StarLogoTNG 101
Treasure Hunt Game Unit
Wrap Up
Today’s Agenda
• Review
• Mini-lesson and programming practice on set
camera and ID
• Finish making the treasure game
• Create documentation for playing the game
• Optional programming activity
• Wrap-up
Review
• The treasure game has a global variable called
“mana.” When students accumulate 5 or more mana
points, they can spend it by activating a “bonus”
mode.” Implement the bonus mode feature.
• This “bonus mode” is a global boolean variable,
meaning that it’s true when the bonus mode is
activated and false when not in bonus mode.
• When the bonus mode is true, all the hazards behave
like treasures for a certain period of time. At the end
of the time, the bonus mode is set back to false.
Set Agent Camera, ID, and views
• In first person games, it’s
helpful to start the game from
the player’s perspective.
• You do this using the
following blocks when you
create the player agent in
Setup:
How will your game end?
What are the conditions for winning and losing the
game?
– Time limit?
– Collecting a certain number of treasure?
– Losing all “lives”?
– Losing all “energy?”
– When all the players die?
How will you let the player know when the game ends?
– Say bubble?
– Play a sound?
– Agents do a little dance?
Documentation for Your Game
• “How to Play” document/manual
– A few sentences on why the game is fun and what
it’s about
– Objective of game – how to win
– Keyboard controls
– Screen shots?
• Comments for other programmers
– Explain different parts of your program
Comments
• To add a comment, right-click
on any block in the canvas and
select “add comment.”
• A yellow text box will appear.
Click the arrow to make the
box larger and type your
comments.
• You can resize the comment
box.
Comments
• To see which comment box
goes with which block, leftclick on the comment box
and follow the dotted line.
• To delete a comment, right
click on the block that the
comment is attached to,
and select “delete
comment.”
Optional Programming Activity
• Open the current version of your “treasure game
your initials.sltng”
• Save next version
• Swap computers w/ another classmate, play his
or her game for a while, and program one more
game features to improve his or her game.
• Write comments describing any code that you
added or changed.
To get StarLogo TNG for your home computer
Website:
http://education.mit.edu/starlogo-tng/download
Get your parent/guardian’s permission first!
Register, download, install
On-line reference of blocks:
http://education.mit.edu/starlogo-tng/documentation
Wrap Up
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What
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What
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was fun?
challenges did you have?
questions do you have?
new game ideas do you have?