2016 Scratch April Fools' Day Joke: "Video Games!" [UPDATED]

PrincessPanda_test_

Since Scratch is mostly used for creating video games, why not make the April Fools' Day theme of 2016 video games? There could be a joke language called “Video Games”. In that language, the website is filled with stuff from famous video game franchises such as Mario and Sonic.

EDIT: Now updated.

Last edited by PrincessPanda_test_ (Feb. 1, 2016 21:39:31)

rollercoasterfan

Sounds cool! I support.

Pot-of-Gold

rollercoasterfan wrote:
Sounds cool! I support.

DaSpudLord

Pot-of-Gold wrote:
rollercoasterfan wrote:
Sounds cool! I support.

scrooge200

Support! What about “explore” is “play” and “create” is “program”!

dude341

scrooge200 wrote:
Support! What about “explore” is “play” and “create” is “program”!

That's actually what they should do forever. It makes more sense.

PrincessPanda_test_

scrooge200 wrote:
Support! What about “explore” is “play” and “create” is “program”!

Nah, I think “Create” should be “Start Gaming”, “Explore” as “Gaming World”, “Discuss” as “Gaming Talk”, and “Help” as “Gaming Manual”.

DaSpudLord

PrincessPanda_test_ wrote:
scrooge200 wrote:
Support! What about “explore” is “play” and “create” is “program”!
Nah, I think “Create” should be “Start Gaming”, “Explore” as “Gaming World”, “Discuss” as “Gaming Talk”, and “Help” as “Gaming Manual”.

Perhaps we should shorten the names, like-
“Create” becomes “Start” (Like how video games asked you to press start to begin playing)
“Explore” becomes “Gaming World” (I can't think of a way to shrink that one)
“Discuss” becomes “Chat”(?)
“Help” becomes “Manual”

ChocolatePi

I think this is too far off to make plans for, and if we try to choose one now it will just ruin the surprise.

TheHockeyist

No support. We have way too many fake languages already. Eventually, we'll be crowding out the real languages.

Cosmicstars-

No support as per above

matey1234

Pot-of-Gold wrote:
rollercoasterfan wrote:
Sounds cool! I support.

CatsUnited

ChocolatePi wrote:
I think this is too far off to make plans for, and if we try to choose one now it will just ruin the surprise.

No Support as per this.
If we kept on doing fake languages, there'll be more fake languages than real languages in ~2070 if no other real ones are added.

PrincessPanda_test_

Updated post.

NoxSpooth

TheHockeyist wrote:
No support. We have way too many fake languages already. Eventually, we'll be crowding out the real languages.

IronBit_Studios

NS as above.

mathfreak231

there's really no interesting gamer talk to use here…

ev3coolexit987654

support

CatsUnited

PrincessPanda_test_ wrote:
EDIT 2: WHY DOES EVERYONE HATE THIS IDEA?!

It's because if you do a joke/prank to someone, the first time it's unique and unexpected. The second time it gets done, it's not as unexpected and can be boring. If we keep on doing fake languages, the people who have been on Scratch for a long time will just keep on thinking that it's going to be another fake language.

PrincessPanda_test_

Can you please read my first edit?

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