SCRATCH
Blast the evil mutant space bats
Les Pounder has landed on a new planet and the evil mutant space bats are trying to steal his space snacks. Defend those provisions with your life!
Credit: https://scratch.mit.edu
OUR EXPERT
Les Pounder is associate editor at Tom’s Hardware and a freelance creative technologist. He blogs at
bigl.es.
YOU NEED
Any Pi, best on
3/4/ 400
The latest Raspberry Pi OS
You can play the game at https://
scratch.mit.edu/projects/ 510754728
The vector editor is a great way to design your own sprites. They can also be converted to bitmaps for eight-bit games.
Continuing our Scratch projects, and after blasting off from the planet of the evil space aliens we’ve now landed on a mysterious planet with evil space bats, intent on eating our space food rations. To stop the bats from eating our food we need to SPLAT THE BATS with our space ray guns.
Scratch 3 should come pre-installed on your Raspberry Pi OS image, but just in case it’s missing it can be installed from the main menu, under Preferences>Recommended Software. Scratch 3 is found in the Programming category – place a tick in the box and click Apply to install. Once installed, Scratch 3 can be found in the main menu under Programming.