Welcome to our exciting Maze Game lesson! In this lesson, you will learn how to program a character to navigate through a maze using the arrow keys on your keyboard. You will be using Scratch, a fun and easy-to-use coding platform. By the end of this lesson, you will have created your very own maze game. Let's get started!

Open the following Scratch starter project that already has a maze sprite added to it.

Open Starter Project

Add the Beetle sprite from the sprite library.

The beetle will be the character that we will code to move through the maze.

Scratch: How to add a sprite from the library

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To add a sprite from the sprite library follow these steps:

1. Put your mouse over the Choose a Sprite button
2. Click on the magnifying glass
3. Find the sprite you want in the library
4. Click on your chosen sprite

You can use search box or the filter links (Animals, People, Fantasy etc) to locate your sprite.

As the beetle sprite is too big to fit through the corridors of our maze, we'll need to shrink it down. We also want to position the beetle at the start of the maze when we start the game, so we'll use a go to x [] y [] block to do this.

Add the following code to the beetle:

when green flag clicked set size to (15) % go to x [-160] y [-75] // the start of the maze