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Coding 6
The Taco Trilogy
> Taco Invaders v2 | extension
(can you re-skin Taco Invaders?)
> Throwing Tacos
> Special Effects
Coding 7
Classic Arcade Games
> Breakout (1976)
> Warlords (1980)
Driving & Shooting Games
> Space Wars (1977)
> Asteroids (79)
Drawing Tool Games
> Missile Command (1980)
Coding 8
Invader Games
Blip Games
Pacman (1980) or Jawbreaker (1982)
Platform Games
> Griffpatch Platform Tutorial
Documents
Documents
> Questions before Submission
(SAS Cycle of Inquiry)
Game Design
Interesting Reads
by Jenny Tyler (ed)
by C. Crawford.
by J.P. Gee.
Videos
> Brief history of video games
> Crash: year video games died
"We owe it to ourselves to share our creativity with others" (Felicia Day)
Code Snippets
Hints - Pong
Hints - Combat
> Simple drive - speed variable
> Tank Battle hints - Combat level 1
> Realistic spaceship velocity
Hints - Platforms
Hints - Blip Games
> Blips - basic - nested loops and clones
> Blips - advanced - strings and pointers
Hints - Scrolling Backgrounds
Code Snippets
Hints - Invader Games
> Enemy "block" move and advance
> Enemy screen entry and random movement
Hints - Game Controls - Touchscreen
> Touchscreen controls - jog wheel & fire
> Touchscreen controls - left/right buttons
> Touchscreen controls - jog buttons & fire
Hints - Game User Interface
Hints - Other