Welcome to my GAMESHOW, The A-TOM TRIVIA SHOW! In this project, we were asked to code a game on scratch that creatively demonstrated our knowlage on atoms. I chose to format my Scratch game as a trivia/reality game show.

I crated a character named A-tom, who is the host of our game show, ‘A-tom’s game show’. He is my favourite part of this game with his silly- and sometimes hurtful- replies to your answers to the trivia questions. I created his body with the drawing tools we have in Scratch, like the paintbrush tool, and the point select button. I also made a simple animation of his mouth moving in time with his snarky replies, but crating several costumes of him all with his mouth in a different position, like a stop motion. I recorded sound of me and my friends saying both positive and negative things related to or trivia questions. I then sped them up making them high pitched, and funny. I programmed it so that if you answered correctly, you would hear a nice/positive response and if you were wrong you would get a rude/negative response. 

Another thing that I included in my game is the actual trivia questions. I chose about eight questions that spanned from ‘What year was the idea of an atom created’ to ‘True or False, We are made of 7 Billion Billion Billion atoms’. I think that the questions I chose showed my knowledge of atoms while still being understandable to those who knew a little less.

  I also am proud of the way I helped people over the course of the project. I have some history with scratch, I used to crate things on scratch all the time. I enjoy helping people, and the fact that I can makes me happy. I also helped create a studio will most of our classes’ games after we ran into the problem where our games wouldn’t come up after we searched them in scratch. Now, there is a studio titled ‘PLP8ScratchAtomGames’ that has most of our games inside. This makes them much easier to access and it is nice to see them all together.

If I could change one thing about my game, I would probably add more responses to A-tom. I love all of the things he said, but I have so many ideas of other things I could add. I would have added more, and I still might, but to do that I would have to re-start all of the code that has to do with any sound played in the whole game. I also changed the code so that it should be compatible with mobile devices, or if you do not have a keyboard, witch I think is a good touch.  

Overall, I am really proud of my game, and this is one of my favourite projects this year.