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Become a Scratch Game Designer

Jun 24, 2020adminBlog, Events, ScratchGame Design, Scratch, Workshop

We are kicking off our summer of creativity with our most popular workshop, the Scratch Game Designer. Unfortunately all workshops this summer are being held online via Zoom and if you would like to book a place on this course then please email hello@firstcoding.co.uk.

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Summer Scratch Workshops – Coming Soon

Jun 22, 2020adminBlog, ScratchAnimation, Scratch

Another popular event this summer will be our Scratch workshops. These will be aimed at both children starting out with coding as well as more advanced sessions for people who are comfortable with Scratch and wish to develop their skills further. The dates have nearly been finalised but in the meantime take a look at this rainy animation built in… yep you guessed it. Scratch! All the visuals were processed in Scratch as well as the sound effects and the slowed piano notes making for a very relaxing animation.

Scratch Game Designers

May 20, 2020adminBlog, Schools, ScratchGames, Scratch

A big shout out to the Scratch beginners group at Shrewton Primary! A great online coding club session today that resulted in some fabulous ideas from the children. We look forward to seeing what games you come up with over half term.

Game Design Video Series – Part 3

May 8, 2020adminBlog, Game Design, ScratchGame Design, Lockdown Letters, Scratch

In this week’s game design video we finish up on our Scratch game Lockdown Letters. Click the video below to learn how to code the paper aeroplanes that the player flies to the targets that we looked at last week.

Never assume Scratch is something only younger children use! At First Coding, we regularly submit the games we make in Scratch to game design competitions, competing alongside Unity developers and other independent game designers.

Files for this game and many other fun Scratch and Python projects can be found on our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/FirstCoding

Game Design Video Series – Part 2

May 1, 2020adminBlog, Game Design, ScratchLockdown Letters, Scratch, Video Tutorial

It’s target time!

In this episode we’ll be looking at how the random targets in the game are coded.

Every Friday they’ll be a new video showing how we make the game Lockdown Letters. Click the video below to learn how to build the title screen as well as the background.

Please consider subscribing to the First Coding Patreon page to get access to the Scratch file for Lockdown Letters as well as other creative coding resources.

Game Design Video Series: Part 1

Apr 24, 2020adminBlog, Game Design, ScratchGame Design, Lockdown Letters, Scratch, Video Series

Welcome to the first episode of our Scratch game design series. Every Friday they’ll be a new video showing how we make the game Lockdown Letters. Click the video below to learn how to build the title screen as well as the background.

Please consider subscribing to the First Coding Patreon page to get access to the Scratch file for Lockdown Letters as well as other creative coding resources.

Build and Play Workshops

Feb 22, 2020adminBlog, Events, ScratchHalf-Term

The final half term Build and Play workshop took place today. All the groups have been amazing, but today’s class were super competitive. They got to build their own racing car games in Scratch before competing for prizes at the end.

Advanced Scratch Course Starting in March

Feb 15, 2020adminBlog, ScratchCourses, Scratch

First Coding will be running another of its popular workshops. This course is designed for children who are already confident with working with Scratch and who would like to explore further possibilities with the things they make. This is a four week Saturday afternoon course starting on 14th March, 2.30pm – 3.30pm. The cost of this course is £80 per pupil for the four weeks.

To book, please email hello@firstcoding.co.uk

Christmas Coding Workshop

Dec 20, 2019adminBlog, Events, ScratchChristmas, Workshop

There were so many great projects that came out of the Christmas Coding workshop last week. The children first started by building animated Christmas scenes before adding interactive crackers. Clicking on a cracker reveals a joke selected at random from a list of terrible jokes. You can sample some of the crackers and their jokes here: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/354037013/.

Ciphers and Secret Messages – Scratch Course

Dec 15, 2019adminBlog, ScratchCiphers, Scratch, Workshop

We will be running our popular Young Coders’ course again on Saturdays for 7 – 10 year olds. Commencing on 11th January 2020, 2.30pm – 3.30pm, it runs for four weeks and costs £80 per child.

The theme of this course is Ciphers and Secret Messages and over the four weeks we’ll not only be covering important programming concepts that can be applied to applications and game design but we’ll also be working up to a final project where the class will learn how to make their own cipher machines, encoding and decoding messages.

To book, please email hello@firstcoding.co.uk

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