I highly recommend hooking your kid up with pico-8.
It's a simple little 'fantasy' console with tons of tools to make gamedev streamlined. It's really caught on fire with the gamedev community and you can tell there was a lot of pent up creativity out there that was sick of the complexity of modern gamedev and just wanted a tight little environment to make simple indie games with. I'm not doing a good enough job describing it, but the website is below and check out the youtube overview.
It's a simple little 'fantasy' console with tons of tools to make gamedev streamlined. It's really caught on fire with the gamedev community and you can tell there was a lot of pent up creativity out there that was sick of the complexity of modern gamedev and just wanted a tight little environment to make simple indie games with. I'm not doing a good enough job describing it, but the website is below and check out the youtube overview.
https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXveyqOYB5w