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Scratch 2.0 Game Development Hotshot
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Scratch 2.0 Game Development Hotshot

by Jessica Chiang, Sergio van Pul
February 2014
Intermediate to advanced
330 pages
7h 11m
English
Packt Publishing
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Making the boss more impressive

The boss creature is now a serious threat to the player. You can never be sure where it will go next, so it will be difficult to hit. The player runs the risk of bumping into it and prematurely ending the game. The boss still looks a bit too plain for a boss creature; let's fix this with some visual spectacle.

Engage thrusters

We will add a clone script to the basic sprite. Contrary to the starfish clones, this one will not have any in-game effect. It will just be used to make the game look a bit more spectacular.

  1. First, we add a create clone of <myself> block inside the repeat until loop of the when I receive <boss> script. We place it just at the end of the loop.
  2. Then we start a new script with a when I start as a ...
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