Principles of designing computer games using SCRATCH 3.0 programming language

Abstract

Nowadays, a lot of students want to learn more about computer science, especially how to create mini games using intuitive and easy-to-learn programming languages. Building games by themselves not only helps children practice thinking skills and creativity skills, but also a useful activity to help them avoid unhealthy activities when using computers such as game addiction, addiction to watching videos on the Internet (for example YouTube). Recently, there are a lot of videos, article showing how to build a Game using Scratch [1] programming language. However, very few articles provide comprehensive and systematic instructions on how to do it. In addition, there are not many articles to share experiences as well as common errors in the process of completing the Game. From that fact, I wrote a tutorial on building computer games titled “Principles of Designing Computer Games Using Scratch 3.0 Programming Language”.