Final Unit Project: GAME LINK

Maze Game Link

Final Unit Project for Scratch: Reflection

To create this maze game I first began by creating backgrounds that would essentially be the maze itself and for each background the difficulty would be increased. To increase the difficulty I had to make the blocks of the maze closer together for a tighter squeeze for the sprite to get through. I had some troubles with my script not running and my sprites kept disappearing but when it all came together it finally worked because I added in some new script to replace the old. I tested it each time I changed something in the script to make sure that it was running perfectly. Most of the time it did work as anticipated but when it did not I figured out the problem and went from there. I am most proud of all the levels on my game and the scoring because the timing is perfectly from level to level and the scoring works just how I planned. I used to have some trouble with the scoring that it would keep increasing if you were on the sprite but this time it worked great. I am a little disappointed with the sound in my game because when it reaches the end of the game the sound glitches a little bit it the beginning. Overall I am very proud of my game.

Final Project: Game

Final Unit Project for Scratch: Before

For my game I plan on making a maze. I will be using an 5 different backgrounds of mazes that get increasingly more difficult and I will be using several underwater sprites. There will  be 5 levels and after the sprite completes each level they will be awarded 20 points. Once you complete the fifth level of the game it will say, "Winner!" As the levels increase the blocks in the maze will get closer together to make the game more challenging.

Fish Chomp Remix

Describing 2 Other Alphabet Games

I checked out a couple of my classmates blogs to see what kind of alphabet games they came up with. Kalli used a lot of animals for the letters and she used the green font. It looked really cool when the letters switched to animals and said "__ is for __" I also looked at Sophie's game and what she did is created a game when you click the next letter to see what letter came up next. It looked really cool and it is very interactive!

Alphabet

Scratch Name

Scenes: Reflection

The stage can also change as well as the sprites can. To initialize sprites in a scene you drag and drop them into your script and then you can code them to make them work. Scene changes could be used in an animated game where the levels change, as each level goes up the scene will change. A lot of people in the class  used many different backdrops but they all look pretty similar overall because the Scratch Cat is the sprite walking through each scene.

Scenes

Penguin Jokes Reflection

The broadcasting command can be used when you are creating a program showing a conversation between 2 or more sprites. What you do is add in what they are going to say and add in a "broadcast" on the other sprite's script so they will wait to speak until they receive the message. This can be helpful when you have a long project with many speech bubbles so you will not have to worry about the waiting time between each.

Penguin Joke Remix

Make a Block: Reflect

The "make a blog" gadget is very helpful. What you have to do is make a set of commands and for a certain grouping of them you can make it just one command. You can also name this command to whatever you are creating. I might use "Make a Block" during a project in which I have many sprites or also when I have a lot of commands and my script becomes crowded. This technique is very useful to me.

Week 2: Make A Block

Debug It Reflection

While debugging one of my strategies was to take tags out and see what would happen so mainly I used a guess and check method. This worked well because most of these debug its only needed one change or a rearrangement of the tags. To help someone else I would first access the problem and then try to figure out where something needs to be either added or taken out.

De-Bug It!

1. I attached the "when the green flag is clicked" tag

2. Add in the "go to" command in the begining

3. Add in "wait one sec" between each rotation

4. Add in "set rotation style left-right" tag

5. Make the meow sound three times, don't use repeat 

10 Block Challenge

http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/38984304/

Doing the 10 block challenge was a little difficult as I started but after I decided that order of commands it became much easier. This activity helped me get better at using Scratch because I only had a few different commands to work with but it all ended up flowing nicely. It restraints my ideas because each action could not be repeated and I felt very limited as to what I could use and the things I could make my sprite do.

Moving: Bug Race

http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/38700328/

Try it out!

http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/38706116/

This activity was surprising because you had to give exact directions where the cat should start and move towards. It was a little complicated in the beginning to lead it step by step but then it became easier as time went on. I felt very creative using this because i got to make it my own by adding in sounds, backgrounds, and many different sprites. Using scratch is very fun!

X-Ray Goggles

 

The websites I used are:

• http://www.ae.com/web/browse/category.jsp?catId=cat4840018&navdetail=mega:women:c3:p10
• http://www.boston.com/?refresh=true
• http://www.eastbay.com/