concept fall script in category scratch

This is an excerpt from Manning's book Hello Scratch!: Learn to program by making arcade games. Login to get full access to this book.

Beachy Buffy is the player character—the sprite on the screen controlled by the player. The player controls all of her actions using the arrow keys, and she has ten scripts to enable her to run, jump, fall, and grab the vine: a movement script, a falling velocity script, a falling script, a jumping script, a positioning script, a life deduction script, a background changing script, a zipline dismount script, and a two-part grabbing vine script. All scripts in this section are applied to Buffy, so go put the blue box around Buffy in the Sprite Zone and don’t move the blue box until you program the sandcastles in the next section. Remember, the names or values on your blocks may differ slightly from time to time, so use the completed script images to make sure you chose the correct block.

Figure 11.10. The falling script allows Buffy to fall back to the sand after she jumps in the air.