How to make a Shooting Target game

in Scratch!

WE ARE GOING TO MAKE A TARGET GAME.

• This game will have:

• A Target that will move when clicked.

• A Timer to show how long you have been playing.

• A point system to show how many targets you have hit.

• This game could have:

• A shooter that will point to the mouse (e.g. A gun.)

• Something that will be shot out of the shooter (e.g. A bullet.)

• A background that could change.

• A target that automatically moves after a certain amount of seconds.

STEP 1 – MAKING THE TARGET SPRITE

• Make a sprite by clicking on this button

• Then, draw a sprite that will be the target for the game.

• When you have finished click ‘OK’.

• Then delete the cat by right clicking here and clicking delete.

STEP 2 – PROGRAMMING THE TARGET 1• Put a ‘Start’ block at the top.

• Then, put a forever block underneath.

• Put a ‘Go to’ block from the ‘Motion’ tab.

• Go to the ‘operators’ tab and get 2 ‘Pick random’ blocks.

• Change both of them to have ‘-200’ and ‘200’ in.

• Put one ‘Pick random’ block in X: and one in Y:

• Finally, get a ‘wait’ block and put it after the ‘go to’ block and set it to less that 5 seconds.

• All this will make the target change it’s position to a random coordinate on the stage every 3 seconds.

STEP 3 – PROGRAMMING THE TARGET 2

• Add a ‘When sprite clicked’ block from the ‘Control’ tab

• Put a ‘go to’ block underneath.

• Then, get two ‘pick random’ blocks and change them to ‘-200’ and ‘200’.

• Put one ‘pick random’ block in ‘X:’ and one in ‘Y:’

• Now, if the sprite is clicked it will change position.

STEP 4 – ADDING THE POINTS SYSTEM

• Go onto the ‘Variables’ tab.

• Click ‘Make a variable’.

• Type ‘Points’ into the box that pops up.

• Make sure that ‘For all sprites’ is selected.

• Click ‘OK’.

• You just created the Points variable!

STEP 5 – PROGRAMMING THE POINTS SYSTEM

• Add the ‘Set Points to 0’ block from the ‘Variables’ tab in between the ‘Start’ block and ‘Forever’ block.

• Add the ‘Change Points by 1’ block in between the ‘When sprite clicked’ and ‘Go to’ blocks.

• This will set the points to 0 when the game is started and whenever you click the target it will add 1 point.

STEP 6 – ADDING THE TIMER

• Go on to the ‘Variables’ tab again.

• Click ‘Make variable’.

• Type ‘Time’ into the box that pops up.

• Make sure ‘For all sprites’ is selected.

• Click ‘OK’.

• You have just created the ‘Time’ Variable.

STEP 7 – PROGRAMMING THE TIMER

• Put a new ‘Start’ block.

• Go to the ‘Sensing’ tab.

• Put the ‘Reset Timer’ block after the Start block.

• Get the ‘Set Time to’ block from the variables tab and put it inside a ‘forever’ block.

• Put the ‘timer’ block, from the sensing tab, into where the number is on the ‘Set time to’ block.

STEP 8 – MAKING THE TARGET SPIN

• Get a ‘Start’ block from the ‘Control’ tab.

• Get a ‘forever’ block from the ‘Control’ tab.

• Get a ‘turn clockwise’ block from the ‘motions’ tab and change it to ‘1’ instead of ‘15’

• Put the ‘turn’ block inside the ‘forever’ block.

STEP 9 – MAKING THE SHOOTER

• Make a sprite by clicking on this button

• Draw the sprite that will be the shooter for the game (e.g. A gun or Bow)

• Click ‘Ok’ when you have finished.

STEP 10 – PROGRAMMING THE SHOOTER

• Make sure that you are on the Shooter sprite.

• Put a ‘Start’ block.

• Put a ‘forever’ block.

• Go to the ‘motions’ tab and get a ‘Point towards’ block.

• Click on the drop down menu and select ‘Mouse-Pointer.’

STEP 11 – CREATING THE BACKGROUND

• Click on the ‘Stage’

• Click on the ‘backgrounds’ tab.

• Click on the ‘edit’ button.

• Draw your background.

• Click ‘Ok’ when you are done.

STEP 12 - ADVANCED - MAKING THE BULLET

• Create a new sprite with this button.

• Draw the bullet or the thing that is being shot (e.g. An arrow.)

• When you have finished click ‘Ok’.

STEP 14 – ADVANCED – PROGRAMMING THE BULLET

• Because this bit is quite long, just copy the blocks that I have put here.

• The light blue blocks are from the ‘sensing’ tab

• The dark blue blocks are from the ‘motion’ tab.

• The yellow blocks are from the ‘controls’ tab

• The purple blocks are from the ‘looks’ tab

CONGARTULATIONS! YOU

HAVE FINISHED!