1. Helicopter Game Tutorial
A Step By Step Guide

2. Step 1- Open Scratch Go to: START ALL PROGRAMS COMPUTING AND BUSINESS

3. Step 2- Do You Have This?

4. Step 3- Go To Costumes
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5. Step 4- Delete Costume 2 So Only Costume 1 Is Left!
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6. Step 5- Edit Costume 1, Clear Cat and Add A Helicopter

7. Step 6- Shrink The Helicopter
Here

8. The Next Steps Are To Help Make Your Helicopter Look Like It Is Moving Its Rotors. Buckle Up!

9. Step 7- Costume 1- Delete Rotors With Eraser
See

10. Step 8- Now Copy Costume 1 TWICE (so you have 3 ‘copter sprites)
See

11. Step 9a- Go Back To Costume 1 And Add A Rotor Using Line Tool

12. Step 9b- Go Back To Costume 2 And Add A Rotor Using Line Tool

13. Step 9c- Go Back To Costume 3 And Add A Rotor Using Line Tool

14. IF YOU WORK IT OUT YOU ARE A STAR!
Step 10- LOOPING CODE
CHALLENGE!
Can you create some code blocks that makes the rotors spin?
CLUE: “When the green flag is pressed, forever next costume”
IF YOU WORK IT OUT YOU ARE A STAR!

15. Step 11- Make Your Copter Move Left and Right!
Get Your Colleague Next To You To Test It Works!

16. Step 12- Make Your Copter Up and Down

17. Step 13- Go To Stage Create a Skyline But With A Black Border

18. Step 14- Make The Helicopter Start In The Same Position. Code This!

19. TRY THE CODE…….GO RIGHT …DOES IT STOP AT THE BLACK LINE?
Step 15- We don’t want the copter going off the screen……here is some code
TRY THE CODE…….GO RIGHT …DOES IT STOP AT THE BLACK LINE?

20. Step 16- Can You Make The Copter Stop At All Boundaries?
TEST IT

21. STEP 17- CHECK YOU HAVE DONE THIS?
You have an animated helicopter
Your helicopter can move up, down, left and right
Your helicopter does not go off screen
You have a background that relates to your game

22. I created a dragon and shrunk it
Step 18- Make An Object That Could, If It Touches The Copter, Could Make You Lose Points
I created a dragon and shrunk it
Click New Sprite!

23. Step 19- So I Have A New Sprite That I Can Add Code To
See ….New Sprite!

24. Step 20- Add Code To Make The Dragon Fly Across Your World
Step 20- Add Code To Make The Dragon Fly Across Your World. Work the code out!

25. Step 21- Add A Scoring Variable

26. Step 22- Add Scoring Code. When Game Starts Start At 0 Score
Step 22- Add Scoring Code. When Game Starts Start At 0 Score. Then If Dragon (Sprite 2) Touches Your Copter (Sprite 1) Lose Points

27. Step 24- Create An Animated Dragon…Breathing Fire! Costume First!

28. Step 25- How Could We Make The Dragon Switch Costumes
Step 25- How Could We Make The Dragon Switch Costumes? What Code Could We Use?

29. Step 26- Add Sounds (Grab Headphones
Step 26- Add Sounds (Grab Headphones!)Let’s make the dragon sprite make a noise!

30. Step 27- My Dragon Howls! Weird!

31. Step 28- When The Game Starts How Could Make The Dragon “Howl” Every Few Seconds?

32. Step 29- Summary Of Code For The Dragon

33. Step 30- Lets Make Another Dragon! Duplicate The Dragon Sprite

34. Step 31- Now With 2nd Dragon Sprite Change The Code To Make Him Fly Around The Screen!

35. Step 32- This Adds A Man That Needs To Be Rescued From The Dragons!

36. Step 33- Can You Add More People To The Game?

37. JUST ADDED THE SCORING CODE
Step 34- Scoring- Add Scoring For When A Copter Touches (Rescues) The Person- Sprite 4
JUST ADDED THE SCORING CODE

38. Step 35a- Add A Wiltshire Air Ambulance Loading Screen
Follow these steps:
Go to Google
Find the logo of Wiltshire Air Ambulance
Right Click Save Image As
Save To Your 7B Folder In Z: Drive

39. Step 35b- Create A New Sprite & In The Costume Import The Wiltshire Air Ambulance Logo

40. Step 35c- Add The Code To Make The Logo Appear At Start Then Disappear

41. Step 36- Create Game Instructions in Word. Not Too Many!

42. Step 37- In Your Logo Sprite Add A New Costume. Click Paint
Added Blue Font and Yellow Background

43. Step 38- How Would You Code It So The Logo Appeared, Then Instructions and then game started?

44. Step 39- The Code For The Game Startup

45. Step 40- Make A Winning Screen. New Sprite

46. Step 41- Code For Winner Screen Including Music!
DOES IT WORK?