Skyscraper Games
Skyscraper Games
Skyscraper Games, an initiative launched by Drexel Professor of Digital Media Frank Lee in 2016, engages youth in Python programming and creative expression through creation of games to be played on the Cira Center, a skyscraper in Philadelphia. Building on Dr. Lee’s record-breaking versions of Pong and Tetris made for the building, the program uses the spectacle of skyline-scale play to teach computing skills to middle school students, with a particular emphasis on members of populations marginalized in computing fields. This new phase of the Skyscraper Games project centers on broadening the reach of the program beyond the Philadelphia metropolitan area, making game creation tools accessible to kids with no prior programming experience, and bringing the spectacle of games on a skyscraper to metaverse platforms where youth spend time.
Collaborators
Frank J. Lee, Ph.D.
Entrepreneurial Game Studio
Drexel University
Funding
Young Futures Here Comes The Fun Grant
Brandywine Realty Trust Gift
Press
Playing ‘Skyscaper Games’ at Cira Centre to Celebrate Semiquincentennial and Philly Tech Week