9MAKING AN ADVANCED PLATFORMER
The first Super Mario Bros. game was introduced in 1985 and became Nintendo’s greatest video game franchise and one of the most influential games of all time. Because the game involves making a character run, jump, and hop from platform to platform, this game style is called a platformer (or platform game).
In the Scratch game in this chapter, the cat will play the part of Mario or Luigi. The player can make the cat jump around a single level to collect apples while avoiding the crabs who will steal them. The game is timed: the player has just 45 seconds to collect as many apples as possible while trying to avoid ...
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