micro:bit Retro

Games
COMPUTER SCIENCE TERM TOPIC EDITION

Created by Chris Lovell Find @mrlovellcomp

 MICRO:BIT SPACE INVADERS

IYou are going to make Space Invaders on the micro:bit! You will code the A&B buttons to fire lasers
at the alien ship.

Add the alien and ship sprites to the

‘on start’ block. Use the input blocks Further
to control the ship.
Information

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Add a forever loop to move the code

alien ship left to right. Click here for the

micro:bit foundation
micro:bit tutorial

Click here for micro:bit

classroom tool tutorial

Explorer
Tasks
Add a bomb for the
alien ship to drop on
the defence ship.
Add sound effects
to make the game
more fun to play
Make the alien ship
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Created by Mr Lovell. Find at @mrlovellcomp on X
 MICRO:BIT FLAPPY BIRD

In this lesson you will make a flappy bird game on the micro:bit! You will add controls for the bird
and you will add code to generate obstacles for the bird to avoid. You can expand on this game
template by adding lives, scores and sound effects - what will you add to your game?

Add a bird sprite into the ‘on start’ block. Add

a block of code that will make your bird sprite Further
blick to make it easier for the player to find
their bird! Information

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Add code to control the bird sprite. The code

player will press A to move their bird

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left, and B to move right micro:bit foundation
micro:bit tutorial

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classroom tool tutorial

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 MICRO:BIT MARIO KART
In this activity you will create a Mario Kart racing game on the micro:bit! You will steer
the micro:bit to move Mario out of the way and ahead of Peach, Bowser, Wario and
others. See how many flashing coins you can collect!

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code

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micro:bit foundation
micro:bit tutorial

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Create this forever loop, one per non-Mario racer.

Explorer
If you have 5 racers other than Mario, you will
need 5 separate forever loops. Check the code
example if you are unsure!

Task
Ideas
Make the racers go faster
as the score increases

Add a start up logo to

make the player know
they are playing a racing
game
The forever loop checks if the race
r is touching Mario, and
if so it is game over; it also checks
if the racer is at the Add sound effects
bottom of the screen, if so it restarts
the racer at the top
of the screen..

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 MICROBIT PACMAN
In this activity you will create a pacman game on the micro:bit. You will code pacman to
be controlled by the accelerometer, so you will have to tilt your micro:bit to move
pacman around Pacman will collect the flashing pacdot but watchout there is a ghost
chasing pacman!
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micro:bit tutorial

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Add another forever loop to control pacman by tilting the

Explorer
micro:bit. Feel free to tune these numbers! I have found
they work well, but you may be able to fine tune this
game further!

Task
Ideas
Can you make the ghost
go faster the higher the
score?
Add another forever loop for the
Add sound effects and
ghost to chase
pacman. The time delay is importa music to your game to
nt - if you change the
time delay in the forever loop the make it engaging.
ghost will speed up
or slow down when chasing pacman Add start up logo to
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make the player know
they are playing pacman
on the micro:bit!

Created by Mr Lovell. Find at @mrlovellcomp on X & Bluesky