Although I consider this an advanced game, I’ve taught it successfully to a group of  students who had just completed Part 1 of our program.  It is a long course, and some parts of it are a bit complex, but my students get so excited about learning how to build this game, I find that they’re extremely focused and end up learning a whole lot!

Please see below for a list of Scratch skills covered in this course:

• Creating smooth movement inside a maze via the use of a ‘detector’ costume.
• Sensing and responding to portions of the background which are not sprites.
• Following another sprite inside a maze by comparing ‘x’ and ‘y’ values.
• Telling sprites to behave differently based on the state in which the game is in.
• Granting a sprite with a temporary super power.
• Transitioning from one game state to another using a timer variable.
• Creating smooth movement by using more than one loop at the same time.
• Displaying different costumes of the same sprite simultaneously using clones.
• Using lists to spread clones in particular locations across the stage.
• Using boolean logic & nested conditional statements
• Causing a sprite to flash at a particular speed using a timer variable.
• Using custom blocks
• Adding lives and score to a game.
• Using the ‘key pressed’ blocks to detect user activity.