Scratch

If you are going to add the ability to call web services in scratch, you'll need some facilities for parsing XML.  That would include being able to create XML in preparation to calling a web service and being able to pull attributes and data out of an XML string.

Yes, I'm sure the Scratch Team will come up with an easy access way to handle the XML.  I was just throwing the thought out there so that they wouldn't forget that we would need something like this.

I would love to be able to read RSS feeds with a scratch project.

I can also imagine writing a game server web service that could be consumed by a Scratch project... you know, something along the lines of hooking players up to play against each other while recording games in a database for later reporting (by another project)... think tourney ladders, people watching tourney games in process (or at a later date), etc.

The mind boggles.

See this post for my suggestion for a URL() block.

greenflash wrote:

What also might be cool is if you could get the date and time at different locations if it is on a website...

Or maybe a check in game. When a user plays it checks in that time so maybe it could keep a data of when users play!

Lucario621 wrote:

Magnie wrote:

This re-minds me of NetScratch    Maybe it could save data or text or a variable or a list. ( Kinda like the other ideas you have )
Some uses could be:
1. Scratch Email! 
2. Scratch Internet!    ( I'm making this in BYOB 2.0 with the Mesh feature. )
3. I don't think Scratch Chat could be used with that.
4. Maybe reading the forums from Scratch! ( That would be awesome! )
5. Reading Comments!
6. I'm not sure what else... But if you allow it to write data ( Text and Variables and Lists as I said above ) you could do SO MUCH with it!

That's all. 

The thing is, why would you want to do that in a scratch project, when you could actually open a web browser and do most of those things. No internet? Well then you wouldn't be able to have scratch connect to get those things.

But yeah this reminds me of netscratch.

I especially wanna focus on high score tables and such  . For that though, I think all users could create a table at like http://scratch.mit.edu/users/Lucario621/data, and each user would have one for themselves to use for their games. It could have a link to a website, to get info from their, or something else. This way people are limited so servers don't pile up with data. Depends if you need to limit it or not.

they could use internet on a scratch OSs

chalkmarrow wrote:

5. Appetite suppressant: Read the mediafoodcam tweets; when there's a new one, pull a random image with the keyword "roadkill" and send it to andresmh as a Twitpic 

hahaha good one!

Maybe a function to see the last forum post, or which members that are online in the forums.

And maybe a function that let's Scratch users get data/stats from their own websites.
One way to do this could be to add a certain script to a website which a Scratch project could read.
I'm not very good on explaining things in English, so if you wonder anything feel free to ask.

a working scratch os     
the ability for a scratch mmorpg to be made on the site that didn't involve scratchers to change their settings turn off their firewalls, or download something new (other then a new version of scratch of course)

An idea i had was to make something called Scratch Scores. In Scratch's game maker, it would have a checkable Score variable. If it was checked, the game would keep track of the top 10 scores online. When all scripts stop, the game would show the top ten in a list called Scratch Scores. If you were in the top ten, you could choose to be notified if anyone beats you.

Hope you like that idea!

Maybe a way to save data in the game? Like maybe they create a password which is sent to the server and it saves all the data in it.

That would be really useful.

Hi, the Billboard and Youtube project you metioned sounds like a mashup to me. There are tons of mashup projects out there that combine data in numerous ways. For example, you may find interesting one from mashup award (http://mashupawards.com/winners/) and Yahoo!Pipes' user shared repository (http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipes.popular). Those might give you some ideas. Just a thought :-)

andresmh wrote:

We are brainstorming about possibilities for using Scratch to read and write data to the web.

Some examples of data that would be nice if Scratch could read from the web as variables or lists are:
- Sport information (scores, baseball stats, etc) from sites like espn.com
- Weather information from sites like weather.com (temperature in a city, rain, etc)
- Movies information from sites like imdb.com
- Music information (lyrics, songs, musicians)  from sites like last.fm
- Social information from sites like Facebook, Twitter (updates, photos of friends, etc)
- Scratch website info like loveits on a project, friends, comments, etc

What others?

Some of examples of data that would be nice if Scratch could save on the web are:
- Results from a survey
- Scores of Scratch game
- After playing a game maybe it could update the player's Twitter/Facebook status to tell others about it.

So what kind of projects would people be able to make with this?

One example could be a project that access data from Billboard.com, and identify  which song has jumped the most number of spots on the sales charts from week-to-week. And then  searches YouTube for a video of each fast-rising performer and inserts the video into the Scratch project alongside the performer’s name.

Another one could be a game that uses the baseball player who has gotten the highest scores with data from ESPN.com on the latest baseball scores.

Another example could be a Scratch project that keeps tracks  of  the members of the Scratch community who have contributed the most comments to your projects projects.  The project could show  the avatars of the Scratch community members who have contributed the most comments, and continually adjusts the sizes of the avatars based on the number of comments they have contributed. Whenever
someone adds a comment to one of her Scratch projects and increases the size of the
appropriate avatar in her visualization.

What other examples can you think of?

Thanks for your ideas!

Last edited by LoveJill (2009-12-17 19:44:20)

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1. A mmo, like epic pet wars (not really mmo but you can fight other players while they're computer controlled)
2. Recording wins/losses etc for a point system on a site.