Vol. 21: Intro To Scratch

Make your own games and animations, free and easy.

+ Downloads & Extras:

By Jeremy Kerfs

Dragon Game (.sb)

Controls
Arrow keys - move the cat around.
Mouse - aim the cat
Click - fire a missile

Objective
Touch the dragon eggs before your lose all of your lives. Every time a dragon touches you, you lose a life and every time you touch the brown border, you lose a life. The heart gives you an extra life.

Platform Game (.sb)

Controls
Left and right arrow keys - side to side movement
Up arrow key - jump

Objective
Touch the finish sign before getting hit by a monster. A single hit from an enemy kills you.

Scratch to EXE Conversion
Create runnable files for people who don't have Scratch installed (Windows only)

Jen's EXEScratch

S65's Scratch2EXE
App
Discussion

Recipe from Scratch Forums moderator JSO
This uses a relatively unknown Windows utility called IExpress Wizard, which steps you through the creation of self-extracting, auto-launching application packages.
http://scratch.mit.edu/forums/viewtopic.php?id=10122&p=1

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Just would like to mention "Gamemaker" as well. Another great piece of free software allowing non-techs to create games:
http://www.yoyogames.com/gamemaker/

I made a few games with kids (them doing all the drawing and level design), you can download a few on http://guusoosterbaan.blogspot.com/2008/09/games-by-kids.html
Posted by guusoosterbaan on March 13, 2010 at 10:16:14 Pacific Time

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