Make Your Own Scratch Games!

Table of contents

1. Cover Page
2. Title Page
3. Copyright Page
4. Dedication
5. About the Author
6. About the Technical Reviewer
7. Brief Contents
8. Contents in Detail
9. Acknowledgments
10. Everyone Makes Games
    1. What You’ll Need
    2. A Brief History of Games
    3. Who Makes Video Games?
    4. Why Make a Video Game?
    5. What Should My Game Be About?
    6. About Scratch
11. 1 Leaf Me Alone!: Scratch Basics
    1. Getting Started with Scratch
    2. Leaf Me Alone (While I Eat This Leaf)
    3. Organizing Your Code
    4. Challenge Level
    5. Sharing Your Game
    6. What You Learned
12. 2 Weird Bug Chowdown: Collecting Items and Avoiding Obstacles
    1. Copying a Project and Changing It
    2. Tidying Up Your Code
    3. Leaving a Rainbow Trail
    4. Making Bug Food
    5. Adding Time Pressure
    6. Poop Obstacles
    7. Raising the Stakes
    8. Ending the Game
    9. Changing the Butterfly’s Behavior
    10. Adding a Starting Message
    11. Optional Things to Try
    12. What You Learned
13. 3 Hatlight: A Cave Exploring Platform Game
    1. About Hatlight
    2. Coding Platform Movement
    3. Coding Player Movement
    4. Creating a World that’s Fun to Explore
    5. What You Learned
14. 4 Designing Levels
    1. Let’s Make Some Levels!
    2. Teaching the Player How to Play
    3. Creating Animation
    4. Additional Challenges
    5. What You Learned
15. 5 Creating Sound Effects
    1. Sound Design Tools
    2. Recording and Editing Sounds with Audacity
    3. Generating Sounds with sfxr
    4. Creating Music Loops with Drumcircle
    5. Extra Challenges
    6. What You Learned
16. 6 Where to Go from Here
    1. Asking Questions
    2. Record Your Game
    3. Share Your Game on itch.io
    4. Collaborate with Someone Else
    5. Make a Game for Multiple Players
    6. Make a Weird Controller
    7. Keep Exploring and Creating!
17. Index