Building 3D Digital Games

Sarah Guthals, PhD, co-founded an ed-tech company and now continues to build technology for kids to learn, create, and share safely online. She loves to teach teachers how to teach coding in the classroom, and wishes she could teach her cats how to code, too!

• Introduction 2 About Alice 2About this Book 3About You 3About the Icons 4Project 1: Getting Alice and Making a Simple Game 5Download and Start Using Alice 5The Five Different Alice Panes 9Add Objects to Your Alice World 10Make an Object Move 13Make a Simple Movie 21Test Your Movie Code 25Code Another Action 27Make a Bunny Hop Game 27Project 2: Adventure Game — Part 1 33Design Your Favorite Story  34Outline Your Game 34Steps to Create Your Own Outline 34The Outline for This Project’s Example 35Build Your First Scene in Alice 36Build Scene 1: The Tree 36Set Up Your Camera 38Add Alice and the Hole 46Code Scene 1 50Project 3: Adventure Game — Part 2 59Prepare the Next Scene 59Code the Scene Transition 66Prepare Scene 2 76Code Scene 2 77Code the Ending 81Project 4: Create an Escape Room Maze 87Design Your Escape Room Maze 87Code Your Controls . 94Set Up Your Controls 95Define Your Controls 98Add Enemies to Your Maze 100Make Your Enemies Move Around 102Make Your Enemies Try to Defeat Your Players 108Create Code for Winning the Game 113