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Day 4: Creating Mobile Apps with MIT App Inventor: Enhance the Game

Now that your game is working, customize it to make it more interesting.

Possible New Features

Add more holes

  • Add more holes on the designer screen
  • Add the holes to the hole list variable

Change the app's appearance

  • Change the background
  • Change the labels
  • Change the sprite designs

Add a win condition

  • Select a winning score
  • Show and message and end the game when the player reaches the winning score

Make the game more challenging

Have the mole sprite move faster as the score increases

  • Add a variable for the timer interval
  • Make the interval smaller when the score gets higher

Add more holes as the score increases

  • Create many holes that are invisible
  • Make a hole visible and add it to the hole list as score levels are reached

Add another sprite

  • Create a new sprite that is more difficult (faster or smaller)
  • Make it worth more points

Add another level

  • Select a score for a new level
  • Create a level with different look or sprites or action