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Contents:
        1. Introduction
        2. What the mod's about
        3. How can you help?

Introduction

         You see, I have been getting into the mod "business" lately. I got this awesome idea, but I'm just not good enough at squeak to pull it off. That is why I have decided to put this mod in not only my hands, but the hands of others. Before I even tell you what the mod is about, I need to tell you this: This mod will need amazing collaboration. It will be nearly impossible to make, and I just have this feeling that it could turn out badly. But it may not turn out badly. And that is why I know that I need to do it. Now, lets take a look at what this mod's all about.

What the mod's about

         This mod is about the creation of stories. It's about bringing dreams to life. This mod (which will be called "Once Upon Some Code") will be about making animated stories. It will take scratch's drag and drop code to make a new thing: stories brought to life! It will like coding a movie that has text.
       I am hoping for something like this: Each costume in the stage will become a scene (therefore changing the tab's name to "scenes"). Broadcast blocks will be renamed to things like "When scene 1 starts" and "Start next scene". Each scene will have some text with it. That will then make each scene like a chapter in a chapter book or, more likely, a page in a children's book. The text would be in some sort of text box. That way, the creator could choose where it should go and how big it should be. If it is too small, it would have a scroll bar. When you make a sprite, it would let you paint it, and after you do that, it would ask you what scene it should be for. It would then change the "When scene 1 starts" block to whatever scene it is for. In that way, it would be similar to the "when sprite 1 pressed" block. There are many more things this mod will have, but I think that should be enough to give you an idea of what the mod's about.

How can you help?

I have some different people that I need. But every type of person needs to be good at collaborating. If you can collaborate, and think you would like to help with this mod, then look below.

The ones that are red are spots that are already taken.
Blue means that one or more of the places are taken, but there is still room for more people.

People I need:
1-3 programmer(s): If we have more than one, you will need to be the best at collaborating. Programming is tough, and is even more tough when multiple people are working on it. If we could get it to work, though, it would be nice to have more than one. All programmers must have some good knowledge of squeak, as it will be put to the test.

Infinite idea people: I need some people to help give ideas. We can then sort of decided as a group if the idea seems like a good one. If it does, we will attempt it.

1-2 Designers: These are the people that make graphics for the program. If we decided to make a website (which we probably will), these people will also make graphics for that.

One website coder: Although I can do some basic HTML, I'm not good enough to make some sort of sweet website. If this mod kicks off to a good start, we will make a website out of pure code. This person will be in charge of the coding. I will do the hosting stuff (using a cool, free trick I found). They just need to give me the code. Some knowledge of Javascript, PHP, CSS, and whatever other fun things will be useful.

Again, work together, make stories, and have fun!

Last edited by PullJosh (2012-07-10 13:22:58)