- Be resilient – Don’t expect to have a game in the first session.
- Be strategic – Focus on one thing at a time
A suggested order:
- Choose your sprite
- from library?
- Search online for picture
- search for png files, eg search “zebra png”
- save image as…
- in Scratch, import from file
- ** edit in Scratch to get 2 (or more) costumes
- Make your sprite move
- keyboard/mouse controls
- Design your background(s)
- decide what is actually the background
- obstacles, coins etc to collect,… may be better as sprites
- photo background
- search online and save image as…
- make sure they are marked for reuse
- be careful if you want your sprite to react to colours
- decide what is actually the background
Useful links:
- Platform game: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/18995992/
- Maze game: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/22804830/
- List of example code you may want to use and adapt: http://www.code-it.co.uk/scratch/primarygamesmaker/ScratchPrimaryGamesMaker.pdf
- Primary games maker info and resources: http://code-it.co.uk/scratch/primarygamesmaker/primarygamesmakeroverview.html