How to make Tic Tac Toe Game on Scratch [Easiest Version For Kids]

About Tic Tac Toe Game:

Video Tutorial on How to make Tic Tac Toe Game on scratch

In this lesson, we will create Halloween version of Tic Tac toe with Pumpkins and Bats.

Lets sketch out the Tic Tac Toe Game:

• Creating Tic Tac Toe Board
• Keep Track of Moves:
• Checking for a winning line
• Checking for Ties

Lets start with a two player game, where each player takes a turn to put Pumpkin or a Bat into a box and if you get a line of Pumpkin’s or Bat’s you win!.

Tic Tac Toe Scratch Game Code:

Creating Tic Tac Toe Board

For this game we need 9 sprites – one for each box on the board.  Name your sprite something which makes sense like, Box1, Box2, Box3, Box4, Box5, Box6, Box7, Box8, Box9.  Each sprite contains three costumes: Blank, Pumpkin and Bat.  The player clicks one of the nine squares, and that sprite changes its costume to display the move.

Program  each sprite so that, If player clicked the sprite (Box),  switch costume to ‘Pumpkin’ or ‘Bat’ and mark player played the box. After the player  makes a move, the program checks whether they won or caused a tie, and then the game switches turns.

Keep Track of Moves:

As each play is made it will be necessary for you to track what boxes have been played, not only to ensure a player doesn’t play that box again, but also because you need to know if there is a winning line.

Create variable called A1, A2, A3, B1, B2, B3, C1, C2, C3 to represent each sprite, to track which player played which box.

First, you must figure out how to represent the data in a variable. The data are either ‘Pumpkin’ for the player 1, ‘Bat’ for the player 2, or a -1 for a blank space. Data in the each variable represents the state of the board.

The variable A1, A2, A3, B1, B2, B3, C1, C2, C3 keep track of whether the each box in Board is empty or filled with an ‘Pumpkin’ or  ‘Bat’.

Checking For The Winner:

There are eight possible ways to win at Tic-Tac-Toe: you can have a line across the top, middle, or bottom rows; you can have a line down the left, middle, or right columns; or you can have a line across either of the two diagonals.

To detect wins and ties, the program needs a way to test the state of the whole gameboard.

By default all the variables are set to -1 (i.e, for Blank Box).

Create a subprogram to detect a win.

For a player 1, there are eight ways to win and each corresponds to 3 ‘Pumpkin’s in a row or column or diagonal.

For example if A1 =A2=A3 for player 1, then switch costume to ‘Pumpkin wins’ Or else switch costume to ‘Bat wins’.  Likewise check for all eight possible winning moves.

Our created subprogram’s parameters will store all of the possible winning triples so, when It receive message ‘check for winner’ it will check code for which combinations are valid.

Checking for Ties

What if game end with neither player has won?

i.e, when  there are no more empty boxes but neither player has won, when that happens switch costume to tie.

Download Tic Tac Toe Game on Scratch Project Files:

To download the project files of the project How How to make Frogger Game on Scratch Click here. Also go through the another interesting scratch 3.0 project of Frogger Game on Scratch here.