Collect weapons and try to outlast your enemies. The last one standing wins! This one is probably my favorite Scratch game to play! Fire the cannon into the air to break the balls before they crush you. Also be sure to upgrade your cannon to help you get farther.
Try to make your way by mining, hunting, fishing and more. Sell your goods, buy upgrades and watch out for bandits! After all, this is the old west. Play as a pirate trying to get back your treasure. Jump, slash, and dodge your way through each level in this extremely well made platformer. Pull back the mouse to let your golf ball fly as you try to make it to the hole.
Obstacles and wrong turns await you in this short, but entertaining golfing game. Play against other Scratchers as you climb the tower and try to avoid the baddies. Try to get the fastest time! Grow and sell your crops to become the most profitable farmer on Scratch. Upgrade your crops or hire workers to help get there faster. Dodge obstacles and slash through baddies to make your way through each floor in this delightful dungeon crawler.
Defeat the goblin on the last level to beat the game! Run and hide before the seeker comes to find you! This Scratch game is best enjoyed with friends. This one is a game in the vein of classic side-scrolling space shooters!
Use the mouse to move your ship around the screen. Destroy your enemies while avoiding getting hit. See how high you can get your population before you run out of supplies.
Become a flying ace in this classic side scrolling shooter game. Dodge enemy bullets, and return fire to get through as many enemies as you can! Jump, dodge, and shoot to win a duel against the enemy square. Earn coins from your battles to improve your character. Place towers along the path to destroy the invading army. The more enemies you destroy, the more money you earn and the better towers you can buy.
This one is a 2-dimensional version of the super popular shooter, Fortnite. Pick your weapons and try to outlast your opponents! Recommended: Scratch Games for Kids. Elementary school is a great time to start learning how to make Scratch games.
These are some of the best Scratch games for kids in grades Give them a try and remix to code your own version! EmeraldKart Alpha 3 hearts This one is still in development, but is shaping up to be a great example of a racing game! Choose your character and your track, and use the WASD keys to win the race.
Navigate both characters to the goal flag to get to the next level. Crumbling Platformer hearts Get across the screen before the ground crumbles below you. A fun and simple little game. Check out the code for making the block crumble! Golformer hearts Try to get the golf ball into the hole in as few moves as possible. Control the strength and direction of your golf swing by moving the indicator away from the ball.
If you wish to delete the cat that has been pre-chosen for you, you can do so by clicking on the trash can icon on the cat circled in green. Drag and drop that code block to the Work Space see image. This code block allows your code to run by pressing the green flag next to the stop sign. Click on the green flag to run your code and check if your character is moving. See the picture below for reference. In our example, we have a parrot and we want it to eat some bananas.
So our second sprite will be bananas. Think of what type of story you want for your game. After we've added the bananas sprite, we want to make it move randomly. Try changing that number to see various effects. In the image provided, we set my bananas to wait three seconds before moving to a new random position.
You have successfully made your first simple game in Scratch. Your project should be able to do the following: one character moves from left to right nonstop and a second character moves randomly around the screen. This simple game covers the basics on how Scratch works.
It is easy to drag codes of blocks to the workspace and connect various pieces so that your sprites do what you want them to do. Of course, with more exposure and practice, you can figure out more game-like features such as how to control your characters with the arrow keys, how to make them speak, and how to get a score.
Check out our final Simple Parrot Game so that you can challenge yourself to make the parrot speak when it touches the bananas. Below is a list of other simple Scratch projects you can try on your own. They all have their pros and cons, so feel free to skip around and try what best suits your learning style.
One of the best places to start learning more Scratch coding is from the Scratch website itself. There is a section called Starter Projects that houses many pre-made projects. Cons : Other than seeing inside each project's code and a few notes, the instructions are lacking for most activities.
In this website , you will see some videos and instructions on how to change the color of the starter cat you see when you create a new project. Here , we have a site with various projects all by the same author. This is important because in coding, there is more than one way to make a sprite do something. Cons : Requires you to download the projects and upload them to your Scratch account.
In this site , you can find several videos where a kid teaches you how to build several simple games. Many video games today have the option to edit your characters. This YouTube video will show you how to create a simple editing tool to edit the Scratch cat using sliders.
Additionally, the microphone used has a lot of background noise as you listen. So if your beginner coder is in junior high, this book might not be the best fit for your child.
My daughter who is twelve looked through the book and could easily complete the lessons. But she felt like the book was too young for her. Savvy Parent Tip: If you have younger kids than your coder, you could still get the book as a mentoring tool. My daughter, while too cool for the book, was more than willing to help my younger son do the tutorialstwo birds with one stone! The book assumes the child is a beginner. It first introduces the child how to understand the Scratch 3 navigation window, basic functions, drawing tools, and how to log on to Scratch 3.
You can find Scratch 3. As a parent, I briefly went over the basics with my son and then quickly started the first game tutorial. I didn't want him to get bogged down in the details of all the navigation. I found the games taught enough of navigation that my son wasn't lost when creating the first game, which held his attention more than the introduction.
Each project teaches a different gaming concept. Whether it is movement, scoring, adding variables or drawing a new sprite, each game teaches how to construct the code through easy step-by-step instruction.
It was so easy, my seven-year-old had no problem figuring out what to do next without getting frustrated or lost. Each of the games is short , as opposed to other books where the projects drag on - and great for short attention spans. Children can complete each game within mins. Older kids can complete the mini-games even faster. At the end of each game, the book challenges the children to try building a new similar game testing the Scratch 3 skills they just learned.
These challenges reinforce the coding mechanics for each game action taught. One concept we emphasize in Coder Kids is that kids recreate or remix projects that appeal to their own style and preferences. This enables them to learn the concepts instead of simply copying a project.
The game tutorials build in difficulty , leveraging what they learned in previous tutorials, but it doesn't go too fast. If you have more experienced coders, they may want to flip through the different games to learn skills they might not already know. My twelve-year-old daughter is very familiar with Scratch 3 having completed several projects at school.
So while the first few games in the book were easy and she already knew how to code those game mechanics, she still found several games and concepts in the book she had not previously been exposed to.
Each game tutorial focused on one main gaming concept. The beginning games are 2 pages of instruction, making it quick and rewarding for the child. Remember - this book has 25 Scratch games in it. A typical Scratch project book has around 6 total projects in it, that are way more intensive.
None of the pages here are text-heavy, making it doable for a child. And because each game tutorial is color-coded, it is easy to flip between the games for more advanced coders. Each step of the tutorial shows the child where to find the code or how to build it. This was extremely easy and fun for my son and daughter because they were never confused.
They could always find the next step and could see how the examples matched the instructions.
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