Mitchell's Extension Game - Reflection

Hey bloggers! Here is my Extension scratch Game reflection I have written about. Enjoy!

During Term 2 the Year 7 & 8 Extension group got the opportunity to make another game on Scratch. Scratch is basically a website full of code, where you can create your own games. Last term in Term 1 we created a game about the environment of Tamaki and how to clean our green space.

Anyways we also got to present those games at the Te Oro Manaiakalani Exhibition. Well this term we have been starting to create a game about this term’s topic Now that’s Thinking and the game is based about Space and the Maori New Year - Matariki.

I am doing a individual project as my other partners are working on their own one. So far I have started to shoot, move my spaceship, and more. We also had the amazing opportunity to have help from a coding expert from OMG tech Zoe, who helped alot.

Also for the sprites drawn on Hyperstudio - DLO - Tevita, Angelo and I have drawn some sprites for our game. We have drawn a spacecraft, some aliens, lazer guns, stars and heaps more sprites that will be in our game.

I also browsed through some video clips on Youtube, Mrs Lagitupu has put on for us to view. I used some coding I saw on those videos and used it on my own personal game. It was really helpful with both the game and Zoe from OMG tech.

I have only created 1 level as creating a Scratch game is very hard.

The highlights of the game was making the sprites and levels. It was very difficult. Also

Thanks for reading!

By Mitchell.M

05/06/17

Mitchell's Extension Update - 2017

Hey bloggers! Recently in extension we have been learning about NASA and Space travel. Last term we also had a trip to the Hoyts Cinemas in Sylvia Park to watch the movie release "Hidden Figures". You can check the video for that you can find right over - here: https://vimeo.com/209294242. Anyways we have been making space games and also making characters for our games too.

I have personally been learning about the text 5 changes in Space travel and how the first man in space was Russian astronaut: Yuri Gagarin. Here is the link to the text I am reading: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/04/130412-space-travel-technologies-yuri-gagarin/. 

His mission required something that could propel his spacecraft fast enough to sustain a speed of 17,000 miles per hour.

This now made it possible to send men/astronauts to the moon. Russian astronaut Yuri Gagarin, was the first man in space completed a circuit around the earth in the spaceship Vostok on April the 21st 1961.

Before in the old days spacemen were uncomfortable, but nowadays they have their own choice of - exercise bikes, barbeque beef brisket — even a choice of toilet papers.

Thanks for reading!
By Mitchell.M
31/05/17