Scratch

Nice artical.Scratch online should be interesting. Will it be some big java application or something?

Jonathanpb wrote:

Yay, we can see stuff about 2.0! 

Will it use the Java player? Projects run differently on the Java player then on the Scratch program. 

I'm pretty sure Squeak will then have a web player. XD

darn got my hopes for scratch 2.0 release up for nothing

sounds interesting... secratch 2.4 isnt so far away as thought! Maybe .nds or even wii or exbox might be a good idea.. hint hint. I suppose it would be very hard to make it on consoles but for now its great!

Last edited by dav09 (2010-01-29 16:10:41)

BWOG, to me, 2.0 just sounds like a major change.  And, believe me, if you could write games on the web without downloading a client application, that would be a pretty major change.

Personally, I look forward to the ability to call a web service and parse the response.  That opens up a whole new world of multi-user games.

As nice as it seems... it doesn't seem to mention implementing any new blocks/features necessarily. We the people, on the forums seem to have no role in anything. We've suggested a lot, but it seems like nobody has really thought about it. Its either that, or its just that they didn't mention that, because their audience would probably not know about that stuff, which I would understand...

Jonathanpb wrote:

Lucario, they probably just want to mention the major stuff. 

Hope the show/hide list blocks get added, and the 'variable display moving problem' gets fixed. 

Sadly, the problem with a web-based Scratch is that you can't program away from the Internet. 

1.4 might still be available for download, or maybe they could make a desktop version of 2.0 

Wow, i came back to the scratch forums after not being on for a bit, to find that 2.0 is coming out! 
*crosses fingers for mesh*
The current idea for scratch sound great, especially the flash player projects-maker idea... lots of my friends want to use scratch but cannot download it, so this is great! (maybe it could even work online for macs!)

Oh Zeus, this is exciting. 

Can't wait to see Scratch 2.0 and hope you win! You deserve it so much for working so hard. 

* sharing Scratch projects on mobile phones, tablets, and other new platforms;

* integrating Scratch with social media, so that young people can program projects to dynamically pull content from and push updates to Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and other Web 2.0 sites;

* providing infrastructure for groups of young people to collaborate on projects (including group decision-making tools and collaborative annotations);

* enabling young people to program, remix, and share projects more seamlessly, all within a web browser, without any downloading or uploading.

These features are exactly what Scratch needs. It would be awesome if these were actually implemented.

Pulling information from sites would be a very helpful idea...
And there should also still be a download version...

Now that I re-read it, I actually like these a lot ^^.