Scratch

jslomba wrote:

I love the sounds, and I'm glad we're figuring out how to use the cloud features for this project.

@goofball- what position do you want?

Programming, please. New 2.0 features, or regular scripting. Whichever position you think you need more of.

jslomba wrote:

I want to make a collab team where we make the best stuff we can out of the new features of Scratch 2.0. We will start development of our projects once 2.0 comes out permenantly.

We need the following positions filled with 1-4 people (excluding the leaders, where only one person can fill each position, and programmers, where there is no limit):

Currently, we're making a virtual world called Scratch Club. You will get to add friends, go from room to room, communicate with word bubbles or in a private chat, and make your own house. Your avatar will be a scratch cat or gobo, and you will get to change its color to customize it. All its information will be stored in cloud variables and lists that other people's users will read so they will show up on the screen correctly.

Leaders:
President: Jay (me)
Vice President- Clank23
Sound supervisor- wolvestar97
Graphics supervisor- wolvestar97
Ideas supervisor- Maxdoss
Programming supervisor- Bklecka

Graphics:
Backgrounds- norty,
Characters- not needed for our current project
Icons- SciTecCf, LEGOengineer261,

Ideas:
Special features- EvilPegasus2274
Story- joletole

Sounds:
Sound FX- XenoK
Background Music- MoreGamesNow, noseyparka

Programmers:
New 2.0 features- gbear605, maxdoss
Scripting- XenoK, SciTecCf, LEGOengineer261, maxdoss, AgentRoop

Here's how we're going to make this happen:

jslomba wrote:

Also, I think I've figured out how we're going to make this as a team. Clank and I will do the outline with all the basic stuff, then we'll pass it to the programmers, who will fix bugs, then to the sound people, who will add FX and background music, then to the graphics people, who will add better icons and improve the backgrounds.

The job of people in ideas is to talk with me and clank beforw we make the project and contribute your ideas here when we're on.


The outline project me and clank make will be very basic, with bad graphics and no music and such. the reason we're going to start it is because it would be way too hectic to have everyone build it from the bottom up.

Hey I've managed to get the project editor prototype on my site, I'm still working on it to unlock features but you are welcome to use it ad save locally when the prototype ends

Clank23 wrote:

P110 wrote:

jslomba wrote:

I want to make a collab team where we make the best stuff we can out of the new features of Scratch 2.0. We will start development of our projects once 2.0 comes out permenantly.

We need the following positions filled with 1-4 people (excluding the leaders, where only one person can fill each position, and programmers, where there is no limit):

Currently, we're making a virtual world called Scratch Club. You will get to add friends, go from room to room, communicate with word bubbles or in a private chat, and make your own house. Your avatar will be a scratch cat or gobo, and you will get to change its color to customize it. All its information will be stored in cloud variables and lists that other people's users will read so they will show up on the screen correctly.

Leaders:
President: Jay (me)
Vice President- Clank23
Sound supervisor- wolvestar97
Graphics supervisor- wolvestar97
Ideas supervisor- Maxdoss
Programming supervisor- Bklecka

Graphics:
Backgrounds- norty,
Characters- not needed for our current project
Icons- SciTecCf, LEGOengineer261,

Ideas:
Special features- EvilPegasus2274
Story- joletole

Sounds:
Sound FX- XenoK
Background Music- MoreGamesNow, noseyparka

Programmers:
New 2.0 features- gbear605, maxdoss
Scripting- XenoK, SciTecCf, LEGOengineer261, maxdoss, AgentRoop

Here's how we're going to make this happen:

Hey I've managed to get the project editor prototype on my site, I'm still working on it to unlock features but you are welcome to use it ad save locally when the prototype ends

link to site?

links FTW!

Figured.
Stinken Law.

Hello, I was making a song for another game, but it didn't really fit the theme, so I was thinking that it might work as a relaxing background. Here it is.
You don't have to take it, and it's not the best.
Thanks.

MoreGamesNow wrote:

AgentRoop wrote:

Hello, I was making a song for another game, but it didn't really fit the theme, so I was thinking that it might work as a relaxing background. Here it is.
You don't have to take it, and it's not the best.
Thanks.

Glad to see you're using Musescore!  I think that's great, especially considering that you've "only been playing a musical instrument for a little less than a year."  Just so you know, you can update the score by clicking "edit" and choosing (or "re-choosing") a file to overwrite it.

I wouldn't worry about the music being difficult to play, especially if it isn't an instrument you're familiar with.  You have a much better grasp of chords than I did at one year of instruments!

P.S. I have the circle of 5ths as my mouse-pad, it was a Christmas present xD

To the rest of you:

We should probably change the title of this thread to "Collab team for Scratch 2.0", or whatever name we're choosing (has that been decided yet?)

thanks for the pointers!

I'd like to join as graphics, and programming. My speciality in graphics is buttons, I absolutely love buttons, I can make buttons from iPhone apps to keyboard buttons. I am also good at making logos, banners and icons, from 480x360 pixels to 16x16 pixels. In programming I am good at Platformers.

Last edited by Yoshiboy (2012-05-21 10:46:47)

DoodlerDude wrote:

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I have no problem cooperating with Doodle Company, but I acknowledge that this decision should probably be left to the leaders and the artists of the group, as it doesn't really affect the programing or sound-production.

This is me attempting to out do AgentRoop.  I'll admit, the chord progression is a little weird (switches from C major to the relative minor, and then back again, in only 4 measures xD), and it may not fit the mood, but hey, it's a candidate!

To those of you who noticed, yes, it does repeat approximately half-way through.  If this is chosen, I'll re-upload it without the second repeat and last chord, so, in terms of length and memory, it is actually about half of what you think 

AgentRoop wrote:

I like it, the minor keys add more complexity to it. It reminds me partially of Canon, but with a twist to the chords. What instrument did you use to do the chords in the backgrounds?
Also, when you said if it's chosen, does that mean that only one will be chosen? I was thinking that more backgrounds of the same theme would be better than 1 repeating soundtrack. We wouldn't have to worry about all of the songs taking up memory, because I heard that 2.0 can have 'unlimited' memory, since it's on the browser.

The instrument doing the straight chords at the beginning is a combination of bass guitar and guitar.  A complete list is: Harpsichord, Soprano (voice), Bass (voice), Guitar, Bass Guitar, Horn, and Harp.

To address your second question, I would be fine choosing multiple backgrounds and either letting the user choose which one they want playing, or working together on a theme, and then both of us writing music using that theme (either together or separately).  My biggest concern is memory.  Does the 10 MB rule still apply to Scratch 2.0?  We don't want to hog all the memory, the graphics department might get mad 

We do have unlimited memory, however, the scratch servers do not. Well, more like we haw as much memory as the servers can handle. An mmo would probably take up far more memory than is devoted to the average project.

AgentRoop wrote:

the 10MB rule does not apply. I heard that we can basically have unlimited memory. also, we could just play a random song from a collection of songs.

Oh, great!  We should probably still be kind of selective, but the "variety" idea sounds much more appealing now 

zubblewu wrote:

We do have unlimited memory, however, the scratch servers do not. Well, more like we haw as much memory as the servers can handle. An mmo would probably take up far more memory than is devoted to the average project.

We might have to compress the file or make a program that Shrinks the memory size.
You can compress it 2 times by right clicking on the project files and clicking "Properties" after that There will be a button for advanced settings click that and click Compress File. Then when you upload it Also compress it. This only works for windows though...