have the reasoning ability or the logical thinking that are required for such work. We've also heard that they're turned away because they don't have any idea what exactly engineering is.
We wanted to build a game to counter that - something that would give girls a basic idea of what computer engineering is, and show them that yes, they do have the ability to think logically. We designed a simple game where they drag and drop commands to move a sprite through a checkerboard to an endpoint, occasionally navigating past obstacles and picking up clues. They work their way through the levels, and, at the end, save the day for a poor princess who lost her pet cat.
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