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Scratch 2.0 Game Development Hotshot

You're reading from   Scratch 2.0 Game Development Hotshot Get up to date with Scratch 2.0 and build brilliant games without having to code. Including 10 exciting projects that cover most game genres, you'll quickly learn the sophisticated possibilities of Scratch. Have fun!

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2014
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ISBN-13 9781849697569
Length 330 pages
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Scratch 2.0 Game Development HOTSHOT
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Blowing Things Up! 2. Beating Back the Horde FREE CHAPTER 3. Start Your Engines 4. Space Age 5. Shoot 'Em Up 6. Building a Worthy Boss 7. Creating a Level Editor 8. Dungeon Crawl 9. Hunger Run 10. Sprites with Characters The New Scratch Interface Index

Adding scripts to the brick sprite


Brick sprites are the building blocks that form the game platform. In this section, we will show how to clone the brick sprite to form the game platform. Moreover, we will make the platform auto-scroll to make the game faster-paced and more interesting. In Hunger Run, to keep it simple, we will start the game with one brick for each grid. Further, we will create all the bricks at game start to reduce game lag. For real world games with much larger grids and more sprites, the sprites may be created when needed for scalability.

Engage thrusters

We will create scripts for the following:

  • To respond to game start

  • To initialize a clone's costume and location

  • To scroll automatically

  • To end the game

Perform the following steps to create the code to respond to the game start and create one brick for each grid:

  1. Start with a when I receive <game_start> broadcast message block.

  2. Set the index of the new grid to 0 using the set <new_grid_idx> to () block.

  3. Set the index...

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