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#1 2010-06-20 20:45:19

GirWaffles64
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Registered: 2009-08-09
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Scratch Badges?

I was thinking about something that could lure in new users and excite old users when I got the idea of this:

Badges.

People could add them to their games, kind of like achievements. You would design their logo, add a description and name, add them to a script, and it's done! Plus, it's almost cheat proof! You would have to be logged in to get badges, so downloading wouldn't work to get them. Badges don't quite have value like achievements, so creating 9 million wouldn't work to raise score or something. If you thought a badge was inappropriate, you could delete it, or even better, report it. You could trade badges.

The badge would look like this:

________________
[                      [                  [Badge Title]
[                      [
[   (Badge pic)    [                  [Description.............................]
[                      [
[______________ [


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#2 2010-06-20 21:56:32

jackrulez
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Registered: 2009-08-01
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Re: Scratch Badges?

What about people whose Internet connections [removed]?

Last edited by Dazachi (2010-07-10 14:29:37)


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#3 2010-06-20 23:49:01

samurai768
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Re: Scratch Badges?

Total support.

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#4 2010-06-21 01:48:37

Chrischb
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Re: Scratch Badges?

It would be cool, but it doesn't seem to be a very important thing... and Scratch isn't supposed to be a "free online games" website, is it?


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#5 2010-06-21 03:07:45

Jonathanpb
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Registered: 2008-07-25
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Re: Scratch Badges?

Scratch isn't a game website... the only reason projects are shared is so other people can see them.  big_smile  Putting achievements would just be crazy.  tongue  You can make them yourself in the project... sort of like thissmile


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#6 2010-07-09 19:50:32

GirWaffles64
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Re: Scratch Badges?

Jonathanpb wrote:

Scratch isn't a game website... the only reason projects are shared is so other people can see them.  big_smile  Putting achievements would just be crazy.  tongue  You can make them yourself in the project... sort of like thissmile

Ahh, but there is so many other reasons. Use for companies, tutorials, and so many others.


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#7 2010-07-09 19:56:55

Jimmy-Jermaine
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Registered: 2010-06-25
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Re: Scratch Badges?

Didn't you already post a topic like this before, but people didn't really like the idea? What happened to that topic? Did you delete it? o.O A lot of very valid points were made there.

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#8 2010-07-09 20:02:05

GirWaffles64
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Re: Scratch Badges?

Jimmy-Jermaine wrote:

Didn't you already post a topic like this before, but people didn't really like the idea? What happened to that topic? Did you delete it? o.O A lot of very valid points were made there.

Nope. And you are Blade-Edge. No tricking Gir.


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#9 2010-07-09 20:12:01

Jimmy-Jermaine
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Re: Scratch Badges?

Well, it appears you've been tricked already, despite you saying there's no tricking you. I'm not Blade-Edge  big_smile  Please don't just make wild assumptions like that, and if you do, don't post them. Right now, this would count as gossiping about another Scratcher behind their back. Please be more respectful of other members.

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#10 2010-07-09 20:57:19

GirWaffles64
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Re: Scratch Badges?

PPFF.

Blade wrote Stain.

Stain was written under the name of Jimmy Jermaine. No denying it.


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#11 2010-07-09 22:22:23

Jimmy-Jermaine
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Registered: 2010-06-25
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Re: Scratch Badges?

What the- Who said Blade wrote Stain? That information is completely incorrect. Blade-Edge had nothing to do with the writing of Stain at all. Now I see why you think I'm Blade. Your source of information is utter garbage.

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#12 2010-07-09 23:26:12

hdarken
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Registered: 2008-06-26
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Re: Scratch Badges?

one word nobecause why

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#13 2010-07-10 03:41:10

Blade-Edge
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Re: Scratch Badges?

GirWaffles64 wrote:

PPFF.

Blade wrote Stain.

Stain was written under the name of Jimmy Jermaine. No denying it.

No denying that Stain was written under Jimmy Jermaine. I'm not him, though.
I did, however, write a parody of stain, but it's way too inappropriate. Check your facts before you make a tool of yourself, next time.
Now about this idea, I don't see it being implemented any time soon.


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#14 2010-07-10 09:43:04

Jimmy-Jermaine
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Re: Scratch Badges?

From what I can remember of the last topic, someone said that how you desrcibed it was basically how you would describe a sprite. Also it would be too much work to create a system for this sort of thing, not to mention the massive amount of innapropriate badges some people out there could make. How you mentioned you must be logged in to get the badges: Well you CAN download projects without being logged in, but most people generally don't know this, and the site only lets you download projects if you are logged in. If the same kind of system was used like in the Statistics of a project, like say Number of Remixes and Downloads, this could possibly work, but it probably won't be used unless there are only a couple of default badges and not user made ones. Or perhaps in the not so on chance if the Scratch Team does work on this project, they could ask user's to create badges and approve them before they're used. But that of course would take even more time, and we don't want to delay the progress on Scratch 2.0 even further, do we? If you were thinking that the  Scratch Team would work on this for Scratch 2.0, it is not at all necessary towards the program, so they probably wouldn't until everything else was done first. And I don't think the majority would like waiting a couple of extra days for badges to be finished after waiting for V2.0 for so long. And as others have said before me, Scratch isn't a gaming site, but a programming site. It's just a simple coincidence that most projects are games (in fact, I'm not even entirely sure about that, I don't know if there is a way to check which projects are games and which aren't, but it's likely that games take up a small part of Scratch's 1,000,000+ projects). If you've read this far, congratulations, you have got a wide attention span.

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#15 2010-07-10 10:33:40

ssss
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Registered: 2007-07-29
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Re: Scratch Badges?

these days:
1-the projects are more animations and simple drawings (whatever happened to 2007-gaming year?)
2:-This is not a gaming site! The uploading of projects is simply to gain feedback off valuable members of the scratch society
3:-I promise you my only other account is GreatSSSS so don't accuse me (or anyone else, for that matter) of being another person
4-The badges would be to hard to enforce the rules unless they were custom made.
5-Who are you expecting to monitor the badges?  I wouldn't expect the scratch team 2
6-although it may be useful for companys and so forth why don't they just make a forum for companys?  Actually thats a good idea!!!
7-The amount of badges that would be uploaded would be terribly outnumbering scratch staff!!
8-We want to keep the load off scratch staffs shoulder so they can release the next scratch, dont we???


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#16 2010-07-10 10:34:43

ssss
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Re: Scratch Badges?

Jimmy-Jermaine wrote:

From what I can remember of the last topic, someone said that how you desrcibed it was basically how you would describe a sprite. Also it would be too much work to create a system for this sort of thing, not to mention the massive amount of innapropriate badges some people out there could make. How you mentioned you must be logged in to get the badges: Well you CAN download projects without being logged in, but most people generally don't know this, and the site only lets you download projects if you are logged in. If the same kind of system was used like in the Statistics of a project, like say Number of Remixes and Downloads, this could possibly work, but it probably won't be used unless there are only a couple of default badges and not user made ones. Or perhaps in the not so on chance if the Scratch Team does work on this project, they could ask user's to create badges and approve them before they're used. But that of course would take even more time, and we don't want to delay the progress on Scratch 2.0 even further, do we? If you were thinking that the  Scratch Team would work on this for Scratch 2.0, it is not at all necessary towards the program, so they probably wouldn't until everything else was done first. And I don't think the majority would like waiting a couple of extra days for badges to be finished after waiting for V2.0 for so long. And as others have said before me, Scratch isn't a gaming site, but a programming site. It's just a simple coincidence that most projects are games (in fact, I'm not even entirely sure about that, I don't know if there is a way to check which projects are games and which aren't, but it's likely that games take up a small part of Scratch's 1,000,000+ projects). If you've read this far, congratulations, you have got a wide attention span.

I read all of this, then submitted my own points.  If you read them congrats 2 u 2


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