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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

Mission briefing


We will add enemies to the game as well as items. This gives the player more things to look out for than just the level exit. The player has to avoid enemies or try to kill them. He/she can do this using the bomb or one of the other items that we will include in this project. The following gameplay screenshot from Gauntlet II will be the inspiration for what we will create in our project:

Why is it awesome?

No questing game is complete without enemies and items. These are the things that change a simple exploration game into an exciting adventure. Every player likes to boast how they just barely avoided the menacing ghosts to achieve victory, or how they found a great treasure in the unlikeliest of places.

We will add a variety of elements to the maze. Each one will behave differently and offer a different challenge or opportunity for the player. Some earlier scripts can be reused, but we will adapt them to suit our purposes.

Your Hotshot objectives

We will add two types of enemies...

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