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# Before you code

Once you complete the Forest Fire tutorial - it is time to start planning YOUR own game that is inpsired by. However, your game must be significanlty differnet in appearance, scoring, sounds, enemies.

* Forest Fire Game
* Shark Attack
* Taco Tuesday 
* Burstin' Balloons

In your notebook:

## Sketch out the screen or stage and make a list  all of the sprites, projectiles, enemies, or other parts of your game.

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Then identify at least THREE fundamental things you will need to program or develop

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Submit to the Schoology BEFORE you start programming