Scratch Plus

COURSE DURATION: 3 Months

Course Fee: 1999/- Per Month

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Scratch Plus: Game Design is centered around the various logic concepts used within many common games. Students will apply their basic knowledge of scratch as well as new important logic and computer science concepts through recreating existing and original games. Students can express their creativity through game design. The course focuses on the application of code in original game mechanics created by the students.

Overview:

This course builds off a basic understanding of coding through scratch and introduces more advanced concepts through the creations of popular games.

Level#1: 

Classic Games

• Unit 1: Maze Game

Description: We are making a course for the player to find their way to the exit. Students will imagine and create original obstacles and learn the basic concepts that all games follow

• Unit 2: Platformer

Description: We recreate a popular game genre and design our own levels and add in new game mechanics

• Unit 3: Tower Game

Description: We expand upon what we learned in the previous unit, and try our hand at making a game completely random and endless.

• Unit 4: Breakout

Description: Students dive deeper into more mathematically complex code to create physics inside our games to create the realistic bouncing of a ball

• Unit 5: Snake (If class moves quickly and there’s extra time)
• Description: This project explores different ways to use clones as well as tests the creativity of the students by creating new mechanics for the originally simple game, snake!

Level#2: 

Modern Games

• Unit 6: Top-down Shooter/ Horde Fighter

Description: Students create a simple top-down shooter but can imagine and code their own enemies, bosses, and weapons!

• Unit 7: Scrolling Platformer

Description: Students take their knowledge of variables to the next level to create a massive platformer level, stretching on a level infinite in size in all directions

• Unit 8: Online Multiplayer Board Game

Description: Students create their favorite board game and play it with their friends! Students include original game mechanics into the board game as well as learn the basics to play it with a friend across the cloud

• Unit 9: Online Multiplayer Fighting Game

Description: Taking the cloud variables to the next level, students create an action-packed fighting game where they can imagine and code original attacks and characters while also being able to play it with a friend online