SIMPLE PACMAN MAZE GAME
FIRST Computer Programming ACTIVITY
Goals: What will Youth do and create?
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Youth get their first hands on experience of the Scratch programming environment.
Participants can play around with the Scratch Interface and get accustomed to the
design and layout of the tools.
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Youth will create a simple pacman maze game
Objectives: What will YOUTH learn?
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how to program using the MIT Media Lab Scratch environment and its graphical
interface
Preparation and Materials:
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A computer for each participant with Scratch installed
Simple Pacman Maze Starter Game installed
Step 1: INTRODUCE SCRATCH
If you have a screen and a projector, you might show this 2 minute scratch video:
http://vimeo.com/65583694
If you need ideas about how to introduce Scratch to children, try watching
this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=jxDwt3XWd0
Explain what computer programming is and what the Scratch programming environment is.
Have participants open up the Scratch program on their computer.
Introduce the layout of the screen interface
Right Section - The top of this pane contains a preview of your scratch project as well as the
Start and Stop buttons. In the middle part of this pane, you can edit, import, or draw your
sprites costumes, and through this you can also create duplicates. The 'master' selection and
probably one of the most important tools is at the bottom of this pane. It controls whether you
are working with a Sprite, or the Stage (Background), and is especially important because each
of these has their own Scripts, Costumes, and Sounds. It is important to build the costumes and
programs for the object (sprite or background) that you wish to work with. You know you are
working with a particular object because a box will appear around it by simply clicking once on
the object you want to work with.
Middle Section - This contains Scripts, Costumes, and Sounds.
 The Scripts section is where you drag the program blocks from the left pane to
create your program
 The Costumes section is where you can import images to be used as costumes or
simply the individual looks and frames of your Characters or Sprites
 The Sounds section allows you to import or record sounds to be used in the
Sounds section of the left pane
Left Section - This contains the toolbox and subsections with the individual blocks that can be
dragged into the center Scripts section to create programs.
STEP 2 :
CREATE PACMAN MAZE GAME
Have youth play an example game at www.scratch.mit.edu username: Learn2Teach2013
Have youth choose a maze or create their own.
Have youth choose a pacman and delete all the rest of the pacmen
Have youth choose a coin
In this simple pacman maze game:
Use arrow keys to move the pacman
1 point for getting a blue dot
2 points for a candy or cheeseburger
5 points for a strawberry
Red & White Round Coin ends the game
SCREENSHOTS OF THE CODE!
STAGE
PACMAN
ENDING COIN
Cheeseburger & Candy
Strawberry
Blue Dots
Documenting:
Make a gallery for the community organization and
have youth upload their projects online
www.scratch.mit.edu
username: Learn2Teach2013
password: setc97