Photos: Schoolkids develop games to aid learning

Judy Robertson, who's leading the research at Heriot-Watt University, told silicon.com the children will learn a lot about computing but added the emphasis will be more on developing a child's storytelling abilities.

Robertson said the software will allow children to build games very quickly without having to know any complicated computer programming languages.

The research project is due to run until early 2009 and has received funding of nearly £210,000 from the European Physical Sciences Research Council.

The image above shows how a child's game may look when played by an outsider.

Photo credit: Dr Judy Robertson