Making Monkey Move

Making the Monkey Move

Now it’s time to write the scripts for the Monkey sprite. Let’s begin!

Make sure that the Monkey sprite is selected.

Controlling the Movements Using Quarky

Follow the steps:

1. Go to the Sensors palette and add a is button () pressed ? block into the scripting area. The button, L, is set as the default option.
2. To check if L is pressed, we’ll use an if block. Go to the Control palette and drop an if block into the scripting area. Drop the is button () pressed ? block in the white space of the if block.
3. If L is pressed, then, according to our logic, Tobi should move left. Therefore, go to the Motion palette and drop a move () steps block inside the if block and write -10 in the space. The “-” sign means that direction of movement is left.
   
4. However, if R is pressed, then Tobi should move right. Therefore, add another if block below the first one and drop a is button () pressed ? block in the white space.
5. Then, go to the Motion palette and drop a move () steps block inside the if block, and write 10 in the space.
6. Add a forever block around the entire script.
7. To add the finishing touch, add a when flag clicked block from the Events palette above the forever block.
8. set size to () % block from the Looks palette.  We’re using this block to reduce the size of the sprite to “80%” of the original size.
9. go to x: () y: () block. We’re using it to fix the position of the sprite at the beginning of the game.

Below is the complete script: