Sharks and Fishes

A Simple Scratch Game

By MWClarkson

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Based on an idea by DJPhillips

Part 1- Der Dum, Der Dum*

This tutorial assumes you have used Scratch before - it will give youguidance and hints on how to make the game, but it will require someTHOUGHT in order to get through all of the tasks!1. Right click the cat and delete it. This is a game about sharks and ﬁsh -they live in the sea. Cats don’t live in the sea. That would be silly.2. Add a new

Sprite

: have a look in the Animals folderand choose shark1-a. you might want to shrink it a bit.3. We want the shark to swim up, down, left and right when we press the arrow keys.

Remember

that Scratch uses a co-ordinate system, just like a graph. Here’s an example of how to go up - you’ll have to ﬁgure out down, left and right by yourself.

*If you don’t get the reference, ask your parents about

Jaws

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By MWClarkson

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Based on an idea by DJPhillips

Assuming that worked (if it didn’t then go back and keep trying!), you will have noticed that pressing left makes the shark swim backwards (also known as ‘moon-swimming’*). To ﬁx that we can tellthe shark to point either left (when moving left) or right (whenmoving right). We don’t need to worry about pointing up or down.The trick here is to

ADD

a block to the existing instructions - not to write a whole new set alongside what we’ve already got. So in thisscreenshot only

ONE BLOCK

is new.5. At the top of the

Scripts

window there are three buttons that control the way the

sprite

rotates. Try each one and see what the difference is - and whichone is best for this sprite.6. Finally for this section, click the

Costumes

taband

Import

the