Recently, with our frigid cold temps and day after day of indoor recess, I began a 5th grade Create Your Own Video Game Club with Bloxels. This club was to gather in students who were interested in creating their own video game. Once created, they shared their video game with each other, having fun and giving feedback. We huddled together in the OHE media work room and helped each other discover how to create. Students LOVED IT!!!
Bloxels is sold with game boards and blocks (we have 5 of these) so students can physically create characters and backgrounds manually, but truthfully, my students found that creating them digitally was faster, so they opted not to use the game boards.
After watching a few of the Bloxels "intro" videos, our sessions were fueled largely by the student's intuition and trial and error. Their background with video games did help them figure out what to do. They learned it quickly and confidently. The best part was that they were creating and designing their own game!