3D Game Programming for Kids

Getting Started

This chapter builds on the work that we did in Chapter 3, ​Project: Making an Avatar​. If you haven’t already done the exercises in that chapter, go back and do them before proceeding. In particular, you need to go over the animate exercise at the end of that chapter.

Let’s make a copy of the previous chapter’s avatar project. That way, if we ever want to go back to see our simple spinning and cartwheeling avatar, we can. To make a copy of that project, click the menu button and choose Make a Copy from the menu. (See Figure 3, ​Selecting Make a Copy​. Let’s call this project My Avatar: Keyboard Controls, as shown in Figure 4, ​Naming the Project​.

Figure 3. Selecting Make a Copy

Figure 4. Naming the Project

With that, we’re ready ...