Initial design and development of the game was by Gamelab in partnership with Katie Salen, The Institute of Play and the Academic Advanced Distributed Learning Co-Lab (AADLC) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
[2] On September 29, 2020, it was announced that the current website would be shut down on December 31, 2020, due to the planned deprecation of Adobe Flash.
As they advance in the Quest, players also earn "sprites" (characters, avatars, enemies, etc...) for use in their own games.
At any time, players can switch to their Workshops and make an original game using the assets they have earned.
Most sprites are either avatars, enemies, blocks, items, or systems, but some of which are in forms of backgrounds and music.
[9][10] Gamestar has won numerous awards for excellence in educational technology and children's media including