Creative Coding

Unit 3

Enhance Your Game

Pacing

Key Language Usage

● One-Quarter (A/B Schedule) ● Half Quarter (Semester Schedule)

Narrate Argue Inform Explain

Stands and Standards Strand2 : Game Development Standard4 : Control

Students will code events to allow the user to interact with a game. (i.e. mouse click, keystroke). Students will code conditionals to create collision events (i.e. score, lives) Students will incorporate user input in a game (i.e. guessing a number, choosing an adventure, mad libs) Standard5 : Randomization Students will write code to randomize behaviors in a game. (i.e. sprite images, position, color, and size. Students will control randomization with ranges in code. Standard6 : Enhancements Students will create and call functions to customize a game. Students will write code to enhance the user experience ● Creative openers/endings ● Backgrounds (static/scrolling) ● Timer ● sound/music Concepts Language Functions & Features: ■ Verbs to defne career pathways or attributes (eg. have, be, belong to, consist of) ■ Expanded noun groups to explain key concepts, add details, or classify information ■ Reporting devices to acknowledge outside sources and integrate information into the report as in saying verbs and direct quotes ■ Technical word choices to defne and classify the entity ■ Adjectives and adverbs to answer questions about quantity, size, shape, manner ( descriptions) ■ Generalized nouns to introduce a topic and/or entity ■ Opening statements to identify the type of information