Click to play the School Pixel For Children game level!
Click to make your own School Pixel level using the For Children game editor!
School Pixel is a video game built around a font — one drawn from a workshop with 130 New Zealand children. Moving through underground landscapes of flat colours, imagination is allowed interpretive space within a grid-based world. Players navigate Drillbot in search of Energy Letters to continue its adventures.
Mining Raw Letters has produced two contributions for the 2026 inaugural cycle of HausCode, a research and development initiative of Haus der Kunst Munich:
(1)
A “For Children” School Pixel level inspired by the
exhibition “For
Children: Art Stories since 1968” at Haus der Kunst Munich. Drillbot drops through the towering blocks
of Olafur Eliasson; dimmed lights and staged mirrors echo Antoine Catala’s synthetic garden; an Ernesto
Neto–inspired zone slows Drillbot into calm and quiet; Harun Farocki’s bedtime stories become an
icy “ship with teeth” to enter. Exploration-focused and friendly for all ages, the For Children
level invites players to chase the high score.
Go to GAME to play and discover!
(2)
A “For Children” School Pixel game editor draws on
childhood memories of pixel painting on a Macintosh Plus. Its friendly interface invites world-making. Go to
MAKE to carve paths,
paint landscapes and type words to create your own level — test play and submit to the SHOW!
Produced with Haus der Kunst Munich for the HausCode Studio.
Supported by Art Institutions of the 21st Century Foundation and Director’s Innovation Circle.
Notes
This version of the School Pixel is optimised for a desktop
environment. Tablets also function; however, you may need to switch to the smaller
“floating keyboard” in the game editor.
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School Pixel is in app development with more
level designs underway! Contact studio(at)miningrawletters.com for
information or collaboration. And join our School Pixel Discord
community :–)