Lightbot

Lightbot is an educational video game for learning software programming concepts, developed by Danny Yaroslavski. Lightbot has been played 7 million times, and is highly rated on iTunes and Google Play store.^[2][3][4] Lightbot is available as an online Flash game, and an application for Android and iOS mobile phones.^[5] Lightbot has been built with Flash and OpenFL.^[1]

A screenshot of Lightbot with robot (center) and command panel (right)

Lightbot
Developer(s)	Lightbot Inc.[1]
Publisher(s)	Brad from code.org
Designer(s)	Danny Yaroslavski[1]
Engine	OpenFL
Platform(s)	Web, Android, iOS
Release	2008
Genre(s)	Educational

The goal of Lightbot is to command a little robot to navigate a maze and turn on lights.^[6] Players arrange symbols on the screen to command the robot to walk, turn, jump, switch on a light and so on. The maze and the list of symbols become more complicated as the lessons progress.^[6] While using such commands, players learn programming concepts like loops, procedures and more, without entering code in any programming language.^[6]