Scratch

Well, Scratch is used to make games and animated projects. Above links will help you. To make good projects, you have to do more practice. It will take time. All the best for college project, 

I'd be happy to help! It's not hard once you get the hang of it, I assure you! I am a year 1/2 old scratcher and I like making games. Here is a miniture tour of scratch.
CHAPTER 1
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Programming offline is the main reason of scratch. You must drag blocks from the lists and put them together in a sequencial order. Here is an explanation of the blocks:
<when green flag clicked>: This is a block that makes and action as soon as the flag is clicked. This is only a start of the program.
<when[  ]key pressed>: This is the reaction To a certain key (A-Z, 0-9, arrow keys, space) when it is pressed.
<when[  ]clicked>: This is the start response to when the sprite is clicked.
<wait(  )secsc> Title says all, can be middle or end of a program
<forever> when programs & orders are dragged inside this block, this action will be repeated until the stop button is pressed.
<repeat(: Put a program in here, and it will repeat itself the ordered amount of time: example, <Repeat 5( say:Oh no! I'm drowning!) for 2 seconds) next costume> This would make the cat say "Oh no, I'm drowning," with the speech bubble showing for 2 seconds, and then change it's looks once, and repeat itself 5 times.
<broadcast[ This sends a certain comand to the other sprites. Example: <broadcast{jump!> would be sent by the cat, and would be recieved by the dog, with a message to change y by 10, and then y by -10, making it appear as if the dog is jumping.
<broadcast[  ]and wait c>: Same as above, with the concept of waiting until the message is recieved and performed to continnue
<when I receive[ This is the recieving of a broadcast, that makes it perform a certain action.
<forever if> This is like the 'forever' block, except it only proceeds if a certain rule is followed, ex: if the mouse button was down, the dog would say, "Hi!"
<if> this does an action, only if a rule is followed, ex: if the man was in his bandit costume, it would say, "You caught me!"
<if><else> This is kind of like the <if> above, except if the rule is not followed, it does something different program.
<wait until> This does not proceed until an action is followed, ex: wait until pen down, then change color effect by 5.
<repeat until>This keeps repeating itself until an action is followed. ex: repeat until costume = 3, then say, "I'm an artist!"
<stop script> This ends the entire script, so it can't continue, only the end block.
<stop all> this has the same response as pressing the stop button.
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This is chapter 1, all the control blocks! How I explained it may be confusing.... but I hope it helped!    cya scratcher! 

wen723 wrote:

I have a work that to do here in Scratch for a for a college class. I'd like some recommendations that I might do.  I am not very expert in this of Scratch. I appreciate any help. Thank you.

I reccomend that you do a game. Making a game shows that you have talent with computers and that you are a good programmer. Try making a game when marbles roll down a maze and they have to get to a certain area without falling off of the maze. I think this will be a good game to make for a college student even though i'm only 9.    Please give me credit in the project notes.

You can make a game, like Chatter said. Look up on google ___"sprites" or (blank) "sprites. You then will get good characters for a game. Or, look here:  http://charas-project.net/

If you have any questions about game making, ask me. Or you can download one of my projects. That might help you a lot. I am a game maker and photo-animation-artist.\\

Scratch on. 

wen723 wrote:

I have a work that to do here in Scratch for a for a college class. I'd like some recommendations that I might do.  I am not very expert in this of Scratch. I appreciate any help. Thank you.

I would recommend making a fake OS. They're real fun to make. Feel free to  remix my TechMaster OS to get you started.

my advice is if your gonna make a game then make it simple. make a ball that moves with fluid velocity (hardest part) and make multiple levels. simple games are always fun and addictive 

Last edited by KewlBeanz (2010-01-01 14:45:15)