Your own game design - lesson 1

Your tasks for this lesson!

Your are going to use the programming notes and information in Lesson 4 Pacman, to design your own maze-based game.

1.  Think of a maze-based game and design your own.  

2.  Write a description of your game on a new blog post called ‘Game Design’.  

3.  Check through the activity sheets on lesson 4 and use them to help you design your background, sprites and programming.

Targets:

Bronze – character/s move around maze using cursor keys.  

Silver – as for bronze, plus character/s sense presence of each other and make an action, eg speech bubble, hide, etc.  

Gold – all the previous, plus start of some sort of scoring system.

10 mins before end of lesson, you will need to screenshot your background and programming and copy/paste image/s to a Google doc.  Under the screenshot/s write notes explaining what is happening in your program so far.

Share the Google doc to Anyone with the Link and copy/paste link under game design notes on your blog post.  

Publish!

Game Design - Lesson 1

Your tasks for this lesson!

1.  Go to Learning Computing website – Year 7 – Game design – Lessons 1 -3.  

2.  You need to work through Activity 1 – Tasks 1 and 2.  For Task 1, you need to create a username.  This must not be your real name and you should use your Chrome password for the Scratch Account.  You need to write your username in your planner where you can find it again.  If you forget it, you cannot continue with your previous work as there is no means of getting into the account without it!  You will be asked to provide a parent email – this must be your own school email address.

3.  After doing both tasks in Activity 1, you need to do Activity 2 – read through Tutorial 1 (do not watch video) and then apply the skills shown in the tutorial to a new Scratch project to get a sprite to move using keyboard arrow keys.

4. Your work to be screenshotted (hold Ctrl key and overlapping rectangles button in top row, then click ‘Copy to clipboard’ in bottom right of screen).  Paste the screenshot to a Google doc.  Under screenshot, explain what the different program blocks do.  

5.  Share your Google doc - click Advanced and then Anyone with the link and copy/paste the link to a new blog post titled ‘Scratch lesson 1'.

6.  Save your Scratch project as 'Lesson 1 - Activity 2'

Silver/Gold - have a go at Activity 3 tasks.  This is a new Scratch project. Work to be screenshotted under the work from Activity 2 and explain what the blocks do.  Save your Scratch project as 'Lesson 1 - Activity 3'

Publish your post!!