Pixel Game Lab
Make and play pixel games
Free · In‑App Purchases
New: 6 game types, online multiplayer for up to 4 players, mining and building, and a top-down map designer. Make your game, play it, share it.
Pixel Game Lab is a creative game studio for kids, right on your iPad. Draw your own pixel-art characters, build levels, and turn them into real games you can play and share.
Designed by the educators at Game Design Academy and used in elementary school game-design programs.
WHAT YOU CAN MAKE
- Concept Art: sketch your characters and worlds.
- Pixel Art: draw animated heroes, companions, enemies, bosses, tiles, and decorations.
- Level Design: build worlds with terrain, traps, doors, keys, moving platforms, and more.
- Games: package your art and levels into a real, playable game.
PLAY AND SHARE
- Play your creations in a full game engine: run, jump, climb, and battle.
- Team up in co-op and play a level together with a friend.
- Explore a catalog of games made by other kids and creators, free to play.
SAFE BY DESIGN
- Kids create with a username only. We do not collect a child's real name.
- Everything shared is reviewed by our team before it goes public.
- Report and block tools are on every public item, and there is no open chat.
PLANS
Pixel Game Lab is free to start with the Demo plan. Optional subscriptions (Standard, Extended, and Pro) give you more space to create and download characters, levels, and games, plus publishing and community features.
Subscriptions are auto-renewing. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription renews automatically unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings after purchase.
Terms of Use: https://pixelgamelab.com/terms
Privacy Policy: https://pixelgamelab.com/privacy
Build your own games in 6 game types, now with online multiplayer, mining and building, and a brand new top-down map designer.
NEW GAME TYPES
Now you can design 6 unique level types for your games, and mix them in the same game:
• Side-scroller Platformer
• Side-scroller Shoot 'em up
• Side-scroller Runner
• Top-down RPG
• Top-down Shoot 'em up
• Top-down Dual-stick Action
ONLINE MULTIPLAYER
• Make your game playable online, for up to 4 players
• Invite only, or let players join automatically
• Players choose their hero when your game offers more than one
NEW GAME FEATURES
• Mining and building: players dig out blocks and build with them
• Set your level's gravity: none, low, normal or high
• Add weather to your level: rain or snow
NEW TILE TYPES
• Teleport: send your hero between two points
• Moving platforms and moving obstacles
• Switch: your hero presses it to open and close doors, or to start and stop moving platforms
NEW TOP-DOWN MAP DESIGNER
• Paint your whole map with ground tiles
• Stack 3 layers to build detailed worlds
• Make any part of the map walkable or not walkable
Plus new tutorial videos, tips, and lots of improvements and fixes.
The developer, Game Design Academy LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Purchases
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Identifiers
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Game Design Academy LLC
- Size
- 20.2 MB
- Category
- Adventure
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
9+
- 9+
- Infrequent
Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
Guns or Other Weapons
Contains
User-Generated Content
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Extended Monthly $3.99
- Standard Monthly $1.99
- Pro Monthly $9.99
- Pro Annual $99.99
- Extended Annual $39.99
- Standard Annual $19.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Game Design Academy LLC