Week 9 / Scratch Project Ideas

I am having a really difficult time figuring out what I am going to do for my final Scratch project. English is my field of specialty, and there are so many different topics to potentially focus on; I keep changing my mind. At first I wanted to do something involving homophones, words that are pronounced the same, but have different meaning. Now I think I am going to do something with literature themes. I am still unsure about it though; I am going to keep brainstorming, hoping for a genius idea to pop into my mind. I would like to create a Pac-man style game. If I go with the literature themes I could have the player, a character correlated with the theme, walk around the board collecting appropriately themed items, while avoiding three or four appropriately themed hunters. For example, using a black cat as the main character, some dark and scary ghosts as the items to be collected, and birds as the hunters; an Edgar Allen Poe theme. To make the game challenging and educational I would place some inappropriately themed items in the board and if the player picked them up, or gets hit by a bird hunter, then the game is over. Then for level two I could switch to another theme, but use the same set up idea. At the end of the game I could provide a slide that states correct theme and items to be collected; like a follow up review.

This idea is far from being finalized. I am still going to keep tossing ideas around and see if I can be a little more creative with it. I have been having a difficult time working with the Scratch program; it is very complicated. I am  going to spend several extra hours playing with it this weekend to see if I can improve my game creating skills and ideas.