It took tears… (Not really) Blood… (Not really) Sweat… (Not really) Pain… (Not really as well). This is the story on how we made our very own video game on a buggy website…

The Start of the race…

After the second semester started, we get new classes. And for PLP, we got science. A week later of just getting to know about the atom, we were asked to create our own game using a website called “Scratch”. We had a few days to learn how it works before we got to actually make the game. I struggled with learning how it works, so I had to look up tutorials on how to make games. The next day, I decided to make a chase game because I thought it would be a nice game to make. But we needed to add questions or facts about the atom or things related around the atom. So that made it harder for me to make a proper game. But after researching more games that I could possibly do, one stood out to me. A clicker game…

What a Clicker Game Is…

In a clicker game, you click an object that will give you points. With those points, you can buy “auto clickers”. You need a certain amount of points to buy the auto clicker. If you buy an auto clicker, then it will give you a certain amount of points. And this will make the game really fun because you can get thousands of points!

The Most Amazing Plan of All Plans…

It took me at least 2 hours to come up with how I could include the questions. But I came up with, every time you buy an auto clicker, it will tell you an interesting fact. There were going to be certain auto clickers that you can buy for more money which will give you more points a second. I was also planning on adding an annoying song in the background while you play the game. (Because I thought it would be funny).

Getting to work…

This wasn’t going to be so easy since the website I was coding on, (Scratch) is very buggy and usually deletes your progress even when you save it. (Read the whole post because this becomes a real problem for me in the future..) But I already ran into a problem. I didn’t know how to make a clicker game. And even when we had a few days to learn about how to code in the website, I still needed a bit more time to learn about it since there was a lot of stuff to learn. After an hour of just trying out how to code a clicker game, I gave up and looked up a tutorial on how to make a clicker game.

 

Building the game…

I really didn’t know how hard this was going to be in the future because of how much the game is buggy, it kept deleting my progress.