Student Games

1. Kristine's click-a- sprite was cool, I liked how there were many sprites and the levels got more challenging. There were sprites that were moving in various ways and directions around the screen and the job of the player was to click them to receive points. I liked how the characters changed according to the backdrop.

2. Meghan's Maze was made so if the sprite touched the lines inside the maze, the sprite was set back to the beginning which made the game challenging in a good way. The purpose of Meghan's game was to navigate through the maze to the other end.

3. Amelia's dog ball catcher was very unique and worked flawlessly. I liked how it was self-explanatory and the directions were clearly written. The purpose of her game was to direct the dog using the arrow keys to catch all the colorful balls moving around the screen differently.

Mouse Snatch Final Project

Mouse Snatch Final ProjectI
My game was programmed by allowing the cat to follow the mouse clicker, I did this to make the game as easy for everyone who was playing it. I made the mouse move from various directions, but not too quick. I made it so when the cat was touching the mouse, 5 points would be rewarded as the mouse disappeared. The time counts down from 5 seconds over and over, I had trouble aligning this time period with catching the mice. I encountered many problems throughout this project. One being the fact that my score wouldn't work. I got around this problem by isolating the scoring portion of the game. I put every other set of direction in the backpack to allow me to work on the scoring by itself without any interference or distractions. I started this project by getting the basic movement of the cat and mouse under control, added my scoring and time as well the additional background and texts. My project did not come out as planned; I would have liked to be harder in the last level. I am most proud of overcoming my issues with the timer, score, and making the mouse successfully disappear.

Storyboard: Mouse Snatch

My game will be a cat trying to catch a mouse. I will use a mouse sprite and a cat sprite. I will choose a kitchen background. If the cat successfully catches the mouse in time, the player will receive 5 points. Once reached 5 points, the background will change and  a new mouse will appear. I will use the timing variable by giving a 5 seconds to reach each mouse. The player wins once he/she surpasses level 3. I will have 3 levels, and the levels will increase difficulty based on the placement on the mouse and how fast it disappears. I will make the mouse vanish faster in more difficult levels.

Animal Chomp

Animal Chomp

Nutrition Game

Nutrition Game

Create a Timer

Create a Timer

Learning the Alphabet

Learning the Alphabet

Sprites Moving

Sprites Moving

Debug #5

Debug #5

Debug #4

Debug #4: Touch the cat to start

Debug #3

Debug #3: Press flag then space key to activate code

Debug #2

Debug #2: Click the green flag to activate
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Debug It #1

Debug #1: Click the flag to activate

Name Assignment

Sprites Dialogue

Sprites Dialogue

Scratch Intro

Throughout the scripts tab within a project on Scratch, there are many options to code. You can make the character turn a certain way, move a certain number of steps, say something, or change background or color. The options throughout the costumes tab is endless. The costumes tab allows you to go through their gallery in order to pick a character to replace or in addition to the cat. The costumes tab also allows you to draw on the character. Throughout the sounds tab, you can upload a voice file, record a voice file, or use one Scratch has stored. You can also change the backdrop to a picture saved on your computer or you can pick one from the array of backdrops Scratch offers. At the bottom left area of the screen, Scratch gives you the option to paint your own backdrop or to take a picture for your backdrop.

Thanksgiving With Images

Image#1: Bora Bora Resort
1.I blurred the picture by using the Gaussian Blur under the filters tab on pixlr.
2.I turned the contrast down to -51 to give the picture a grayish tone.
3.I turned the blue offset to -31.


Image#2: Flower
1.I turned the brightness down to 20 to make the color be bolder.
2.I diffused it to the number 5 to make it less clear and make it seem almost as if it was a drawing.
3.I added a hue to 15 so the picture would have a bluer undertone.

Image 3: Punta Cana Resorts:
1. I turned the color vibrancy up to 100 in order for the color to show up more.
2.I turned the exposure to 19
3. I turned the saturation to -100 to make this picture black and white.


Image 4: Donuts
1. I turned the brightness down to -40.
2.I turned the output levels up to add more white into the picture.
3.I turned the brightness to 4 and the contrast to 3.

W3Schools Test Results

On my test from W3Schools, I got a 8/25. Even though this did not count for a grade, it was a good learning experience and allowed me to realize my weak spots in this unit.  I definitely would like to work on memorizing more codes in order to use them correctly to express the correct item. I still have many codes to memorize in order to be able to create a website from scratch.

Tags I've Learned

<html>- This creates an html document
<head> This designs a heading of a document
<title> This creates a title in a document
<body> This clearly highlights the contents
<h1>,<h2>... This designates what type of heading it will become
<p> Shows a paragraph is starting
>p align=right> The paragraph will now be aligned to the right
<p align=center> The text will be aligned in the center
<br>This will indicate a break in the text

Intro to HTML

To get the lesson done today, I used the tools available on w3schools. They gave us tags so that we could understand where to put certain words in order to create what kind of paragraph we wanted. I used notepad to practice typing these tags. I want to know how to insert pictures into a document using tags.