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Starting Out: Variables
Materials: Computer and accounts CoSpaces Edu, your game journal
The problem: Our character will start in a room, what will that room look like? Can you create a room with a locked door and a key? Can you create a hallway with multiple items to unlock a door? Do you know what variables are used for? Have you ever used an if else statement?
Journal work is in white
This sections goal is to:
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1. Draw a room design with a hidden key (will the key be behind a painting?, Bed? Under a carpet?)
2. Develop a back story as to why you have appeared there
3. Use a variable to activate an event
4. Use an If/Else statement
4. Add you own creative elements into the scene
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CoSpaces work is in yellow
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3. Now lets go a little deeper, lets go down the hall and create an number variable with an "If/Else" statement. The variable starts at 0 but every time the player collects an item that number goes up by one! If the number equals (=) 3 then the door will open!
Lets level up, that room is pretty boring, what could you add to it to make it more like a real room? Check out how to do that by pushing the button
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4. Now that we have set our variable and have that change by one every time something is clicked we need to use an "If/Else" statement to the code.
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You are gaining some cool new skills, maybe you don't just want one door to open? Perhaps there is a bit of a story developing around that mysterious orange cat that is playing around on the floor. Test your creation on another student, see what they say about your game design so far.
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