A Scratch carnival game for teaching
A point-and-click carnival game built in Scratch, with speed stages, hazards, sound, and hundreds of hand-managed animation frames.
Can Shooting turns a familiar carnival target game into a compact Scratch project used to teach event-driven programming, state, animation, timing, and sound.
Players race a time bar while cans move through slow, medium, and very fast patterns. Special targets and hazards change the score and force quick decisions.
The project is intentionally asset-heavy: sixty-four sprites plus the stage, hundreds of costumes, sound effects, and custom blocks all remain inspectable in Scratch.
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I wanted students to see that beginner-friendly blocks can still express a complete game loop with timing, feedback, reusable behavior, and polished animation.
Start, instructions, gameplay, options, and game-over scenes
Three speed stages with moving targets and timed progression
Special cans, hazards, score feedback, and a time bar
Volume controls and twenty-six sound assets
Reusable custom blocks and a large frame-animation pipeline
The constraints mattered as much as the finished interface.
after shipping
A playable artifact gives beginners a reason to understand state and events before they know those terms.
Visual tools still benefit from the same naming, reuse, and asset discipline as text-based code.