Scratch lesson 6: Adding a baddy and losing lives.

In this lesson we will be adding a baddy that can eat your shark sprite. When this happens
the player will lose a life. We will program the game to end if all the lives are lost. We will
add more variables and use coordinates again to move the baddy.

Blocks to use

Instructions
1. Open your game from the previous
lesson.
2. Go to the choose new sprite from file
and add shark 1-a from the animals
file.
3. Click on the costumes tab and then
import. Import shark 1-b to costumes.
4. Click edit on shark 1-a.
In the paint screen select the bucket
fill tool and select the black colour.
Colour your shark black by clicking on
it.
Click OK.
5. Click edit on shark 1-b and do the
same as above
6. Click back on the scripts tab and add a
when clicked block.
7. Keep the shark the same size.
8. Add a hide block so that the shark
does not appear when the game starts.
9. We will use a forever loop again so
that the program for the shark runs
the whole time.
Add a forever loop.
Inside the forever loop add a wait 1
sec block.
10. Again we want the shark to appear
randomly so we need to put a pick
random block inside the wait block and
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set the time ( 1 to 20 secs).
11. Add a show block from the looks panel
to make it appear.
12. Now we will make the sprite move and
animate it.
Depending on what side it appears we
have to program it to move left or
right.
For this we us an if else statement
again.
If it appears on the right move left.
If it appears on the left move right.
We dont want it to go in a straight
line so we will need to use random
values again.
13. Connect the if else statement to the
show block.
14. Go to operators palette and drag an =
operator into the if statement.
15. Now drag a pick random block into the
first white box.
Set the values 1 to 2 = 1.
If the computer picks 1 we will
program the sprite to appear from the
right.
If it picks 2 we will program the sprite
to appear from the left.
16. To make the sprite appear from the
left add a set X: to block and set the
value to 240 (the right of the stage).
17. Now we need to point the sprite to the
left by adding a point in direction
block and setting this to left.

18. We want it to appear somewhere along

the left of the stage so we will pick a
random point on the Y-axis (vertical).
Add a set Y to block and then add a
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pick random block inside the white
box.
Set the values to 180 (top) and
-180 (bottom)
19. To make the shark move across the
screen add a glide to x: y: block.
So that it doesnt swim straight across
the stage we will choose another
random point on the Y-axis.
Add a pick random block and place this
inside the Y coordinate box.
Set the X coordinate to -280 (off the
left of the stage).
20. To hide the shark, add a hide block at
the end.
Your script should now look like this.
21. All the values in 19 can be adjusted to
make the sprite swim faster or only
appear in a certain area.
Try this later and see what happens.
If you test the game now the shark
will swim across the stage but its tail
will still stick out.
Tip if you test the game change the
time it takes the shark to appear from
20 seconds to 5 seconds.

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22. Drag out the script thats inside the if
part of the statement .
Right click on it and select duplicate.
Now place the original back inside the
if part of the statement.
Place the copy inside the else part.
Now change the values so that it
comes in from the left
X: -240.
Direction = right (90).
Set x in the glide block to 280.
Your if else statement should now look
like this.
Test your program.
The shark should appear randomly
from the right or left.
23. To animate the shark we need to use a
whole new block of script so that it
doesnt conflict with the if else
statement.
Animating the big shark to chomp is
the same as we did for the smaller
shark.
Add this block of script into your
baddys script area.
We are using a forever if statement
so that the shark is always checking if
it is touching the shark.
24. Before we change the players shark
we have to add another variable for
lives.
25. Click on variables palette and click
make a variable.
Call this variable Lives and make sure
its checked for all sprites.
Click OK.

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26. Now click on your smaller shark sprite
(players).
We now need to add another if
touching statement inside the forever
if loop.
Add an if statement and place
touching sensing block inside and set
to BigShark (your name might be
different).

27. We now add some script blocks to

make the shark disappear, play a
sound, lose 1 life then wait to
reappear.
28. Add these blocks to your script.
You will need to import a new sound of
your choice.
Set the value of change lives to -1.
29. We will have to add another variable
block at the start of the script to set
the number of lives.
30. Drag a set lives to block and place it
below the set score block.
Change the value to 3.
31. For this lesson to end the game we will
just stop everything from working.
Make sure the small shark sprite is
selected and drag an if statement into
the script area but dont attach it to
anything yet.
We need to build up this statement
using a lot of different blocks placed
inside each other.
Firstly we will use an or operator. This
allows us to check if two things are
happening.
Next we will need a less than operator.
An equals operator.
2 Lives variables.
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Put these in an empty area of your
script area so that they are ready to
put together.
32. Drag the or operator into the hexagon
of the if statement.
33. Drag the less than operator into the
first hexagon of the or operator.
34. Drag the equals operator into second
hexagon of the or operator.
35. Drag a lives variable into the first
white box of the less than operator.
36. Drag a lives variable into the first
white box of the equals operator.
37. Set the value in the two empty white
boxes to 0.
Your script should look like the script
on the left.
We are checking to see if the lives left are
less than or equal to zero.
From the control palette add a stop all block.
38. Add this whole block to the rest of
your script inside the forever if loop
and just below the if touching shark
statement.

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39. Your whole shark players script will
now look like this.
It may look a bit complicated now but if you
go through each part separately you will see
each one does something different.

In the next lesson we will work with

broadcasting messages.
This allows us to send a message to the
sprites and tell them to do something.
If we want them all to disappear at the end
of a game we can broadcast one message that
all the sprites listen for and then hide when
they hear it.
You game is just about finished. The next
lessons are mainly based around making your
game look and act like a game you would play
on the internet or games console.

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