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Why I like Snail Bob

Post by richmond62 » Fri Jul 15, 2022 8:22 am

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Frankly this sort of game makes me sick. But, Hey, I am 60 years old and a stuffy old fart.

Children I teach get high as kites playing this sort of game, & that is why I like Snail Bob.

NOT because children get as high as kites playing the game, BUT because it contains SO MUCH 'MEAT' for teaching
LiveCode programming.

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So, Let's get started:

1. Download Flash version of Snail Bob game.

2. Suck out lots of pictures using a Flash decompiler.

3. Scale any picture sequences you might need to fit the monitors and stack sizes you will be dealing with.

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Re: Why I like Snail Bob

Post by richmond62 » Fri Jul 15, 2022 9:34 am

4. Functional Analysis.

4.1. The snail moves & can stop/start on a mouseClick.
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Re: Why I like Snail Bob

Post by richmond62 » Fri Jul 15, 2022 9:46 am

4. Functional Analysis.

4.2. The snail animates.
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Re: Why I like Snail Bob

Post by richmond62 » Fri Jul 15, 2022 9:57 am

4. Functional Analysis.

4.3. Things block the snail, and those things need to be moved out of the way.
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Re: Why I like Snail Bob

Post by richmond62 » Fri Jul 15, 2022 10:17 am

4. Functional Analysis.

4.4. Various affordances help move the snail.
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Re: Why I like Snail Bob

Post by richmond62 » Fri Jul 15, 2022 8:41 pm

4. Functional Analysis.

4.5. combine 4.1. & 4.2.
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Re: Why I like Snail Bob

Post by richmond62 » Fri Jul 15, 2022 9:15 pm

4. Functional Analysis.

4.6. Animation on STOP and START of animation.
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Re: Why I like Snail Bob

Post by richmond62 » Sun Jul 17, 2022 6:34 pm

Monday . . .
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Also going to receive my gold medal for terse, pictorial lesson planning . . :wink:


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