I haven't received all of the news about Scratch in the Future. I have seen some posts about the Scratch Team developing a program that will run online, and that we won't be dealing with Java player in the future. I have also noticed the long delay with the release of Scratch 1.5
If you know anything just let me know. Thanks for getting me up to speed!
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From what I know, it'll be called Scratch 2.0
And that's about it.
Although, through Scratch's Twitter I've also discovered that it will have social media integration to fit in with today's computing society. Here's a quote:
In online forums, children and teens have posted hundreds of creative suggestions for new features and capabilities for future versions of Scratch. Based on these suggestions, we propose to develop a new generation of Scratch, called Scratch 2.0, that will dramatically expand opportunities for young people to share ideas, collaborate on projects, and develop as creative thinkers. We will work closely with Scratch community members, providing them with ongoing opportunities to propose features, test prototypes, and share resources.
New features of Scratch 2.0 will include:
* sharing Scratch projects on mobile phones, tablets, and other new platforms;
* integrating Scratch with social media, so that young people can program projects to dynamically pull content from and push updates to Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and other Web 2.0 sites;
* providing infrastructure for groups of young people to collaborate on projects (including group decision-making tools and collaborative annotations);
* enabling young people to program, remix, and share projects more seamlessly, all within a web browser, without any downloading or uploading.
That's from http://dmlcompetition.net/pligg/story.php?title=241
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WOW!
Thanks a lot coolstuff! That will be amazing when it debuts, but does anyone know how long the development will take? It sounds as if the Scratch Team would have to work 24/7 to develop this in one year!
EDIT: Thanks for the link the video is interesting and I was surprised to see the budget! $200,000!
Last edited by coka (2010-04-27 21:01:44)
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coka wrote:
WOW!
Thanks a lot coolstuff! That will be amazing when it debuts, but does anyone know how long the development will take? It sounds as if the Scratch Team would have to work 24/7 to develop this in one year!
EDIT: Thanks for the link the video is interesting and I was surprised to see the budget! $200,000!![]()
No problem! Always happy to help
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Lol - coka - it looks like you're a bit slow on things
We've known about this for a long time - the Scratch Team has really been talking about it a lot.
See this too:
http://blog.scratch.mit.edu/2010/04/scratch-share-collaborating-with-youth.html
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Lucario621 wrote:
Lol - coka - it looks like you're a bit slow on things
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We've known about this for a long time - the Scratch Team has really been talking about it a lot.
See this too:
http://blog.scratch.mit.edu/2010/04/scratch-share-collaborating-with-youth.html
Ha! Ha! (I'm actually laughing right now) You know you'd think me, of being on top of it all the time, being on scratch for almost 2 and a half years, and you know I'm usually the one telling others what they have not caught up on.
I guess I really have no excuse. I did know some things, but I never could find it, so I finally posted it now. Yes, I did feel kind of weird posting a topic about this, but now I'm all caught up (I think...
I hope...) with scratch. You know, I think I like abandon the forums for a couple months, but I'm here. I've got less homework with school ending soon I think its about 30 days for me, so I'm spending more time on the forums. Well thanks for the info!
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you know what I really wish they would do? as long as they are allowing scratch to pull and push contents from sites like facebook and twitter, they should give the capability to save data as cookies on your browser. that way you could save your game even on the online version.

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I think that Scratch should be able for download aswell so we could make projects with no internet connection. If they do not have this feature then I will be keeping 1.4.
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johnnydean1 wrote:
I think that Scratch should be able for download aswell so we could make projects with no internet connection. If they do not have this feature then I will be keeping 1.4.
same here
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