#头条创作挑战赛#
In September 2022, Dr. Doctor shared with everyone a very young video game developer named "Max Trest" who attended the Emerald City Comic Con Comic-Con at the time and promoted his own product developed with the Unity engine, the retro-style adventure game "Astrolander". This two-player co-op game isn't complicated, but it's quite admirable considering the author is only 12 years old!
Some people with bigger brains may ask, "Max Trest" is not old, is there a younger game development? The Doctor recently noticed a new news on the official Guinness World Records website that they confirmed that a six-year-old girl from Canada is currently the "youngest video game developer" in the world! The vast majority of ordinary people are still playing with mud when they are six years old, and there are children who can use programming languages to develop games?
From ancient heroes out of youth! The Guinness World Records certified girl is named "Simar Khurana" and her specific age is 6 years and 335 days as of May 2023. Now the child is seven years old, but he was indeed more than six years old when he broke the Guinness World Record. As for the kids' creation, it's a simple indie game called the Healthy Food Challenge.
For children of this age, it is normal to spend most of their free time playing. However, according to the little girl's father, "Paras", when he was in kindergarten, "Simar" would watch videos on video websites by himself, teach himself third-grade mathematics, and like to make crafts and board games out of waste paper. Seeing that his daughter had a good talent for numbers and logic, father "Paras" guided the child to try so-called programming.
Benefiting from the low threshold and intelligence of today's programming software, "Simar" spontaneously wanted to create a game for friends of the same age after studying a special course. When she saw her family doctor before, she and her sister were impressed by the education to eat less fast food junk food. So, "Simar" came up with a game about healthy food and junk food, the aforementioned Healthy Food Challenge.
"Simar" said: After playing this game developed by himself, everyone knows what is healthy food, what is junk food, what effects eating more junk food will have on the body, how important it is to develop the habit of eating a balanced diet from an early age, and so on. Dr. Doctor feels: In addition to children, this theme has a certain value and significance for many adults! We don't know how much influence parents have during the whole process, as long as the child likes it personally, then others are okay.
The doctor also learned that when the family wanted to challenge the Guinness World Record, there were still 4 months left or they would exceed the age limit, so "Simar" adjusted his course load, took four programming lessons a week, successfully completed the game, and shared it on the coding community website Scratch. Here's the amazing thing: it's so busy that the little girl finds time to participate in talent classes such as dance, gymnastics and karate. It seems that not only domestic but also foreign children are quite rolled. I remember: in the Guinness Book of World Records, a boy in India was certified as the world's youngest computer programmer, and he was also six years old.