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You are now the proud owner of a family of highly caffeinated rodents! What can you do with them? You can study their habits by turning on the mouse trails...or you can try to isolate them by using your mouse to draw new walls. Or, you can just watch them scurry around.
Controls:
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Use the mouse to draw your own walls
"T" key - Turn on/off mouse trails
"P" key - Pause/Unpause the mice
"Space" key - Clear screen
Right Arrow - Next background
What is this?
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Thanks to DrMath and his wonderful "Boundaries" project, I got to thinking about little critters bumping off of walls and ways to keep them from getting stuck. I remembered the old "Return to Last Good Position" technique and decided to apply it to some mice. I tried to think up a game...but really couldn't come with anything that fun. So I thought I would repackage them as mobile art and see what you guys could come up with :)
The mice are very robust...they should not get stuck unless you draw a new black line right on top of them (that confuses them!). Sometimes they get stuck when you change the background...not sure why that is happening yet.
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such intricate patterns...
mouse graffiti!
the white one and the grey one just mated
oh no! the're stuck together!
Fun to watch.
wow, this is fun! You don't really have games, but your projects always seem to have something addicting. I just let the mice go and they filled up the whole screen with colors!!
Thanks! Yeah, good games take a lot of detailed planning - I don't usually have the patience :)
epic win lolz. this reminds me of a comic strip i drew once...
wth
So interesting!
AWESOME job!!
I have another question I made this game and then I pressed share and then I pressed ok button after. It said Failed:serialization: buffer too small for compressed data. What does that mean?
You're getting "invalid user or password" now? Make sure you are not making any typing errors and that the Caps Lock key isn't on or something. If that doesn't work...maybe you've got something illegal in the project name? Just a guess...
(view all replies)When you go to share a project, a screen pops up letting you type in your username and password along with tags and so on. In the lower left corner there is a small box labeled "Compress Sounds and Images" and it shows up already checked. You need to make sure that box is NOT checked before you share.
(view all replies)Hmmm. I've never had that not work before...the Compress Sounds and Images box is NOT checked, right? Have you been able to share any other projects?
(view all replies)That's a bug that shows up from time to time. The only workaround that I know is to make sure that the "Compress sounds and images" box is NOT checked before you share. It's a pain but there you are.
(view all replies)paddle2see I have a question check out my project ladybug (it uses your scripts)and download it and somehow if I make two ladybugs the whole thing doesnt work and the same with my defend your castle project. Can you help me?
The easiest way to switch a variable from Visible by all sprites to Visible by only one sprite is to delete the variable, then make it again with exactly the same name (but click on the other type). Saving the project then helps it sort out what is going on and usually the scripts will work okay.
I took a look at Ladybug (very cute, by the way) and one thing I noticed is that all your variables are visible to all sprites. That means when you change the value anywhere, all sprites see the same value. I usually use variables that can only be seen by one sprite for sprites that are going to be duplicated, so they can have a different value for each sprite. An exception is variables that are used to communicate to all the sprites. Hope that helps some...
(view all replies)Now they have a remix :)
If you draw a spiral shaped maze, they are inclined to go more into the depth of central areas than to open areas...
Interesting...I wonder why that is? I believe the direction is random, without preference. I'll have to think on that!
(view all replies)I have made another project on a Myth and Physics (link to project) I hope you like it, Thank you very much, Regards, Ahaan.
Hmmm... Yes, personalities would be great on this! It would make it cooler than it already is! I'm easily amused, but this game rocks. You could add more mice, too. Some could be friends, some could hate each other, and maybe some can love each other. Yeah, personalities would be great.
Here's what I did: I studied which ones stayed together for long periods of time, and then I isolated them from the rest, to see if they got along, or if they would fight. Great game!
If they were fighting, I made them a SMALLER space, closer together! >:D
(view all replies)Hello can i used this idea to make a project? And of coarse I will give credit
Of course! Please help yourself to any of my stuff.
I don't know why, but i've been mesmerised playing this for ages. Employing different techniques to control my minions. muahaha! lol
I'm glad you are enjoying your new pets! Check out the remix by Cmuriel as well, it's a lot of fun.
Neat idea, i managed to trap them all in a super small space =)
i accidentally touched one with the wall maker, and it got stuck like a fly on a sticky thread... It was very distressing to watch it wriggle frantically like that... They should be able to chew their way free from situations like that...!
Yeah...that was an accidental "feature" based on the way the wall bouncing logic worked. Maybe I can fix it...
im gonna try this one day....once a family of mice got stuck in my basement (EEEEEEEEEKKKK!) we captured them and set em free in a forest!
ha i love it i also love mice..my mom once did a project in high school and put mice coffee and beer (: lol
they got drunk and hyper
lol so funny love it! :D
there all stuck!!! LOL
lol, how much coffee did you give them?
Lots :)
u can drag the mice
Hmmm. Not sure if I want that feature. I may have to update it. Thanks!
(view all replies)Try to make all the rodents go into the lower right corner it's quite hard! I like these projects with no rules, you are free to do what you want!!
...and thanks for the comment!
That's a fun thing to try - very difficult! I like the less structured projects too :)
HOW MUCH GALLONS OF COFFEE DID THEY DRINK????!!!!
It wouldn't have to be all that much...since they are so small :)
(view all replies)Maybe it was Coke?
(view all replies)pimp
Sorry...what does that mean?
nice
Cool game! I paused them and drew lines on top of each one and then I unpaused them and they were just squirming around! XD
sorry about the stupid tag that was my brother
its been about 5 mins nd they r still doing it! WOOOOOOOO
this is cool they like colored around he circles!
hey i have a question about downloading scratch could u plz tell me if it gives u computer a virus? and how 2 use
No viruses that I've heard about. How to use...that's a big topic. Look under the Help menu after you download it...it'll get you started :)
(view all replies)CLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
its awesome they color their areas its so cool!
Hah! I trapped all the mice in different rooms by drawing!
You're administrator? Hey it looks cooler now and the red one is just stuck! Awesome I'm on the circles background and they colored around it it's so cool!
Um...I expected more from you.
You get what you pay for :)
and also could u just tell me where to please download 1.4?
Sure..you can read this forum post and it will tell you how to do it. It's not the final release yet but it's got some cool new features. (link to forums)
(view all replies)hey umm paddle2see i havent been on in like 6 months and im confused, how do i download scratch 1.4? all i can downlod is 1.3.1, and whats differnt in scratch 1.4?
Hey Paddle2See. I really need you. Aren't you a Scratch Moderator/Admin? if you are, can you please explain why ChezMarine1 got banned for a picture he put online? Please reply! I need to know now before I get so mad and quit!
It wasn't the picture that was the problem...so much as the text that went along with it (that was deleted) as I understand it.
(view all replies)As it was explained to me (and I did ask), the 3 day block seemed an appropriate response to the offense.
(view all replies)All I can say is that there was a violation of the Terms of Use that led (initially) to a 3 day block on his/her account. I don't know what has happened after that, it's being handled by other team members.
(view all replies)WHOHO! great!
Hey, do you mind if I take a sprite from this for an AI?
No, not at all...just give credit somewhere :)
AGain its GREAT
(link to project) could you take a look at my math game?
lol the yellow one looks likes its peeing lol
sniff the red one looks like its bleeding NOOO rats hahhaa
im gonna improve this, ok? Its gonna be a thing where the mice are scuttleing around, and they can become enemies. also they can become mates, and they have stats. You can feed them, and they each have roome. There are boys and girls, so its gonna be like a mating program.
Sounds interesting!
lol i have made the purple and brown ones jailmates, also with the white and grey ones. The red and yellow ones are police :)
I HAVE SUCCEEDED IN TRAPPING THE EVIL MICE!!!! lol
You should read the warriors serries
I should! What's the best book to get started?
(view all replies)cool you can drag them too.
I like to make mazes to test their intelligence, and I like to put them in solitary confinement when they fail the maze.:D
That will encourage them to better efforts - jk :)
I locked them in seperate rooms....
SAME
same
(view all replies)Really funny game paddle2see
I figured out a game you could do-- there's a game where there are balls that bounce around and you click in various places to draw lines across the screen to close the balls in. if the balls hit a line while you're drawing it then you lose. that would be cool
Cool idea! I'm not sure how I would sense if something hit the line I was currently drawing though. I can certainly sense when a line is hit...and I could figure out if I was drawing at the time. But how to tell if the line that was touched was the line I was drawing? Unless I use a different color for each line maybe...something to think about :)
(view all replies)LOL I try to trap the mice in little rooms I almost did it but I couldn't get the purple one
i tried to do that!
(view all replies)I mamged to do it
(view all replies)youre really good at scrath