A Day in the Life of a Fish

Inspiration

One of Duck Life 4's minigames had boulders/melons falling from the sky, which the duck needed to avoid. I took inspiration from these mechanics to create my game.

What it does

This game creates trash clusters that fly either left-right or up-down, which the fish must avoid.

How we built it

I developed the movement system first, with the fish sprite originally being a white dot. After I was happy with that, I created the basic trash system. I then fine tuned the details and added more mechanics like a shrinking border and hearts.

Challenges we ran into

I had to figure out how to get the clones to have their own individual speed.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

I really like the movement system I developed for this project.

What we learned

I learned how to make clones of sprites (in scratch) have their own independent variables similar to classes and objects in python.

What's next for A Day in the Life of a Fish

I may add more types of fish, like turtles. There is also a very slight possibility I turn this into a multiplayer battle game (one player on WASD the other on arrow keys) for no reason.

Built With

• scratch.mit.edu