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This module provides an opportunity to address curriculum expectations in the Science, Computer Studies and Math in grade 5 – 7 expectations. In particular, students will be learn different programming skills in Scratch and build on the skill they have learned in an entry-level assignment. This assignment will also demonstrate how visual cues can help communicate feelings, ideas and understandings when telling a story.
Materials
- Scratch – Download Scratch
- Adobe AIR (required for Scratch to run) – Download Adobe AIR
- Goose Hunt Art Assets – Download Assets Folder (ZIP)
Non-Computer Activity
To introduce the concept of the target game that you will be creating in Scratch start by playing a real-life version of this game with your group. You will need a open pace to run around for this game.
- Have one person volunteer to be the ‘target.’ They can run from one side of the room to the other…back and forth.
- Everyone else must stand 10 feet away behind a designated line and throw bean bags at the moving target.
- Whoever hits the target must switch spots with them.
Computer Activity
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Begin by opening Scratch and deleting the cat.
Acrok hd video converter for mac 7 0 156 gb. Then, import the background and goose sprite from the Goose Hunt assets folder. It is not important which frame you select as the initial sprite – it resets once costumes are loaded.
The first thing to do is animate the goose, the same way the kayak was animated in the previous lesson. Import the ‘flap’ images as costumes. As we only want the animation to cycle through the ‘flapping’ costumes, and not the ‘hit frame’ costume, the ‘next costume’ command will not work for us here. We want the animation to cycle until the goose has been hunted (by moving the target/cursor over it), so in this case we use the ‘repeat UNTIL’ control command as follows:
When the green flag is pressed, the animation should cycle through the flapping costumes until the mouse touches the goose. It is important to switch the goose flap animations chronologically from 1 through 4, otherwise the flapping looks awkward. Increase the speed of the animation by changing the default 1 second to .1 seconds per frame. (For comparison, an average movie is either 24 or 48 frames per second. Waiting .1 seconds per frame translates to 10 frames per second.)
Now we will tell the program what to do when the cursor touches the goose. Add the ‘Goose Hit 1’ and ‘Goose Hit 2’ frames to the costume. You’ll notice one of them is just white. This is a common visual effect in game animation: when a target is hit, the screen briefly flashes solid white to indicate a hit. Let’s add the following code so that the goose flashes and looks shocked when it’s hit:
We want players to be able to hit the goose multiple times, so we will wrap a ‘forever’ loop command around the entire block of code:
We want the goose to move randomly around the screen to make the game more challenging. So let’s add a ‘Go To Random Position’ command within the ‘Forever’ loop so that every time the mouse touches the goose, the hit animation triggers, and then the goose moves to a random position.
Now that the core function of the game is prepared, we will add a score and a timer. Let’s create a variable called ‘Score’.
Magic media marker 2 6 7. Now that you’ve created a variable, you will see see some new code blocks that can be used with that variable:
And you should also see the score in the top left hand of the screen.
We need to do two things with the Score variable: ensure it resets to zero when the game is started, and that it increases by 1 every time the goose is hit. Add a ‘set Score to 0’ block at the very beginning of our code.
Add a ‘change Score by 1’ block after the ‘repeat until touching mouse-pointer’ code so that as soon as the goose is hit, the variable increases by one.
(We don’t have to enter +1 as a number without a negative sign [-] in front of it is assumed to be positive.)
Now let’s add another variable for the timer countdown. The goal of the game is to get as many geese as possible before the timer runs out. So let’s make a 30 second game. (You can make the game any length of time – just think from your players perspective how much time they would want to play. 30 minutes of goose hunting might become a bit boring!)
For our timer, we’re creating a new code block which subtracts 1 unit from the Time variable until it reaches 0, at which point the goose says “GAME OVER”, and then all activity is stopped.
Now some code to turn the mouse cursor into a target. First, import the Target sprite, and then add this very simple bit of code:
Make sure you have selected the target sprite before entering this code, so that the program knows you are referring to this sprite only. If you enter this code while the Goose sprite is selected, that would cause the goose to follow the cursor around which would be very confusing!
The last thing to do is add a sound to the goose when it gets hit. Select the goose, and open the Sounds tab. Click the folder symbol to import a sound, then import ‘Goose Honk.mp3’. In the scripts menu, select the Sound section and add the ‘play sound [Goose Honk.mp3]’ command after the ‘repeat until touching mouse pointer’ block:
Now the goose will honk to accompany the hit animation.
Conclusion
Have each student present their game to the rest of the group. What makes their version a little different?
Resources
- @ScratchEdTeam – The ScratchEd Team at @HGSE supports educators using Scratch.
- @scratch – Programming language & online community where kids create, share and remix stories, animations and games.
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If you're bored with that old boring look of your Windows operating system then it's the time to customize it. And you can start your customization process from default mouse cursors. Today we're having a collection of best custom mouse pointers for you. You can use these mouse pointers for Widows 7, 8 and even 8.1 too. Have you ever wondered to use that Mac OS Cursor Set? If Yes, then it's the time to use that mouse pointer package on your computer. ![Smooze Smooze](https://orig00.deviantart.net/8527/f/2016/235/2/7/sx_tantrum_blue_cursor_set_by_anaidon_aserra-daf0pwv.png)
Best Free Custom Mouse Pointers Scheme
1. Metro X1 Animated Cursor SetThese provides you an pointer interface similar to the Windows 8.
Download Metro X1 Animated Cursor Set
2. GANT Cursor Pack- M
The 'GANT Cursors Pack (M)' contains 2 color schemes: yellow and blue, each of which has two sets. In other words, there are totally 4 sets of GANT cursors, which I have put separately in 4 folders.
These would provide an cursor interface of New Mac OS X.
Download New Mac OS X Cursors
4. Hello Cursor
These are based on Super Mario Character. Also have the properties of hard cursor.
Download Mario Gant
6. Direction
For those who like small icons.
Download UNDERSized
8. Krystall CS
Oxygen is a smooth and simple cursor set for KDE 4.
Download Oxygen Cursors
10. Rainbow Cursors
Cursors pack based on the Mac cursors has 15 animated cursors (ANI's), each of which has 24 frames that are in 24 different colors.
Download Rainbow Cursors
11. Zune'd Animated Cursors Set
Cursor with more variety of colors.
Download Metro X3 Cursors (Update Two)
13. Crystal Clear v3.1
If you want to see the background behind the cursor then use this set. It's a collection of transparent pointers.
Download Crystal Clear
14. DIM Cursor v2.0
High-quality theming cursor with smooth animations, and now a mixture of 2D and 3D.
Download DIM Cursor
15. Simplify
17.Chrome Glass
19. Radium-two color
21. Night Diamond v2.0 | Amber Orange
23. X-BLACK 2 BLUE
25. iStyle Cursor
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How To Customize Mouse Cursors/Pointers
- Choose any of the above mentioned cursor set, download them and extract the downloaded zip file into one folder ( Remember the location where you saved it ).
- Now Right-click on the desktop and Select 'Personalize', click on 'Change Mouse Pointers' option on the left sidebar.
- Go to the 'Pointers' tab'.
- Select the name of any cursors which you'll like to change its image.
- Click on 'Browse', then locate the folder where the cursor set is saved.
- Select your desired cursor image and then Click 'Ok'.
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So this was all about custom mouse pointer images. Choose the desired set and customize your operating system. For any doubt or query feel free to leave a comment below in the comment section.