Scratch games coding for kids - Advanced Scratch 1

Name: Scratch games coding for kids - Advanced Scratch 1
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Scratch games coding course for coders with some Scratch experience who want to improve their skills and knowledge

Created byMatt Ottewill

Last updated 1/2026

English

What you'll learn

Sprite movement control with keyboard presses
Steering, acceleration and deceleration
Sprite costume switch animation
Sprite sensing conditionality
Sprite cloning
Collision sensing
Advanced use of variable
Lives and countdown timers
The use of lists

Course content

3 sections • 14 lectures • 3h 13m total length

About The Pixel Gang and our educational aims and objectives4:01
Find out about the educational ideas behind our courses.
Introduction - preparing for the course3:18
Overview of the course content and the two games to be coded. Download and install Scratch App/Desktop 3. Download the template game files.

Duck Rescue game - load the template game, review sprites and coding the stage6:16
Load the first template game file. Review the sprites and costumes. Code the stage for flexible game starts. Save and version the game.
Duck Rescue game - coding the Waves sprites7:33
Add the sprite properties. Code the Ghost colour effect. Wave animation movement. Save and version the game.
Duck Rescue game - coding the Rescue boat sprite21:42
Add the sprite properties. Player controls for steering, acceleration and deceleration. Costume switching. Continuous motion. Making a property a variable. Testing. Save and version the game.
Duck Rescue game - coding the Speed boats sprite9:21
Add the sprite properties. Cloning. Random property values. Collision detection. Costume switching. Continuous motion. Testing. Save and version the game.
Duck Rescue game - coding the Duck sprite25:38
Add the sprite properties. Movement conditionality. Collision detection and effects. Costume switching. Lives. Testing. Save and version the game.
Duck Rescue game - coding the Island sprite11:50
Add the sprite properties. Timer countdown. Random location. Ghost effect fades. Testing. Save and version the game.

Bomb disposal game - load the template game and review sprites4:55
Load the second template game. Review the sprites and costumes. Code the stage for flexible game starts. Prepare game and begin game event handlers. Save and version the game.
Bomb disposal game - coding the stage and adding the prepare game code20:42
Code the stage for flexible game starts. Prepare game and begin game event handlers. Save and version the game.
Bomb disposal game - coding the Bomb, Clock face and hand sprites21:49
Add the sprite properties. Countdown timer. Clock face costume switches. Alert sound effect. Animating the clock hand. Clock sound effects. Testing. Save and version the game.
Bomb disposal game - coding the Wires & Wire cutter sprites13:18
Add the wire sprite properties. Cut variables and costume switches. Add the Wire cutter properties, actions, and cut costumes switches. Testing. Save and version the game.
Bomb disposal game - coding the Cut point sprite29:37
Add the sprite properties. Create the Intact and Cut lists. Cut order algorithms. Cut order list testing alogorithm. Testing. Save and version the game.
Bomb disposal game - coding the Explosion and Explosion smoke sprites13:47
Add the sprite properties. Cloning. Clone animation algorithms. Testing. Save and version the game.

Requirements

Be able to use a computer keyboard and mouse
Previous intermediate experience of Scratch recommended

Description

This course is designed for parents who want to re-direct their child's natural enthusiasm for playing games into creating games and coding.

It is an ideal course to help your child to learn how to code. This course involves coding two new games, thereby extending their knowledge and skills, after which they will use what they have learnt to create their own games.

Students will learn advanced coding techniques including timer countdowns, steering, acceleration and deceleration, repelling sprites, continuous motion, sprite costume animation and control, transferring sprite properties between sprites, colour effect animations, cloning, timed animation, sound control, advanced variable use, and lists.

Coding is a primary skill for the modern workplace and this course will help give students a head start in their computer studies at school and thereafter at further and higher education and in the workplace.

Our instructor is a qualified and experienced teacher who speaks clearly and precisely, leading the learner through the entire coding process. Each step is explained and demonstrated.

Your child will build confidence with Scratch, acquire advanced games coding skills, and improve their creative, math and computational thinking skills.

As your child learns, their confidence, enthusiasm and passion for coding will increase. As the see the immediate results of their coding efforts they will not only learn but learn to love learning itself. Children have a natural infinity with computer technologies and this course is the perfect way to turn that energy into useful educational outcomes.

Who this course is for:

Parents who want to transform their children from players of games into creators
Parents who want to give their children a head start in computer studies at school, further and higher eduction, and in the workplace
Anyone who plays games and would like to learn how to create their own
Intermediate coders who want to extend their skills

Scratch games coding for kids - Advanced Scratch 1

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Course content

For parents2 lectures • 7min

Coding the Duck Rescue game6 lectures • 1hr 22min

Coding the Bomb Disposal game6 lectures • 1hr 44min

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