1. Customise & Explain your game
Games Programming in Scratch

2. STARTER
Open up your ‘Game Planning’ worksheet saved in your folder from lesson 1
Read through the idea for your game

3. Today’s Lesson Learning Objectives:
Customise sprites to follow your planning
Using comments to explain events and actions used
Excellence I can customise/develop my own resources (sprites/backgrounds) and import them into my game
Developing
I can collect and import a selection of sprites/backgrounds that will be used in my game, including at later stages
Secure
I can import and use sprites/backgrounds in my game following my planning
Foundation
I can with support import and use my own sprites in a project

4. Game so far…
Set up a basic working game with; Main character, Enemy, Objects to collect, Lives, Score, End to game
At the moment, not the sprites you have planned!
Today’s lesson…
- Customising your game to follow your plan but collecting and using Sprites
- Explaining your game so far by using ‘Comments’

5. a) Find and Save As Sprites
Today’s Task 1
a) Find and Save As Sprites
Look at your ‘Game Planning’
Use the Internet to Find + Save As all the Sprite images you need to make your game
Main Character
Enemy
Item to collect
Background
b) Change your Sprites in Scratch
For each object in game…
Select ‘Sprite’ and click on ‘Costumes’
Find new sprite using ‘upload’ button
Delete old costume (click on cross)

6. c) Add a background Today’s Task 1
Click on the ‘Stage’, and then click on ‘Backdrops’
Click on the ‘upload’ button to select your saved background image

7. It’s your game now!…
You should have a game now looks more like your plan.
We have more things to add to it like; Levels, Menu screen, More objects to avoid/collect, Sounds
But first…
Need to show that you understand what you have done so far!

8. Commenting your Scripts
‘Comments’ are little notes that you can add next to your Scripts
They let you write text to explain what the blocks are doing (to prove you understand!)
To add a comment, ‘right click’ on the block you want to comment, and click ‘add comment’

9. Comment your Code (Examples)

10. Comment your Scripts Today’s Task 2
Go to your game and add ‘Comments’ to your different Scripts
Try to explain in as much detail what the different Scripts are doing

11. What are these scripts doing???
Plenary
What are these scripts doing???