Today I set out to make my second game. At first I couldn’t decide what game to make because there were so many to chose from and I was very excited, but in the end I chose the ping pong game. It is a game where you have to hit a ball using a cake but the ball bounces all over the place and if the ball touches the danger tape at the bottom of the screen a little message comes up saying “game over” and “click me to start again.” this week one of the main things I learnt was how to add a sprite from the internet in to my game. You do this by first, finding the picture you want to add in then you want to drag it on to your desktop and make it that it has no back round. You then want to go back on to scratch and go on to sprites and press add sprite then you select the picture that you have chosen then you now have your own unique sprite. I had to learn how to do this because on scratch they did not have a sprite for a danger tape. A problem that occurred when I was making my game was that the ball sprite kept on going through the donut instead of bouncing off of it, this made me quite frustrated. I resolved this issue by going back through the tutorial and checking through and making sure that I had done everything that it said and put it in to the right spot and when I found the problem if fixed it how it showed me and my game worked. I now feel happy and relieved that my game is complete and working.

Link to my game: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/162329414/

 

Google.com.au. (2017). stick figure feeling relieved – Google Search. [online] Available at: https://www.google.com.au/search?q=stick+figure+feeling+relieved&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiz592LlYjUAhVEoZQKHVxfA4YQsAQIJg&biw=1440&bih=803#imgrc=6Nx2zeUKCKRyvM: [Accessed 24 May 2017].

Today I completed my first game, It may not seem like a lot but it is a big deal for me. I started off the lesson trying to make a play but then I looked over at my friend and she had a tutorial on the side of her screen telling her what steps to follow to make a game. So then I decided to make a game for my self. I selected to make a catching game where there are things falling and you have to catch them so in my case I had a heart falling and a birthday cake to catch them, and in the top left hand corner there is a counter to see how many you can get. When I thought I had finished and clicked play when ever one heart fell on to the cake you would get 27 points instead of 1. So I tried to figure it out but i just couldn’t. So I asked someone that is quite experienced in scratch to try and help me but even with the two of us we couldn’t get it to work, but luckily she had made the gave previously that had worked so we took a look at the algorithm on her’s and compared it to mine to figure it out and in the end we did. The problem was that I had put an algorithm in the wrong widget but we soon moved it and were happy to find out that it worked. Next time I will try to read the writing more carefully to see which algorithms go in to each widget. At the beginning of the lesson I was a bit confused on how to make a game and a bit nervous and in the middle a bit frustrated when the game didn’t  work but at the end I felt proud to have made a working game.

My game: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/161154933/

 

Reference for photo:

Google.com.au. (2017). stick figure standing proud clipart – Google Search. [online] Available at: https://www.google.com.au/search?q=stick+figure+standing+proud+clipart&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwil8KnAxvbTAhXFl5QKHSGXAAQQsAQIJQ&biw=1440&bih=803#tbm=isch&q=stick+figure+standing+proud+&imgrc=yF2eFBcUbH0sIM: [Accessed 17 May 2017].