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Create your own world
Create your own open-world adventure game
Step 1 Introduction
In this project, you’ll learn how to create your own adventure game world with multiple levels to explore.
What you will make
You’ll use the arrow keys to move your character around in the world.
What you will need
Hardware
A computer capable of running Scratch 3
Software
Scratch 3 (either online (https://rpf.io/scratchon) or offline (https://rpf.io/scratchoff))
Downloads
You can find everything you need to complete this project at rpf.io/p/en/create-your-own-world-go (https://
rpf.io/p/en/create-your-own-world-go).
What you will learn
Use conditional selection to react to key presses
Use variables to store a game’s state
Use conditional selection based on the value of a variable
Use lists to store data
Additional information for educators
If you need to print this project, please use the printer-friendly version (https://projects.raspberrypi.org/e
n/projects/create-your-own-world/print).
You can find the completed project here (https://rpf.io/p/en/create-your-own-world-get).
Step 2 Move the player sprite
Start by creating a player sprite that can move around your world.
Open the ‘Create your own world’ Scratch starter project.
Online: open the online starter project at rpf.io/create-your-own-world-on (https://rpf.io/create-yo
ur-own-world-on).
If you have a Scratch account you can make a copy by clicking Remix.
Offline: download the starter project rpf.io/p/en/create-your-own-world-go (https://rpf.io/p/en/cre
ate-your-own-world-go), and then open it using the offline editor.
If you need to download and install the Scratch offline editor, you can find it at rpf.io/scratchoff (http
s://rpf.io/scratchoff).
Pressing the arrow keys should move the player sprite around. When the up arrow is pressed, the player sprite
should move upwards on the Stage in response.
Add this code to the player sprite:
when clicked
forever
if key up arrow pressed? then
point in direction 0
move 4 steps
Click the flag and then hold down the up arrow. Does the player sprite move up?
To move the player sprite to the left, you need to add another if block with similar code:
when clicked
forever
if key up arrow pressed? then
point in direction 0
move 4 steps
if key left arrow pressed? then
point in direction -90
move 4 steps
Add more code to your player sprite so it can move down and to the right as well. Use the code you
already have to help you.
I need a hint
Here is how your code should look:
when clicked
forever
if key up arrow pressed? then
point in direction 0
move 4 steps
if key left arrow pressed? then
point in direction -90
move 4 steps
if key down arrow pressed? then
point in direction 180
move 4 steps
if key right arrow pressed? then
point in direction 90
move 4 steps
Step 3 Solid walls
Test your player sprite again. Do you see that it can walk through the light grey walls?
To fix this, you need to make the player sprite move back if it touches a light grey wall. Here’s the code
you need to add inside your forever block below the direction blocks:
when clicked
forever
if key up arrow pressed? then
point in direction 0
move 4 steps
if key left arrow pressed? then
point in direction -90
move 4 steps
if key down arrow pressed? then
point in direction 180
move 4 steps
if key right arrow pressed? then
point in direction 90
move 4 steps
if touching color ? then
move -4 steps
Try to make the player sprite move through a wall. If your new code works, this shouldn’t be possible.
Step 4 Move around your world
The player sprite should be able to walk through doors into other rooms.
Your project contains backdrops for additional rooms:
Create a new ‘for all sprites’ variable called room to keep track of which room the player sprite is in.
Add a variable in Scratch
Click on Variables in the Code tab, then click on Make a Variable.
Type in the name of your variable. You can choose whether you would like your variable to be
available to all sprites, or to only this sprite. Press OK.
Once you have created the variable, it will be displayed on the Stage, or you can untick the
variable in the Scripts tab to hide it.
When the player sprite touches the orange door in the first room, the game should display the next
backdrop, and the player sprite should move back to the left side of the Stage. Add this code inside the
player sprite’s forever loop:
when clicked
forever
if key up arrow pressed? then
point in direction 0
move 4 steps
if key left arrow pressed? then
point in direction -90
move 4 steps
if key down arrow pressed? then
point in direction 180
move 4 steps
if key right arrow pressed? then
point in direction 90
move 4 steps
if touching color ? then
move -4 steps
if touching color ? then
switch backdrop to next backdrop
p p
go to x: -200 y: 0
change room by 1
Every time the game starts, the room, character position, and backdrop need to be reset.
Add code to the start of your player sprite code above the forever loop, to reset everything when
the flag is clicked:
I need a hint
Here’s what your finished script should look like:
when clicked
set room to 1
go to x: -200 y: 0
switch backdrop to room1
forever
if key up arrow pressed? then
point in direction 0
move 4 steps
if key left arrow pressed? then
point in direction -90
move 4 steps
if key down arrow pressed? then
point in direction 180
move 4 steps
if key right arrow pressed? then
point in direction 90
move 4 steps
if touching color ? then
move -4 steps
Click the flag, and then move your player sprite until it touches the orange door. Does the sprite move
to the next screen? Does the room variable change to 2?
if touching color ? then
switch backdrop to next backdrop
go to x: -200 y: 0
change room by 1
Challenge!
Challenge: move back to the previous room
Can you make your player sprite move back to the previous room when it touches a yellow door? The code you
need for this is very similar to the code you’ve already added for make the sprite move to the next room.
Step 5 Signs
Now add signs to your world to guide players on their journey.
Your project includes a welcome sign sprite:
The welcome sign sprite should only be visible in room 1, so add some code to the sprite to make sure
that this happens:
I need a hint
Here is the complete code:
when clicked
forever
if room = 1 then
show
else
hide
Test the code for your welcome sign sprite by moving between rooms. The sign should only be visible
in room 1.
A sign isn’t much good if it doesn’t say anything! Add some more code to display a message if the
welcome sign sprite is touching the player sprite:
when clicked
forever
if room = 1 then
show
else
hide
if touching player ? then
say Welcome! Can you get to the treasure?
else
say
Test your welcome sign sprite again. You should now see a message when the player sprite touches
the welcome sign sprite.
Challenge!
Challenge: treasure!
Can you add some treasure for the player to find?
Make the treasure chest sprite appear only in room 3, and have this sprite say ‘Well done!’ when the player
sprite touches it.
Step 6 People
Add other people to your world who your player sprite can interact with.
Switch to the person sprite.
Add some code to the person sprite so that the person talks to the player sprite. This code is very
similar to the code you added to your sign sprite:
when clicked
go to x: 0 y: -150
forever
if touching player ? then
say Did you know that you can go through orange and yellow doors?
else
say
Allow your person sprite to move by adding these two blocks in the else section of your code:
when clicked
go to x: 0 y: -150
forever
if touching player ? then
say Did you know that you can go through orange and yellow doors?
else
say
move 1 steps
if on edge, bounce
Your person sprite will now move, but will stop to talk to the player sprite.
Add code to your new person sprite so that the sprite only appears in room 1. The code you need is
exactly the same as the code that makes the sign sprite only visible in room 1.
Make sure you test out your new code.
Challenge!
Challenge: add an enemy
If you want, you can also add patrolling enemies to your game. If the player sprite touches an enemy, the game
ends.
Your game already contains an enemy sprite. Add code to the enemy sprite so that it only appears in room 2.
Add code to move the enemy sprite and to end the game if the enemy sprite touches the player sprite. It’s
easier to do this in separate code blocks. Here’s how your enemy sprite code might look:
when clicked
forever
if room = 2 then
show
else
hide
when clicked
forever
if touching player ? then
stop all
when clicked
go to x: 170 y: 0
forever
repeat 130
change x by -1
Test out your
repeat 130new code to make sure that:
The enemy sprite only visible in room 2
The enemy sprite patrols the room
change
The gamex ends
by if the
1 player sprite touches the enemy sprite
Can you create another enemy sprite in room 3 that patrols up and down through the gap in the wall?
Step 7 Collect coins
Your player sprite should have be able to collect coins as it moves through the world.
Add a new variable valled coins to your project.
Select the coin sprite and click show.
Add code to your coin sprite so that it only appears in room 1.
when clicked
forever
if room = 1 then
show
else
hide
Add code to your coin sprite so that the sprite hides and 1 is added to the coins variable once the
player sprite touches the coin sprite to ‘pick it up’.
when clicked
wait until touching player ?
change coins by 1
hide
stop other scripts in sprite
The code stop other scripts in sprite is needed so that the coin sprite stops being displayed
in room 1 once it’s been collected.
Now add code to the Stage to set your coins variable to 0 at the start of the game.
when clicked
set coins to 0
Test your game. Collecting a coin should change your coins score to 1.
Step 8 Doors and keys
Now you are going to add code so that some of the doors in your game world are locked, and the player must find
the key to open them and get to the next room.
Switch to the key sprite. Click on show in the Scripts menu so that the sprite appears on the Stage.
Edit the key sprite’s costume so that it is blue.
Switch your Stage backdrop to room 3, and place the key sprite somewhere difficult to reach!
Add code to the key sprite to make it only visible in room 3.
Create a new list called inventory to store the items your player sprite collects.
Make a list
Click on Make a List under Variables.
Type in the name of your list. You can choose whether you would like your list to be available to all
sprites, or to only a specific sprite. Click OK.
Once you have created the list, it will be displayed on the stage, or you can untick the list in the
Scripts tab to hide it.
Click the + at the bottom of the list to add items, and click the cross next to an item to delete it.
New blocks will appear and allow you to use your new list in your project.
The code you need to add for collecting the key is very similar to the code for collecting coins. The
difference is that you add the key to the inventory.
when clicked
wait until touching player ?
add blue key to inventory
hide
stop other scripts in sprite
Add code to your Stage to empty your inventory at the start of the game.
delete all of inventory
Test out your game to check whether you can collect the key sprite and add it to your inventory.
Now add the locked door. Select the door-blue sprite and click on show in the Scripts menu, and then
position the sprite across the gap between the two walls.
Add code to the door-blue sprite so that it is only visible in room 3.
Add code to the door-blue sprite so that, when the key is in the inventory, the sprite hides to allow
your player sprite to pass.
when clicked
wait until inventory contains blue key ?
stop other scripts in sprite
hide
Test out your game and see if you can collect the blue key to open the door!
Challenge!
Challenge: extend your world
You can now continue creating your own world! Here are some ideas:
Add more coins to your game in different rooms. Can you let some coins be guarded by patrolling enemies?
Change your game’s backdrops
Add sound and music to your game
Add more people, enemies, and signs
Add red and yellow doors, and special keys to open them
Add more rooms to your world
Add other useful items to your game
Use coins to get information from other people:
You could even add doors in the north and south walls of room 1, so that the player can move between rooms
in all four directions. For example, your game can have nine rooms in a 3×3 grid. You can then add 3 to the
room number to move down one level.
if touching color ? then
switch backdrop to costume number + 3
go to x: 0 y: 200
change room by 3
Step 9 What next?
Have a go at creating another game by working through the CATS! (https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/project
s/cats?utm_source=pathway&utm_medium=whatnext&utm_campaign=projects) project.
If you want to make a game using Python instead of Scratch, try out the RPG (https://projects.raspberrypi.org/e
n/projects/rpg?utm_source=pathway&utm_medium=whatnext&utm_campaign=projects) project.
Published by Raspberry Pi Foundation (https://www.raspberrypi.org) under a Creative Commons
license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
View project & license on GitHub (https://github.com/RaspberryPiLearning/create-your-own-world)
