PowerPoint Games and Simulations
http://heritagekids.info/
Joe E. Hart
joe.hart@clayton.k12.ga.us
https://c1.livetext.com/doc/7901981#7901981
Animal
Alphabet
Angry Birds
Antonyms Ant
Synonyms
Baseball
Solar System
Biology
Biomes magic
Bowling 8
multiplication
Boston Tea
Party
Boston
Massacre
Concentration
Game
Donkey Kong
HEAT
Fishing
Fraction Voc.
Fishing Pole
Fossils
Baseball Parts
of Speech
Battleship
Game
Battle Game
WWI
Cannon Civil
War
Civil Rights
Racing
Concentration
Game
Football
Multiplication
Fossils
with Score
Frogger
Fossil
Jeopardy
Math
King Kong
Reading
Maze
Game
Paul Revere
Place Value
Invaders
Roller Coaster
Rounding
HangMan
Highlight and
Drag
Hunting Habit
Game
Hundreds
Chart
Money Coin
Game
Noun Hounds
Instructions
Number
Railroad Line
Pacman
Prepositions
Space Game Space Invaders
Christmas
Sentence
Break
Sight Words
Solar System
Quiz
Telling Time
Telling Time
with Flash
Tic-Tac-Toe
Verb Birds
Word Family AT
Swamp Game
Submarine
Math
Christmas Quiz
Zelda
Synonyms
Zoo Over
and Up
How to Make an Animated PowerPoint Game
by Joe E. Hart
http://www.heritagekids.info
joe.hart@clayton.k12.ga.us
1. What is your theme for your game?
2. Get a background for your slide. I use Google images. Copy and paste on side. Leave room at the bottom for
your questions and multiple choice answers.
3. What will be animated in the game? Usually 4 objects for multiple choice questions. Google images. Copy and
paste on slide.
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6. Renaming objects.
a. Click on object to be renamed
b. Click on “Home” tab
c. Under the last tab area to the right, click on arrow down “Select” tab.
d. Click on “Selection Pane” (Section Pane will appear.)
e. In the Selection Pane click until your cursor appears and rename object.
5b. Grouping objects
b. Right click on the two selected objects. Move
mouse to “Group” and select “Group” from the
second window.
5a. Grouping objects
a. Select the wagon and the A textbox
by dragging a box diagonally over both.
You should see a box for the wagon and
the A textbox.
4. Use + and – signs to set zoom at 40%
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7. Animate Object
a. Click on Animation Tab
b. Click on Animation Pane
c. Click on Object to animate. (a box appears around it.
d. Click on “Add Animation”
e. Click on “More Motion Paths” (Pane appears)
f. Click on “left” and click “OK”. (Arrow with Green to start
and red to finish appear)
g. Click on the white dot at the end of the red arrow and
drag it further left off the screen.
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8. Animation Timing
a. Click to highlight an object in the “Animation Pane”.
b. Click on the down arrow
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c. Select “Start With Previous” (This object will begin moving when
the slide begins.)
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d. Click on down arrow again and select “Timing” (Window Appears.)
e. Click on “Duration” arrow and click to make curser before the word
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seconds. Change the number to 15 seconds.
f. Click on the “Repeat” arrow and select “Until End of Slide”.
g. Click “OK”.
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9. Second Animation to make object disappear
a. Click on Object to animate. (a box appears around it.
b. Click on “Add Animation”
c. Click on “More Exit Effect” (Pane appears)
d. Click on “Fly Out”
e. Click “OK”.
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10. Trigger to make object disappear
a. Click object animation in “Animation Pane”.
b. Click “Trigger” arrow.
c. Click “On Click of” arrow
d. Select the object that will be the Trigger “button” to make the
object disappear. Most of the time it will be the objects name. 10d
e. The “Animation Pane” will have a “Trigger: name of object” appear.
11. Repeat steps 7, 8, 9 and 10 to animate and provide “Triggers” for
disappearing for Answers B, C, and D.
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12. Make Correct Answer for Game
a. Click on the Red “Correct!”
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Rectangle.
b. Click “Add Animation”
c. Select “More Motion Paths”
d. Select “Down” in pop up window
e. Click on white button at the end of
the red arrow and pull down to the
railroad tracks.
f. Click on “Rectangle 4” down arrow
in the “Animation Pane” and select
“Start With Previous”.
g. With “Rectangle 4” selected in the
“Animation Pane”, use the down or
up arrows in “Re-Order” to select
which answer is correct. It should
be the last item in a trigger.
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13. Hyperlink to the next slide.
a. Click on the red “Correct” rectangle.
b. Click on the Insert tab.
c. Click on the Action icon. (“Action
Settings” appears)
d. Click “Hyperlink to:” button
e. Click on down arrow of “Hyperlink to:”
and select “Next Slide.”
f. Click “OK”
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