Tagged With: Scratch

After all our hard work the game is finally finished! We added a score keeper from the Scratch video and we also decided that we needed to have a countdown timer so that the game didn’t last too long and it was just perfect! We did a carousel so that everyone played each other’s games. … Continue reading »

This week the digital leaders learnt how to add an additional obstacle for the sprite to jump over. We used the right click to duplicate the existing obstacle so it had exactly the same code attached. We then added extra code so that the second obstacle appeared later and hid until needed. We tested our … Continue reading »

This week the digital leaders learnt how to stop the game if your sprite touched an obstacle (second sprite) instead of managing to jump over it. We also added code to ensure that the sprite returned to the home spot each time the game was reset. “I had to remember to check I was writing … Continue reading »

Sadly this week I was unable to run digital leaders, if you have been following along at home, here is the next step which involved adding a moving obstacle for our sprite to jump over.

This week the Digital Leaders started their jumping game using the coding programme Scratch. Last week we explored the programme so that we knew where all the functions were which made it easier for us to get started straight away. We are following a video tutorial made by Scratch which is accessible on Youtube here … Continue reading »

This week the Digital Leaders had an introduction to a new coding programme called Scratch. This half term we will all be making a jumping game which children can customise themselves. First we explored all the different characters (sprites) that could be used in the game and all the different backgrounds (backdrops) that could be … Continue reading »