Year 8 Existing outcomes By San Tat

Existing Outcomes

Part A

What is the purpose of the different features of a basic platformer game?

Attribute or Feature	Purpose
Sprites or characters	The purpose of Sprites and characters is to make a player in the games.
backgrounds	The purpose of backgrounds is to make a game's more better looking.
obstacles or object	The purpose of obstacles or object is the make the game harder.
command: click/space to start	Used to activate the game or set to start the platform
command: arrow keys to move	The arrow key to move your characters or spaces in different direction in the game.
command: mouse to control	The mouse control is the same thing as arrow key move but you're now controlling it with your mouse for the games.
command: space/arrow key to jump	Space or arrow key is to make the spite jump or the character jump.
music or sound	To add effects when playing game and to involve the fun.
missions/level/stages	to challenge the game
colour	Gain more effects to the games.
titles or instructions	To help to give the player details about the game.
lives	Use to give another chance

Part B

1. Find three different platformer games that you like the look of.
2. Copy and paste the URL of the platformer games into the table below.
3. Fill in the table to identify the various attributes or features of the different platformer games.  

	platformer game Example	platformer game 1 Features	platformer game 2 Features	platformer game 3 Features
platformer game Title		https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/2345919/	https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/34075024/	https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1671205/
platformer game Features		pac man fruit make it stronger level maze background dots running sound	Black ops 2 gun sound shooting zombie round.level maps of the game gun box background zombie	Red ball level Jumping/spark background of sky music sound

Part C

Using the information in the table, make a list of the Key Specifications of an platformer game.  Key specifications are the attributes or features that occur in all platformer games, and which you think are important to the platformer game design (function and look).

1. Arrow Key  to Move
2. Starting point: To start the game
3. Level
4. Scores or point
5. Obstacles
6. Music and sound
7. Colour
8. Characters
9. Space/arrow key to jump
10. lives