WOW! Where do I insert my coins? Awesome coding sample! So much fun to play! Great Sound! Does not work with flash player, no multiple shots with flashplayer.
I thing I encountered a bug. On a very late level, I got tired and did absolutely nothing. I didn't fire any missiles, and all my cities were destroyed, yet it still gave me a bonus city. I did this several more times, and the same thing happened. do you know what's going on?
Note ... some sounds are a bit loud, so very young children probably ought to play something else!
I developed this as an example for pre-1st year undergrad students of what can be done with Scratch. It took me 3 hours total to complete the first version, and another 2 hours to enhance it to add better progression of difficulty, a spy plane, a bomber, and fix some coding problems.
It is a version of the popular 1980's Atari Missile Command game, with most of the key features present. It starts slowly with only a small number of slow moving incoming missiles, but things hot up as you progress.
You move the crosshair with the mouse and fire a defence missile using the mouse button. You have limited defence missiles in each city, which you must defend, and the number of remaining incoming missiles is displayed. You score more for missiles hit higher in the air. You will gain an extra city for each 10000 points you accumulate, but the missiles come in faster and more come at once the further you go in the game. You will also see a spy plane fly over at high altitude after you have reached 5000 points and a bomber come across at low altitude after 15000 points. The bomb drops by 'gravity', so get it early before it speeds up too much!
After almost a year away from it I tried it recently (22/1/2009) and got 65,410. Its easier with a better spec PC and mouse because firing is more reliable!
Its cool that so many people have enjoyed it over the past year ... Continue to have fun!
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23590. my mouse spazed out
4 Years ago! Must have been one of the first projects!
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I got 16670.
29410
26590!
31510!
Sweet!
i wanted to post my score and it is 21420
26980!!!!!!!
25,470 points! YEAH!
DUDE AWESOME!
WOW! Where do I insert my coins? Awesome coding sample! So much fun to play! Great Sound! Does not work with flash player, no multiple shots with flashplayer.
Only five hours coding?
49120 :D
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30960, very easy, and feels easy, until some round at which you lose everything and have no idea what happened.
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I, too, made a missile command game. (link to project)
I got 13930 points.
so epic
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32220! I wish that games were still this good. :)
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29910. Amazing.
I thing I encountered a bug. On a very late level, I got tired and did absolutely nothing. I didn't fire any missiles, and all my cities were destroyed, yet it still gave me a bonus city. I did this several more times, and the same thing happened. do you know what's going on?
you get three cities awarded extra no matter what level you are on. so basically you start with 3 extra lives.
130130. No glitch. Just boredom. On first try. Great game. I will be playing this for many weeks to come.
is this user still active on scratch?
Yes, on the odd occasion ... have a look at the other projects I've uploaded.
37380-woot!!!!
score 3830
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Wayyyyy Fun! FINAL SCORE: 54030
108230!
I GOT 15140 THIS GAME IS AWESOME
nice game!
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i just found a big glitch i got 99999
Do tell me what the glitch is and I will fix it.
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30870.
Awsome
Myscore was 28510. AWESOME!!!
Wow... AWESOME SOUND AND GRAPHICS!!!! Oh... i just lost...
75k points, way easier in full screen, it lags ^-^
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32650!!
12020 before I had to stop.
wow, I haven't played this in sooooo long!!! I LOVE IT!!
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Totally awesome! Love it.
43080 ^^
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