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AN Ardnacrusha youth has claimed first prize in the junior category of the Scratch Coding national finals. Liam O’Brien, who is a first-year pupil at St Munchin’s College, Limerick, developed a Golden Pixel RPG game, involving a man who is on a quest for the Golden Pixel. The game triumphed in the first to third-year age level for second-level students. In the game, the man fights monsters, completes quests, earns coins, buys or wins upgrades, conquers castles, plays minigames and unlock levels and defeat bosses in his quest for the golden pixel. The game is divided up into three stages – grassland, desert and beach. The man has health, money and strength. His health is what keeps him alive. He starts with 20 units of health and loses his health when enemies hit. Each type of enemy has different amounts of health and strength. There are pink and blue blobs that block his way. There are also skeletons which he …
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