Designing a Game - A dream or a reality?

After a few weeks of learning how to create a project in Scratch, students are now facing the challenge of designing a game. What now? Well, it's time to start developing some skills that will make it possible for a team of students to fulfill their game.

From now on, students begin to feel the responsibility to find answers to many of their questions. One great way for students to learn more about Scratch is by modifying and extending other people's projects. You should all start to either open existing "Example projects" or downloading someone else's project and adding your own ideas by changing scripts or costumes. This is known as "Remix".

As students begin to develop their ideas, they will encounter problems that need to be solved. One of the skills that students learn as they face this situation is called "self-directional skills". Students will need to put into practice their persistence for overcoming the challenges and frustrations encountered in the design and problem-solving process. Scratch programs are built of graphical blocks that are more readable and shareable than other programming languages. I encourage you all to work together in each of your projects and exchange objects and code if that were the case.

As part of the development of your game, each team is responsible for maintaining an updated Project Report (the Google Doc) that has been shared by the members of the group and myself. You will be working on providing the description of your Good and Bad guys, as well as a description of your Background. It is compulsory to insert images of each one of the elements in your game. This report will be developed, finalized and presented to everyone in the class. The final project will be presented by the team members who will answer questions on how the game was created and what each member of the group was responsible for. Further details will be presented in the following blog posts. Keep working hard and ask questions if you feel stuck! Remember, this is for real. You can do it!