Elephants Love Pizza Too

Amelia Sanborn

I wanted to make a game similar to the bunny game in a previous lesson. I wanted to have it be a mix of themes and kind of weird/unique, so I had a lot of random and quirky sprites.

Game On Mobile?

Game Course

Game Year

Game Genre

Game Tool

Game Challenges

The biggest challenge for me was remembering how to do all these different things, especially some of the stuff we did towards the beginning of this unit.

Game Unfinished Component

I wanted to add more sprites and have enemies/defenders in my game but I didn’t have a lot of extra time to do it and also couldn’t remember how to do it so it just never got done.

Game Next Steps

I would’ve added more sprites/more elements to make the game different and exciting each time someone plays it.

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!