Jurassic Code Contest
Today we launch our newest coding competition called “Jurassic Code!”
Ages 8-108 are invited to participate - no coding experience required!
In partnership with Fiero Code, you’ll have the chance to challenge your existing code skills, or pick up some new ones as you build a digger-style video game.
Did we mention that the winners get cool tech prizes?!
How to Get Started:
- Log into Fiero Code (Create a free account if you don’t already have one).
- Navigate to the Contest page from the top menu.
- Join the challenge and start building!
- Publish your project before the end of July 30th.
You got this!
Description:
Planet Fiero has a fascinating and mysterious prehistoric age.
Just below the surface lives an ancient world of robosaurs mixed with gems bigger than a beachball (and quite valuable too).
Your mission: Create a digger-style game where your character can dig into the ground. Your goal is to collect as many gems as possible. But be careful! If you free a robosaur, there’s a good chance it’ll try to kill you.
Play this game for inspiration.
Courses that will be helpful in this project (but not required):
Hour of Code
Code Blocks
Code Blocks Games
Requirements:
- Create a character that you can control with the arrow keys.
- Design a level that’s mostly dirt with some gems and robosaurs mixed in. Have fun designing the robosaurs!
- Code a way so that when your character touches the dirt, the dirt goes away and a path is created.
- Code a way so that when robosaurs are not stuck in the dirt, they move around in the paths. If your character touches a robosaur, they should lose a life.
- When your character touches a gem, the gem should go disappear. Program a way to keep track of how many gems have been collected.
- Create several levels that get increasingly more difficult.
- Add a timer to make it more difficult.
- Create fun background music and sound effects for the game.
- Create a welcome screen and a “You Win” or “You Lose” screen.