Customise &
Explain your game
Games Programming in
Scratch
Games Programming in Scratch
L3 Adding a new level
STARTER
• Open up your ‘Game Planning’ worksheet
saved in your folder from lesson 1
• Read through the idea for your game
Games Programming in Scratch
L3 Adding a new level
Learning Objectives:
o Customise sprites to follow your planning
o Using comments to explain events and actions used
Excellence
I can customise/develop my own resources (sprites/backgrounds) and
import them into my game
Developing
I can collect and import a selection of sprites/backgrounds that will
be used in my game, including at later stages
Secure
I can import and use sprites/backgrounds in my game following my
planning
Foundation
I can with support import and use my own sprites in a project
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Game so far…
• Set up a basic working game with; Main
character, Enemy, Objects to collect, Lives,
Score, End to game
• At the moment, not the sprites you have
planned!
Today’s lesson…
- Customising your game to follow your plan but
collecting and using Sprites
- Explaining your game so far by using ‘Comments’
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a) Find and Save As Sprites
• Look at your ‘Game Planning’
• Use the Internet to Find + Save As all the Sprite
images you need to make your game
Main Character
Enemy
Item to collect
Background
b) Change your Sprites in Scratch
For each object in game…
• Select ‘Sprite’ and click on ‘Costumes’
• Find new sprite using ‘upload’ button
• Delete old costume (click on cross)
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c) Add a background
• Click on the ‘Stage’, and then click on ‘Backdrops’
• Click on the ‘upload’ button to select your saved
background image
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It’s your game now!…
• You should have a game now looks more like
your plan.
• We have more things to add to it like; Levels,
Menu screen, More objects to avoid/collect, Sounds
But first…
• Need to show that you understand
what you have done so far!
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Commenting your Scripts
• ‘Comments’ are little notes that
you can add next to your Scripts
• They let you write text to
explain what the blocks are
doing (to prove you understand!)
• To add a comment, ‘right click’
on the block you want to
comment, and click
‘add comment’
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Comment your Code (Examples)
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Comment your Scripts
• Go to your game and add ‘Comments’ to your
different Scripts
• Try to explain in as much
detail what the different
Scripts are doing
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What are these scripts doing???