AGES 10+
BRING YOUR GAMES TO LIFE WITH SCRATCH!
Learn to make interactive games with Scratch—the beginner-friendly, blockbased programming language from the MIT Media Lab!
Anna Anthropy, game designer extraordinaire, will show you how to do everything from building a game map to creating animations and debugging the end product. Take a peek inside the history of video game design, learn programming basics, and turn your ideas into creative games that you can play and share with your friends.
- Draw characters like a hungry, leaf-eating bug
- Animate characters—make them walk, jump, climb, and fall!
- Create objects for your player to collect and obstacles for them to avoid
- Design multiple levels to create a cave-exploring platform game
- Create sound effects and music for your games
- Share your games online and use player feedback to improve them
Isn’t it time to create your own Scratch games?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Anna Anthropy is a game designer, author, and educator. She currently teaches game design as DePaul University’s Game Designer in Residence. She is the author of many games about cats, and she lives in Chicago with a little black cat named Encyclopedia Frown.
Covers Scratch 3.0
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