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Styxl
Scratcher
4 posts

Best way to make an email system?

Would include a simple username/ID to identify everyone, but the Email needs to hopefully save itself in the player's cloud data. Or I can make a save system including a lot of numbers that everyone can input to save the sent/recieved (like the game generates a save file for you, for example 09402951, and then you input that next time you play). I just dont know how I would connect everyone. Like having someone send and then another person recieve is too hard for me to do alone. Can anyone help?
cjdudester
Scratcher
89 posts

Best way to make an email system?

Ima be honest, that would be hard to do. Your best bet is looking at one of Griffpatch's videos for guidance on cloud variables, as i have no knowledge or experience using them. I think that would be really cool, basically scratch's messaging system in a project.

HOWEVER!!!!
That is against scratch's community guidelines. It is essentially the same thing as a free chat room, which scratch does not allow due to profanity and inappropriate language. Plus multiple other things.
You might be thinking, “why don't i make a blacklist of words people can't use?”
No.
According to Scratch, curious users could go inside the project and see those banned words. Plus banning words wouldnt stop other things.
I recommend, for any communication between users, that you use a safe chat, with predetermined phrases.
Unfortunately, i suspect that is against what you wish to do.

I wish you the best of luck!
DanDanbingobam
Scratcher
51 posts

Best way to make an email system?

cjdudester wrote:

Ima be honest, that would be hard to do. Your best bet is looking at one of Griffpatch's videos for guidance on cloud variables, as i have no knowledge or experience using them. I think that would be really cool, basically scratch's messaging system in a project.

HOWEVER!!!!
That is against scratch's community guidelines. It is essentially the same thing as a free chat room, which scratch does not allow due to profanity and inappropriate language. Plus multiple other things.
You might be thinking, “why don't i make a blacklist of words people can't use?”
No.
According to Scratch, curious users could go inside the project and see those banned words. Plus banning words wouldnt stop other things.
I recommend, for any communication between users, that you use a safe chat, with predetermined phrases.
Unfortunately, i suspect that is against what you wish to do.

I wish you the best of luck!
I think he/she means that there are a few sentences that you can press a number key and then it speaks that. Check out @Griffpatch's multiplayer games…
SpyCoderX
Scratcher
1000+ posts

Best way to make an email system?

A full email system is not allowed within a scratch project. This is because it cannot match the moderation of scratch, and scratch can’t ensure it IS moderated. So, scratch just doesn’t allow them.

However, you can create a messaging system as long as you use a premade list of sentences, no combining words or phrases. Like other scratchers have said, Griffpatch may have videos describing how to create such a system, but the simple version is that you find the chosen message’s index in your list and send that through cloud variables. Then other users can see the index and use it to get which message was sent. (Very simple version. In practice it’s a bit more complicated.)

(Take what I say with a grain of salt. I haven’t been on scratch in a while.)

Last edited by SpyCoderX (Sept. 10, 2026 18:34:25)

ObsoIete
Scratcher
7 posts

Best way to make an email system?

Styxl wrote:

Would include a simple username/ID to identify everyone, but the Email needs to hopefully save itself in the player's cloud data. Or I can make a save system including a lot of numbers that everyone can input to save the sent/recieved (like the game generates a save file for you, for example 09402951, and then you input that next time you play). I just dont know how I would connect everyone. Like having someone send and then another person recieve is too hard for me to do alone. Can anyone help?
scratch's tos doesn't allow this
Styxl
Scratcher
4 posts

Best way to make an email system?

I could def try a ton of different premade sentances. Thank you all!

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