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Breakout Part 7 (Adding a Score)

Posted on April 27, 2011April 1, 2017Comments 1

Our first step to add a score to our program is to reopen our project from yesterday. We need to work with the Ball object,...

Breakout Part 6 (Moving the Ball)

Posted on April 26, 2011April 1, 2017Comments 2

Today we will add actions to our Ball. First we need to reload our program from our saved file. You should then be back where...

Breakout Part 5 (Add Actions for Our Bat)

Posted on April 24, 2011April 1, 2017Comments 3

Now we get to start adding actions to our objects. Yeah! First you will need to reload where we left off. You should have Sprites,...

Breakout Part 4 (Designing our Room)

Posted on April 22, 2011April 1, 2017Comments 1

Today we are going to continue working on our game of Breakout. It will take shape by the end of this activity and be ready...

Breakout Part 3 (Object Creation)

Posted on April 20, 2011April 1, 2017Comments 5

Today we are going to move on to creating the object to go with our sprites (graphics). The object will later be associated with actions. ...

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