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Raspberry Pi Gaming - Second Edition

You're reading from   Raspberry Pi Gaming - Second Edition Design, create, and play all kinds of video games on your Raspberry Pi computer

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784399337
Length 140 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Shea Silverman Shea Silverman
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Let's build a Flappy Bird clone!

Your first game is going to be a Flappy Bird clone. While this might seem like a complicated task, it really can be broken down to a few easy scripts.

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Flappy Bird is a great starting game. It has a clear objective, uses much of the Scratch functionality, is relatively simple to create, and you can use your imagination by drawing your own sprites, backgrounds, and pipes.

What kind of a game is Flappy Bird? It is a game where your goal is to keep on pressing a button to make a bird rise as it is constantly falling while navigating its way through the pipes of varying heights that are coming at it.

It can be broken down as follows:

  • Every button press makes the bird go up on the y axis
  • Every second the button isn't pressed the bird goes down the y axis
  • A pipe starts at the right end of the x axis and moves left toward the bird
  • When the pipe reaches the far left corner without touching the bird, you earn a point and the pipe disappears
  • If the bird touches...
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