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Wordplay

accessible, multilingual, creative coding

Create interactive stories with words, symbols, emojis, and code with us! Get started in or choose .

Create and share performances

Experience others' performances

Create custom emojis and symbols

Learn the language with a dramatic cast of characters

Search and browse the language reference

Manage classes of students and their projects

Wordplay is a programming language

Every program is an expression that becomes a value. is a program, and so is .
Numbers carry units, so is meters, and is a mistake catches before it runs.
Functions are values you can name, hand around, and call: .
When input changes, reevaluates your program and shows its new value. No need to respond to events.
finds mistakes before the program runs, and explains each problem.

Every programming language feature has a name in every language, so the code reads in words you already know.
Your own names can be multilingual too:
Text carries a language, and shows the language your audience reads: .
The site itself is in 29 languages and you can choose more than one at a time; text appears in each.
You can help translate itself, right inside the app at localize.

Anything you can do with a mouse, you can do with a keyboard.
Screen readers describe the stage as it changes, and optional sounds mark what reevaluates, what animates, and what collides.
You can read and write your code as blocks instead of text, and switch whenever you like.
Motion can be slowed down, or turned off completely.
Spoken output can be captioned on stage for anyone who can't hear it.

Time passing: ticks along, and knows today's date in your own calendar and time zone.
Where your audience points, what they touch, and which keys they press.
Programs can respond to your mic: how loud it is with Volume, what pitch with Pitch, and what words with Speech.
Your audience can type in Chat, and pick stage content with Choice.
Programs can respond to the beat of the music they play, with Beat.

Documentation is part of the language with explanation, not a comment beside it.
A searchable guide explains every built-in feature, with examples.
Every mistake is explained where it happened, in your language.
You can step through a program forwards and backwards to debug what happened.
While you step, every value is shown right in the code that made it.