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Our students' game reached the Google Play Store
Ektana (একটানা — “non-stop”) started as a class project in the Godot engine and is now downloadable on Android. Their first published game — and not their last.
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What our students have been making.
Published games, game jams, awards, swimming milestones and cooking stalls — everything CAFFE students have done, newest first.
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Lal and Nil — heading to PlayExpo Blackpool
Teacher and game developer Rabiul is building a retro-style two-player platform puzzle game with our students. It will be featured at PlayExpo Blackpool in 2025.
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Swimming at CAFFE — now in its third year
Swimming is in its third year at CAFFE, with more students than ever learning the essential life-saving skill.
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Elephant Rescue
A collaboration between our art and code students: Aseprite students designed the game and made the art, coding students built it in Godot.
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At Night — 49th of 112 in the 74th Godot Jam
One of our students entered the 74th Godot Jam solo with his game At Night and placed 49th out of 112 — good going for a second-ever jam entry.
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Space Run in the Godot Wild Jam
Three students, mentored by CAFFE teacher Rabiul, entered the Godot Wild Jam with Space Run — the first time the group worked independently on a jam entry.
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Our game played at Godot Con 23, Munich
Three of our Godot students joined a Zoom call to watch developers at Godot Con play their game and give feedback on how to improve it. A huge opportunity, and a generous one.
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Our students' first Godot game
একটানা (Ektana) — “non-stop”. Pass the ball left to right, avoid the obstacles, collect items, reach the next level. The first game our Godot class finished together.
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Three top-down shooters in Godot
One of our students built three different top-down shooter games in Godot, all playable now on itch.io.
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Our first month of swimming lessons
October 2023: 21 students, over 70 hours of classes. Fifteen students who could not swim at all can now manage at least a length.
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আমি স্কুলে যাচ্ছি — a maze game for young children
“I am going to school”, built in KaboomJS: a puzzle-maze for younger players. Collect items and solve puzzles to find your way through.
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Puroshkar — our coding teacher's first JavaScript game
Lose a life and you get a chance to win it back by fighting a boss. Part platformer, part space shooter, made for a game jam.
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Honourable mention at Microsoft's Prehistoric Game Jam
Our students made games set in prehistoric times for Microsoft's MakeCode Arcade jam — one of them earned an honourable mention.
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Challenge: make a game in ten minutes
Given a random setting and style of gameplay, our students had ten minutes each to build something playable in MakeCode Arcade. Most of them managed it.
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A freelancing student's first paid job — $50
One of our new freelancing students won her first commission on Freelancer: a logo for an energy contractor, paid at $50. Her first earnings from design.
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The Maureen Borbone Award 2023
This year's recipient stood out for putting other students' needs ahead of her own, stepping up to help across her class all year.
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The CAFFE Eid stall
Students ran an iftar stall through Ramadan, preparing and selling snacks to the public outside the centre. A great success, with plenty of returning customers.
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Food from around the world
The cooking class catered the English students' landmark presentations: triple-cooked chips from England, Egyptian kofta, and fruit popsicles from San Francisco.
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English class tries cooking
Cupcakes, made by the English class — learning the vocabulary for the equipment first, then following a recipe entirely in English.
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3D modelling comes to the design class
Our design students have moved from pixel art into 3D, building low-poly models and characters for the games our coding students are making.
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