Tiko Bot is a coding game for children, set on floating 3D islands. Tiko, a little robot, has to bring a battery to a friend who is waiting: a pom-pom, a bunny, a puppy or an owl. Children build Tiko's program from picture blocks by dragging them into place. A glowing path shows the plan straight away. Then they press GO and watch Tiko run it, with the running block lit up.
Along the way children learn sequence, turns, jumps over steps and gaps, buttons that raise bridges and open gates, loops, loops inside loops, and if-colour blocks that let Tiko choose. In debug levels they fix a program that has a mistake. When Tiko gets it wrong the fail is funny, never scary, and the program is kept so they can try again.
The levels never run out. New ideas arrive one at a time and are then mixed together, and a solver checks every level to make sure it can be solved. Hints come in three steps: a glowing path, the next block, then a worked answer.
Children earn gears and coins. In the Workshop, the first looks for Tiko are free and coins buy extra ones; all the coding blocks are free. A weekly leaderboard on ATHRYZA's own server compares scores using nicknames the game generates, so a child never types a name. Play needs no account: it starts with an anonymous one, and a grown-up can link Google or Apple sign-in to keep progress across devices. Settings, sign-in and every link out sit behind a grown-up gate.
On iOS the game shows only small ATHRYZA cards for our own apps. On Android it can also show child-directed Google AdMob ads. Tiko Bot is available in 16 languages, with full Arabic support.
ATHRYZA designed and built the game.
Key features
- Drag picture blocks onto Tiko's program and see the glowing path
- Press GO and watch the 3D robot run your plan
- Sequence, turns, jump, buttons and bridges, loops, nested loops, if-colour and debugging
- Endless levels, every one checked by a solver
- Funny fails and friends: pom-pom, bunny, puppy and owl
- Workshop looks: free first, coins for extras
- Weekly leaderboard with kid-safe generated nicknames
- Grown-up gate before settings, sign-in and links
- Available in 16 languages