Santa's Arcade Sleighride

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1 Introduction
2 Create a new Arcade project
3 Create your Sleigh Sprite
4 Control the Sleigh
5 Set the number of lives
Challenge
Quiz

1 - Introduction

2 - Create a new Arcade project

Go to the arcade.makecode.com website and create a new project.

3 - Create your Sleigh Sprite

4 - Control the Sleigh

5 - Set the number of lives

Arcade is designed for programming games so there's lots of helpful blocks that we can use.

To set the number of lives you have at the start of the game, add the set life to 3 block.

let sleigh = sprites.create(img`
    .......ffffffffff...............
    ....ffff22222222f...............
    ....f11122222222ff..............
    ....f111ffff22222ff.............
    ....f111f..f11111111............
    ....fffff..f11111111............
    ...........fffd8d8dff...........
    .............fddddddff..........
    ............ffdf11111f..........
    ............f11fff111ff.........
    ............f111111111f.........
    ............ff11111111f.........
    ...........ff221111111f.........
    ...........f2222111111f.........
    ..........ff222221111ff.........
    ..........f2222222222f..........
    ..........f22222252222f.........
    ..........f22222222222f.........
    ....ffffffffffffff55ffffffffffff
    ....f24444444444444444444442222f
    ....f42222222222222222222222222f
    ....f42222222222222222222222222f
    ....f4222222222222222222222222ff
    ....f422222222222222222222222ff.
    ....f422222222222222222222222f..
    ....f2222222222222222222222fff..
    ....ffffffffefffffffffefffff....
    ............e.........e.......5.
    ...........ee.........ee......5.
    ..........ee...........ee.....5.
    .........ee.............ee....5.
    .....55555555555555555555555555.
`, SpriteKind.Player)
controller.moveSprite(sleigh, 150, 150)
sleigh.setStayInScreen(true)
info.setLife(3)

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Santa's Arcade Sleighride

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1 - Introduction

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2 - Create a new Arcade project

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3 - Create your Sleigh Sprite

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4 - Control the Sleigh

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5 - Set the number of lives

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