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AlveKatt wrote:

I found a little problem with your system. I uploaded a game Alpha and asked in the forum "what Am I doing wrong!" Mayhem helped me clean up the code. Now it says it's based on his projekt. While I am very greatfull for his help, and allways mention it in the projekt notes when I upload a new version, it still feels a bit awkward that he appears as the original creator...

Interesting. This probably means that when Mayhem helped you, he did not download your game and fix it, he might have just created a new project based on your idea and post it on the site. I am thinking that a good feature for the future would be to allow users "transfer" credit to others. So that for example  Mayhem could transfer you his credit. Thanks a lot for bringing this up, it made me thinik about better ways of dealing with this.

AlveKatt wrote:

Actually, he must have downloaded it. His version still had my homemade graphics in it. I think we have found a bug in your system...

(He has removed it from his gallery, I figure he saw no point in having my unfinished projekt in his gallery after I had downloaded it.)

You're right, I downloaded your project and looked at the log and I can see your name is there first.

I am thinking the credit line should be:
"Based on Mayhem's version of AlveKatt's project"

I will fix that later this week.

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dancingqueen wrote:

what happens if you download a project someone else downloaded from someone else

My pong games (see links in my sig) were made by adapting '1p pong' by Xander/Nuevaschool but he is not mentioned as it's original creator. Why not?

Also, if you download a project and then import it into your own project, will it stil give the name of the original creator?

SB

I suggest some kind of "sprite history" too. Because people can use other's sprites too, it would be good to add "sprite imported : from user ????" and add a link on the projects page "see full credits" wich shows all the sprites used too.


Another thing: sometimes "Based on ???'s project" shows up (two links), but sometimes you see "Based on ???'s work" without a link to the original project. What is the difference between both messages? Thanks!

How does this work? Does somthing skim the code for variable and sprite names, etc? If so, someone could change these and make someone else's project appear to be theirs, but it's probably just easier to come up with your own work. 

Last edited by fullmoon (2008-04-28 17:22:46)

i now it does that but i still want people to mention the name in the project notes

That's a really nice idea! Otherwise someone could make a project, and then someone else could change it, and it wouldn't be fair on the other person! I'm glad that Scratch is so kind! 

GoldenAxe wrote:

Will it do it to all projects?

It's supposed to.  Let us know if you run into a case where it doesn't!

there is a way to remove that and its really easy

I'm not going to post how... but...

that's cool.