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Hello Scratchers! I need your help. I am looking for examples of remixing that you like. You can help by posting links or references to remixes that you think are interesting and explain why.

To organize things, I came up with these 7 remixing categories.

Could you think of examples for each category?

Could you think of other categories?


Here are the types of remixing that I’ve seen:



Incremental Remixing

A remix in the Incremental category resembles its original project quite a bit... but you can tell there are some differences such as bug fixes, improvements or changes intended to personalize the project.

Examples:
- Remix replaces costumes and backgrounds from the original project to make it personal or just different.
- Remix adds/removes a few sprites, costumes or sounds to the original project.
- Remix adds a variable to keep score for a game that did not keep score.
- Remix fixes a bug of a project.
- Remix makes a project faster, slower, easier or harder by tweaking the programming blocks.

Component Remixing

Component remixes tend to be quite different from the original because they only reuse components, such as sprites, costumes or sounds. In this category, the remixer takes pieces or components of a project to create a new one.

Examples:
- Remix reuses some of the sprites that come with Scratch, like “jetpack girl” and others.
- Remix uses a sprite someone else made and shared from Scratch Resources.
- Remix uses some programming blocks found on another project, the Scratch Wiki or elsewhere.
- Remix reuses costumes or sounds from another project.

Restructure Remixing

This is the type of remixing where it is not obvious what parts of the original project are still in the remix. Remixes in this category tend to be very different from their original.

Examples:
- Someone downloads a project and changes it completely, the code and images are almost all different from the original but it keeps some of the original ideas.
- Someone downloads a project with the goal of making a few changes but ends up recreating the whole thing.

Inspirational Remixing

Inspirational remixing happens at the idea level. Remixes in this category happen when only the idea is remixed, not the actual pieces of another project.

Examples:
- Creating a game inspired by a popular commercial video game.
- Creating a project inspired by another Scratcher’s project.
- Using someone’s art or programming techniques.
- Creating a character inspired by the style of someone else’s character, for example people who created Tokis inspired by Maki-Tak’s character.


Group Remixing

Groups or collaborations often build projects together by sharing and remixing each other’s projects as they collaborate. This type of remixing typically involves a specific group of people who have agreed to work together.

Examples:
- Remixing as part of collab project like Gray Bear Productions.

Crowd Remixing

Crowd remixes involve many people remixing a particular project. Typically the creator of the original project encourages people to remix, by giving specific instructions on what she or he expects the remixes should have. Sometimes the creator intends to start a remix chain, as in the “Add yourself...” projects, an sometimes the creator just wants remixes off the original, as in a “Coloring contest”.

Examples:
- Add yourself...
- Remix and answer the questions
- Sign if you care about X
- Coloring contests
- Auditioning for voices or characters
- Art contests

Self Remixing

A lot of us have done this. We share a project on the website and then we create a new version of it. This often says something like “Shared by X. Based on X.” 

Examples:
- Remixing from a test account.
- Versioning (I still wonder why people create multiple projects for each version rather than just upload with the same name)

Clones

Some would argue that cloning or copying a project without making any changes is not really a remix, in fact, some people think this is inappropriate. In general I would agree that it does not add much but I could imagine some cases where this could be valid remix. For example:

- To learn or test the upload process. I often see newcomers that remix projects that come with Scratch without changing anything. This sometimes seems to be part of the learning process.
- As a way to preserve someone else’s project.
- To spread an idea or intersting project. We see this often in YouTube where people want to share segments of movies or TV shows. Could the same happen on Scratch?
- To annoy others? :-)

Note: The last two categories (self remixing and cloning) are not necessarily forms of remixing, but I decided to include them because they often carry the “Based on” statement and because I thought it is possible there could be generate some interesting examples that I have not thought about.


Do you have examples of any of the these categories?


I know the front page has a whole row of top remixes, but these often only include the category that I call “Crowd Remixes.” I think those remixes are great because a lot of people like them and start using Scratch that way. But those are only one type of remixing. I am interested in getting more examples of the other types I describe above. Any favorite examples you can share?

To start off, here is an illustrated story that starts with a project by Kaydoodle. If you have a story like this, please share it with us and we’ll create a similar diagram. I hope you like it!




TL;DR: Please post examples of remixes you like. We could even make illustrate it if it's a compelling story, like the one above.