9 year old Nigerian designs mobile games
Lagos, Nigeria Seated in a stylish living room of a home in a suburb of Nigeria's commercial center, Lagos, Basil Okpara Jr. is tapping away on his laptop keyboard.
The 9-year-old is building a hide and seek game, using a free programming application called Scratch 2. Scratch 2 allows users to create games, animations, and stories online or offline. So far, Basil has used it to generate more than 30 mobile games. Today's game involves a bat he has programmed to hide. The player gets a point every time he catches the bat when it emerges from its hiding place. "I learned how to build games at a boot camp.
Watch out World - African Students are Robotics Ready 00:51The camp, organized by Codefest International, was put in place to give children like Basil access to emerging technologies like robotics and virtual reality. Growing up, Basil used to play a lot of mobile games says his father, Basil Okpara Sr. "I bought him a tablet when he was 4 years old because I saw that he was always grabbing phones to play games with. He played Candy Crush and Temple Run a lot," the father told CNN.
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