Date: July 31, 2020
Mary McDonald
About the author
Mary is an educator, writer and media artist who loves to collaborate. She creates poetry films and Augmented Reality art installations. Mary gets really excited about participatory media digital arts projects and believes in the potential for creative technologies to inspire individuals and connect communities. Mary’s next adventures include creating sound compositions of letters from WWI. Mary has a B. Ed, specializing in Special Education and Language Literacy and is currently finishing off her Master’s of Educational Technology degree through UBC. She has taught in Canada and at international schools in Africa and in Asia. Mary loves traveling to meet new people, learn about different ways of being, and experiencing new landscapes.
Welcome to the first Scratch Mix and Match Cards Challenge! For each challenge, you will be given three cards. Your mission is to use the code from at least two out of the three featured cards to make your own game or story. I’ll demonstrate some ways that you could use each piece of code, but you can use the codes in any way that best fits your game or story. The cards are divided up into five categories:
- Game Setup
- Make it Move
- Cool Effects
- Clones
- Say Something
You can download three cards for each challenge!
Scratch Mix and Match Challenge #1: Make Your Own Game
Learn how to make your own game with the Scratch Mix and Match Cards Challenge! Each challenge, you’ll get three cards showing different pieces of code to jump start your game creation.
Scratch Mix and Match Bonus Challenge: Move
Learn how to add basic movements to your game or story in Scratch with the Move card from the Scratch Mix and Match cards.
Scratch Mix and Match Challenge #2
Scratch Mix and Match Cards Challenge #2 Learn how to make your own game with the Scratch Mix and Match Cards. Accept the challenge and make a game or story with the cards for this challenge!
Scratch Mix and Match Challenge Bonus: Levels
Learn how to add Levels to your game or story in Scratch with Levels #1 and #2 from the Scratch Mix and Match cards deck.
Scratch Mix and Match Challenge #3
Scratch Mix and Match Cards Challenge #3. Making your own games in Scratch is a fun way to learn how to code! Accept the challenge and make a game or story with at least two of the three Mix and Match cards for this challenge!
Scratch Mix and Match Challenge Bonus: Hide and Seek Variations
In this Scratch Mix and Match bonus challenge, we’ll look at what works and what doesn’t work when you want to make a sprite hide and then be found.
Scratch Mix and Match Challenge Bonus: The Mystery of the Hidden Hide and Seek Block
Find the hidden block, and learn how to use it another way to code hidden sprites in Scratch!
Scratch Mix and Match Challenge #4
Scratch Mix and Match Cards Challenge #4. Accept the challenge and learn how to make a Choose your own Adventure game or story! Making your own games in Scratch is a fun way to learn how to code!