Encourage people to not call projects "games" unless the projects themselves are games.

8to16

Probably using an announcement or a project.

I'd love to see an official @ScratchCat project called “projects, not just games”

Last edited by 8to16 (Oct. 25, 2024 18:48:35)

Coughfe

Why?

Sure, it may be slightly wrong if it's an animation and not a game for instance. But even then, why should it matter?

Roblox888i

Coughfe wrote:
Why?

Sure, it may be slightly wrong if it's an animation and not a game for instance. But even then, why should it matter?

So many schools are banning scratch due to them thinking the kids play “non-educational games”.

MagicCoder330

Roblox888i wrote:
Coughfe wrote:
Why?

Sure, it may be slightly wrong if it's an animation and not a game for instance. But even then, why should it matter?
So many schools are banning scratch due to them thinking the kids play “non-educational games”.

I mean, that is primarily why people use scratch… /j
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in all seriousness this is true and if they were called projects more it would work better.

jvvg

Roblox888i wrote:
So many schools are banning scratch due to them thinking the kids play “non-educational games”.

If those schools are anything like mine was, an announcement is not going to change their mind.

Za-Chary

Roblox888i wrote:
So many schools are banning scratch due to them thinking the kids play “non-educational games”.

Probably because they are. Scratch might not be a “game engine,” but it's a website that has lots of games in it. If this game-playing is distracting students from their work, it makes sense why a school would ban Scratch regardless of how Scratch advertises itself.

8to16 wrote:
Encourage people to not call projects “games” unless the projects themselves are games.

I don't really see what the problem with this is. It seems a little nitpicky to try to control a person's choice of language. I also don't personally see people calling their projects “games” often, but that's beside the point.

ninjagogeorge

They are educational games.Why?

ninjahanzo

ninjagogeorge wrote:
They are educational games.Why?

necropost? maybe not
Most of them are non-educational, people don't really look inside the code

Funquat

ninjahanzo wrote:
ninjagogeorge wrote:
They are educational games.Why?
necropost? maybe not
Most of them are non-educational, people don't really look inside the code

Well your teacher could just say to there pupils “if you look at a game you have to remix it!”

ninjahanzo

Funquat wrote:
ninjahanzo wrote:
ninjagogeorge wrote:
They are educational games.Why?
necropost? maybe not
Most of them are non-educational, people don't really look inside the code
Well your teacher could just say to there pupils “if you look at a game you have to remix it!”

Problem is that most Scratch time is in places where it actually isn't allowed (e.g. history or reading.) Doesn't matter anyways.
Besides, that scenario is too rare.

David_gamez777_ALT

Roblox888i wrote:
Coughfe wrote:
Why?

Sure, it may be slightly wrong if it's an animation and not a game for instance. But even then, why should it matter?
So many schools are banning scratch due to them thinking the kids play "non-educational games”.
The main reason Scratch is being banned in some schools is because some members of the EDU community think Scratch is occasionally assigned with Unity (a game engine) along with
mildly un-educated games wrote:
. However, this rule is mid-accurate, because some games such as Geometry Dash or Minecraft refer to “sandbox” or “fake-mathematical” terms. However, some games within the community of Scratch (est. 2007) are educational within one look.

Lets just hope that word keeps spreading.

Last edited by David_gamez777_ALT (June 29, 2025 02:46:58)

8xa

What defines a game? What's to say the project isn't part of a maze where you must search through multiple projects? My point being anything can be a game, even if it's not a programmed game where you control a character.
Furthermore if a school isn't using Scratch in their classes, then I see no problem in banning it. Especially when people are just using it to play games during class or when they've been asked not to. Just because you can use Scratch to learn to code doesn't mean the whole of Scratch has some magical aura that means everything you do on the site is educational. If teachers want their students to use Scratch, then they'll tell them to, and they'll probably give them instructions on how they want the students to use Scratch, and the educational activities usually stay within the project editor rather than playing other users' games. And if they don't want their students using Scratch, then they can ban it because it's their choice what is done on school computers.
Wouldn't users just start giving their projects that are games titles that make them not seem like games? And wouldn't this just make schools more suspicious of Scratch due to not being able to determine whether the students are actually using it to learn or just using it to play a game?
Another thing is that the majority of games on Scratch don't even have the word game in the title, just look at the games on the explore page for example.

ninjagogeorge

what!

EVADE3154

Currently on a school computer rn cuz yes, where I'm from they have it where its blocked in class, but after and before class you can use it, and that seems pretty fair tbh

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