Next week we will be beginning to create our very own zombie apocalypse video game through SCRATCH. Use the lessons from this week and your own creativity to create the backstory of our apocalypse story. Who are our survivor(s)? What type of zombies are attacking? Use SCRATCH and customize sprites to create a scene and our characters.

Now that we've come up with a backstory for our zombie apocalypse survivor, let's begin to customize what our characters look like. Use SCRATCH sprites to create costumes for our survivor, our enemy zombies, and the multiple weapons available to our survivor. What about the clothing and weapons of our survivor guarantees their safety? How can we convey these messages using the SCRATCH sprites costume editor?

Let’s continue working on our backstory for our survivor. If our coding and programming skills aren’t failing us, our survivor is now able to navigate throughout an apocalyptic world full of treacherous zombies. Use your imagination in creating a twist that allows for our survivor to come across a shop or general store of some sort. This will explain how our survivor can collect currency from eliminating zombies and exchange said currency for weapons and upgrades.

Now that our survivor has proved worthy of obtaining accessible weapon upgrades, the enemy zombies stand zero chance. However, we know that life in an apocalyptic world is not that easy. Let’s create a more difficult, much stronger enemy zombie for our survivor to defeat. What does it look like? How much stronger is it compared to regular zombies? Figure out how to incorporate this boss zombie into our story so that our video game makes sense.

With a completed version of your very own SCRATCH zombie survival game, get ready to submit and share your backstory and scratch files with me and the rest of your peers. Stay tuned as all submissions, including my own, will be showcased on our Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math page of this website!

Submit the link to your finalized Scratch project so that we can share them as well as screenshots of gameplay with the rest of the school! Show off your creativity and coding/programming skills to friends and family while exemplifying the great work we do at the UCLA After School Program!