You are required to use Scratch to create a new game.  Your game should encourage learning in a discipline (maths, science, english, geography, history) and should be suitable for a specific age group (your choice).

You may work individually or with a partner to do this.  If you work with a partner, you should clearly identify which sections of the project you are working on.

The games project rubric will be used to assess your project.

Task 1 – Investigate

• Watch the video (below) from Edutopia about how “Schools use Games for Learning and Assessment”

• Identify some of the features of online educational games that you like or dislike and make a list of features that you would like to include in your own game.
• Explore some of the Step-by-Step tutorials and How-to instructions (in HELP) to see how some simple ping-pong, catch and hide and seek games can be created.
• Explore some of the Sample Games Projects for ideas.
  REMEMBER:  You must create your own game.  If you use someone else’s project idea, you need to credit them in the “Notes and Credits” section.
• Brainstorm some ideas for your own game. You need to identify:
  • the main idea of your game
  • the learning that will take place
  • the target audience
  • the characters (sprites) involved
  • any ideas you think you will need to research or get help with to be able to implement

Task 2 – Plan

• Use the Project Planner  handout to clearly outline the main ideas for your game.
• Indicate the most important events of your game.  Some examples could be:
  • Setting events (ex. “When XX key pressed”)
  • Animating your sprites (to simulate movement)
  • Changing the background (to change a level or story)
  • Using speech or text to give information or instructions
  • Adding sounds or music
  • Resetting the program
• Create a flowchart to outline a sequence of steps involving at least one of the events you have identified.  e.g. the actions of a sprite when clicked.
• Try to include blocks from each of these scripts:
  • Motion
  • Looks
  • Count
  • Events
  • Control
  • Sensing

YOUR PROJECT PLAN IS DUE IN CLASS MONDAY JUNE 6

Task 3 – Create

• Use your plan and the ideas that you’ve developed to create your own game.
• Include instructions for your user
• Acknowledge any other project/s or resources you used in the Notes and Comments section.
• Test your game using the Testing Table and try to fix any problems you encounter.
• Save, share and embed your project in your blog.
• Add your project to the Year 9 STCC studio.

YOUR FINAL GAME IS DUE IN CLASS MONDAY JUNE 20

Task 4 – Evaluate

Ask a peer to visit the Year 9 STCC studio and play your game!

• How user-friendly was your game?
• Did it do what it was supposed to do?
• Did you include blocks from each of the Scripts?
• Did you try any new blocks?
• How engaging was your game?

Post your final blog post to comment on:

• The parts of the project you liked the most?
• The parts of the project you would fix, change or add?
• What did your peers say about your game?