App Development project

App Development Project 

Now it is your chance to design and develop your own Scratch application.  Your scripts should demonstrate all the skills that you have learned in Lessons 1 to 11.

This can be a game, an interactive story, a quiz or something else that will demonstrate your knowledge of programming constructs. 

You could create an animated character (it can be a person, an animal or an alien being) and program it to interact with the user. 

Game Design Tips:

What are the ingredients that make for a good computer game?

• A theme or story.

• A testing challenge.

• A clear end point or goal.

• Good graphics.

• Space on the screen is limited, keep your sprites quite small.

• Suspense.

• Threats and dangers.

• Sound enhances a game so include some music and sound effects.

• Clear instructions on how to play the game (use a splash screen or pop up at the beginning).

Think of a theme for your game - it could be based on a sport or hobby or be designed to teach something - tables or spellings - you can create a game about anything.

Decide on the look of your game - you can use photos and images from the Internet for your backgrounds and sprite or you can draw your own.

You can create a brief animated story to introduce your game and to set the scene.

Plan your game before you start to create it.

Marking

Marks will be awarded for the overall design (see above) and for the number of different constructs used in you game script:

• sequencing

• inputs and outputs

• loops

• choice and selection

• variables

• operators

• functions

Review aN App  

Reviewing

You will have the opportunity to review apps that were developed by other people in your class.

For each review, complete a new App Review Report.

As you review an app , write in your name as the Reviewer and the name of the person who developed the app as the Developer.

Comment on two things that you particularly liked about the app.

Give one suggestion that might help the developer to improve the app if they have more time.

Rate the app out of 10 (10 is the top score).