Bump entry 11:Got orders!
I finally got my first order! Those two projects were fun to rate. I also got my second order! I skimmed through 3 game's sound test's to find those songs. The only song that immediately came to me was The Gatekeepers. Now that I think about it maybe this should have been yesterday's bump entry. Oh well.

That's all for this bump entry, bump you next time!

Bump entry 12:First partner!
I got my first partner a few days ago; TS Shoppe! They have a lot of visual related stuff. Which is good since I don't want to sell art in fear of getting backed up since a sprite shop I have on another site is backed up by 6 months…

Anyway that's all for this bump entry, bump you next time!

Bump entry 13: Free ideas
Here is where I will occasionally post free ideas as bump entries. Feel free to use any of them for your projects
Ideas:
None yet. They will be linked here as I bump with them.

I would like to partner!
Shop name: Scratch Convenience Shop
Shop description: W do most things and if something is not there we will make it. Motto is 'Quality at a Whole New Level
Banner image:

^_^ 

_Lillion_ wrote:

I would like to partner!
Shop name: Scratch Convenience Shop
Shop description: W do most things and if something is not there we will make it. Motto is 'Quality at a Whole New Level
Banner image:

http://i.cubeupload.com/63Nr21.png

Do you mind if I trim your banner a little bit to make it fit 180 in height since I don't want banners getting to big in the partners section. Also would you really add anything that isn't already there? If someone asked you to make them a competitive Digimon World Dusk team could your shop do it?

Bump entry 14: Shopping dictionary
I had my shop added to the fifth shopping dictionary also known as the shopping Plaza! I hope this brings in more orders. Anyway that's all for this bump entry, bump you next time!

Bump entry 15: Review annoyances part 2
This one is more about shops in general. Something that annoys me is when shops bump before finishing their current orders. When you bump you bring up your post, when you bring up you post people who visit the requests page looking for someone to fulfill their request will see it, or in other words I view it as asking for more orders. Why in the world would you ask for more orders when you haven't even finished the ones you already have. I understand if it's a large shop with many workers, and 3 workers have requests to do while 15 others don't, but when you don't even see anyone take current orders that were not outright rejected it is just bad. There are two reasons why this is bad. 1.The people who requested stuff get a notification if they followed the thread, and they might get a little mad if you bump while you haven't completed their orders yet. 2.If more, and more people order your shop gets more, and more backed up until you get to the point where the oldest incomplete order was from 6 months ago. (aka an art shop I have on another site, and I never even bumped it.) Anyway my advice is to bump only when all your current orders are finished, or when only a few members in your shop have orders.

That's all for this bump entry, bump you next time!

Bump entry 16: Bump banner
Well I made a banner for when I get a little lazy about writing a paragraph for a bump entry.

I'm doing this because there are only so many things you can bump about in a shop. I still have about 10 planed bumps left, but I don't want to use them all in one go, and bumping with them usually takes 10+ minutes. Ideas would be difficult to always bump with as they take 30+ minutes to type out, and I have to plan them, or else they will become half baked. Don't worry, I'll still type a sentence, or two while bumping as just typing bump, or just using a picture is really lazy for a thread I am bump entrying in.

That's all for this bump entry, bump you next time!

Bump entry 17:The tittle
You might be wondering why I call my shop Neverending Dreams. This is because I have a big imagination, and ideas will never stop coming from it. I have dreams, and I will not give up on them. They will be with me forever, and I will complete them. In this shop I hope to help other Scratchers reach their dreams by giving them detailed feedback on their projects, and giving them ideas when they need help coming up with them.

That's all for this bump entry, bump you next time!

Well here is a little bump because my shop is on the second page of the requests forums. Anyway here is a tip for adding story to your game when your story is only ever referred to in the description. If your making a story based game go for it, however if your project has a really basic story it might just be making it worse. If your story is stated in the description, and your project never has something that relates to the story; it might make the story seem like a half hearten attempt to have a story. Make sure what you do in your project reflects your story. If your making a platformer where you are suppost to speed run it, don't make the story that you were turned into a square by an evil overlord and you have to stop him, making the story you are trying to set a world record for speed, or trying to win a race as it would make much more sense, and reflects what you are actually doing in the project.

Bump entry 18:First post update
I just updated the first post by making some texts centered, the parts of the forms you should keep blue, and the headers purple. I also updated the tittle a little bit so hopefully that will attract more people. If you have any suggestions for the first post please tell me.
Anyway that's all for this bump entry, bump you next time!

Well I'm bumping late at night. Right now I am playing the most random Pokemon battle so that is good. Anyway I hope to see an order soon!

Good morning world! Here is a little bump to get this day started.

Here goes a bump again since this is off the first page. I feel like I need to make this bump a paragraph long since I bumped 4ish hours ago, or else these bumps will sort of become spam. Anyway I guess I'll talk about limiting the songs you have to avoid the data limit. Songs take up a lot of data in a project, so you should try to limit yourself to how many you have, or else you might go over the data limit. When planing your project try to keep the number of songs you plan to use within 20 songs. Assuming each song takes up 2 mb this will take up 40 mb of your project alone. However thanks to Scratch depression sound files become much smaller than they were originally, so they might not even take up 2 mb. Think about how much of the song is heard. If it is only in cutsences that do not last the entire song consider shortening the song to how much of it you really hear. If you can, and will most of the time end up only hearing 5-10 seconds of a song unless you purposefully stay there just to listen to the song in a part of your project consider using a song that plays in another area of your game(just make sure the two parts are not next to each other), or using said song somewhere else where you will hear more of it. Just remember, as long as your project doesn't hit or gets within 2 mb of the data limit you should be fine.

Now that I think about it this is about as big as a bump entry. Well I'm not making this a bump entry because it has almost nothing to do with my shop, however it is advice on how to make a project better(or just making a project…) which is what reviews do, and reviews have a lot to do with my shop which in a way makes this relevant. Anyway I hope to see some orders soon!

Bump entry 19:List of project making tips
Hello this is were I put the list of bumps where I have I have put a tip on making Scratch projects.
Description only stories.
How to limit the amount of songs you have in a project if you are nearing the data limit.
Bug testing your project.
Credits
Deciding game length
Random encounter engagement comparing


I hope these help you improve your projects!

muellly wrote:

Here goes a bump again since this is off the first page. I feel like I need to make this bump a paragraph long since I bumped 4ish hours ago, or else these bumps will sort of become spam. Anyway I guess I'll talk about limiting the songs you have to avoid the data limit. Songs take up a lot of data in a project, so you should try to limit yourself to how many you have, or else you might go over the data limit. When planing your project try to keep the number of songs you plan to use within 20 songs. Assuming each song takes up 2 mb this will take up 40 mb of your project alone. However thanks to Scratch depression sound files become much smaller than they were originally, so they might not even take up 2 mb. Think about how much of the song is heard. If it is only in cutsences that do not last the entire song consider shortening the song to how much of it you really hear. If you can, and will most of the time end up only hearing 5-10 seconds of a song unless you purposefully stay there just to listen to the song in a part of your project consider using a song that plays in another area of your game(just make sure the two parts are not next to each other), or using said song somewhere else where you will hear more of it. Just remember, as long as your project doesn't hit or gets within 2 mb of the data limit you should be fine.

Now that I think about it this is about as big as a bump entry. Well I'm not making this a bump entry because it has almost nothing to do with my shop, however it is advice on how to make a project better(or just making a project…) which is what reviews do, and reviews have a lot to do with my shop which in a way makes this relevant. Anyway I hope to see some orders soon!

OK?

Whitetiger456 wrote:

muellly wrote:

Here goes a bump again since this is off the first page. I feel like I need to make this bump a paragraph long since I bumped 4ish hours ago, or else these bumps will sort of become spam. Anyway I guess I'll talk about limiting the songs you have to avoid the data limit. Songs take up a lot of data in a project, so you should try to limit yourself to how many you have, or else you might go over the data limit. When planing your project try to keep the number of songs you plan to use within 20 songs. Assuming each song takes up 2 mb this will take up 40 mb of your project alone. However thanks to Scratch depression sound files become much smaller than they were originally, so they might not even take up 2 mb. Think about how much of the song is heard. If it is only in cutsences that do not last the entire song consider shortening the song to how much of it you really hear. If you can, and will most of the time end up only hearing 5-10 seconds of a song unless you purposefully stay there just to listen to the song in a part of your project consider using a song that plays in another area of your game(just make sure the two parts are not next to each other), or using said song somewhere else where you will hear more of it. Just remember, as long as your project doesn't hit or gets within 2 mb of the data limit you should be fine.

Now that I think about it this is about as big as a bump entry. Well I'm not making this a bump entry because it has almost nothing to do with my shop, however it is advice on how to make a project better(or just making a project…) which is what reviews do, and reviews have a lot to do with my shop which in a way makes this relevant. Anyway I hope to see some orders soon!

OK?

I just wrote a paragraph with a tip when making projects, because I felt it would better than just staying the word bump, or bumping with just a picture.

Genre of project: A long (About 8 minutes) animation!
Characters in project: (I'll just include the main ones, (these an not faires that I made up but some/many parts of there character are made up.))
The main characters:

Stella: She has light based powers, and she likes fashion
Roxy: She has animal based powers and enjoys reading and taking care of animals.
Darcy: She has darkness and illusion based powers (she is not evil and is really nice) she loves to dance and also enjoys coding and fashion.
Tecna: She has technology based powers and enjoys Scratch and computer science.
Bloom: She has fire based powers (She is also not evil) she really enjoys art.
Aisha: She has water based powers and she can make objects out of a magical substance, she loves sports and dancing.
Musa: She has music based powers and she like music and singing
Flora: She has plant based powers and she enjoys gardening

Antagonists (These are not looking for world domination, there just not really nice to the winx club and there Friends):
Mitzi: She has wind based powers and loves to to play video games.
Diaspro: She has gem based powers and likes to go mining.
Chimera: She has emotion based powers and thinks that swimming and diving are really fun.

Friends (These are friends of the Winx Club):
Silicya: She as glass based powers and adores writing poetry.
Ahisa: She has love based powers and loves to make animations with scratch.
Clarice: She has opposite and fire based powers and likes magic.
Echo: She has music based powers she like playing the violin and composing music.
Krystal: She has plant and healing based powers and likes playing volleyball and plants.
Eleanor: She has food based powers and likes cooking.
Any ideas you already have for your project: I would like an idea for an episode staring Darcy, Tecna, Aisha or Flora which ever one you want to make the main character of the project, also please no romance, thank you!
Anything else: I did not make these characters and might modify it a bit or I might never finish the episode but thank you so much for reading all of this and helping me

I would like to partner!
Shop name: Spellcasters Shop https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/topic/275123/
Shop description:I would like it to say my shop name. We sell banners, logos, art and debugging.
Banner imageLink to the image for your banner here)

@-Darcy-
The animation starts off with Darcy, Aisha and Flora walking to a restaurant for lunch. They all sit down at a table. They start looking at the menus. Darcy spots in the specials page in the menu an advertisement for a competition at Mt.Vodtop which starts at two o'clock. After the waiters bring everyone their drinks Darcy tells Aisha and Flora about the competition, Aisha thinks it will be fun, and Flora thinks it's a nice way to spend the afternoon.

After they are done their conversation a time skip happens to the base of Mt.Vodtop just before the competition starts. The competition is a race to the top of the mountain with three trials along the way. This competition consists of teams of three. Along the way teams must complete 3 challenges with their being badges at the end of the challenges teams have to collect to make sure they did the challenges. Mitzi goes up to Darcy, Aisha and Flora and says “Have fun… losing!”, Mitzi walks off chanting that her team with Diaspro, and Chimera will win.

The referee starts the race, and everyone starts running up the mountain. The first challenge is a path with glowing tiles, and all three teammates have to step on the glowing tiles in a order to make the badge appear. The way this is set up someone could do this 3 times to make the badge appear. Darcy, and Aisha do this with ease since it is sort of like dancing which is something they like to do. Flora struggles with this challenge. Aisha gives Flora some guidance. Flora tries again, and she completes it. The badge appears, Aisha grabs it, and they start to run the next leg of the race.
Meanwhile Mitzi, Diaspro, and Chimera get to the first challenge. Diaspro, and Chimera do it first try, however Mitzi keeps messing it up. Diaspro asks Mitzi if there is anything she can do to stop failing this challenge. Mitzi using her power of wind creates a cloud/gust of wind to carry her over the glowing tiles, and praises herself for thinking of that. Chimera sitting down with her legs crossed tells Diaspro do to the challenge again so they can just get the badge already. Diaspro says “fine” and flies(if she has wings)/walks back to the beginning, and goes the challenge again. Mitzi grabs the badge, and they start running the second leg of the race.

The second challenge is a gem hunt where the badges are hidden on the back of rubies which a sign at the entrance of the cave states. Diaspro's team gets there, and Diaspro finds the ruby with the badge within a matter of seconds using her gem powers. Darcy, Aisha and Flora arrive at the second challenge. Diaspro bumps into Darcy, and Diaspro starts up a verbal fight. The fight could be about how much of a cluz Darcy is for bumping into her, how much Diaspro thinks the members of the Winx club are losers, or really anything you think would be fitting. How big the verbal fight gets is up to you. After the fight is over Chimera, Mitzi and Diaspro walk off to do the third leg of the race.
Aisha, Flora and Darcy start looking for a ruby with a badge on it. Darcy comes across two hermit crabs with sparkly red shells that she thinks are rubies. She grabs the ruby like crab to her right examines it, and while she is the crab on the left craws over to the right, she puts the crab down to her left then this repeats 2-3 times. She says “Wait a minute,” as both crabs craw away. Flora looks along the cave walls. She finds a plant with a ruby on the center of it. She takes the ruby, and finds the badge on the back of it. Flora tells her friends, and they start running to the next challenge.

The next challenge is a knowledge challenge where you have to whisper the answer to a riddle. A unidentifiable creature asks “What am I?”, everyone struggles with it getting right. Darcy gets the idea of looking it up online. Aisha says that would be cheating, and they would never cheat. The camera shows all of the other teams looking it up on their phones, then pans over to Darcy who is, also looking it up on her phone. Darcy gets the question correct, which the answer is ‘A question’ the creature gives her a badge, and all the teams start running to the last leg of the race.

Part of the final leg you have to swim. Chimera is thrilled by this, and gleefully starts swimming ahead of everyone else. Darcy is caught off guard by there being a part where you have to swim, and goes slower than normal. She is falling behind when a rock slide happens cutting her off from everyone else, leaving the only path going into a cave. The waterway ends letting Darcy walk around the cave. She talks to herself asking if anyone is there. Her talking awakes a mountain lion who is cranky from being awoken. Darcy tries to hide herself with her illusion powers, however the lion is thrashing around angry giving the threat of a cave in.
Meanwhile Chimera is lost in another part of the same cave. She swam to fast, and took a wrong turn leaving her stuck in this cave. She steps on a tiger's tail by mistake, and the tiger starts chasing her. She tries to use her powers of emotion she tries to calm the tiger down. While it stops the tiger for a moment, but the tiger gets angry at the sight of Chimera when they remember what she did to them. Chimera, and Darcy run into each other. Darcy tells Chimera that they have to work together to get through this. Chimera asks why should she help Darcy? Darcy tries to hold off the lion, and tiger with her illusion powers however the cave is still being viciously shooken. Chimera finally realizes the how grave the situation is, and if she doesn't help Darcy they will both go down. Chimera uses her powers to make the Lion and Tiger calm, then the two animals walk away. Darcy thanks Chimera for helping out. Chimera shrugs, and says it is no big deal.
Together they walk to the finish line, and the race ends as a tie. If you think it is suiting for her character Chimera could suddenly start running just before the finish lines making her team win. If the race ends as a tie Diaspro could be mad at why in the world Chimera crossed the finish line with Darcy while Mitzi is disappointed she only came in a tie for first place. If Chimera ditches Darcy last second Diaspro and Mitzi will be happy they won the race. Flora asks where what happened to Darcy after the rock slide, and Darcy explains what happened. Aisha gets mad at Chimera ditching Darcy last second if she did. Darcy, Flora and Aisha thought the race was fun, and was glad they participated. The end.


Well that is my idea and I hope you like it. If you want it to be longer you could make Darcy, Flora, and Aisha talk to some of the other teams before the race begins which would be made up of the Winx's friends. You could also have them talk when they are looking for gems.