Jordan Casey at Gamelab 2016.
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16-year-old game maker’s fourth company teaches kids to code

At 16, Jordan Casey is a little young to be giving back. But he’s doing it anyway. This Irish game developer is on his third company, and his next game aims to teach kids to code.

At 13, the then-and-still baby-faced Casey started Casey Games, working on mobile game titles for the app stores while trying to keep up with his studies. He also later started Eventzy, aimed at helping users manage events, and Teachware, a tool for helping teachers in classrooms.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.