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that would be a good idea. i have some projects with no comments

There are a few ways to get more visibility for your projects:

1. Tags. Projects that are tagged are easily found not only from Scratch members but also I've found that other websites link to groups of projects tagged in Scratch.

2. Comment on other people's projects. If you comment and give constructive feedback to others people tend to click on your username and look at your projects and even post comments. Do not respond to mean and negative comments though, just ignore those.

3. Find people with similar interests. People with specific and similar interests tend to look at each others projects more. For example, if you like to make projects about "chocolate cookies" (just an example) then find people who make projects about the same topic or about "cookies" or "food". Then you can even create projects together. This leads sometimes to having galleries as a place to share this common interests.

3.1 Galleries are good, but only specific ones!. I have seen people creating galleries where they invite people to put "anything". These galleries are not useful because they tend to grow so much, become too crowded and without any specific direction. Smaller galleries with very specific topics are better.

4. Get your friends from real life (school or from your neighborhood) to use Scratch and participate on the Scratch website. It's very likely that if they are friends in real life they will look at your projects more often.

5. Use sprites made by others. For example, MyRedNeptune and other people have created galleries where you can ask them to draw something for you so you can use it in your projects. They are great artists and programmers who can help you create really cool projects. You can use some of their sprites or ask them for some new ones and I am sure they will go and see what you made with those sprites.

6. Be patient and don't seek fame for the sake of fame. Creating projects is first and most importantly something you should make because you like it not only because you want to be famous or to get a lot of people's attention. With time, your projects will get better and better and you'll see you'll get more attention and friends who will look at your projects.

Anyway, these are just some tips that I just thought about. I hope they are useful. Maybe you can create a project describing this tips? ;-)

Thanks a lot for posting your concern,  it made me think about this topic and I like to think about things like that   

Scratch on!

wow. that was a lot of tips. thanks sooo much! they are really useful, especially the tags and the galleries ones! i normally like to put my projects in "anything" galleries because it seems like i will get a lot of people to see my projects in them, but when i think about it, you are right. also, about the making a project about the tips, i think i will do that so other people won't have the same problem as me.

Last edited by planetX (2007-11-10 13:49:31)

ok. also, i made the project, an it's uploading to the site right now. i think im going to make the gallery, because it is sort of a specific one.

planetX wrote:

nobody looks or comments on my projects. its not fair, because other people have projects with tons of views and comments. do you think making a gallery where people with good projects that nobody looks at could put them in is a good idea? then they could be looked at and commented on by me and other people.  so if i made one, i would try to look at everones projects. does anyone think thats a good idea?

Me too! And yes, it would be a good idea.

http://scratch.mit.edu/galleries/view/6451 is where project unknown is located. heres the forum... http://scratch.mit.edu/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=10551#p10551 plz dont put more that 3 in at a time

Bluestribute wrote:

I had the same pbolem. I tried to befriend people, but it didn't work. I would make games with good sprites, like spriters resource. Just google it. The better the game looks, the more than likely views youll have

i dont really think that would work, because i have people on my friends list, but i dont look at their projects that much... lol

XD its not SOOO great to have tons of comments, omg like yesterday i hads 199 comments, it kills my hadn to have to go back at delete them once i read them

MahoAshley wrote:

XD its not SOOO great to have tons of comments, omg like yesterday i hads 199 comments, it kills my hadn to have to go back at delete them once i read them

*Whistling* Wow, I wonder who did that.

Thanks for making project unknown. Your tip on joining the forums really helped me. I started using the forums yesterday, and I have had over 10 comments on my stuff today! Thanks!

please try my quidditch game

well, if you have friends that have scratch acconts they can comment and give you more hope but, I'v receaved only 4 comments by other people even though I have 12 projecs out! so try to get your friends to be on scratch and, I gess be your own comunity. you can join! just add yocool to your friends list and my friends will help you REMEMBER YOCOOL OR YOCOOL'S 2008 GALLERY! PLEASE JOIN!