Grid Masters
The size of the Game Lab canvas, in pixels
What is 400 x 400?
This is the beginning of the block that creates a new variable
What is var?
A character or object in a game or animation
What is a sprite?
This block puts words on the screen
What is text()?
text(Hello, 50, 50); produces a bug because the word is missing these
What are quotation marks?
The corner of the canvas where you'll find (0, 0)
What is the top-left corner?
In var eyeSize = 40;, this is the variable's name
What is eyeSize?
This block makes a new sprite at an x and y location
What is createSprite?
This block makes your text bigger or smaller
What is textSize()?
mouthWidth and mouthwidth count as two different names because code is this
What is case-sensitive?
The direction a shape moves as its y value gets bigger
What is down?
This block picks a different number between a min and a max every time you click Run
What is randomNumber?
Forget this block and your sprites never show up on the screen
What is drawSprites?
This block sets the OUTLINE color of text and shapes
What is stroke()?
To make a shape red, fill("red"); has to go in this position compared to the shape
What is before it?
In ellipse(200, 200, 50, 50), the first two numbers tell Game Lab where to put this part of the ellipse
What is the center?
When naming variables, make sure you avoid using one of these.
What is a space or special character?
Set this sprite property to 2 to make the sprite twice as big
What is scale?
This block should almost always come first because it paints over everything before it
What is background()?
var eyeSize = randomNumber(20, 60); followed by ellipse(150, 180, EyeSize, 40); makes this mistake with the variable
What is not matching?
In rect(100, 100, 50, 50), the point (100, 100) marks this part of the rectangle
What is the top-left corner?
Code runs in this direction, which is why a variable must be created before you can use it
What is top to bottom?
The direction the sprite will turn using this block dog.rotation = 45;
What is clockwise?
A fill block after your text block does this to your text
What is nothing?
setAnimation("Dog") fails when the animation is named dog because the name doesn't do this
What is match exactly?