Data Types
A number without decimal points.
Pay attention to the order of your code!
What is a Sequence?
This big green button in MakeCode Arcade starts your game.
What is the Run/Play button?
This block runs when you press the A or B button on the controller.
What is the “on button pressed” block?
What is a Sprite?
What is an algorithm?
These colorful blocks snap together to build your game.
What are code blocks?
This block lets your player move when you push the arrow keys.
What is “move mySprite with buttons”?
What is a variable?
Makes your computer do different code depending on different criteria.
What is a conditional?
This part of MakeCode lets you rotate through blocks like “Sprites,” “Loops,” and “Music.”
What is the Toolbox?
This block keeps track of how well you’re doing, going up when you earn points.
What is the score?
A type that always has quotation marks.
What is a String?
Decides when code should run.
What is an event?
This block makes a sprite appear right away when the game starts.
What is the “set mySprite to…” block?
This event runs every second to make timers or countdowns.
What is “on game update every ___ ms”?
This data type can hold many things that are all similar.
What is an Array?
What is a parameter (or argument)?
This block lets two sprites bump into each other and make something happen.
What is the “on sprite overlaps” block?
This block shows a message on the screen, like “Game Over!” or “You Win!”
What is “show long text” or “game over” block?