Wednesday 22 November 2017

Scratch Level 2 - Racing Game


A link to the project page of the game is below,
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/187744788/

1, I had difficulties with programming the car's position. It was confusing to me to set the car go back to the same position and direction when it hits the bombs because I didn't quite understood that the state of the previous game-play will last when you replay it. It affected the position and direction, but I could change it by programming positioning blocks between hide and show blocks and made it seem going back to the place where it exactly was when the game started.

2, I put bombs on the road to make the game a little more challenging. Programming the car hits the bombs and go back to the start position is almost same as programming the car turns when it hits the red zone. When it touches the blue colour of the bomb, an image of "Bomb"show up and the car go back to the start line.

Tuesday 14 November 2017

Scratch - Intro

Kodu Pac-Man


My Pac-Man game,

Kudo's programming,


Robot's programming,


1, The maze of my game is almost same to the original game but placement of enemies is different from the original as I didn't put them together in the middle of the game.

2, My game not only has the same green and red apples as the original but also it has an orange apple hidden at the back of the maze and it has the largest point. 

3, I had difficulties with programming Kodu launch missile and vanish the Robots. In a programming section of the robot, there was nothing that I can program to let it vanish. Eventually, I only needed to program Kodu to vanish the Robots, although it was quite confusing.  

4, I was advised that the game is very difficult and hard to earn enough score to clear, so I programmed the Kodu to be able to launch a missile that can vanish the enemies. Though I had only three enemies at first, the missile made my game very easy. Therefore, I put more enemies to program my game not too easy or difficult.

5, Next time I'd like to put more options that makes a game more entertaining. This time I made exact same maze as the example in the tutorial videos, but I think different type of maze would be more fun.