Scratch

mewkid wrote:

joletole wrote:

mewkid wrote:

I'll do an interview if you want. I like interviews. :3

Sure, yeah. Just answer these questions:

1. What do spend most time on, the forums, or the main site?

The main site. I was not really aware of the forum's existence until a couple months ago.    I like the forums, but I prefer the main site. After all, isn't that what matters?

2. Where did you find out about Scratch?

My friend showed it to me when I was nine years old. She will never live down the fact that I am still a better scratcher.

3. What do you love most about Scratch, besides the fact that this is such a friendly site?

Friendly? Well, most of the time. I guess I love the way that kids and even adults kind of come together on a site where you're not judged by your age, but by your skills. I guess I get kind of abused because I'm eleven on some other sites, but here, since I'm a (not to toot my own horn,) pretty good programmer, it doesn't matter anymore. Plus, I adore programming. Case closed.

Thanks!

Thanks for answering those. Anybody else want to add a Scratch Block.

lunarman42 already made a magazine called Scratchers Mag

Where did you first hear about Scratch?
Well, I first heard about Scratch when my ICT teacher saw my power-point games. I would spend ages making a stop-motion animated game where each animation was a separate slide, and you would use the cursor to guide your little stick man. God- The Adventures of Stick! There was also the Skateboard Madness games, where you would be on a skateboard and you would have to jump over obstacles. If you jumped too early or too late you would die! Ha- god that was hard. It would go at a rate of 5 slides per second, and you had to click on the arrow which was a hyper-link. Jump too early or late, it lead to the "die" slide. Click on one of three slides and you would see a jumping animation. I somehow got a boss level working for The Adventures of Stick. The monster would throw huge boulders at you which you would dodge, then you would jump in the air, shoot it, and win! I wished I knew scratch back then, I had decent imagination but no real programming skills. I now have the latter, but my games are now boring. Still, I will be looking to try and remake them in the future- so expect that very soon scratchers!

What do spend more time on, the forums, or the main site?
Defiantly the forums! When I come on I open all the threads into new tabs, then look through each one! I skip a few, the ones I do look at are announcements, help with scripts, show and tell, collaboration, requests and questions about scratch. There isn't really much to do on the main site, once you've uploaded a project and played a couple that's it, whereas in the forums you can get up to loads!

What do you love most about the Scratch Community?
Whilst the scratch team are considerate, patient and offering help and improvements all the time, I have wondered why front paged projects get so many views (like 10,000) but yet forum threads rarely get that amount unless they're made by the scratch team. I do think that scratchers spend too much time just login on, viewing the front page then coming off again, or perhaps quickly bumping up one of their advertisements in show and tell and not even glancing at the other posts. I hope it's just laziness and not selfishness that they rarely help with the forums or get involved.

What improvements do you think the Scratch Team should make to the website?
They certainly need to make more scratchers get involved rather than just being passive. Also, perhaps if New Scratchers were limited to say 8MB per project, Scratchers were limited to 10MB, and any "master scratchers" (who will remain un-named on their status, so it will still say "scratcher" so that normal scratchers aren't ignored) can get say 12 to 15MB. This would allow far more freedom with projects!

Last edited by Borrego6165 (2012-03-13 03:26:39)

Does anybody else want to be interviewed/vote. Or you could join the job.

Borrego6165 wrote:

would you mind getting rid of the "2" after my interview please? it's the very last letter after my third question.

Oh yeah, sorry about that.

LiFay_Remix wrote:

Cool Scratcher M.A.G 


A4
B3
C4

Thanks for voting.

Agentpieface wrote:

Agentpieface wrote:

lunarman42 already made a magazine called Scratchers Mag

Can I see the link to it.

I will accept interviews.

Borrego6165 wrote:

firstly: stop bumping this sooo often

secondly: i'm not sure how i could help you? i've been interviewed, i've got no quotes or any views on the polls. sorry.

You could vote for the polls. Why don't you do that.

Borrego6165 wrote:

hmmm, not really questions I can be bothered to answer. but it has given me an idea, and I would be happy to put "inspired by Joletole's MAG" so that you don't miss out.

Idea:
It's the same as this poll, but there's a new one each week. it focuses on recent events and quite controversial theories. I'll try to keep them scratch-based. I won't make it straight away, as I need to get some ideas down first for what the questions should be. You never know, the link might make your thread more views! I'll make it like an animation, so it will ahev a TV character, and it will be in the style of a TV show. Once there has been a debate on the forums, it will be re-enacted in the TV show so that other scratchers can get the gist of what the entire thread was about. If I decide to make it a collab, I would be grateful for you to join. If I don't, I'll still make sure I can help you out somehow.

Thanks! Yeah, I could join.

Last edited by joletole (2012-03-13 16:28:23)

yes! when i make it. to get extra publicity without having to spam everywhere i might have a celebration day (no idea what to call it), where I'll release a few of my new games, a new layout to the advert thread plus the debate show. and if i think of anything else i will release it on that date too!

joletole wrote:

Borrego6165 wrote:

yes! when i make it. to get extra publicity without having to spam everywhere i might have a celebration day (no idea what to call it), where I'll release a few of my new games, a new layout to the advert thread plus the debate show. and if i think of anything else i will release it on that date too!

Wait. What will the Date be. I don't think I said anything.

depends when i can finish my projects for.

Borrego6165 wrote:

i've just thought of one! April 29th- exactly 1/2 a year after the creation of the Advert thread!

Cool! Can't wait till that day.