1. Games Programming in Scratch
Shooting and Jumping
Games Programming in Scratch

2. Learning Objectives
Learn programming techniques to add shooting at a target into a game
Learn how to adjust x and y coordinates to control the position of a sprite
Learn how to make a sprite jump

3. Shooting You can set this up in a variety of ways:
Shooting with a crosshair following the mouse
Shooting (with or without visible ammunition) from a static position, e.g. a first person shooter
Shooting whilst moving a character (Platform game)

4. Shooting with a crosshair
Create a crosshair sprite
Make it go to the mouse pointer
Make another sprite disappear when it gets clicked
Add one to the score

5. First Person Shooter Make your weapon follow the mouse
Hide sprites that get shot (or clicked on)

6. Shooting whilst moving
Create a variable to store the direction for the bullet
Create a bullet sprite and make the bullet come from your character when a key is pressed

7. Jumping Create a variable to control the jump Set the variable to 0
If you are on the ground…
And If you press a key to jump
Change the jump variable
Change the character’s position on the ‘y’ axis by the jump value
Gently bring the character back down by reducing the y coordinate by -1

8. Jumping practise!

9. Finding Ideas
How do other games in the Scratch library make use of shooting or jumping?
Type ‘shooting’ or ‘jumping’ into the search box and look at the code using the See Inside button
Adapt these ideas to fit your own game

10. Comment your Code
Add comments to your code to help explain what each part does