# Run Marco!

> Allcancode’s first product, now a personal revival of the company’s legacy. I am refreshing the coding adventure that remains available at runmarco.com.

- Organization: Allcancode legacy
- Period: Launched 2014 · Personal revival underway
- Product category: A coding adventure for children
- Canonical URL: [https://www.voxelperfect.com/work/run-marco](https://www.voxelperfect.com/work/run-marco)
- External resource: [Play Run Marco](https://runmarco.com/)
- Related resource: [The Allcancode story](https://www.voxelperfect.com/writing/allcancode-from-a-coding-game-to-a-tool-that-simplifies-software-production)
- Related resource: [Allcancode platform case study](https://www.voxelperfect.com/work/allcancode)

## Product challenge

Allcancode is part of my history. I decided to revive Run Marco to keep the company’s legacy alive: a coding adventure where children guide Marco or Sophia through puzzles, assemble instructions, and learn through play.

## Product pillars

- **2014:** original public launch
- **Play:** programming through an interactive adventure
- **Blockly:** visual programming in the evolving game
- **Today:** a refreshed edition in development

## The original game and its revival

- I built Run Marco as Allcancode’s first shipped product, bringing together game design, visual programming, artwork, and testing with children and educators.
- The game launched publicly in October 2014. Feedback from classrooms and our time at Imagine K12 in Silicon Valley shaped both the game and the tools around it.
- I built visual authoring tools so that game content and rules could evolve on a shared foundation. That work later informed the Allcancode application development platform.
- I decided to return to Run Marco personally as the legacy of Allcancode. I am refreshing the standalone game’s interface and play flow while retaining the original characters, artwork, and puzzles.

## Craft involved

Game development, Visual programming, Learning through play, Product design, Authoring tools, Product renewal

## Evidence and lasting outcomes

- A coding game that remains available more than a decade after its original launch.
- A direct route from a shipped learning product to the authoring tools that helped shape Allcancode’s later platform.
- A personal revival that keeps Allcancode’s legacy available to a new generation of players.

## The original adventure

Run Marco has its own product history, before the later Allcancode platform. The original title screen preserves the game’s illustrated world and characters.

- **Run Marco!:** The original coding adventure, first launched in 2014. The refreshed edition is ongoing work.