Scratch

People probably missed my earlier post, so I'll post this again:

I'd really appreciate if you could try a few projects in my user study:
http://kagu.media.mit.edu:54321/

Thanks!
-Ken

awesome idea.

it would help alot of new scratchers to understand what each script does, instead looking at it blankly and thinging "urm.....k"

maybe you could make a script library, sort of like Flash's Object library.

you could drag scripts into a little window, and re-use them as much as you like.

cant wait for the next version of scratch 

illusionist wrote:

Tell me what you think about this!

Wow, I will try those comment thingys!

I like it. my friend left scratch because they never had anuff time to make the projects.

(to much homework)

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Chrischb wrote:

How do you publish your scripting? Because some false scripts could be sent in, and that would mean trouble.

Maybe it could be like a project thing, only with scripts? That way, people could flag the bad ones and give loveits to the good ones!

This is a really cool idea!

I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned this yet, but what if it grabbed the scripts directly off Scratch Resources?

dav09 wrote:

well im not sure if this will happen! Is it already made?Is scratch 1.5 coming out in November?

its called scratch 2.0

How would you stop people from putting tags on random scripts? Like someone could have a script for a sprite to move 5 steps, then change costume, and they set that script as gravity.

This is a really old topic. Is the idea still open? 
I generally don't use small chunks of scripts from other projects, mostly because if they were general enough to fit my project, and yet specific enough to not be easier to make than to find, they would probably be a huge engine like a scrolling engine or 3D engine, or almost the entire scripting from a project I'm remixing.

So I don't know how helpful this idea would be. Because basically:
If it's a short script that's easy to make, it'd be easier to make it than to search for it.
If it's a long script that's easy to make (most of the time this means a bunch of text, variable use, or tons of if-then statements), it's probably going to be too general to fit any particular project well besides those made specifically with that script in mind.
If it's a long script that's hard to make, and yet fits your project, it's probably one of those things you'd base your project on like a scrolling engine, so it'd be more efficient to have a copy of a sprite containing it saved in a core folder on your computer used for saving Scratch stuff, for easy importing (and even then you'd need to tweak it, for example to add torchlight or water, etc.).

So that leaves short scripts that are hard or annoying to make (for example, repeated use of the Law of Cosines or finding the coordinates of the circumcenter of a given triangle, which need a ton of annoying operations and variables), and easy lookup-imports would be good for those. Also, when I was talking about long scripts, I overlooked the fact that there could perhaps be a few people who have made a project very similar to yours, so in that case you can find something specific to use in your project (but then again you would probably remix.)

Overall evaluation: neat idea, and in some cases would be good to use, but may not be worth the effort it takes to implement.