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The playback of our game's theme tune was a little bumpy, that's now been fixed! All it took was a switch from MP3 to Ogg format and a new audio engine for Android. Find our more in our new post:

https://innercitylearners.com/posts/20260508155205/a-seamless-theme-tune/

Thanks to the Strudel team and LibGDX community for their help.

Inner City Learners is a free and open source city building game aimed at children 6-12. It's in *very* early development.

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Inner City Learners Oct 24, 2025

*Nine* new buildings have arrived in the game - a library, bakery, restaurant, hairdressers and more! Read all about it:

https://innercitylearners.com/posts/20251024182711/new-buildings/

Next week we'll be adding a mini-game to one of the buildings so stay tuned for that.

Inner City Learners is a free and open source city building game aimed at children 6-12. It's in *very* early development.

#FOSS, #OpenSource, #GameDev, #IndieDev, #Education, #Gaming

Inner City Learners Oct 20, 2025

Players' cities just got a lot more interesting! Now you can place lots of buildings. Check out the video below and read more on the blog:

https://innercitylearners.com/posts/20251017132116/lots-of-buildings/

Next week we'll be working on adding more interesting buildings.

Inner City Learners is a free and open source game aimed at children 6-12. It's in *very* early development!

#FOSS #OpenSource #GameDev #IndieDev #Education #Gaming

Inner City Learners Sep 22, 2025

Our first gameplay video! Sort of.

Last week we improved how players can plan their city improvements. This short video shows a player earning stars, placing a house and a road then confirming their plan. Read more on the blog:

https://innercitylearners.com/posts/20250922113327/build-mode/

Next week we'll be working on road building.

Inner City Learners is a free and open source game aimed at children 6-12. It's in *very* early development!

#FOSS #OpenSource #GameDev #IndieDev #Education #Gaming

Inner City Learners Sep 12, 2025

Inner City Learners has moved Nov 8, 2024

Here's the latest screenshots of our educational city building game. The concept of opening presents in the city is gone. We now have a simple build mode in the game that lets you choose one of three buildings. Once a building is placed in the city you can extend the road that appears in front of it.

In future we'll have more places to build, more buildings and roads will have junctions as well.

Find out more at https://innercitylearners.com/

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Inner City Learners Sep 12, 2025

We have a clip of our new theme tune to share with you. It has a chiptune, funfair kind of vibe. Hope you like it!

Inner City Learners is a city building game aimed at #Children aged 6-12 years. It's still in early development, please follow for updates. It's open source, privacy respecting and ad-free.

You can read (a little) more here:

https://innercitylearners.com/posts/20250912173520/theme-tune/

#GameDev #FOSS #OpenSource #IndieDev #Education #Gaming #chiptune

Inner City Learners Jun 25, 2025

Inner City Learners has moved Oct 18, 2024

Time to talk about some of the great free and open source games that have inspired us! In particular those that are educational, suitable for children and might appeal to parents, carers and teachers.

First up is Burger Party from @agateau (Android, Play Store and F-Droid).

https://innercitylearners.com/games/20241014120700/burger-party/

#FOSS #OpenSource #GameDev #IndieDev #Education #Gaming

Burger Party

This article is part of our series on Free and Open Source Games. Burger Party is an Android game from Aurélien Gâteau that challenges you to complete burger orders at a restaurant as fast and as accurately as you can. It’s a well crafted game with near-universal appeal. Read on to find out more. Orders come in fast from these hungry Pirates Table of contents: Overview The Experience Audience Educational Value Content Advice Supporting the Developer Final Words Game Information Overview Burger Party challenges us to complete burger orders in restaurants around the world with speed and accuracy.

Inner City Learners

Inner City Learners Jun 25, 2025

Inner City Learners has moved Oct 3, 2024

A small thing - we changed the design theme of our #Hugo website yesterday to one that is simpler and prioritises #accessibility: the lovely Bear Cub. Looking forward to building on this and evolving our 'digital garden'!

We are grateful to the many #OpenSource projects we rely on and have created a thanks page too. Read more:

http://innercitylearners.com/posts/20241003120617/a-new-theme

A new theme

Yesterday we changed the theme for our website’s design from Ananke to Bear Cub. The change at this stage is mostly cosmetic. However we are looking to make this place more of a ‘digital garden’ in future and a simple theme like Bear Cub will help. We’ll say more on digital gardens soon too. For now it means the website is smaller and leaner with a cleaner look. I am also impressed with Bear Cub’s support for accessibility and multiple languages.

Inner City Learners

Inner City Learners Jun 25, 2025

Inner City Learners has moved Jun 24, 2024

Hello! We're new here so what better time for an #Introduction.

We are an #IndieDev doing #GameDev on a new city building game aimed at #Children in primary #Education aged 6-12 years.

Build a thriving city by completing learning challenges and unlocking new buildings and residents! The game will offer rewards and encouragement to those on their learning journey. Best of all it will be #OpenSource, privacy respecting and ad-free.

Visit us at our brand new website:

https://innercitylearners.com

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