Random Movement

🟩🐱 Feature Card: Random Movement

Type: Feature Useful for: Creating lifelike fish, monsters, random movement, and surprises in Scratch projects

🧠 What Is It?

Random movement makes your sprite behave unexpectedly or differently each time. It adds life to fish in a tank, wandering monsters, or floating space junk. You can make sprites move to random places, in random directions, or at random speeds.

🧪 You Could Try…

🔹 Jump to Random Positions

Use this for teleporting, bubbles popping, or blinking stars:

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🔹 Glide to Random Places Smoothly

Use this to make a fish or ghost glide across the screen:

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🔹 Move in Random Directions

Use this to simulate wandering or swimming:

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🔹 Change Speed Randomly

Change the number of steps the sprite moves each time:

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💡 Combine With

🎲 pick random (from Operators)
🔁 Loops (from Control)
🌊 glide, move, go to (from Motion)

🛠️ Challenges

Make a sprite glide around like a fish in a tank.
Create bubbles that pop at random spots.
Make a monster spawn at a random location every few seconds.
Add random speed or direction to keep things unpredictable.
Use random movement + timers to create “catch the sprite” style games.

🧰 Technique Cards (Practical Skills)

These practical technique cards can help take your understanding further:

🎯 When to use this Feature

Project Examples	Why Random Works
Virtual Fish Tank	Random fish movement around the tank