How to write your own computer game

Step 03 — Creating characters

Now we need to create some characters. Characters in Scratch are called Sprites. You'll see that you already have a cat Sprite selected, but he isn't very appropriate for the beach, so right-click on the Sprite 1 icon in the bottom right-hand corner and delete him. Now click on the Choose New Sprite from File Icon (the middle of the three buttons below the beach picture) and select crab1-a from the Animals folder.