Middle School course

Game Design 201

  • GRADES 6-8
  • BEGINNER
  • WEB
  • 25 LESSONS

Answer Key

Module 1: Better Smart Fire

Module 2: Check for Airships

Module 3: Loop it

Module 4: Smart Dodge

Module 5: Smart Fire and Smart Dodge

Module 6: Modify Turn

Lesson 23: Function Library

Course: | Web

  • Better Smart Fire
  • Check for Airships
  • Loop it
  • Smart Dodge
  • Smart Fire and Smart Dodge
  • Modify Turn

Description

A fast-paced introduction to programming for students in grades 6-8. Introduce programming fundamentals to your class as they build two arcade-inspired games from start to finish. In Cannon Crasher, a physics game, they harness the power of the physics engine to program realistic jumps, projectiles, and bouncing balls. The Adventure Game features a knight who has to defeat enemies to reach treasure. Students program arrow keys, fluid motion, hero and enemy behavior, and winning conditions.

Topics Covered: Events, keyboard and mouse interaction, conditional loops, nested loops, functions, and sending and receiving messages. Basic physics programming such as gravity, bounding boxes, bouncing, projectiles, impulses, and collisions.

What Students Learn

  • Build complex multi-level games
  • Use variables to keep score
  • Use cloning to create actors programmatically
  • Build algorithms using complex conditional logic
  • Build physics projects using gravity, impulse, and velocity
  • Understand parallelism with multiple scripts
  • Program different behaviors for different actors
  • Publish projects to the Web
  • Troubleshoot and debug programs

Technical Requirements

* Online courses require a modern desktop computer, laptop computer, Chromebook, or Netbook with Internet access and a Chrome (29+), Firefox (30+), Safari (7+), or Edge (20+) browser. No downloads required.

Lesson 23 : Multiple FunctionsTime: 60+ mins

Time: 60+ minutes

Introduction

Code Blocks

Vocabulary

Objectives

Materials

Warm-Up (15 minutes)

Activities (45 minutes)

Facilitate as students complete all Multiple FunctionsTime: 60+ mins modules on their own:

1. Better Smart Fire (Puzzle)
2. Check for Airships (Puzzle)
3. Loop It (Puzzle)
4. Smart Dodge (Puzzle)
5. Smart Fire and Smart Dodge (Puzzle)
6. Modify Turn (Puzzle)

Extended Activities (10 minutes)

Extended Activities (10 minutes)