Little Dutch Boy Game

If you have kids that regularly visit the Ellen Buchanan Children's Room, then you have probably met Mabel the Table.  This is a large interactive touch table that immediately draws kids' attention.  The library has been a long-time host of Coder Dojo Iowa City, the local chapter of an international movement to teach and inspire kids in the vocation of computer programming.  Young programmers in this dojo collaboratively designed and built a custom game called Little Dutch Boy that is only found on Mabel the Table.  The game is a race against time as a dike holding back water is starting to fill with holes.  Players around the table try to plug as many holes as they can with their fingers before the water gets too high. I hope you have a chance to try it out next time you are at the library.  The kids of Coder Dojo did a wonderful job of working together to contribute a cool new custom app for our table.  If you are a game designer or involved in a developer group and want to help us improve these games or create new ones, please contact me at the library