Capstone Scratch Game Project

This unit guides students through completing a culminating Scratch project: planning with flowcharts, building scenes and sprites, coding interactivity, debugging, and publishing. Students will also learn to extend their projects with improved user interfaces and real-world gadget ideas to prepare for more advanced programming study.

Learning Objectives

• Analyze flowcharts and project requirements to produce a written program plan that maps scenes, sprites, variables, and control logic for a multi-scene Scratch game
• Apply Scratch authoring skills to build a playable interactive game that includes at least three backdrops, a robot and an asteroid sprite, dents and timer variables, background music, keyboard controls, and an asteroid field
• Demonstrate testing and debugging workflows by identifying and fixing at least three defects, saving incremental project versions, and publishing or exporting the finished project
• Evaluate and extend the project by proposing and implementing at least two enhancements (such as UI improvements, gameplay features, or gadget integrations) and justifying how each improves usability or learning outcomes