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thats why each achievement would have the same amount of scratch points, and also scratchers could only post llike 1 game with achivements a week with only 3 achievements.  another easier way that newgrounds does is that the moderators have to ok achievements going with the game.  of course, that is more work so i didn't suggest that at first.  the whole point was to promote the viewing of other peoples projects so that people would be more motivated to share.  people with little or no views don't get very excited abbout scratch, and this is an easy way to make that better.  that was the overall purpose

FantasyTales wrote:

archmage wrote:

How about achievements for programming scratch projects?

thats an ok idea, but i think it would be better if projects with a certain number of scripts could do that.  of course, then people would constantly be posting projects, so either way has it's upsides and downsides.

Well, some people make random projects with thousands of useless (when Green Flag clicked) scripts. EXAMPLE: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/jumper200/159068

FantasyTales wrote:

coolstuff wrote:

FantasyTales wrote:

thats an ok idea, but i think it would be better if projects with a certain number of scripts could do that.  of course, then people would constantly be posting projects, so either way has it's upsides and downsides.

Well, some people make random projects with thousands of useless (when Green Flag clicked) scripts. EXAMPLE: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/jumper200/159068

yah they do do those, but does that really matter?  with all the other things in place who would bother making one project per week with just when green flag clicked.  Here is a simpler idea though.  why not have all the games participating in achivements be looked over by the scratch tema first to avoid this. that way less have achivements and it inspires scratchers to work harder to create better games and to share more.  have you ever noticed how barely any of the joined members post projects.  that's what inspired me to think of this in the first place.  plus gamerscore on the xbox is cool.

But I do think scratch is more for fun and not a place to get awards and stuff. Aren't you happy enough you are apart of the scratch community?

More than giving points I think I'd like the idea of involving more people in different roles. For example, we just added the "curator" role. This is going to rotate and give different people the chance to be a curator. You could imagine having other kinds of roles that would recognize people's contributions and perhaps be an incentive to participate in different ways.

FantasyTales wrote:

why not rethink the whole achievement thing entirely and make it so that if someone has been a scratcher for a year, or two years etc... they get a little thing by their name which is kind of like an achivement.  this will encourage people to stay on scratch longer, and since maybe it would only work if they had been active it would encourage them to share more often
does that seem good?

That's an interesting idea...some recognition of commitment to the site.  Maybe a measure of number of projects...or length of time on the site.  My problem with those is that they may not reflect what you want them to.  Length of time on the site doesn't mean much if you only log on once a year...and rewarding large numbers of projects would just encourage people to upload useless projects.   

Some sort of recognition awarded by other Scratch users might work though...keep thinking 

Newgrounds is powered by adobe flash which is a more experienced program, the games made including acheivements are made with flash, there are scratch projects that have acheivments in their for the sake of it (like one of mine, but i did it as a joke). but flash is a more complex program and alows a person to make a game or video with a wider range of tools and such. but, despite my disagreement, i like your ideas

Last edited by Asimo (2009-06-19 07:53:15)