I think making a pico8 game is cool, there are many many guides for shmup games or rogue like games or adventure games, also lua is quite fun to learn, and ther

I think making a pico8 game is cool, there are many many guides for shmup games or rogue like games or adventure games, also lua is quite fun to learn, and there is a lot of fun in coming up with the assets for the game, making sounds and etc. https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pico8+tutorial https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pico8+tutorial Another option is to make a Roblox game, their studio is very accessible and the scripting is quite straight forward (e.g. if you step on this object it moves) I have spent 2 years teaching my daughter and I thought python and pygame are nice, but we made lots of other games, and lots of turtle based generative art (you can also get some basic game ideas from there, like snake or tictactore or whereiswaldo): https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids/blob/master/book.md#day-140-while-turtle-strings https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids/blob/master/... I think the curve of excitement is quite steep at start, and then it gets super boring, so if you can reduce the scope as much as possible, and manage to get to some playable state its amazing, if you use godot or some other engine you can make the game playable on web so he can share it with his friends its really nice.