How to Create and Share a Game on Makie: 4 Steps

Makie turns a kid's description into a real, playable game in about a minute, and publishing it takes one tap. The whole process is four steps: pick a starter game or a blank canvas, tell Makie what to make, play and remix, then publish a play-link. It's built for ages 7–15, and no coding class or setup is required — friends and family can play a published link without creating an account.

Step 1: Pick a starter game or a blank canvas

You don't start from a blank screen. Makie offers two entry points:

• A starter game — browse the existing games on the site (titles like Crowd Clash 3D, Sink City, Crownwild, Little World, Critter Clash, Crown Match, Sky Dodger, Castle Escape, Pixel Garden, Number Jam, and Dino Dash) to get an idea, then build from one of them.
• A blank canvas — go straight to your own idea with nothing pre-set.

The site frames this as "Play something. Get an idea." — playing an existing game first is a legitimate way to find what you want to make.

Step 2: Tell Makie what to make

Describe the game in your own words. The site's example is a single sentence: "A dragon that catches falling stars." That's enough — Makie says a real, playable game appears in about a minute.

What happens as you describe it:

1. Makie writes real code, live, as it builds.
2. You can peek at that code to see how it works — useful for curious kids who want to learn what's underneath.

There's no menu of settings to configure first. The description is the input.

Step 3: Play, remix, repeat

Once the game exists, the loop is change-and-play:

• Change anything with a single sentence — the hero, the rules, the whole world.
• Play it to see whether the change did what you wanted.
• Repeat until it feels right.

Every idea is one sentence away, so remixing is the normal mode of working rather than a separate editing phase.

Step 4: Publish and share a play-link

One tap publishes a play-link you can send to friends and family. The people you share it with don't need accounts to play — they just open the link.

What parents should know before signing up

• Age range: built for ages 7–15.
• Content filtering: every idea passes through kid-safe content filters before anything is built.
• No ads, no stranger chat, no data sold.
• Weekly Make Credits: creation runs on a weekly credit allowance, which keeps costs visible and creation intentional.
• Household access: adults manage household access, maker emails, credits, and billing.

Pricing and credit details live on the site's Pricing and credits page — check there for current terms rather than assuming what the credits cover.

Quick reference

Makie is made by the same team behind Askie, the kids' AI learning companion — same approach to child safety and design, applied to building games instead of exploring questions.