When I was growing up, and personal computers were only just becoming an actual thing, an uncle of mine had a simple but highly addictive lcd handheld game called “Manhole”, I played it for hours and hours. Your challenge is to see if you can re-create it in scratch. This project is only a guide to suggest the idea, feel free to recreate it in whatever style you like.There are two roads, one top and one bottom of the screen. Each road has two open “manhole” gaps in it. Pedestrians walk from the sides from both left and right at random intervals, on both roads. The aim of the game is to move a man holding a manhole cover between each gap, just in time to stop anyone falling in a manhole. You can move up down left right. Every time you move you move instantly between the gaps. The game starts with the pedestrians moving at a slow pace and arriving infrequently. Every so often, you “level up” and the speed of the pedestrian and frequency increases. This builds until eventually our manhole-cover-toting hero is a whir buzzing between the gaps trying to save everyone. Having two gaps means you have to remember to save each pedestrian twice, this is part of the nice twist of the game. The game is over once you fail to save a pedestrian. Some hints & ideas: *] works best if the pedestrians step once onto the manhole then step off immediately. & there is a confirming noise played when they step on the cover (maybe use a different colour so can sense). *] The pedestrians appear randomly, but take care not to start 2 or more off at the exact same time as it will be impossible to save them. *] find or create nice background music, increase tempo as pedestrians speed up. *] work on the graphics, nice roads with underground or bridges with supports. *] animation if a pedestrian falls (e.g swallowed by a crocodile?) *] using cloud saving to keep a high score table for all users who have played (scratch online - not available to “new scratcher” status users).
