| Lightbot | |
| Developer: | Lightbot Inc. |
| Publisher: | Brad from code.org |
| Engine: | OpenFL |
| Platforms: | Web, Android, iOS |
| Released: | 2008 |
| Genre: | Educational |
| Designer: | Danny Yaroslavski |
Lightbot is an educational video game for learning software programming concepts, developed by Danny Yaroslavski. Lightbot has been played 7 million times, and is highly rated on iTunes and Google Play store.[1] [2] [3] Lightbot is available as an online Flash game, and an application for Android and iOS mobile phones.[4] Lightbot has been built with Flash and OpenFL.[5]
The goal of Lightbot is to command a little robot to navigate a maze and turn on lights.[6] Players arrange symbols on the screen to command the robot to walk, turn, jump, switch on a light and so on. The maze and the list of symbols become more complicated as the lessons progress.[6] While using such commands, players learn programming concepts like loops, procedures and more, without entering code in any programming language.[6]