Hello, I'm Scratch user @PenN_Paper. Today, I want to present my idea for a streaming platform on Scratch called ‘Cloud Play’. Now, I know what you may be thinking "That's impossible". But, allow me to explain how it works.

How will you see the streamers gameplay?

• Since Scratch doesn't have a built-in screen capture, I had to think of a alternative which wasn't easy. I had to make sure that the solution was able to run on even the slowest of computers, and would allow people running potatoes to stream with minimum lag. The solution is to have games built in to the project.

Will there be a stream chat?

• Yes. But in order to follow the Scratch Rules, only emojis will be used to chat. And slow-chat will be enabled by default.

What type of games will be built-in?

• Any type of game from platformers to top-down style games will be allowed, but a form will have to be filled and then viewed by me to see if your game follows the Scratch Rules and could be added.

• The only games that will not be permitted are games with “3D” graphics by pen. The reason is it will be to laggy and complicated to run and stream.

Sounds cool! I’ve got experience in cloud dev so if you need help I’m here

will it have a scanner scanning it or will the positions of sprites and other stuff be sent

-CloudGate- wrote:

will it have a scanner scanning it or will the positions of sprites and other stuff be sent

@ Correct! That will be the mechanics used to find the live positions of the streamer's player.

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sausagescratch wrote:

Sounds cool! I’ve got experience in cloud dev so if you need help I’m here

Thank you very much. I will soon be reaching out to you with a more in depth description of how I want CloudPlay to work.

Is it at all possible for me to join. I am experienced in using the cloud and have an understanding of every block.

Can I join? im like 7/10 in cloud stuff, but 9/10 in normal blocks.

xMysticalCoder wrote:

Can I join? im like 7/10 in cloud stuff, but 9/10 in normal blocks.

Sorry for the late reply, somehow didn't get the notification for the reply. I will soon be reaching out to you with a better description of what I want the game to have.

-EmeraldThunder- wrote:

Is it at all possible for me to join. I am experienced in using the cloud and have an understanding of every block.

Sorry for the late reply, somehow didn't get the notification for the reply. I will soon be reaching out to you with a better description of what I want the game to have.

PenNPaper_ wrote:

xMysticalCoder wrote:

Can I join? im like 7/10 in cloud stuff, but 9/10 in normal blocks.

Sorry for the late reply, somehow didn't get the notification for the reply. I will soon be reaching out to you with a better description of what I want the game to have.

Also an idea for the streams:

1. When we make the games inside of CloudPlay, we need to label the color of each of the assets. The ground would be green, sky would be blue etc. Then using pen we trace over what the actual person playing see's.

xMysticalCoder wrote:

PenNPaper_ wrote:

xMysticalCoder wrote:

Can I join? im like 7/10 in cloud stuff, but 9/10 in normal blocks.

Sorry for the late reply, somehow didn't get the notification for the reply. I will soon be reaching out to you with a better description of what I want the game to have.

Also an idea for the streams:

1. When we make the games inside of CloudPlay, we need to label the color of each of the assets. The ground would be green, sky would be blue etc. Then using pen we trace over what the actual person playing see's.

That would actually be really good for performance. I will make you a curator of my CloudPlay Development group so we can try to make a draft of such system.