Project #1:  "Chasing/Eating" (Pac Man Type Game)

Requirements:
1. Game must have a main character that the user moves about the screen using the arrow keys on the keyboard.
2. There must be "food" that the character eats.  The food will disapear after the character eats it.
3. The game area must have a maze that the main character must "bounce" off when it touches the maze.

Extras:
1. The game keeps score based on the number of food eaten.
2. Ghosts or evil characters chase the main character.
3  System for keeping track of the lives of the main character.

Project #2: Red Light/Green Light

Requirements:
1. Must have 2 different dancers that use costume changes to simulate movement and dancing.
2. Must have music that plays while characters are dancing.
3. Must have a system where the user clicks on a green or red light sprites to start or stop the music and dancing.

Extras:
1. Use photographs of yourself to create dancing sprite.
2. Add sprites that simulate colored lights changing on the dance floor.
3. Use different stages to change the setting of the dance floor.

Project #3: Pong

Requirements:
1. Must have a paddle that the user controls with the mouse.
2. Must have a ball that moves on its own and bounces off the edges of the world.
3. Ball must bounce off the paddle.

Extras:
1. Design a "Breakout" like game where the ball hits bricks in a wall.  The bricks disappear and score is kept.
2. The ball bounces off the paddle in an angle of reflection that is equal to the angle of attack.
3. Use random statements to vary the ball angle when it bounces off the paddle.

Project #4: Baby Catch (From Georgia Tech's Institute for Computing Education)

Requirements:
1. A Ball that falls down from the top of the screen to the bottom.
2. When Ball touches bottom of stage - it returns to the top to fall again.
3. A Baby or other Sprite to "Catch" the ball.

Extras:
1. Score - when Baby catches the ball the points increase.
2. Bouncing:  Ball bounces of bottom of stage and Baby.
3. Realistic gravity.

Requirements:
1. Must have a canon that the user can change angle of shot with the arrow keys.
2. Must have a canon ball that "shoots" from the canon equal to the angle of the canon at the time of the shot.
3. Canon ball must stamp as it travels to show the path of the shot.

Extras:
1. Self moving targets that hide when hit by the canon ball.
2. Simulate gravity effects so the canon ball takes a parabolic path.

Code samples for Target Game

Detailed Instructions for Target Game

Requirements:
1. Have a Sprite that spins stamps itself on stage.
2. Spinning Sprite glides around to random spots around stage - leaving a stamped trail.
3. When "space" key is pressed - the stamp effects clear the stage.

Extras:
1. When "c" key is pressed - the colors of the Stamper Sprite change.
2. Give use other keys to change the Stamper Sprite's costume.

Sample of Spinner Art Program

Code samples for Spinner Art Program

Requirements:
1. Have a Sprite that creates a stem and flower when clicked.
2. Use Pen and color change to create colored flowers.

Extras:
1. When "c" key is pressed - the screen clears.
2. Make a stage background with grass and sky.

Sample of Flower Art Program

Project #8: Racing Game

Requirements:
1. A Race Car that the user controls with the arrow keys for direction and speed
2. A simulated road with a striped line down the center showing "speed" and "motion" of car.
3. Puddles or other obstacles for the car to avoid

Extras:
1. Other Race Cars to pass during the game.
2. When the user's Race Car touches a puddle or other cars, the Race Car "spins out of control."

Project #10: Realistic Canon Project

Requirements:
1.  A Canon sprite that aims towards targets with user input.
2.  A "Canon Ball" sprite that the user "shoots" the canon and follows a parabolic path through the air.
3.  A target for the "Canon Ball" to hit.

Project #11: Communication Project

Requirements:
1. Design a user interface where different icons represent catagories of short phrases speech impaired students need.

For Example:

• Emotions: Happy and Sad
• Food: Apples and Popcorn
• Rooms: Gym and Classroom
• Colors: Red and Blue

2.  The "home" page will have 4 buttons showing the catagories.
3.  When an icon is clicked on the home page, the home page hides and the short phrase icons appear.
4.  When a phrase icon is clicked, the program plays a recorded sound of the programmer saying the phrase.
5.  A "Home" button will return the user to the "Home Page" to select a different sound.
6.  Pictures and icons will accompany text on the user interface.

Project #12: Animation of a short story

Requirements:
1. Select a fairy tale and design Sprites that represent the characters.
2. Use costume changes to simulate animation and movement.
3. Select musical sound clips for each characters.
4. Use movement, hide, direction, and broadcast commands to animate a scene from the story.

Project #13: Virtual Musical Instrument

Requirements:
1. Create a Virtual Musical Instrument that uses pitch or non-pitched sounds.
2. Users can click or press keys on the computer to activate the sounds.
3. Colorful and interesting User Interface that allows the user to select sounds.

Project #14: Virtual Board Game

Requirements:
1. Create a Board Game Engine that has at least 15 "places" to move along a track.  (Like "Candyland" or "Monopoly".)
2. Create a "spinner" or "dice" that selects a random number to move a game piece.
3. Create at least two "pieces" that will move along the game board according to the "spinner."

Project #15: Basic Space Target Game

Requirements:
1. Create a Ship that moves right/left and up/down with arrow keys.
2. Enable this Ship to shoot a missile straight up.  (See Basic Target Game Project #4)
3. Create a Fleet of "Enemy Ships" that fly in formation.
4. When missile hits an enemy ship - it blows up and disappears.
5. Create an "Enemy Mothership" that randomly appears in the top portion of the screen.

Project #16: Shape Drawing Robot  (Polygon Robot)

Requirements:
1. Create a Sprite.
2. Write scripts that direct your sprite to draw a square, circle, triangle.
3. Create buttons that the user selects to direct the sprite to draw the shapes.
4. Combine the scripts to have the sprite draw a basic house.

Project #19: Line Following Robot Simulator