Scratch


 * The scratch website is here:** http://scratch.mit.edu

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http://scratch.mit.edu/users/irymplesouth
 * Irymple South Primary School Student Games**

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 * Frequently Asked Questions **

Q. How do you change the colour of the character? You need to edit the sprite costume and paint on the new colours.

Q. How do I change my project into a game? (instead of animation) You need a number sprites and a 'purpose' for the game. It might be to collect things, hits things or avoid things.

Q. How do I make my game exciting? Everyone wants to know this! This is where your creativity comes into play! Think about the exciting games you have played. What makes them exciting?

Q. How do I put different characters on a different scene or level? (because I don’t want the same character on every stage or level!! You need to have multiple "stages". The stage can have different backgrounds to use as different levels.

Q. How do you make the button (where you click it) go to the next page/level? Make a sprite that sends a 'broadcast message'. Then change the stage background and show/hide the sprites needed.

Q. How to change to another background? You put a 'Change Background' script step on the stage.

Q. How do I make a sprite follow another sprite? In the sensing section you can get it a sprite to move towards another sprite.

Q. How do I make a new scene and make things move by using the arrows? To make a new scene, go to the stage and script the background to change. To make things move using the arrows. Go to the 'Control' section and choose 'When Key .. is pressed'. Then point in the right direction and move your sprite.

Q. How do we make ‘fish’ move and by pressing one button, change shape/ colour? See the question above.

Q. If we go to play and the sprites don’t move like they should. What are we doing wrong? Try running the individual scripts on the individual sprites without running the whole game. Pull apart the script steps and see what changes it makes. You need to work through your program in a logical way - debugging is good hard fun!

Q. How do I put a score board on my game? You need to make a variable. Set it to zero at the start and then increase it every time a certain action takes place eg You collect something or hit something, or it can even be time.

Q. How do I make things 3D in my game? You can paint things to make them look 3D'ish but Scratch is generally used to create 2D games and animations.

Q. Which controls should I use to make the characters move? The arrow keys will make most sense to most players. If it is a 2 player game you might want to use AWSD as well.

Q. How do I stop a button, once I have clicked on it? If your button or sprite moves you need to work out how it will stop eg after 5 seconds, when it hits another sprite etc.

Q. How do I make something go somewhere else (after getting eaten)? Hide it for a number seconds, make it go backwards a number of steps, or setup random x and y coordinates for it to re-appear somewhere else.