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200 Level - You've had some practice

This week we will develop interactive stories.  The story is an underrated part of a video games.  Great games

have an underlying story that keeps the players engaged.  To start we will work on creating stories for out games.  The "game" part this week will be just about letting the players choose where the story goes. But next week we will combine our story with the game.  

• 10 best stories in video games (high violence)
• 10 best non-violent video games
• How games got their stories

So there are three parts to this challenge: A) coming up with a story, B) telling it in scratch and C) letting the user make choices. Each of these parts is challenging.

Making your story.  Stories are based on imagination and experience. You need to come up with something simple but still interesting.  Here are some story ideas.

Telling your story. Telling stories in Scratch is about synchronizing the dialog and the sprites.You can do this with timing (having the sprites wait until it is their turn) and with broadcasting. 

User choices. At key points in your story you want to let the user choose. This may mean you need multiple endings! You can have the user choose by clicking a sprite, pressing a key or typing a letter/word.

Happy story telling.