We’re starting a new project next year at the lab about version control for game development. For the past year, we’ve been exploring tools for achieving exactly this kind of workflow: starting with lightweight synchronous collaboration (“Google Docs” style), and gradually adding more formal workflows: space for private asynchronous work, tools for reviewing suggested changes, and more. In conversations with educators at the Endless Foundation (who are sponsoring this work), we’ve heard that introducing kids to files and Git CLI commands before they can do any collaboration is a serious barrier.