🚀 Founding game developers wanted ✅ Open now 🗓️ Submit by 30 August 2026
Build 2026
Learn to make games. Win prizes. Have fun doing it.
mebobox is a brand new games console where you build and share your own games. We’re looking for the very first creators to help shape it.
Be one of them: build a game in Creator Studio and pick up the real thinking behind coding — logic, problem-solving and debugging — while you play. Prizes to win, too. Open to builders aged 10 and over!
How to build and play your first game
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Build your first game in six minutes
Start from a completely empty project and build a character who jumps, with real artwork, block by block. No code, nothing to install.
What you can win
Overall winner
Launch day mebobox console + £30 book voucher
Combines great gameplay with great ideas
Most imaginative
£20 book voucher
The most original and creative game
Most playable
£20 book voucher
Easy to play and hard to put down
Best Bug Hunter — £10 book voucher
Creator Studio is brand new, so there are still bugs hiding out there. Find and report the most and squash your way to a bonus prize!
How to enter
Create your account
Set up a free mebobox Builder account. That’s what unlocks Creator Studio.
Build in Creator Studio
Drag, drop, and work with your assistant, mebo, to build your game. He’ll get you started and help when you’re stuck — and you’ll learn how games really work as you make yours.
Press “Build 2026: submit”
It’s the gold button at the top of Creator Studio. Tell the judges what makes your game special and you’re in — and you can carry on changing your game right up to 30 August 2026.
- 🗓️ Submission deadline
- 30 August 2026
- 🎈 Who
- Builders aged 10 and over
- 🎟️ Cost
- Free to enter
- 📋 Game rules
- Read them here
✨ It’s open now. Make a free account, build your game in Creator Studio, and press Build 2026: submit when you’re happy with it — you can keep improving it until 30 August 2026. Create a free account →
Ready to build?
Making an account is free and takes a minute. Under 16? Check with a parent or guardian first.
Create a free accountWhy this is great for your child: Creator Studio teaches the real foundations of coding — logic, sequencing, cause and effect, problem-solving and debugging — through play rather than lectures. Kids design, test and fix their own game, then see other people play it. It’s computational thinking disguised as a really good afternoon, and no prior coding experience is needed to start.
A note for parents: This challenge is open to builders aged 10 and over, and needs your permission. Entering is done from inside Creator Studio, so the only details we hold are the ones on the free account — and when a game is entered we get the game, not a new set of contact details. Nothing is passed to anybody else, and you can ask us to delete an account and everything in it at any time. No payment. Prizes are book vouchers rather than cash. See our Privacy Notice.
If a game is entered: we may promote it on the mebobox website to show off what people have built — with the builder’s username, so they get the credit. The name and email address on the account are never published.
Learn to make games. Have fun. Win prizes.