Make a game based on the classic arcade game Frogger. It is a simple but fun game where you have to get the grog accoss the road and river to the lily pads.

Click on the image above to play the game made with Scratch. Try and create your own version of this game.

You can use your own sounds and graphics or you can get them from this Starter Project.

Steps to make the game:

  1. Get a car sprite from the library and  get it to move across the screen from one side to the other like it is driving on one of the lanes. When it gets to the end make it go back to the other side of the screen and repeat.
  2. Now use cloning to make 2 cars in the same lane, moving at the same speed. You can use the ‘Change color’ graphic effect to make the cars different colours.
  3. You can then copy this car sprite for each lane and make some changes to the speed and direction.
  4. You can take the same approach for the logs and turtles.
  5. Next get the frog moving with the arrow keys.
  6. If the frog touches the cars, go back to start.
  7. If the frog touches a log or turtle, the frog needs to move in the X direction at the same speed as the log or turtle. Use variables, log speed and turtle speed.
  8. Add some lily pads as the targets for the frog to jump on to. When the frog reaches one of the lily pads, the first goal has been achieved. In a very simple version of the game, that could be how you win. But we can make it better by making the goal of the game be to get frogs across to every lily pad. Or even better, once you get 5 frogs across to 5 lily pads, that could be the level completed and then you go on to the next level where you have to get 5 more frogs across.
  9. The frog can only cross the river on the logs or turtles. So if the frog is not touching the road, or a log or a turtle or a lily pad, the frog dies.
  10. Use variables to keep track of score, high score and lives remaining.