Scratch Programming Playground

8ASTEROID BREAKER . . . IN SPACE!

Asteroids is a classic game developed in 1979 by Atari. Since then, many programmers have remade the game, and it’s a great programming project to make in Scratch, too. The player pilots a spaceship that must destroy space asteroids while avoiding the space pieces that break off . . . in space! (It’s a well-known fact that adding “. . . in space!” makes everything more exciting.)

Instead of directly controlling where the spaceship moves, the player pushes the spaceship like a hockey puck on ice; because the player’s ship has inertia, it slides around the Stage. To slow down the spaceship, players must push it ...