I am a Game Developer!!!!

By Matthew G.

This year, I learned how to make a lot of games in Scratch. I made a Cat Double Jump, a Daleks game, a Rainbow lines Program, an Asteroids game and Fruit Slicer game.--Thank you Al Sweigart for teaching us how to program!--

Cat Double Jump

Cat Double Jump was the first game I ever coded, I learned how to program:

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

Daleks Game

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

• A teleport mechanism that rift's 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 for ten seconds before the shield can be used again.


• A game over screen that doubles as a start screen.

Rainbow Lines

I created a Rainbow Lines program that:

• I Created pretty patterns of Rainbow Lines.


• Allowed the player to use variable sliders to select the degree of transparency.

Asteroids

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

• Clones
• Spaceship velocity
• Broadcast messages and Receive messages between sprites
• A scoreboard
• Asteroid velocity and rotation
• A game over screen

Fruit Slicer

This was the final game program I created. I programmed:

• The tracking of cursor locations using lists.
• A Fruit Slicer that play 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!