Kids can create their own mini-games on the 3DS or Wii with this inexpensive title.

This month’s Genealogy for Geeks post is a bit different. I wanted to bring to your attention a contest to develop new and innovative services for the growing genealogy research field. The second annual RootsTech Developers Challenge will award $5,000 to the developer who creates the best ancestry research application using ...

What could be more fitting for a post here on GeekDad than the tale of a father and his son (and daughter too) teaming up to make their own iPad app? We’ve mentioned at least one here before, then there was 5-year-old Cassie’s “Magical Ponycorn Adventure” which took the internet ...

Games are everywhere.  Computer. Console. Mobile Phone. Tablet. Cardboard box. I’ve been a gamer so long I honestly can’t remember them all other than a few milestones. For board games, Stratego and Risk were my absolute favorites growing up. Atari 2600 was the first console game in my house — ...

A few months ago, Microsoft launched the Kodu Cup, a competition for kids ages 9 to 17 to design games using Microsoft’s Kodu game development platform for Windows. It’s a smart and simple environment that gives game designers the ability to create games in a 3D world, populated by objects ...

I’ve long been interested in ways to help teach kids programming. Especially my kids, though they’re still young. I got interested in computers when my dad wrote a “guess the number” game for me which included my name on the screen. Suddenly I understood that these fancy beige boxes could ...

Here at GeekDad we are fortunate to spend time reviewing and exploring the increasing number of applications design to entertain, educate and amuse our children. The sudden rise in accessible touch technology through smartphones and tablets combined with the business model provided through App Stores to developers has turned application ...

Everyday I seem to be kicking myself that I didn’t study computer science. I stare blankly at my screen and wish I could design an application then and there to work with my iPhone or some part of the Google monolith to do as I command. But, this geeky Arts ...

It's time once again for the world of computer programming to prove it's usefulness by teaching us a thing or two about parenting. When developing a piece of software, there are times when it is necessary to get down to the nitty gritty and ...

I’m always keen to get my kids into video gaming, although I’m not sure why. Perhaps because of this, I was really taken by a story told by a friend (@Pixelh8) who reviews games on Game People with me. He tells of how a simple programming language (MIT’s Processing) and ...