General
Welcome to Computing and Scratch Games
The VLE page includes a lot of tutorials, games to play and images to download in order for you to make your own scratch games. Good luck with your programming!
Topic outline
Scratch Programming Introduction
With Scratch, you can program your own interactive stories, games, and animations — and share your creations with others in the online community.
Scratch helps young people learn to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively — essential skills for life in the 21st century.
Lesson 01 - Animating a Sprite
The ability to code computer programs is an important part of literacy in today’s society. When people learn to code in Scratch, they learn important strategies for solving problems, designing projects, and communicating ideas.
Lesson 02 - How to Use Costumes
To make the sprite look like it's moving, you can create costumes. When put together it makes the whole thing look like a proper animation.
Lesson 03 - Watching Videos
You can do many different things with scratch. In this lesson, you will learn a selection of movements and controls. These tasks will expand your knowledge of the program.
Lesson 04 - Creating a Story
Watch the following video to find out how to create the tank game. Remember to hit pause from time to time and recreate the game:
Lesson 05 - Moving Eyes
Watch the video tutorials to help re-create eyes. You can use the graphics provided at the bottom of this page when creating "eyes" for yourself. Pause the video after each point and recreate the game yourself.
Lesson 06 - Car Racing
Use the video clips and graphics provided to recreate the game. Then try to extend the game or create something different. This game is fun with your own graphics. Replace your graphics with these to give an arcade look:
Lesson 07 - Shark and Fish Game
A fabulous project where you create fish, get them to swim around the sea and then make an evil shark to gobble them up.
There are lots of skills and commands used in scratch and students end up with a game that they will genuinely play.
There are plenty of extension possibilities with this project.
Lesson 08 - Helicopter Game
Watch the following video to find out how to create the helicopter game. Remember to hit pause from time to time and recreate the game:
Lesson 09 - Pong Game
Perhaps this really should have been the first set of video tutorials as in this series of videos you will learn to make the first ever video game called Pong.
Basically it's a bit like tennis. They sold the console that played this game for the price of an XBox or PS3 you know.
Secretly once you make it you will play the thing with your mates.
Lesson 10 - Parrot Shooter Game
Nice little game here where we teach you to make parrots fly on random paths,then shoot them and make them disappear.
For good measure we shall even show you how to keep the score and set a timer to shoot all the parrots within.
In theory the perfect score would be 50. We challenge you to build the game and try and reach that score. We don't think anyone could unless they were very lucky!!!!
