how to make your own flappy bird

Create Flappy Bird: Scratch games are visually fun and interactive ways of learning coding and game development, especially for children between the ages of 8 to 16. A Catcher game on Scratch can be of different types depending on the sprite’s movement, objective, and rewards. In this blog, we will discuss how to make a flappy bird game on Scratch.

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Step 4: Make a background [end of the game]

Let’s make a background for the end of the game.

• Click on the sprite’s “Paint”.

• Click on the “Convert to Bitmap”

• Click on the “Fill” and select the black color.
• Click on the “Fill” tool.

• Click on the paint area.

• Click on the “Convert to Vector”

• Click on the “Text” tool

• Click on the “Fill” and select the red color.
• To select the paint area, click the “Text” tool.

• Write a note saying “Game Over” when the game ends.

• Change the sprite name.
• Modify the sprite’s location and set (x, y) = (0, 0).

• Click on the “Code”

• Hide the game over sprite when the game start.
• Drag

• Let’s add a message receive block so that the “game over” sprite appears on the game over message.
• Drag

• Type the message for the end of the game.
• Click on “Ok”

• The “game over” sprite will appear and the flappy bird game will end when you drag and drop the “When I receive the game over” message.
• Drag

• Click on the “bird” sprite.

• End the game if the bird touches the pipe sprite.
• To determine whether the bird touches the pipe sprite, write a conditional statement.
• Drag

• Let’s broadcast a game-over message.
• Drag

Step 2: Add the pillars sprite [the bird will fly through]

• Create the pillars that the bird will fly through.
• Click here to download the pipe sprite.
• Click on the “Show in folder”

• Now, upload the pipe sprite.
• Click on the “Upload Sprite”

• Search your downloaded pipe sprite in your download directory.
• Click on it and click on the “Open”.

• Pipe sprite added. Let’s modify it.

• Click on the “Costumes”

• Click on the “Convert to Vector”

• Click on “Select” from paint tools.

• Click on the pipe

• Make a duplicate of the pipe sprite.
• Press “Ctrl + c” and then press “Ctrl + v”.

• After selecting the duplicate “pipe,” select “Flip Vertical.”

• Arrange both “pipe” sprites as shown below.

• Click on the “Code”

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