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Download "Storyteller (a proje…"(5 sprites and 5 scripts) and open it in Scratch Project Notes
This is a project designed to promote discussion and imagination and is meant for use by parents or teachers with younger children. It is NOT a game. The structure is such that you could easily adapt or extend it if you wanted to. If Scratch had better text-handling options, it would be possible to take this idea MUCH further. It would be a lot easier to do this if you could create a bank of statements in Scratch and select from them at random.. That's the system I used with the HTML version.
The original version of this project was written in HTML for use with my classes and had banks of between 100 and 200 statements per line, so the randomising element made repetitions MUCH less frequent. In Scratch I can't combine blocks to make unbroken sentences or paragraphs, which is what I did with the HTML version.
Press Space to run the test - at the moment there are only five statements per line so don't expect Charles Dickens or Joseph Heller !!!
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Thanks dragonfireB - that, of course, is the whole and only purpose of something like this. Shame I couldn't replicate the original HTML version where the range of possible combinations ran into millions - but this little experiment would be easy for someone to adapt if they wanted to.
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very nice! really got me thinking a about what happens next.
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That's really cool!
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Thanks Jens. As I said in the notes, it was just an experiment to see how far Scratch could be used to emulate the original HTML program. This works - but it took much longer to do. However, it can easily be adapted.
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This is a truly inspirational project, but it also unbares some shortcomings (?) of Scratch, mainly the absence of collections (strings, arrays). I love the idea, though. Especially I enjoy projects with some 'real' art to them, like this!
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Thanks Mayhem. The placing of the sprites is very basic because in these experiments I haven't used x and y to place them. I'll probably revise and update in the next couple of weeks. That will mean I can just have a text line that is easily accessible in the editing window whereas at present they change position.
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Vis the project - very nice. Good use of costumes (I treid somethign similar and couldn't get it to work properly, mayby I needed to use 2 digit costume names as well), remarkably simple application for what it does. Neat and elegant.
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If you are logged in, you can edit your online project notes by clicking on them - but be aware (unless its been fixed) that doing so will make every "return" into two returns, so if you have spaced out your paragraphs they will suddenly have very large gaps between...
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Actually, there are FIVE statements per line - but it didn't seem worth trying to upload again just to alter that comment in the project notes.
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