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Okay — I've finished going through all but one of the minigames (haven't done Japan yet - no particular reason), fixing a few bugs and tweaking them to make them easier for merging later. I've uploaded them all under a "Ready for Merging" folder. If you make any changes to the minigames, then please, please, please update these new versions, not the ones in the "Updated Projects" folder — it will make it so much easier when merging the projects together.

(In fact, in theory, you should be able to start a new Scratch project, go "Import Project" for each of the minigames under the "Ready for Merging", and then play them all independently — I haven't tried it yet, but it should work, with maybe just a bit of effort. And this basically means that linking them together is really, really easy.)

The Brazil game felt like it needed more visual feedback, (yes, seriously; despite the massive flashing letters saying "GOAL!") so I made the football glide to the red dot — I hope that's okay.

Last edited by blob8108 (2011-08-12 10:55:46)

Hey, I had some trouble playing the cricket game. 1.) I couldn't see the ball. 2.) The Score automatically goes up. I'm not sure if this is the updated version or not, so could you tell me?

Last edited by ads98 (2011-08-12 11:13:44)

ads98 wrote:

Hey blob8108, I just remembered something that will save us a lot of time in the long run. I noticed, when importing a project, the position of a sprite is not always where it should be. This, however, can easily be fixed. All you have to do is 'when flag clicked, go to x y.' Well, by looking at our original projects, I notcied there weren't many of those blocks or scripts. Sense you updated most of the projects, I am asking you if you did this to any sprites that did not already have that script?

You're right! That is a problem, and I updated most of the sprites, I think. Those that I forgot to, I'm sure I'll find when I try "Import Project" for each minigame...

Last edited by blob8108 (2011-08-12 11:27:46)

I need someone to draw the judges. I can't.

Oh blob8108, I almost forgot to tell you, we were modeling the india game off of the Cricket: Defend The Wicket Game on miniclip. Obviously, we did not add a player, seeing as that would be too complicated to make. We also did not use their scoring mechanism. However, I think we should add a script that says, when the ball hits the black area, the game should be over. I think we should also limit the number of balls thrown to like 10. This may make it harder, but right now, the game seems to free flowing. I'm sorry to ask so much of you. I can be of any assistance if needed.

ads98 wrote:

Hey, I had some trouble playing the cricket game. 1.) I couldn't see the ball. 2.) The Score automatically goes up. I'm not sure if this is the updated version or not, so could you tell me?

Okay, it should be fixed now. Could you check it works now? 

I'll do those other things later... Maybe after I do Japan...

When you "Import Project", it messes up all the variables.

*FACEPALM*

ads98 wrote:

blob8108 wrote:

When you "Import Project", it messes up all the variables.

*FACEPALM*

Oh No! How so?

Take Canada as an example. I go "Import Project", seems to work fine... but then the "Time" variable isn't decreasing, and the "Leaves" variable isn't increasing.

I need to check this, but the solution appears to involve deleting each variable and making them again, and then replacing all the "set variable", "change variable" and "variable" blocks. Or (hopefully) just a part of the above.

Right, I've merged Brazil and Canada, saved to Dropbox under "The Project". Much work left to do, and I need to import the other 4 at some point, but there we go. The variable thing is a real pain. I'll merge the others later/when they're finished.

Stuff left to do, as I see it:
• find a background for India/the cricket minigame
• add scoring and game over to India
• finish Japan
• make Japan "Ready for Merging" (I'll probably do this)
• improve France (could we add more of a story, maybe?)

There might be other stuff, too...

Last edited by blob8108 (2011-08-12 13:32:31)

Servine wrote:

blob8108 wrote:

When you "Import Project", it messes up all the variables.

The quickest way to fix all of this is to just import, and then SAVE. quit, then open, it'll work!

It works perfectly. Thanks!

Brazil, Canada and Romania are now merged. For the others:

• India/cricket still needs a background and scoring
• France needs some finishing

Once these are done, let me know, and I'll merge them in.

I'll update Japan now, ready for merging, and hopefully merge it with the others.

Once this is done, all that remains is to add the plot in, linking the minigames together with some kind of story, including the animations between minigames. This can just use "when I recieve <end country>: do some story; blah blah blah; broadcast <country>", so it'll be easy enough to do.

blob8108 wrote:

Japan is now updated and tweaked and merged in with the others. So:

Brazil, Canada, Romania and Japan are now merged.

• India/cricket still needs a background and scoring
• France needs some finishing

Once these are done, let me know, and I'll merge them in.

Wonderful, I think this is going to turn out great! My only suggestions are make a variable that detects if you have won a game. Therefore, our games will have some kind of chronological order, and won't be able to play one game over, and over. Right now, I will be adding a our team earth logo watermark to the merged file.

Remember everyone, our ROUGH DRAFT has to be finished by the 15th. We do not have to have EVERYTHING finished, but our main ideas need to be in place.

Hey blob8108, I came up with a scoring mechanism for the cricket game based on the Cricket: Defend the Wicket Game on Miniclip. I have added variables called Runs and S/Rate, and Score. The Run is the added number of 'zones' the ball has hit. The S/Rate is the Runs/How Many Times The Ball Was Hit. The Score equals Runs times the S/Rate. The Score must be over 100 to win. How do you like it?

ads98 wrote:

Wonderful, I think this is going to turn out great! My only suggestions are make a variable that detects if you have won a game. Therefore, our games will have some kind of chronological order, and won't be able to play one game over, and over.

The "End <country>" scripts are only triggered after you win that game.

ads98 wrote:

Right now, I will be adding a our team earth logo watermark to the merged file.

The watermark messed up some of the games — such as the canada game, where the leaf scripts say "if touching <basket colour>" — so I left it out for now.