I am trying to put a Scratch project on a website called Kongregate. However, they only accept JPG, GIF, or PNG formats. So, you know when you click on the “file” button in a Scratch project, and select “download to computer”? Well, that file type isn't recognizable. Is there a way to convert a Scratch project file to a JPG file? I've heard of Phosphorus, but does that allow you to download your Scratch project as a file? (Also, I've tried Phosphorus, and it's glitchy) So, how do you convert a Scratch project to a JPG file? Thanks!

A JPG file is an image and is not interactive.
You can't turn a interactive app into an image.
Just use paint if you want an image.

.jpg, .gif, and .png files are image files. They're not interactive. I don't know much about Kongregate, but if you're trying to upload a game it won't be in any of those formats. You're probably looking in the wrong spot. I would imagine it would look for a .swf file.

On a related note - if you're interested in publishing your games, Scratch isn't the right thing to use. Just by sharing your projects on the Scratch website, anyone is technically allowed to use/take/modify/publish them without permission as long as they publish them under the same CC license as Scratch does.

Scratch was also not made to export projects. There are several user-made options, but most are somewhat buggy at best and create very large files.

lugga wrote:

You can't turn a interactive app into an image.

SVGs actually kind of cross that line. In Scratch, ‘vector graphics’ are stored as .svg files and they're completely static. However, SVG standards allow for interactive SVGs with all sorts of interesting elements.

Here is something you might be interested in, thoyal.

CodeLegend wrote:

.jpg, .gif, and .png files are image files. They're not interactive. I don't know much about Kongregate, but if you're trying to upload a game it won't be in any of those formats. You're probably looking in the wrong spot. I would imagine it would look for a .swf file.

On a related note - if you're interested in publishing your games, Scratch isn't the right thing to use. Just by sharing your projects on the Scratch website, anyone is technically allowed to use/take/modify/publish them without permission as long as they publish them under the same CC license as Scratch does.

Scratch was also not made to export projects. There are several user-made options, but most are somewhat buggy at best and create very large files.

Hmm… Okay. It's possible to export Scratch projects. Some people have even turned Scratch projects into apps! (It's true! Just click here: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/116055504/)

Hey, Thoyal, there may not be a way to convert Scratch projects to JPGs, but, GIFblocks will convert Scratch projects to GIFs, which can be converted to JPGs!

You can save an image of the project by right clicking the stage > save picture of stage. Kongregate probably needs the image as the game thumbnail, so capture and interesting picture

MegaApuTurkUltra wrote:

You can save an image of the project by right clicking the stage > save picture of stage. Kongregate probably needs the image as the game thumbnail, so capture and interesting picture

Thanks. I was actually confused - I needed to convert it to a .swf file, not a .JPG file. Junebeetle got me covered! (http://junebeetle.github.io/converter/online/)

thoyal wrote:

MegaApuTurkUltra wrote:

You can save an image of the project by right clicking the stage > save picture of stage. Kongregate probably needs the image as the game thumbnail, so capture and interesting picture

Thanks. I was actually confused - I needed to convert it to a .swf file, not a .JPG file. Junebeetle got me covered! (http://junebeetle.github.io/converter/online/)

Awesome. But be careful about the licensing - depending on what license Kongregate uses, it may be illegal to include stock sprites (anything you can find in the library) and claim it as your own.

EDIT: There's something funky going on with your urls. They all have “/%29” at the end of them, resulting in a 404 error.

CodeLegend wrote:

thoyal wrote:

MegaApuTurkUltra wrote:

You can save an image of the project by right clicking the stage > save picture of stage. Kongregate probably needs the image as the game thumbnail, so capture and interesting picture

Thanks. I was actually confused - I needed to convert it to a .swf file, not a .JPG file. Junebeetle got me covered! (http://junebeetle.github.io/converter/online/)

Awesome. But be careful about the licensing - depending on what license Kongregate uses, it may be illegal to include stock sprites (anything you can find in the library) and claim it as your own.

EDIT: There's something funky going on with your urls. They all have “/%29” at the end of them, resulting in a 404 error.

Hmm… That's weird that the url isn't working. BTW, I used my own art for this project.

CodeLegend wrote:

thoyal wrote:

MegaApuTurkUltra wrote:

You can save an image of the project by right clicking the stage > save picture of stage. Kongregate probably needs the image as the game thumbnail, so capture and interesting picture

Thanks. I was actually confused - I needed to convert it to a .swf file, not a .JPG file. Junebeetle got me covered! (http://junebeetle.github.io/converter/online/)

Awesome. But be careful about the licensing - depending on what license Kongregate uses, it may be illegal to include stock sprites (anything you can find in the library) and claim it as your own.

EDIT: There's something funky going on with your urls. They all have “/%29” at the end of them, resulting in a 404 error.

The parser thinks that the ) is part of the url

Firedrake969 wrote:

CodeLegend wrote:

thoyal wrote:

MegaApuTurkUltra wrote:

You can save an image of the project by right clicking the stage > save picture of stage. Kongregate probably needs the image as the game thumbnail, so capture and interesting picture

Thanks. I was actually confused - I needed to convert it to a .swf file, not a .JPG file. Junebeetle got me covered! (http://junebeetle.github.io/converter/online/)

Awesome. But be careful about the licensing - depending on what license Kongregate uses, it may be illegal to include stock sprites (anything you can find in the library) and claim it as your own.

EDIT: There's something funky going on with your urls. They all have “/%29” at the end of them, resulting in a 404 error.

The parser thinks that the ) is part of the url

How's this? http://junebeetle.github.io/converter/online/

Firedrake969 wrote:

CodeLegend wrote:

thoyal wrote:

MegaApuTurkUltra wrote:

You can save an image of the project by right clicking the stage > save picture of stage. Kongregate probably needs the image as the game thumbnail, so capture and interesting picture

Thanks. I was actually confused - I needed to convert it to a .swf file, not a .JPG file. Junebeetle got me covered! (http://junebeetle.github.io/converter/online/)

Awesome. But be careful about the licensing - depending on what license Kongregate uses, it may be illegal to include stock sprites (anything you can find in the library) and claim it as your own.

EDIT: There's something funky going on with your urls. They all have “/%29” at the end of them, resulting in a 404 error.

The parser thinks that the ) is part of the url

Wow this is embarrassing…