Jurassic Code Challenge

Fiero Code’s Summer code challenge is LIVE!

Planet Fiero has a fascinating and mysterious prehistoric age. 

Just below the surface lives an ancient world of robosaurs mixed with gems bigger than a beachball (and quite valuable too).

Your Mission:

Create a digger-style game where your character can dig into the ground. Your goal is to collect as many gems as possible. But be careful! If you free a robosaur, there’s a good chance it’ll try to kill you.

Competition details:

• Free to enter
• Ages Groups
  • 8-12
  • 13-18
  • 19+
• Runs from June 1 – July 31, 2026
• Join the contest in Fiero Code
• Winner gets cool tech prize from Fiero Code

Get Started:

1. Log into Fiero Code. If you don’t have an account already, use your ACLS card to create one.
2. Navigate to the Challenge page from the top menu.
3. Join the challenge and start building!
4. Publish your project before July 31st.

Requirements:

1. Create a character that you can control with the arrow keys. 
2. Design a level that’s mostly dirt with some gems and robosaurs mixed in. Have fun designing the robosaurs! 
3. Code a way so that when your character touches the dirt, the dirt goes away and a path is created. 
4. Code a way so that when robosaurs are not stuck in the dirt, they move around in the paths. If your character touches a robosaur, they should lose a life.
5. When your character touches a gem, the gem should go disappear. Program a way to keep track of how many gems have been collected. 
6. Create several levels that get increasingly more difficult. 
7. Add a timer to make it more difficult.
8. Create fun background music and sound effects for the game. 
9. Create a welcome screen and a “You Win” or “You Lose” screen.

Helpful Fiero Code courses:

• Hour of code
• Code Blocks
• Code Blocks Game

“My experience working on this project was challenging for me. It proved I needed
to think more outside the box and other things to truly succeed in my project. On
some subjects it took days, others within the class period, But overall I believe it
was a fun and challenging learning experience. I believe that because I won I am
very excited to see what happens next. I love coding so far and this was a
challenging experience [Like I said earlier] So winning for me was a pretty great
moment.” – Past first place winner

The next winner could be… YOU!