Cookbooks

Pick a recipe, follow the code, and see your sprite do something cool — each one takes just a few minutes!

🏃 Motion

Move sprites around the stage — instantly, smoothly, or with bouncing.

Glide smoothly to a point 🟢 beginner

Slide a sprite to a position over time instead of jumping instantly.

⏱ ~3 min

Move with arrow keys 🟢 beginner

Drive a sprite around the stage using keyboard input.

⏱ ~5 min

Bounce off the edge 🟢 beginner

Keep a sprite moving and flip its direction when it hits a wall.

⏱ ~3 min

Follow the mouse 🟢 beginner

Make a sprite continuously track the mouse cursor.

⏱ ~3 min

Point and move towards the mouse 🟡 intermediate

Make a sprite always face and chase the mouse cursor.

⏱ ~5 min

👀 Looks

Change how sprites appear — costumes, visibility, speech bubbles, and size.

Say hello when clicked 🟢 beginner

Show a speech bubble when the sprite is clicked.

⏱ ~3 min

Animate a sprite with costumes 🟢 beginner

Cycle through costumes to create a walking or flapping animation.

⏱ ~5 min

Show and hide a sprite 🟢 beginner

Toggle a sprite's visibility on and off using keyboard keys.

⏱ ~3 min

Make a sprite grow and shrink 🟡 intermediate

Pulse a sprite's size up and down in a loop for a breathing effect.

⏱ ~5 min

🔊 Sound

Add sound effects and music that play at exactly the right moment.

Play a sound on click 🟢 beginner

Trigger a sound effect when the player clicks a sprite.

⏱ ~3 min

🔁 Control

Run code in loops, repeat actions, and spawn clones.

Repeat an action 🟢 beginner

Run a block of code a fixed number of times using repeat.

⏱ ~3 min

Create a clone army 🟡 intermediate

Spawn multiple independent copies of a sprite that each move on their own.

⏱ ~8 min

🖱️ Sensing

React to what the player does — mouse, keyboard, and questions.

Ask the player a question 🟡 intermediate

Prompt the player for input and use their answer in your script.

⏱ ~5 min