ShmoopTube

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lets make a sprite of our own you might wonder is that all there is to

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making a sprite is that all there is well you can stop yawning there's way

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more to be done we're going to make this bad boy move okay let's not get crazy [dancing legs on a computer screen]

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your sprite isn't going to be on Dancing with the Stars any time soon so if you

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look under the tab labeled scripts you'll see all sorts of motions that

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[a drawing of fire with a smiley face] your sprite can make want them to move a little bit to the right easy just click

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on the blue block labeled move 10 steps drag it over into the gray space to the

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right give it a click and bingo there goes your sprite a little to the right

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[a slug on wooden floor] yeah yeah we know even a slug can move a little bit to the right but this stuff

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gets even more fancy just wait the 10 in the blue block isn't locked in stone if

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you click on it you can change it to whatever number you want higher numbers

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means a sprite can move farther and if you enter a negative number it'll move

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left instead of right let's see how boring old slug move to the left okay [a slug moving to the left leaving a trail]

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fine whatever they can do that too big whoop

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man you guys are tough audience but you ain't seen nothin yet the real fun comes

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when we add control blocks if you click on control you'll see a whole bunch of

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new orange blocks which you can mix and match with the blue motion blocks for [computer screen displaying the control blocks]

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instance if we click on the repeat 10 block and drag it over the gray area and

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our sprite will make that movement 10 times in a row or if we're feeling

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really ambitious we can grab one of the blocks labeled forever and then our

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sprite will really get movin way off the screen in fact but have no fear if we

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want to see our precious sprite again we can get a if on edge bounce motion add

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[a fire sprite bouncing across the screen] it to our forever block and our sprite will be bouncing across the screen for

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as long as you like or until you click on that forever block again and believe

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us no slug could do that what where'd you find that slug okay we [slug jumping down the back of a sofa]

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give up

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