#scratch programming

Finished the game yippee! Please let me know if you find any bugs and I'll try to fix them. :)

This time I did actually make some art for today's @linktober prompt:

And I do have another ridiculous game to go with it! Click the link below to play, whack (click) some blupees, buy weapons, get 300 rupees to win.

For those of you who've never played with Scratch: you can click the "see inside" button to see the code. It's a drag-and-drop programming language intended for kids to make their own games so you can probably figure it out if you like that sort of thing. If you have a scratch account, you can "remix" it into your own account which will make a copy you can edit if you, say, want to do a better job of animating a blupee than I did. (It wouldn't be hard, I'm not an animator and I didn't have much time to spend on this.)

My kid designed the art and behaviour for all the weapons, and he's helped me figure out the code. He actually immediately figured out a better way to code the beam attack than I did, despite his penchant for refusing to read any word longer than two syllables. Go team!

Anyhow, hope you have fun. I know I did! And thanks to the people on discord who cheered on my terrible ideas and tried the early versions!

[Clarification; yes = yea, that's a choice & no = that's rather tame/vanilla pick]

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Rhonda would tell Mr. Benedict about Scratch, and he'd like the idea and help the kids make accounts.

Reynie would be a community helper. He'd probably be in the Scratch Welcoming Committee and Scratch Design Studio. He'd create and curate a bunch of random studios and make lots of friends! He'd also have a very ✨️aesthetic✨️ profile. Anything he would code would be pretty simple but well-made, maybe point-and-click type stuff.

Sticky would definitely be an ATer (active on the advanced topics forum). I think he would be physically incapable of coding a project without using any of the trigonometry blocks. Most of his posted projects would be WIPs of engines, simulations, and 100% pen stuff. He'd try his hand at a bunch of games, which all have perfect code but dirt simple graphics because he can't art. Maybe he could try doing a collab sometime.

Kate would post mostly animations and probably a few remixes. I think she'd be great with vector art! She'd probably make zany and cartoony stuff, not generic stickman projects. Maybe she'd also post some silly spoof games, probably for the Scratch Design Studio. She would also love and favorite almost every project she sees so her profile would be a mess.

Warlock: compilers

Clerics: modders

Druids: unity

Sorcerers: Someone picked up scratch when they were young

Bards: beepbox

Artificer: Made the computer

this past year I’ve been getting extremely nostalgic and put together a calm/pretty/acoustic playlist of songs that circulated a lot on there from 2009-2012