The Hungry Shark Game

Feeding Shark
Lesson Details
How to create clones in PictoBlox? How to detect contact between two sprites and perform actions accordingly?

Activities:

  • Creating a game in PictoBlox whose aim is to feed a super hungry shark as many fish as you can by controlling it using evive’s potentiometer.
Curriculum: Physical Computing for Kids – Level 1
Classroom Bundle Used: STEM Classroom Bundle, STEM Mini Classroom Bundle
Prerequisites: Beetle in the Maze , Analog Input – Reading Potentiometer
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Lesson Overview

In this activity, students will make a game in PictoBlox where the aim of the game is to feed the shark as many fish as you can by controlling it with evive’s potentiometer.

Material Required

1 set of the following material per group of 3-5 students:

Component Image Quantity Available in Bundle
evive 1
USB A-B Cable 1

Lesson Outline

Introduction and demonstration of the game - 10 minutes
Setting up the Stage - 10 minutes
  • Set the background to underwater.
  • Add sprite to the game:
    • Fish 
    • Shark
Assigning movements to the Shark - 20 minutes
  • Connect evive to PictoBlox.
  • The shark movement using the potentiometer. The shark will start from a fixed center point and will keep on moving until the game is over. Write the script to implement this.
  • Testing the script.
Fish Scripts - 20 minutes
  • Make the script to clone the fish every 1 second.
  • Make the script to assign the movement to the fish after it is created.
  • The clone will show up at a random point on the stage and will move a random point in 2 seconds. This adds uncertainty and makes the game fair.
Eating the Fish - 20 minutes
  • Every time the shark eats a fish, the Score should
    increase. Make a script to detect when the clone touches the shark, then increase the score and delete the clone.
Eating Animation - 10 minutes
  • When the fish sprite broadcasts the message Eat, we want the shark sprite to make a sound and to look as if it has eaten the fish. Write the script for the same.
Addon - 15 minutes
  • To make the game more challenging, you can time the game. Add the timer script in the game.
Play - 15 minutes

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