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My bring back doody club project.

I have a story for you:

I love card games.  Lots of different card games.  But, the best card game of all is Cribbage.  Well, one of the first things I did when I came to the site was do a search for Cribbage.  I didn't find any cribbage card games, but what I did find was mdusoe's Cribbage Solitaire http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/mdusoe/27162  It was VERY rough.  I loved the game so much that I decided to write a complete game based on his project.  So, I downloaded his game and started with that file (so that he would get credit for the original idea).  I deleted everything out of the file and wrote a game based on his project http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/BoltBait/480942  He saw my game and commented on it that he liked what I'd done.  To me, that was awesome!

This is what I think a remix is supposed to be.

I have two stories about remixing, they both fall under #3 (serendipitous remix), although the first story can fall under #1 (remix chain) as well.

Story one - 5 Random Facts About Cheddargirl
"5 Random Facts About Cheddargirl" project was a project remix based off of MaskedStar's "5 Random Facts About Me!" project (which asks for users to give five random facts about himself/herself).

I first saw MaskedStar's original project via the front page and in my RSS feeds of people's projects, and I had fun reading about the various facts of different users. I ended up wanting to join the remix chain myself, but I didn't want to use the same graphics and wanted to give it a little more pizazz (the idea of pressing the spacebar to simply flip through backgrounds that have nothing more than still pictures and/or text bored me). I thought that it would be so much more fun to look at if I tossed in some of my art and animations in there. It took nearly a week to get the graphics done, and much of MaskedStar's original programming had to be changed to accommodate for the animations (my remix still keep true to MaskedStar's original idea of pressing the space button to see the next fact).

"5 Random Facts About Cheddargirl" eventually became one of my most commented projects, and I suspect it is also one of the more popular projects I've done.
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Story two - Plushie Pal
"Plushie Pal" was a project remixed from nikkiperson2's "Nikki Finds the Tails Doll". I had originally found this projects because I saw so many people doing a "_ found the _doll" remix (I wanted to know how the chain began).

Nikkiperson2's project reminded me of my own plush dolls at home. So instead of following the remix chain, I decided to to do a remix of nikkiperson2's project in a different direction - I remixed the project to tell a true story involving me and one of my real plushie dolls. I used part of nikkiperson2's original programming, and added some of my own code to it; the graphics I changed completely (took about 1-2 days); the song nikkiperson2 used in the original project I used as well, but music file was edited to save file space. Took about three days.

It's not one of my popular projects, but I did get some very good positive responses out of it. 

andresmh wrote:

frogger3140 wrote:

My bring back doody club project.

Oh could you tell me more about it? Why did you make it? What happened to it? Also, can you post a link to your project?

Here's some remixes: http://scratch.mit.edu/galleries/view/41738

If you want to see the remix project: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/frogger3140/416861

Last edited by frogger3140 (2009-09-04 17:09:46)

http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/dav09/460208 it only got remixed 3 or 4 times even though it was one of my first projects and It says remixed 1 but i remixed it and somebody else remixed twice and that was remixed once !so 4 times !

Last edited by dav09 (2009-09-05 04:58:07)

I made Book of Advertisements which was the first one that was a remix project to advertise your projects.

It didn't get very popular, though others did, and I am a bit (not too much though) mad about that.

I wanted a chance to see other projects, and I hoped it would get frontpage, because it would be something on top remixed that wasn't one of these three:

-all remixes made by yourself (it was made back when that stuff happened)
-one that wasn't "add yourself to the ____"
-one that was a petition.

So, I was really hoping it would get frontpage because it would benefit all who remixed.

Petitions really don't work at all...
"Add yourself to the _____" are pretty pointless in my opinion.
Remixing your own projects were cheating unless you did it by accident.

Though it didn't end up getting frontpage, *sigh*

Well, you gave my story already... 

Archmage made his Scratch Jr project, I decided to remix it, and offered archmage to put this changes into his version on his profile. Archmage added changes to my remix, and shared it on his profile. I re-downloaded his project, remixed it again, and shared it. Archmage updated his again and added some more features. And he gave me tons of credit *.*

I have another (quite similar) remixing story xD
I saw Paddle2See's project (it was very different back then.) The same thing happend as with archmages project, paddle2see updated, I re-remixed and so on.

I gave it a name because I think this is a cool way of remixing: Ping-Pong Remixing!
I like this way of remixing because it ends up in a collaboration - and collaborations rule XD

Paddle2See shared it 1 year, 9 months ago
JSO Based on JSO's version of Paddle2See's project

Last edited by JSO (2009-09-05 10:25:47)

Well, illusionist and I both liked each each other's games, and we were thinking about combining our skills to create other games! That is how the account illusionist_terminator was born! Also, I think that some people will not be OK with remixing because they worked hard on the project. Others will probably make projects (such as add yourself to the vacation!) that influence people to remix. I think that people find projects to remix by simply looking around the site. I do that, and if I find a project that I would like to tweak a bit, I remix and post it, usually with the word 'REMIX' or 'IMPROVED' at the end of the title.

you can edit my seans life rpg game, but i came here to broadcast it.


seans lifes supposed to be like my life and the people i meet. i need help making it, so if anyone wants to add themselves to the game, submit some details and other traits of the charecter to [e-mail address removed by moderator]. please i really need new charecters or else the game will be short. im trying to make it a really long game like runescape except without fighting

Last edited by cheddargirl (2009-09-12 16:53:04)

Here's my story of the impossible games:
I saw pinochio's Extreme game and decided to make it crazy hard. Here's that one: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/coolperson/542561 Then, I came accross a game called Hardcore Pong by -db- and decided to make it impossible, too. Here's that one: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/coolperson/559794 My current work of impossibleness: Pacman impossible! Yep, you read it right! If you touch any red, you lose a life! Also: Bubble trouble impssible, remix of weswesrock's project! Keep a lookout for em'!

Here's another story:

I wanted to make a pinball simulation for a long time.  However, I don't really understand all of the math required to simulate ball movement on a table.  Lately, Paddle2See posted a remix of School Pinball.  The graphics are very simplistic, however, the math was all there.  So, that inspired me to finally tackle a pinball simulation.

I downloaded Paddle2See's project and started from there so that he would get the credit.  Then, I searched the web for a generic pinball machine graphic that I could use with minimal editing.  Finally, I spent about 6 hours writing scripts.

You can see the result of our collabaration here:  Alien Pinball

The only problem is that the online player was so slow that I had to incorporate my Online vs Offline detector code to require people to download the game in order to play it.

Last edited by BoltBait (2009-09-19 17:39:04)

coolperson wrote:

Here's my story of the impossible games:
I saw pinochio's Extreme game and decided to make it crazy hard. Here's that one: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/coolperson/542561 Then, I came accross a game called Hardcore Pong by -db- and decided to make it impossible, too. Here's that one: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/coolperson/559794 My current work of impossibleness: Pacman impossible! Yep, you read it right! If you touch any red, you lose a life! Also: Bubble trouble impssible, remix of weswesrock's project! Keep a lookout for em'!

Can you give me some feedback, Andres?