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Lesson 14 — Space Shooter Cheat Sheet

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In one line: You can build arcade games! Up next: plan and design your very own game from scratch!

Key Ideas

1Anatomy of a Space Shooter. 🚀 Player Ship Moves left/right. Shoots bullets upward. Has lives. 🔵 Bullet Clone-based. Appears at ship, moves up. Destroys enemies on contact. 👾 Enemy Clone-based....
2The Code — Three Sprite System. 🧩 CODE Ship (Player) — move and shoot 🚀 Ship You control this one! when 🚩 clicked set score to 0 set lives to 3 go to x: 0 y: -150 forever if key right arrow presse...
3Build It Step by Step. 1 Create sprites: Ship, Bullet, Enemy Draw or use library sprites. Ship → spaceship, Bullet → thin oval/beam (10px wide), Enemy → alien or asteroid. Keep sprites small...