StarLogoTNG 101 Treasure Hunt Game Unit Wrap Up

Today’s Agenda Review Mini-lesson and programming practice on set camera and ID Finish making the treasure game Create documentation for playing the game Optional programming activity Wrap-up

Review The treasure game has a global variable called “mana.” When students accumulate 5 or more mana points, they can spend it by activating a “bonus” mode.” Implement the bonus mode feature. This “bonus mode” is a global boolean variable, meaning that it’s true when the bonus mode is activated and false when not in bonus mode. When the bonus mode is true, all the hazards behave like treasures for a certain period of time. At the end of the time, the bonus mode is set back to false.

Set Agent Camera, ID, and views In first person games, it’s helpful to start the game from the player’s perspective. You do this using the following blocks when you create the player agent in Setup:

How will your game end? What are the conditions for winning and losing the game? –Time limit? –Collecting a certain number of treasure? –Losing all “lives”? –Losing all “energy?” –When all the players die? How will you let the player know when the game ends? –Say bubble? –Play a sound? –Agents do a little dance?

Documentation for Your Game “How to Play” document/manual –A few sentences on why the game is fun and what it’s about –Objective of game – how to win –Keyboard controls –Screen shots? Comments for other programmers –Explain different parts of your program

Comments To add a comment, right-click on any block in the canvas and select “add comment.” A yellow text box will appear. Click the arrow to make the box larger and type your comments. You can resize the comment box.

Comments To see which comment box goes with which block, left- click on the comment box and follow the dotted line. To delete a comment, right click on the block that the comment is attached to, and select “delete comment.”

Optional Programming Activity Open the current version of your “treasure game your initials.sltng” Save next version Swap computers w/ another classmate, play his or her game for a while, and program one more game features to improve his or her game. Write comments describing any code that you added or changed.

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Wrap Up What was fun? What challenges did you have? What questions do you have? What new game ideas do you have?