Coding For Kids For Dummies

Project 14

Where’s Wallace Walrus?

Where’s Wallace Walrus? is a classic search-and-find game. Wallace is an ordinary walrus lounging on the ice among a rather large population of walrus friends. Some are wearing earmuffs; others are wearing scarves, hats, or goggles. But Wallace is the only walrus on the floe not sporting accessories — and it’s the player’s job to find him! The game features a common coding command called a do loop to create the population of walruses. Random shape assignment and positioning make every game unique. Your players will find themselves asking, “Where’s Wallace Walrus?”

Brainstorm

Search-and-find or hidden-object games come in a variety of formats. Create any type of character population and setting, such as

• City scenes with a population of colorful characters in the tradition of Where’s Waldo?
• Aliens varying in number of eyes, all living on a distant planet
• Amoebas in a petri dish
• Letters in a bowl of alphabet soup
• Books on a bookshelf or beads and jewelry in a drawer
• Gears or robot parts on a factory floor
• Cars on a track in a NASCAR race, with slightly different colors and decals

Start a New Project

Start a new project for your game as follows:

1. Start MicroWorlds EX.
2. From the yellow MicroWorlds EX startup screen, select Free Mode.

   A new project opens.

3. From the menu bar, choose File⇒New Project Size⇒Full Screen 640 x 480.

Name the Search-and-Find ...