Scratch 3 Programming Playground

6 Asteroid Breaker . . . in Space!

steroids is a classic game developed in 1979 by Atari. Since then, many programmers have remade the game, and it’s a great programming project to make in Scratch, too. The player pilots a spaceship that must destroy space asteroids while avoiding the pieces that break off . . . in space! (It’s a well-known fact that adding “ . . . in space!” makes everything more exciting.)

Instead of directly controlling where the spaceship moves, the player pushes the spaceship like a hockey puck on ice; because the player’s ...