Make your own Android games with App Inventor

Those clever chaps at Google have released an app creation tool that doesn’t require a degree in computer science to use.

In fact, with App Inventor for Android you won’t have to use a single piece of programming code to get your creation up and running. The project, which is helmed by MIT computer scientist Harold Abelson, utilises visual ‘blocks’ to perform complicated tasks like storing, performing, and repeating actions.

Of course, games will feature high on the list for many budding developers. The project website reveals:

"Often people begin by building games like WhackAMole or games that let you draw funny pictures on your friend's faces.” And you can carry this on to involve more complex gaming tasks, like the kind seen in Super Monkey Ball: “You can even make use of the phone's sensors to move a ball through a maze based on tilting the phone."

Check out Google’s video of a lady making a rubbish cat-based app. We’re sure it (and you) can do better than that.

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