Lesson#s 3-4

Maze!

What you will do in this lesson:

Create a multi-level Game App

What you will learn in this lesson:

Demonstrate how to use Canvas, Sprite Types, and Sprite components in Thunkable to create an interesting game app.
Correctly develop and use a procedure in an app.

Vocabulary

Agenda/Lesson Steps

0. Open Maze Template

1. Build the User Interface

2. Program Blocks for Level 1

3. Animate a Hero Sprite

4. Villain Sprite

5. Add a new Stage

6. Program a new Stage

7. Challenges

8. Extra Credit

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Activity

0. Open Maze! Template

1. User Interface

Add more WallType sprites to complete the Maze
Set a Stage Background
Add Sound Component
Add Timer Component
- Set Interval to 1 second
- Set Loops to True
Add a Target Sprite

2. Program the Basic App

3. Animate a Hero Sprite

4. Villain Sprite

5. Add a new Stage

Add a new Stage
Set Stage2 Background
Add Wall Sprites
Add a Target Sprite (target2)
Add a new Villain (optional)

6. Challenges

Challenge #1 Intro Screen:

Add an intro screen with an image, directions on how to start game, and a Button that switches to the Level1 screen

Challenge #2 Add Power-ups (Extra Lives or Time):

Add more Sprite_types and upload new images to set as the pictures.

7. Extra Credit

Extra Credit #1: Create more levels

Use the guidance from Part 3 and Part 4 to add levels

Extra Credit #2: Add obstacles

Extra Credit #3: Add a Gyroscope component and program it to move the Ball sprites

Thunkable Gyroscope Component

Gyroscope

The gyroscope measures how quickly the phone is being turned. It measures the rate of rotation of the phone and returns values about the x axis, the y axis and the z axis.

Events

Whenever the phone is turned, or rotated, the Changes event will fire.

Handout

Maze! 3.0 (Complete)

Closeout

Universal Supports

Standards

2-CS-02 Design projects that combine hardware and software components to collect and exchange data.
[C] CS: Hardware & Software [P] Creating (5.1)
- The Accelerometer sensor is used in the maze game.

2-AP-10 Use flowcharts and/or pseudocode to address complex problems as algorithms.
[C] AP: Algorithms [P] Abstraction (4.4, 4.1)
- Students design and implement a new feature with planning tools.

2-AP-13 Decompose problems and subproblems into parts to facilitate the design, implementation, and review of programs.
[C] AP: Modularity [P] Computational Problems (3.2)
- Students design, decomposing into components for UI, and actions for those components.

2-AP-14 Create procedures with parameters to organize code and make it easier to reuse.
[C] AP: Modularity [P]Abstraction (4.1, 4.3)
- MoveBall procedure is used.

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