100% Free Live Workshop
Design Your Own Pixel Platformer in One Evening
A hands-on live session where kids design levels, add controls, and publish a platformer they can share.
Hosted by
James Colestock — Has taught thousands of students to create with techology
8:00 PM EST · 7:00 PM CST · 5:00 PM PST
Limited Seats Available
“Over 2,000 young builders have shipped their first project with WizCamp.”
What you'll build
Pixel Quest
A side-scrolling platformer built with JavaScript and hand-made pixel art.
Campers leave with a shareable link to a game they designed and coded themselves.
Pixel Quest is a side-scrolling platformer that campers design, draw, and code from scratch. Students start with an empty canvas and finish with a hero who runs, jumps, and collects their way through a level of their own making.
What students build
- Platformer physics, with jump height and gravity tuned by hand
- Original pixel art sprites, tiles, and background layers
- Level design, collectibles, and a deploy to a live URL
Why it matters
Tuning a jump until it feels right teaches patience, precision, and the value of trying again. Campers make dozens of small decisions about art, pacing, and difficulty, then watch those choices show up in the finished game. They leave with a shareable link and proof that they can build something from nothing.
What's included
Everything you need, nothing extra
Live 90-minute session
Real-time build along with a WizCamp coach.
Step-by-step coaching
Guidance at every stage, no experience needed.
A finished game
A playable platformer to share the same night.
Starter code pack
All the assets and code used in the session.
Builder community invite
Keep building with other young creators.
$25 camp credit
Apply it to any WizCamp program.
Your instructor
James Colestock
James Colestock
Founder & Camp Director
Has taught thousands of students to create with techology
James Colestock is the founder and camp director of WizCamp, where he helps kids and teens turn curiosity about technology into real, working projects. Over the past two decades he has taught thousands of students to code, build games, and design with AI, always starting from the same idea: learning sticks when it feels like play. When he isn't leading camps, he's prototyping new curriculum, tinkering with side projects, or talking shop with the instructors who make each session run.
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