Games Programming in Scratch Testing Games Programming in Scratch

STARTER 1) Open up your game in Scratch 2) Go to LearnCoombeDean -> ICT & Computing -> Year 7 -> Game Design Save As + Open file called ‘Testing’

Learning Objectives Understand the purpose of testing Understand what makes a specific and measurable test Carry out testing on the Scratch project Make corrections where necessary and test again

Game so far… Set up a basic working game with; Main character, Enemy, Objects to collect, Lives, Score, End to game, Menu Screen (blimey, we’ve done lots!) But! Does it all work? What can we do to make sure it does?? Testing!

What is Testing? Why is it important? Testing = Finding out how well something works Does it do everything that it should? Are there any bugs that need to be fixed? Testing is important for many reasons… - Check all the parts work - To identify and fix any bugs - Make sure it is suitable for people to use / play

What needs testing in your game? - Do they get taken away when touch enemy? Lives Controls - Do the keyboard controls work well? Enemy - Does the enemy move correct? Get faster? Create more of them? Menu screen - Does it show and work correctly? - Does the score go up correctly when you collect items? Score items … and lots more other things!

Complete ‘Testing’ Today’s Task 1 Decide on 5 tests that you are going to do on your game. Fill in the table for each of the tests

Finishing off your game Today’s Task 2 Finishing off your game Now spend the time left finishing off any bits of your game that need doing… Fixing parts Finishing parts Adding extra features Adding sounds Adding extra levels Adding more objects Adding ‘Win’ or ‘Lose’ screen etc

For each game, try to think of… Plenary Game show and tell… Here are some games produced by this class (Teacher to demonstrate using class monitor software) For each game, try to think of… 2 good things about it 1 thing to be improved