I absolutely support this idea! I think it would make so many projects more organized and easier to reverse engineer.

I think the main idea was good, but I don't like the idea of parent and child scenes. That seems too confusing for the majority of Scratchers who haven't ever seen other game engines with this feature. Instead, I think that Scratchers should be able to allow a variable to go across all scenes. There would be a checkbox when you create a variable that says “across all scenes”. Cloud variables would by default go across all scenes. Having variables and lists like that would provide workarounds for all the confusing parent/child scene options, and Scratch would maintain its overall simplicity.

The discussion here has talked a lot about scenes being like “different projects” all in one, but I think that if they were implemented like that, then projects would become very confusing to code. If there are multiple scenes in one project, I think that the background should stay the same, and only sprites are affected by scenes. As suggested by its name, the background isn't supposed to be a main part of projects, and I think that it would be good if it always stays behind everything. Other game engines don't have it like this, but Scratch doesn't need to be the same.

Also, I like the idea of the “current scene” block, but more like the costume reporter, it needs to have name or number.

(scene [name v] :: #3CB371)
(scene [number v] :: #3CB371)

And because no one has displayed them yet:

next scene :: #3CB371

previous scene :: #3CB371

Also, I don't like the idea of “pausing” the current scene, and the restart {scene} block doesn't make sense to me. I propose this block:

restart current scene:: #3CB371

I'm also a little confused on how the starting scene would be selected when you start the project. Would it start on the first scene always, or would a Scratcher have to save the project on the correct starting scene as they would for a thumbnail or an unset variable?

Overall, I think this is a great idea, but it has many holes and unanswered questions right now.

I'm not sure if anyone mentioned this already but this is actually available in Game Froot. Game Fruit is very similar to scratch but a little bit more advanced.

Surpport!

Matjam02 wrote:

Surpport!

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Scenes are probably one of the most used features in the Unity Game Engine, it would be great to have that in Scratch and not need a bunch of messy variables and broadcasts.

It could be done by linking to an unlisted separate scratch project

thehumbleonion wrote:

It could be done by linking to an unlisted separate scratch project

that's not a very good alternative

Support! You won’t have to load or levels weirdly. The workaround takes a lot of time and is messy. To those who said it’s easy to just reset, it depends on the game. For a menu and an arcade game, yea sure. Your right, but for a multi level story game? It’s a lot harder.

Support if it's something similar to what is getting released in Snap! 7.0 I hate having to hide 30+ sprites in a OS project project with multiple apps, this would help a lot.

So basically multiple stages?
No support, use backdrops for each scene and use lists to determine which backdrop goes in which scene.

No support, this is already implemented, in the form of stages. On default, sprites will appear and act the same no matter what the stage backdrop is, but it's possible using a few blocks, to change that.

ScolderCreations wrote:

No support, this is already implemented, in the form of stages. On default, sprites will appear and act the same no matter what the stage backdrop is, but it's possible using a few blocks, to change that.

Di… did you even read anything in this discussion?

Support! it would make it much easier to make games and stories on scratch.
this would have the advantage of using the block

when backdrop switches to [ v]

because each scene could have more background. it would certainly make the code clearer.

100% +1 support!

Despite being work around able (apparently) I could see a perfectly good use of this feature! In fact, it reminds me how you are able to set up new frames in Clickteam Fusion, and they came in very handy!

NMario84 wrote:

100% +1 support!

Despite being work around able (apparently) I could see a perfectly good use of this feature! In fact, it reminds me how you are able to set up new frames in Clickteam Fusion, and they came in very handy!

Dunno about what Clickteam but I'm too lazy to type on why I support


Support for the above reason

It's another programming language software tool for game/app development based from France.
Better known for things such as Klik&Play, Click&Create, The Games Factory. Won't go into further detail, since it's off topic + advertisement.

Anyway, If Scratch added support for scenes in some forrn, that would help a LOT, and help keep things more organized!

Support as long as there are unlimited scenes.

hello everyone i have risen from my grave to bump this post!!

need some fresh blood to give their opinions on this…

Support, so long as the idea of scenes is more simple than the scene concept in more advanced game engines.

oh lord here we go again…

SCRATCH ISNT A GAME ENGINE, AND THEY ARE NOT OBLIGATED TO ADD FEATURES THAT WOULD ONLY BE USEFUL FOR ONE TYPE OF PROJECT AAAAAAAAAAA