Dates: November 1, 2026 - November 30, 2026

Languages: Code Blocks

The Fiero Code Contest is an exciting opportunity for coders to put their creativity and programming skills to the test. Participants are invited to design, build, and share their very own video game using Fiero Code. Explore coding concepts, solve challenges, and bring your ideas to life as you create a game that's fun, engaging, and uniquely yours.

See the contest guidelines and instructions below, and be sure to practice, play, and create in Fiero Code!

Contest Guidelines & Instructions

Contest Guidelines

The Challenge: As an upstanding citizen of Planet Fiero, you have important responsibilities! You’ve got things to do and places to be. But as with much of the modern world, a mixture of urbanization, tourism, and poor city planning has made Planet Fiero terribly difficult to get around in. Even crossing the street is downright challenging!

Your mission: Design and create a program in Code Blocks that allows you to navigate your character safely across the street. But watch out - obstacles like cars, or robot creatures will be moving along the street, and if you get hit, game over!

Requirements:

• Design a cool looking main character.
• Design a cool scene with a street as the main focus.
• Design and program a few obstacles (cars or bad guys) that are traveling along the street. Make some obstacles go one direction and others go the other direction.
• Program a way to control your main character to navigate up and down, left and right.
• Program a way for the character to win the level by getting to the other side of the street or lose the level by getting hit by an obstacle.
• Program a way so players have a certain number of lives, and they lose a life when they get hit by an obstacle.
• Make the levels increasingly difficult (more obstacles, faster moving obstacles)
• Add sound effects.
• Add a timer so players have to complete a level in a certain amount of time.
• Create a “You Win” screen and a “Game Over” screen and program the conditions of when those screens will appear.
• Optional: Make some levels where the rules are reversed and you die if you touch the road (maybe it looks like water), and instead you have to move onto moving transports to cross the road.

Submission Instructions

Participants must submit their entries:

• Deadline: Monday, November 30, at 11:59 pm
• Format: Entries must be submitted as a project on Fiero Code.

The contest is open to customers who live or go to school in Coquitlam.

Prizes & Judges

Submissions will be evaluated based on technical complexity, creativity, and presentation. One winner will be selected from each age group:

• Ages 8-12
• Ages 13-18
• Ages 19 and over

Prizes: Coming soon!

Participants may also be eligible for prizes with Fiero Code. For information about participation through Fiero Code, see https://app.fierocode.com/contest