Programming Challenges

Create a virtual pet, character, or nature simulation that the user can interact with to help it. Your game will need to meet the project brief. Virtual pet games are one type of game where users interact with characters to meet the characters’ needs. You might have played with a small handheld Tamagotchi or enjoyed games like

Design and build a top-down view, obstacle or platform, parkour game. Your character will need to jump, hop, glide, bounce, or fly to catch a ride on moving platforms and make it to the end. Top-down/bird’s-eye view games look down on the game from above. Sometimes the whole game has this view. Other games use top-down

Make a shop app where the customer can buy items from your shop. The project will be in first-person view where the player is a customer. Click on Space Fruit to buy them and watch the total go up. When you’re ready, click on Kiran to check out. How do you think the project knows

Make a clicker game where you earn beats to play new drums at bigger venues. Click the drum and watch the number of beats go up. Get a new drum when you have enough beats. How many beats do you earn when clicking the new drum?

Make a nature app with a dragonfly that grows bigger as it eats insects. Move the mouse around the Stage to eat insects. How do the insects move? Which part of the dragonfly needs to touch the insects to eat them? What happens to the dragonfly when the dragonfly eats an insect?

Make an app where you use a magic wand to turn sprites into toads, and grow and shrink them.