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Typcoon: Nightcode is a typing game for kids aged 8 to 14. VEX, a rogue AI, has switched off the city of Neo-Delta, and every word a child types brings a piece of it back on. Along the way the child learns to touch type with all ten fingers, from the home row to the typing diploma. Children can start for free, with no account.
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- 8–14years old
- 5languages: game, voices and site
- 8keyboard layouts recognised
- 10 mina day: the daily goal
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Typcoon: Nightcode is a typing game for kids aged 8 to 14 in which children type the blacked-out city of Neo-Delta back on and learn to touch type with ten fingers along the way.
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Typcoon: Nightcode is a typing game for kids aged 8 to 14. VEX, a rogue AI, has switched off the city of Neo-Delta, and every word a child types brings a piece back. Children learn to touch type with ten fingers along the way: one letter at a time, accuracy before speed. Free to start in the browser.
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Typcoon: Nightcode is a typing game for kids aged 8 to 14, made by a small team in the Netherlands. VEX, a rogue AI, has switched off the city of Neo-Delta. Every word a child types brings a street, a sign or a tower back on, and along the way the child learns to touch type with all ten fingers. Underneath the city sits a learning engine: the home row first, one new letter at a time, accuracy before speed, about ten minutes a day. Each of the six districts ends with a test and a boss; the typing diploma comes after the final test and beating VEX. The game runs in the browser on a computer with a keyboard, in five languages, and recognises eight keyboard layouts. It is free to start, for families and for schools. No ads, no chat, nothing for a child to buy.
fact sheet
Facts at a glance
- Name
- Typcoon: Nightcode (the game). Typcoon (the brand, typcoon.com).
- What it is
- A typing game in the browser: children learn to touch type with ten fingers, from the home row to the typing diploma.
- Age
- 8 to 14, also for children who have never typed.
- Languages
- English, Dutch, German, French and Spanish: the game, the voices and the website.
- Keyboard layouts
- Eight: US QWERTY, US-International QWERTY (as used in the Netherlands), French AZERTY, Belgian AZERTY, German QWERTZ, Swiss QWERTZ, Spanish (Spain) and Latin American. The game recognises the keyboard; a parent can also choose it.
- Platform
- In the browser on a laptop, Chromebook or desktop computer with a real keyboard. Nothing to install. Not on a phone. A tablet only with a real keyboard attached and a screen at least 1024 pixels wide, such as an iPad in landscape.
- Free to start
- Children play the first part of the game for free, starting with the Harbour, with no time limit and no account. The full version, up to the typing diploma, is bought by a parent: a child can never buy anything.
- Schools
- Pupils log in with a class code and their own code: no email address, no password. The teacher sees letters, accuracy, speed and practice time per child, and prints login cards and diplomas. Free to start for schools.
- How it teaches
- Home row first, one new letter at a time, accuracy before speed. Tricky letters come back as glitches; the next key lights up in the colour of the finger that types it. Speed in keys per minute. Daily goal: 10 minutes of play and 3 missions.
- Typing diploma
- At the end of the game: a final test (a short story with capitals, punctuation and numbers, at least 95% accuracy at 100 keys per minute or more), then beating VEX, the final boss. It is the game's own diploma, earned in the game.
- For parents
- Follow progress on your own phone: minutes, letters, accuracy and speed, with a short update by email on Sundays.
- Privacy and safety
- No ads and no trackers from other companies. No chat, no other players, no public profiles. Playing works without an account: progress stays in the browser and the game uses no cookies. Use of the game is counted without cookies and without knowing who the child is; at school nothing is measured. Database in Europe. Every word the game asks a child to type goes through a word filter. No public leaderboard in the game; at school a teacher can switch on a class board that only that class sees (off by default).
- Made by
- A small team in the Netherlands.
- Press contact
- team@typcoon.com
The separate free typing games on the site (such as Neon Dash) have leaderboards for the day, week, month and all time, with an anonymous name the game picks. There is no free text and no chat.
story ideas
Angles for your story
Facts from the game itself, no figures we don't have.
Why touch typing still matters
More and more schoolwork is typed: projects, presentations and tests on the computer. A child who touch types looks at the screen, not at the keys, so their attention stays on what they want to write, and they sit up instead of bending over the keyboard.
Ten minutes a day
Typcoon is built around short sessions. After ten minutes of play and three missions the daily goal is reached. Playing on is allowed, but the game never nags, and skipping a day pauses the streak for a day instead of wiping it out.
A typing course inside a game
Underneath the city sits a learning engine: one new letter at a time, accuracy before speed, tricky letters coming back as glitches, and the next key lit up in the colour of the right finger. Each district ends with a test and a boss; the typing diploma asks for 95% accuracy at 100 keys per minute.
Typing lessons at school without email addresses
Pupils log in with a class code and a personal code from a printed card; typing the code is the first exercise. Teachers see letters, accuracy, speed and practice time per child. Schools can start for free, and the game measures nothing at school.
A children's game with nothing to buy
No ads, no chat, no coins for money. A child can never buy anything: buying is only for parents, behind “I am a parent”, and parents follow their child's progress on their own phone.
screenshots
The game in pictures
Straight from the game, in the language of this page, at 2560 × 1440 (the first at 1920 × 1080). No children and no names in any picture.
Neo-Delta, the city of the game, in full glory, from the intro film before VEX switches it off.
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A neon city at night with a glowing globe of light above the towers.
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The city: the Skyline district fully lit, with three Holos above the city and a crystal ready to open.
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The city screen at night with lit towers, three pixel-art Holos floating above them, a crystal on the left and the mission button at the bottom right.
A new key: the game shows which finger types it and where it sits on the home row. Then the child types a short row.
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The new key screen for the letter S: a large key, the name of the finger, two hands with that finger lit, and a row of practice letters above the on-screen keyboard.
The Neon Market: every letter is a broken neon tube that lights up again when it is typed. The words use only the letters the child has already learned.
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A neon sign on a brick wall with glowing words, a counter of lit tubes at the top right and the on-screen keyboard below with the next key highlighted.
Skyline: every word is a rocket, and the space bar launches it.
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Rockets with letters on a launch pad in front of a night skyline, fireworks in the sky and a rocket counter at the top right.
Boss fight against the Storm Tower: two words attack at once. Two wrong keys in a row cost a piece of the five-part shield.
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A boss fight with the Storm Tower at the top, two storm clouds each carrying a word, a banner in the middle and the shield bar at the top left.
The final boss: VEX, in The Grid. The on-screen keyboard shows the number row and which finger to use.
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VEX, a red pixel eye in a hexagon, attacks with a word above an orange line; below it the on-screen keyboard with the number row and the next key lit.
The typing diploma, shown here without a name. It shows the results of the final test and three of the child's Holos.
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A typing diploma in a gold frame with an empty line for the name, 97% typed cleanly, 132 keys per minute and three Holos.
video and gifs
Short clips
Each clip is under ten seconds, without sound. MP4 (H.264, 1280 × 720) for video, GIF (480 px wide) for places that only take images. A GIF is heavier than the MP4, so use the MP4 where you can.
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Playing
The Neon Market: the child types the last neon sign of the mission letter by letter, until the shop opens again.
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A neon sign on a brick wall lights up letter by letter as the words are typed; then the sign glows in full and the text Shop open again! appears.
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The city lights up
The Harbour Master is beaten, and the lights of the district come back on in a wave: Boss defeated.
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A dark city where the lights come back on in a wave, with fireworks, a glowing whale in the sky and the words BOSS DEFEATED.
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The final boss
VEX takes over the city and builds itself out of pixels: “So you are the kid with the keyboard. Bring it on.”
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A lit neon city goes dark under a red warning banner, then a red pixel eye forms with the subtitle So you are the kid with the keyboard.
The clips are in English; the game itself also runs in Dutch, German, French and Spanish.
logo
Logo and icon
The icon is a typing prompt: an orange > and a cyan cursor on the night. The logo puts the name next to it in Big Shoulders Display. SVG for print and web, PNG with a transparent background as well.
Icon
Logo on black
Logo on white
Transparent, light name
Transparent, dark name
Using the logo
- Clear space
- Keep free space around the logo of at least half the height of the icon, on every side.
- Minimum size
- Icon at least 24 px on screen. Logo with name at least 120 px wide on screen, or 25 mm in print.
- Background
- On dark backgrounds the version on black or with the light name; on light backgrounds the version on white or with the dark name. On a busy picture, put a dark band behind it.
Please don't
- stretch, squash or rotate the logo
- change the colours of the > and the cursor
- set the name in another typeface or add shadows, outlines or glows
- combine the logo with another logo into a new mark
- use the logo to suggest that Typcoon endorses or sells something
images
Neo-Delta and header images
Neo-Delta, square
For a profile picture or a square post. 600 × 600, also 1080 × 1080.
Header, wide
For the top of an article or a link preview. 1200 × 630, with the logo and no text.
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Share image per language
The image typcoon.com itself shows when it is shared, with its tagline, 1200 × 630, in each of the five languages.
The typing diploma
The diploma as the game draws it, without a name. 1600 × 1131.
colours and type
The night and its neon
Typcoon lives at night: a near-black background, light text, and the neon colours of the districts as accents. Use one or two accents at a time.
- Night
#02060Abackground, icon - Panel
#08141Dcards and panels - Cream
#FFF3E3headings, the name - Ink
#E2F1F6running text - Amber
#FFC27Alinks - Sodium
#FF9A3Cthe >, play buttons - Ice
#5FE6FFthe cursor, schools - Signal
#FF3D7FVEX - Gold
#FFD36Bthe typing diploma - Mint
#46F2B0free, done - Violet
#B8A6FFSkyline - Pink
#FF8FB3parents
Typefaces
Typcoon
Big Shoulders Display
Headings, buttons and the name in the logo. Black (900) and Extra Bold (800).
Neo-Delta · VEX · 8–14
Schibsted Grotesk
Running text. Regular (400) to Bold (700).
> ffff jjjj fjfj
JetBrains Mono
What you type in the game, keys and short labels. Medium (500) to Bold (700).
All three are free on Google Fonts (SIL Open Font License).
the name
How to write it
- Typcoon
- One word, capital T, the rest lower case. Not TypCoon, Typecoon or TYPCOON in running text.
- Typcoon: Nightcode
- The full name of the game, with a colon and a space. On first mention: Typcoon: Nightcode; after that Typcoon is fine.
- Neo-Delta
- The city, with a hyphen.
- VEX
- The villain of the game, a rogue AI, always in capitals.
- Holos
- The collectible holograms in the game.
Free to use for editorial coverage
You may use the texts, screenshots, clips, images and logos on this page free of charge in articles, reviews, blogs, videos, newsletters and school publications about Typcoon. Cropping and resizing are fine; please don't change what the pictures show, and don't use them in advertising for something else. A credit is welcome: “Image: Typcoon”.
Writing a review?
Ask for free access to the full version at team@typcoon.com, so you can play every district up to VEX.
Questions? Get in touch
For interviews, extra pictures or anything else: team@typcoon.com.
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Last updated: 4 November 2026