He could try using GameMaker to create his own games. It's a free tool for making pretty functional games, and you don't have to know how to code too terribly much. It's really draggy-droppy for the most part. If he finds the easy part of it interesting, there is a whole new level of use when you get into GameMaker's scripting. There's also a ton of tutorials available online.
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He could try using GameMaker to create his own games. It's a free tool for making pretty functional games, and you don't have to know how to code too terribly much. It's really draggy-droppy for the most part. If he finds the easy part of it interesting, there is a whole new level of use when you get into GameMaker's scripting. There's also a ton of tutorials available online.