Hello everyone! I'm currently working on a Brownie Clicker game for Scratch and am looking for some help implementing a visually engaging hover script inspired by popular idle games like Cookie Clicker. My goal is to make the main brownie sprite dynamically respond to user interaction. When the mouse hovers over it, I want a subtle shadow effect to appear, and when clicked, I'd like a fun animation where a few “crumbs” (small pixel sprites) “explode” outwards from the center. I believe adding this polished effect will significantly enhance my project's appeal and provide a great learning opportunity for advanced sprite interaction techniques within the Scratch environment.

I've made some progress on the basic clicking mechanics but could use guidance on the specifics of creating the hover shadow (perhaps using a duplicate sprite with a slight offset and ghost effect?) and managing the “crumb explosion” (likely requiring the create clone of myself block and some random movement scripts). This seems like an exciting challenge that will boost my coding intelligence. I am eager to collaborate and willing to share my current Scratch project code or specific sprite scripts with anyone willing to offer advice or direction on how to best achieve these effects. Your expertise would be incredibly valuable! Thank you!

Greekopolis_King_ wrote:

Hello everyone! I'm currently working on a Brownie Clicker game for Scratch and am looking for some help implementing a visually engaging hover script inspired by popular idle games like Cookie Clicker. My goal is to make the main brownie sprite dynamically respond to user interaction. When the mouse hovers over it, I want a subtle shadow effect to appear, and when clicked, I'd like a fun animation where a few “crumbs” (small pixel sprites) “explode” outwards from the center. I believe adding this polished effect will significantly enhance my project's appeal and provide a great learning opportunity for advanced sprite interaction techniques within the Scratch environment.

I've made some progress on the basic clicking mechanics but could use guidance on the specifics of creating the hover shadow (perhaps using a duplicate sprite with a slight offset and ghost effect?) and managing the “crumb explosion” (likely requiring the create clone of myself block and some random movement scripts). This seems like an exciting challenge that will boost my coding intelligence. I am eager to collaborate and willing to share my current Scratch project code or specific sprite scripts with anyone willing to offer advice or direction on how to best achieve these effects. Your expertise would be incredibly valuable! Thank you!

Hello @Greekopolis_King_! For the shadow effect, based on my understanding, you would need a new costume. To do this, go into the costume editor, duplicate the cookie, create a new circle in that new cookie, go into fill, and click the fading out circle. Make the second color transparent, and the first color a cookie-type color or black. Put this circle in the back by using the button at the top of the costume editor. Make sure to resize the circle so it looks like a shadow. Also rename both like “NoShadowCookie” or “ShadowCookie”. Now, in the editor, use this code:

when green flag clicked
forever
if <touching [mouse pointer v] ?> then 
change size by (((120) - (size)) / (2))
switch costume to [ShadowCookie v]
  

else
change size by (((100) - (size)) / (2))
switch costume to [NoShadowCookie v]
end
end

I found that changing the size would help with a smoother shadow, but if you wouldn't like that, just don't use the change size blocks in your code.

brownie, cookie, same thing

for the exploding crumbs, there are a few things you can do:

Give the crumbs an XV and YV and gravity. Then delete them when they reach the bottom. Or you can slowly increase ghost effect and delete them when it's 100.

Give the crumbs an XV and YV (or direction and speed) and fade them out while they slow down.

Make them take a step, rotate a bit and fade until they're faded out

Make them glide to a position and explode