🧠 How to make "Maze Escape" Game 🧩

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Goal: Guide a character through a maze without touching the walls. If they touch a wall, they restart!

🔥 Why It’s Cool:

• Teaches precision movement and logic

• Lets you design your own mazes

• You can make levels or add timers later!

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🧰 What You’ll Need:

• Scratch account: scratch.mit.edu

• A sprite to control (like a ball or person)

• A maze background (drawn or uploaded)

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🧱 Step-by-Step Tutorial

1️⃣ Create a New Project

• Go to scratch.mit.edu

• Click "Create"

• Delete the cat sprite

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2️⃣ Add Your Player Sprite

• Click “Choose a Sprite”

• Pick a small sprite like "Ball"

• Go to the Code tab and add:

when green flag clicked
go to x: -200 y: -150

Add this for movement:

forever
  if <key [right arrow] pressed?> then
    change x by 5
  end
  if <key [left arrow] pressed?> then
    change x by -5
  end
  if <key [up arrow] pressed?> then
    change y by 5
  end
  if <key [down arrow] pressed?> then
    change y by -5
  end
end

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3️⃣ Create the Maze

1. Click on "Backdrops"

2. Choose the "Paint" option

3. Use the line tool and draw walls with one color (e.g. blue)

4. Make sure the background is white and walls are solid-colored

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4️⃣ Make the Player Detect Wall Collision

1. Click your player sprite

2. Add this to the bottom of the movement loop:

if <touching color [#0000FF]> then
  go to x: -200 y: -150
end

Pick the color you used for the walls with the color picker.

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5️⃣ Add a Finish Line

1. Edit your backdrop again

2. Add a green square or circle at the finish point

3. Back in the sprite’s code, add:

if <touching color [#00FF00]> then
  say [You escaped!] for 2 seconds
  stop [all v]
end

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✅ Done! Playtest your game.

Now you can:

• Try beating your own maze

• Add sound effects

• Create new levels by duplicating and editing the backdrop

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