Well done to all the children who've been working hard at home to develop their programming skills on Scratch. Not easy when you don't have a teacher around to help you out.
The children have spent the last 6 weeks building a maze game. This began with them playing my version of the game and decomposing it (breaking it up into small manageable problems to be solved):
Decomposing some of the elements of the game
Next, they started to work on each little problem, identifying bugs and solutions as they went. They had to get their character moving and animate it too. They needed to construct mazes of varying difficulty levels, 'electrify' the walls, add coins to be collected, use a variable to keep score, add sound effects and a soundtrack and more. Here's an example of a work-in-progress being tested to make sure it all works as intended:
Testing the game to make sure it works as expected
At the end, the students were challenged to make their own creative additions to their games to make them unique. Some of the students were able to save their work online on the Scratch website so I am able to share some of their finished games with you. Click on the links below to play the games they have created.
E's alternative version of the Maze Game
Well done to everyone who took part!
Mr. Cusack
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