I am a game programmer!

By Sawyer G

This year I learned how to program by creating lots of games in scratch. We made a Cat Double Jump, a Daleks game, a Rainbow Lines program, an Astroids game and a Fruit Slicer game. --Thank you Al Sweigart for teaching us how to program!--

The Cat Double Jump

The Cat Double Jump was the first game I programmed. We learned how to program:

Keypresses
Gravity
Jumping
Double Jumping
Wraparounds
Backdrop changing

The Daleks Game

The second game i programmed was called Daleks. In the Daleks game, we learned how to program:

A teleport mechanism that transports the Cat to a random location on the Stage. Their is a cooldown of 5 seconds before you can use it again

A sheild that protects the Cat for 1 second. It has a cool down of ten seconds before you cna use it again

A game screen that doubles as a start screen

Rainbow lines

We created a Rainbow Lines program that:

Created beautiful patterns of Rainbow Lines

Allowed the player to use variable sliders to select the thickness of the line, the color, and the degree of transparency

Asteroids

We created an Asteroids game program. We learned how to code:

Clones
Spaceship velocity
Brodcast and receive messages that coordinate game activity between sprites
A scoreboard
The asteroid velocity and rotation
A game over screen

The Fruit Slicer game program:

This was the final game program we created. We programmed:

The tracking of cursor locations using list
A Fruit Slicer that the player can use to slice fruit as they are tossed up in the air
A display of Health that decreases as fruit is missed and falls to the ground
A keypress that allows the player to recover their Health before they use all of it and the game ends
A cloud variable that keeps track of the high score among all players

Fruit slicer game program. Click to view.

I learned a lot about programming by coding games in Scratch. I hope you enjoyed playing them!