Ninja Instructions | Mentor Notes

In this activity you will create a basic side scrolling game.

15-30 minutes

1. Open up a new program area in Scratch or begin by remixing our Scrolling Starter program.
2. If you are creating this program completely on your own:
   • Add a sprite for an object that will move through your world like a helicopter or flappy bird.
     
   • Add a sprite for the obstacles that you will be avoiding.
     
     
     You may want to make several different costumes for this object with the “opening” at different places so that you can add some challenge to your game.
   • Design your basic backdrop.
     
   • Put them all together so you have a simple pong game showing.
     
3. If you are using our sample starter code, take a look at what we have for these features.

Great. Now you have a basic scrolling game. Try some of these modifications.

• Make a variable to keep score.
• How do you add difficulty to the game by increasing speed of the obstacles or the rate at which the helicopter drops? (Hint, you can watch the score or use a timer)
• Can you add in the concept of multiple lives?
• How can you add levels by changing the backdrops or the types of obstacles.

The following blocks make great blocks to play around with as part of this game:

• What was challenging about designing this game?
• What feature are you most proud of?

The studio for this activity is located at:

• http://scratch.mit.edu/studios/1024270

This project is based on materials from the the Creative Computing curriculum by Brennan, Balch, and Chung.