I can only say, from this particular example, you are doing that whole parenting thing very well. Congratulations, and I wish you all the best in the near and far future.
Thank you for the kind words :)
My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
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Re: My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
#442This is so cool. I'm glad that kids are still learning the basic tools of web development and making awesome stuff like this just for fun! Reminds me of when I was a kid (though not 9 we didn't have Internet back then). Excellent job by both your son his parents!
Thank you for the kind words!
Re: My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
#443This is great! Please encourage him to make more! Would love to see some attack animations.
One of the things he wanted to implement is "shoots" - where something goes flying to the opponent. Perhaps in a future release!
Re: My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
#444Might have been mentioned here, but feed the comments into an AI and get it to prioritise and help implement the top feedback. Also use other AI tools like Claude, Cursor or Windsurf. Beyond that, take the points down at the same time as the red flash and make them flash too, animate the attack and it wasn't clear how I could power up the better weapons.
Appreciate the feedback!
Re: My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
#445anyone get the exploding star to work? *had lots of fun playing!
you need to use throwing star 4 times before it will give you access to exploding star. If you use any other star, it costs you in "charge"
All of his is not clear - he plans to make it more clear for the next version
Re: My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
#446From the blog post: > But there was one downside to AI. AI was like a human which is why you could talk to it like a human. But because it was like a human, it could also be wrong like a human. This is very insightful for a 9 year old! It's so cool to see a child encountering these new technologies and building an intuition for them. It makes me so happy to see kids learning to make games. I was 9 years old was when…
He learned about LLM hallucination the hard way, when it recommended things that didn't actually work.
This next generation will have deep understanding of power and limitations of these tools.
Appreciate your comments!
Re: My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
#447I'm sure you've gotten a lot of good feedback, but a personal message for your kid: I am well into my adulthood, but I started programming from a similar place way back when. I was probably 12-13 when I was self-studying HTML/CSS/JavaScript. Today the web tech stack is way more complicated than it was when I was a kid, but its also way more capable. You can do so much with it now that was a dream - I was into pokemon…
> I was into pokemon as a kid and wanted to make a "fan site", which is what got me learning (just to date how far back this was)! This cannot be used to date you. Kids these days (and presumably anywhere in between) are still into pokemon. Just today it’s Koraidon and Miraidon.
This comment made me self-date myself, mercy.
Re: My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
#448This is really neat. I'm happy that you're encouraging your son to program at such a young age. It really helps to build computer skills to immerse yourself from your early years. I started learning programming using QBasic on my computer at the age of 6. I now know several programming languages and am the go-to person in my friend group for computer help of all kinds. I wish your son the best on his adventures in le…
What do kids learn these days as their first programming language?
I'm not really sure since I was a kid so long ago, but perhaps Python or VB.net or Javascript like OP's son.
Re: My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
#449I just beat the pounder monster AND got all the math questions right EVEN the division ones and the arithmetic ones where you had to carry a one, so THE GAMEY GAME has me feeling pretty good about myself today.
Re: My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
#450Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Everyone dies one day. Everyone. Even wolves. But not books. Not words. Words don't die" -- My son, 3.
Quotes like this always seem smart until you realize you can just burn the books. And the words die like that
"Burn the books" is a rather large task for most published books though.