That was a great start of the new Scratch term. The new Scratchers did great, I was amazed how it was picked up by them! It turns out we also have a number of returning Scratchers from term 1 earlier this year! (Are they 'The Scratch A-Team'? ;-))There will be a challenge for you guys next session!
We have started the first term with an Intro into about:
- What is coding, programming languages
- What is Scratch
- The Scratch interface
- What can you do with Scratch
- How to get started: Plan, Create, Test, Extend!
- Sit back and think about the game, ask yourself things like:
- what is the story line?
- what background(s) do you need?
- what/how many characters do you have in it?
- how should each character behave?
- what costumes does each character need?
- what interaction is there between characters?
- where should the interaction be scripted?
- and... start small!
- How to make progress:
- remember there is lots of different ways to code something!
- build a bit, test, fix, improve... and repeat
- save your work every now and then
- look at other projects, share your project
Next we made sure everybody had Scratch installed. We decided for the moment to use Scratch v1.4.
The first game we have been building is Patrick vs Crabby:
This involved:
- an under-the-sea theme backdrop/stage
- 2 characters in the story: Patrick and Crabby
- Patrick:
- a starfish
- 2 costumes (scared and happy face)
- moving up/down/left/right by cursor keys
- Crabby
- a crab
- 2 costumes (claws open/closed)
- moving by itself:
- first turns a bit (a full circle is 360 degrees, so we used a random number between 0 and 360)
- then moves a bit (a random number of steps)
- we used 'bounce on edge' to prevent him moving out of the stage
- Interaction:
- if Patrick is touched by Crabby, he changes to scared face and says Ouch!
Note there are some tutorials here but don't forget to also look at projects that others have shared on the Scratch website. See what they did and how they did it!
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