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That's a cool idea, but you would either need a HUGE list of the people who are ignored by who, or a ton of different lists for different peoples ignore lists.

EvilPegasus2274 wrote:

IDEA ALERT! AGAIN.
Everybody usually has somebody they want to Avoid. So there should be a Ignore setting so you can ignore that person. To sum it up you can't see that person see their chats.
Ok?

Maybe, but that could become a form of cyber-bullying.
Speaking of that, should we make it so that swear words are blocked in chat?

MoreGamesNow wrote:

goofball88 wrote:

Maybe, but that could become a form of cyber-bullying.
Speaking of that, should we make it so that swear words are blocked in chat?

I would give that a definite yes.  My only concern is that, if someone "looks inside" the project, they'll find a neat little collection of words 

Or you could scramble the words and use the block "Letter 2 of...

MoreGamesNow wrote:

goofball88 wrote:

Maybe, but that could become a form of cyber-bullying.
Speaking of that, should we make it so that swear words are blocked in chat?

I would give that a definite yes.  My only concern is that, if someone "looks inside" the project, they'll find a neat little collection of words 

Hidden sprite.

Bklecka wrote:

I Think With The New Paint Editor Those Dont Work Anymore

Typing All In Caps Makes Your Post Look UnProffesionnal, Use Sentence Case.

As for your question, I'll ask the ST. 

EvilPegasus2274 wrote:

By the way the ignor list is temporary and gets reset when you logout. It's not a Cloud Variable.

So what's the point ignoring? XD

MoreGamesNow wrote:

AgentRoop wrote:

Also, we probably won't use all of the songs. Just our favorites and ones that would be fitting for certain themes.

Speaking of that, we're kind of missing some explicitly minor pieces.  So if anyone (I will have some time soon, so I'll probably do it too) wants to write something that is sad-ish, that would add some nice variety.

My goal is to make it as difficult to narrow down music as possible.  That means we've done our job.

I can make a song like that.
I'll have it posted by tonight or tomorrow. 

AgentRoop wrote:

The cuss word sensor sounds like a good idea, but if people look inside, how will we keep them from finding the bad words?

That's a really good point!  There's another problem with building a censor in Scratch as well - Scratch is not a very fast language and it doesn't have very powerful text matching features.  It would be far better if the censor were built-in to Scratch so that inappropriate words were simply removed from cloud variables before they were stored.  Of course, no censor is perfect and people are very clever at finding ways around them, by using alternate spellings or punctuation.

But an imperfect censor is better than no censor at all.  Let me run this problem by some other folks on the Team and see what they think 

Paddle2See wrote:

AgentRoop wrote:

The cuss word sensor sounds like a good idea, but if people look inside, how will we keep them from finding the bad words?

That's a really good point!  There's another problem with building a censor in Scratch as well - Scratch is not a very fast language and it doesn't have very powerful text matching features.  It would be far better if the censor were built-in to Scratch so that inappropriate words were simply removed from cloud variables before they were stored.  Of course, no censor is perfect and people are very clever at finding ways around them, by using alternate spellings or punctuation.

But an imperfect censor is better than no censor at all.  Let me run this problem by some other folks on the Team and see what they think 

Thanks for the help, Paddle. 

AgentRoop wrote:

Okay, I've made the music. It's supposed to be in a minor key, meaning that it will sound creepy or mysterious. It isn't as good as my last song and not as long. Please give feedback, good or bad.
I will post it soon.

EDIT: Here it is: Scratch music 2.

It looks like you're in C minor.  I'm a little confused at the "e, g-flat, b" chords (minor chord with a lowered 3rd?).  I'm not sure what kind of music background you have (in terms of music theory), but that really isn't a common chord (major, minor, diminished, seventh, etc.).  It's not that noticeable since the glockenspiel's notes are easily missed, but the dissonance is rather strong, especially as none of the Gs in the other instruments are lowered.

Your chord progression seems to be this:
iv
iii (undefinable)
iv
v

First of all, I'm happy to see that you have a 4 and a 5 chord in there (did you do that intuitively or have you heard that the most common progression is IV,V,I?).

My primary concern is that there is no tonic chord (that is, there is no c-minor chord).  I don't want to make this into a music theory lesson, but you should eventually return to the tonic chord (c-minor in this case), usually after the 5 chord.  What I would do is make the 5 chord you already have a major chord instead, making it harmonic minor (see paragraph below), and then resolve that to the c-minor chord.

There are three types of minor: natural, harmonic, and melodic.
- natural: follows key signature, no sharps, no flats
- harmonic: raises the 7th note of the scale (B in this case), making a major 5 chord that resolves nicely to the tonic.  This is the most common
- melodic: if you're moving up, raise the sixth and seventh scale degrees, otherwise, follow the signature.

Hopefully you can find a few pearls in there.

In the interest of not making this a Music Theory lesson (maybe I should make a thread of music theory basics?), I'm going to stop here.  Bear in mind that these music doesn't have to resolve frequently to the tonic chord (Romantic music frequently tried to distance itself from it), but it's a good guideline to follow.  I can practically guarantee that almost every song you play in band/orchestra class, piano lessons, etc. will resolve to the tonic.  The tonic is a place of rest, and without it, your music feels unrestful and unresolved, and no matter how much you want to hold on to that feeling, you've eventually got to release the tension.

MoreGamesNow wrote:

AgentRoop wrote:

Okay, I've made the music. It's supposed to be in a minor key, meaning that it will sound creepy or mysterious. It isn't as good as my last song and not as long. Please give feedback, good or bad.
I will post it soon.

EDIT: Here it is: Scratch music 2.

It looks like you're in C minor.  I'm a little confused at the "e, g-flat, b" chords (minor chord with a lowered 3rd?).  I'm not sure what kind of music background you have (in terms of music theory), but that really isn't a common chord (major, minor, diminished, seventh, etc.).  It's not that noticeable since the glockenspiel's notes are easily missed, but the dissonance is rather strong, especially as none of the Gs in the other instruments are lowered.

Your chord progression seems to be this:
iv
iii (undefinable)
iv
v

First of all, I'm happy to see that you have a 4 and a 5 chord in there (did you do that intuitively or have you heard that the most common progression is IV,V,I?).

My primary concern is that there is no tonic chord (that is, there is no c-minor chord).  I don't want to make this into a music theory lesson, but you should eventually return to the tonic chord (c-minor in this case), usually after the 5 chord.  What I would do is make the 5 chord you already have a major chord instead, making it harmonic minor (see paragraph below), and then resolve that to the c-minor chord.

There are three types of minor: natural, harmonic, and melodic.
- natural: follows key signature, no sharps, no flats
- harmonic: raises the 7th note of the scale (B in this case), making a major 5 chord that resolves nicely to the tonic.  This is the most common
- melodic: if you're moving up, raise the sixth and seventh scale degrees, otherwise, follow the signature.

Hopefully you can find a few pearls in there.

In the interest of not making this a Music Theory lesson (maybe I should make a thread of music theory basics?), I'm going to stop here.  Bear in mind that these music doesn't have to resolve frequently to the tonic chord (Romantic music frequently tried to distance itself from it), but it's a good guideline to follow.  I can practically guarantee that almost every song you play in band/orchestra class, piano lessons, etc. will resolve to the tonic.  The tonic is a place of rest, and without it, your music feels unrestful and unresolved, and no matter how much you want to hold on to that feeling, you've eventually got to release the tension.

I understood about half of what you said. This music was thrown together mostly randomly (with some theory in mind), and i don't really think that it's that good.
Thanks for the feedback.
I'll work on a better piece.

AgentRoop wrote:

I understood about half of what you said. This music was thrown together mostly randomly (with some theory in mind), and i don't really think that it's that good.
Thanks for the feedback.
I'll work on a better piece.

Don't get me wrong, it's a fine piece.  You just said to give you feedback, and I went overboard xD.

Musescore malfunction!

I was working on my song and the screen turned gray.
Has that happened to you before? I can't see the notes and I was just finishing. 

I am so confused!

Last edited by AgentRoop (2012-05-25 23:10:56)