Welcome to Cosmic Star Catcher! [CONTROLS]: Use your LEFT/ A keys and RIGHT/D keys to slide your rocket ship along the bottom of the screen. [GAMEPLAY]: Catch the falling stars and diamonds to score points! You start with 3 lives. If an item slips past you and hits the bottom floor, you lose a life. [CHALLENGE]: Every item you collect accelerates cosmic gravity. As your score climbs, the items will drop at random, varied speeds in a non-synchronous, fast-paced stream. If your lives hit zero, the game freezes, and it's Game Over. What's your high score?
Developed from scratch as the official project submission for Harvard University's CS50x Introduction to Computer Science (Problem Set 0). This project implements advanced Scratch programming structures, including: - Event-driven communication via broadcast scripts for synchronized intro splash screens and hard audio-game freezing. - Dynamic cloning engines to break synchronization patterns for continuous stream drops. - Local ("For this sprite only") variables to assign unique speeds to individual clones. - A custom procedural block (Level Up) that takes a dynamic mathematical input parameter to scale global game gravity relative to player score.
