Asteroid Clicker

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Will Wright

This "clicker game" started as part of the code.org curriculum but was enhanced:

background scrolls
turret placed in bottom right of screen
asteroid decreases in size as score increases
laser beam is displayed
sound effects

Game On Mobile?

Yes

Game Course

Game Year

Game Genre

Game Tool

Game Challenges

The most time-consuming obstacle was getting the laser beam to appear. I ended up using a Canvas because there wasn't a way to clear the turtle graphics.

Game Next Steps

Make asteroid bounce around screen
Asteroid gets faster as the score increases
High score / leaderboard
Make turret rotate
Make laser beam go slower so hitting moving target is harder

MMU CS Overview

Mount Mansfield Union High School currently offers two Computer Science courses:

AP Computer Science Principles (CSP)
Computer Science Discoveries (CSD)

Deprecated and replaced by CSD in 2019:

Introduction to Computer Science and Principles (ICS+P)

Most years, the final four to six weeks of each of these courses is spent designing and building a game. Some students work independently while others work with a partner. In the Spring of 2020 and Fall of 2021, students did not have the time to build a game because of the covid pandemic lockdown. Their final projects for class were uploaded instead, and many of these projects are not games but are still very impressive.

Many of the games were created in Scirra's Construct 2 (Windows based) or Construct 3 (web based), although some utilized Scratch or Python or another programming language. Other students choose a project in robotics or with Arduino programming, but they did not create a stand-alone program that could be placed in this accumulation of programs.

There are several excellent games from 2014 that have not been put into the Game Table, so be sure to check them out!