Y6 LF Create a blackout game

Mar 152023
 
  1. Start a new project (or save a copy of your test project)
  2. Come up with an idea for a game called “Blackout” about a city in the Blitz – think of:
    • The aim – work through levels, get to as many houses and black them out,
    • what characters and backgrounds you will need – main character, enemies – ARP, spies, dogs,
    • controls – keyboard, mouse, 1 player/2 player
    • lives, coins, points, timed
    • levels
  3. Use blocks from Scratch Games Toolkit

Week 1:

  • Make spirtes – characters, doors, coins, movin objects….,
  • Make backgrounds – intro screen, game over, levels
  • Add variables for points, lives
  • Add messages for game states
  • Code ontrols and movement – ketboard controls, gravity, jumping….

Week2:

  • Code interaction between sprites
  • Losing lives, gaining points, changing levels

Y6 Scratch game toolkit

Mar 092023
 

Task 1 – Sign in to class account

  1. Go to Scratch
  2. Sign in: SM-Pine23 SM-Spruce23 SM-Willow23 (listen for the password)
  3. Then “Create”. “File – Load from your computer”
  4. Load your file from ast time, saved in Google Drive
  5. Rename your project with just your name

Task 2 – Games toolkit project

  • Finish working through Scratch Games Toolkit so your project includes everything on it
  • You will need different sprites and some different keyboard controls

Task 3 – Customise

  • We are going to create a game called “Blackout” about WW2 in the Blitz. Make sprites and backgrounds in your Gaems toolkit project suitable for this theme
  • You could:
    • edit existing sprite costumes
    • draw your own
    • search for images to use, save then upload into sprite costumes
  • WARNING – if you get rid of a sprite, it gets rid of all the code too. So just add and remove costumes, not whole sprites.
  • Some ideas: ARP warden, boy/girl character (could be same sprite and player decides who to play as), doors, ration book, houses, cars, street lights, …

Scratch game toolkit

Feb 232023
 

1 Walking animation

2 Follow mouse

3 Keyboard controls (up down left right arrow keys)

4 Keyboard controls (left-right)

5 Keyboard controls (forward and steer)

6 Jump

7 Gravity and platforms

8 Follow a set path

Drag the sprite to each point before you choose each block

9 Sprite reacts to another sprite

I’ve made mine hide, but you could go bck to start, lose a life, score a point…

10 Door to next level

 

11 Game over

12 Collect coins

13 Random falling ovjects

 

14 Randomly timed objects

15 Timer 

Challenges

  1. Theme your project for a game called “Blackout” bu changing costumes and backgrounds.
  2. Come up with an idea for a game about the blackout – think of the sim, what characters and backgrounds you will need, controls, 1 player/2 player, lives, coins, levels, points, whether it is timed,

Sliding Puzzles

Feb 132023
 

These puzzles come from the Centre for Innovtion in Maths Teaching (CIMT) Sliding Block Puzzles pages.

Try me sliding puzzle
Now try me sliding puzlle
Reorder sliding puzzle
Rate your mind pal
Ma’s puzzle
The country puzzle
E puzzle
H puzzle
Canama panal
Target 1
Target 2
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