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Alice Yang<br />Bakhtiar Mikhak<br />Mitchel Resnick<br />Brian Silverman<br />
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We are developing new computational tools to enable children to create their own videogames that can run on many computers, ranging in size and power from handheld devices like Color Gameboys and PocketPCs to laptop and desktop machines, and can interact with a wide variety of devices in the environment. We are developing a new programming environment with graphical and text-based design tools and components that make it easier for children to design and describe the behavior rules for the various elements in their games. An novel component of this construction kit is the support for communication with and programming Crickets and their peripheral devices so that children can design their own physical interfaces and tactile, visual, auditory feedback mechanisms for their games. With this expanded construction kit children can write games that "spill" into the world and in the process learn about the design possibilities in, and at the boundary between, physical and virtual worlds.   
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