I am a Game Programmer!

By Harlowe K.

This year, we started off not knowing anything about coding, but we slowly got started. Our first coding language we used was Scratch, which uses code blocks instead of text. We created a Cat Double Jump, a Daleks game, a Rainbow Lines program, an Asteroids game and a Fruit Slicer game.
--A big Thank you Al Sweigart for teaching us how to code!!!--

The Cat Double Jump

The Cat Double Jump was the first game we coded. We learned how to program:

• Keypresses
• Gravity
• Jumping
• Double Jumping
• Wraparounds
• Backdrop changes

The Daleks game

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

• A teleport mechanism that transports the Cat to a random location on the Stage. There's a cool down period of five seconds before the Cat can be teleported again.


• A shield that protects the Cat for one second. It that has a cool down period of ten seconds before the shield can be used again.


• A game over 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
• Broadcast messages and Receive messages between sprites
• A scoreboard
• 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 lists.
• A Fruit Slicer that the play canuse 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.

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