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@attractive-milk Also, Scratch comes with a Milk carton. (A sprite, not a real one.)

@tyller_ Really? How odd.

@the_true_odst That’s a pity. All the best though!
On a separate note: Have you considered trying to create your own Scratch mod?

@jeffreyrb03-gmail
If you didn’t know already, you might find this page of some interest:
https://scratch.mit.edu/developers

“Scratch Blocks
Scratch Blocks is a new development project for the next generation of graphical programming blocks, based on a collaboration between Google and MIT’s Scratch Team — building on Google’s Blockly technology and informed by the Scratch Team’s expertise in developing creative learning tools for young people. Scratch Blocks will provide a framework for building programming blocks in both vertical (text-based) and horizontal (icon-based) formats. You can access the code (currently as a developer-preview) and documentation here…(https://github.com/scratchfoundation/scratch-blocks)…” lot more info on websites.

@the_true_odst The website has many assets for creating top-down styled space games. There are also some platformer assets as well, but not specifically for space.
What sort of game are you after?

@the_true_odst Try here: https://kenney.nl/, and search under assets for “Space”.

@jeffreyrb03-gmail Happy Biffy!

@jeffreyrb03-gmail We still haven’t heard back from Scratch. (We’re in a completely different timezone to them, but it’s still been a few days.) Just wondering if anyone knows whether if your teaching account is blocked, whether that prevents you from creating a new teaching account.

@the_true_odst We have 23!
Aways celebrate the small things!

@jeffreyrb03-gmail Given everything else it said, there’s no way of knowing if it actually called you that.

@jeffreyrb03-gmail

@jeffreyrb03-gmail Not entirely sure. I do know that you can tell it what you want, and it will generate the python for you.

The annoying thing about Gandi IDE’s extensions is that there’s no way that I know of to get much information on how they work.

@jeffreyrb03-gmail Did you know Gandi IDE has something similar to this? Instead of JavaScript though, it generates python, which can be turned into blocks.

@jeffreyrb03-gmail I don’t think it was hacked. I’d recently edited part of it to say “Enquire now about our courses” from “Enquire now for 2025”. I was then told the signature violated community guidelines, and I’d guessed it was because it had links to where we could be found on YouTube and Facebook, so I then removed those links.
The most recent Scratch Team message says “Your Scratch account has been permanently blocked for abusing the Teacher Account feature. Teaching Accounts are for adult educators using Scratch with students. It’s important to be honest when interacting with others on Scratch.” I didn’t believe I had done this. We’ve contacted the Scratch team, and are looking for a way to resolve the issue.
The studio is called Propose an Asset to the Mod. Squad Asset Library!
As for evidence, click on the button to Scratch on our homepage.

@jeffreyrb03-gmail By the way, are you on Scratch? Due to a problem with our Scratch forum signature (which we’d thought we’d fixed), we’ve been blocked on Scratch. We’re trying to appeal that. Just wondering if you could find our studio and let people know?

@sirbots What is a Teahouse?

@c In Gandi IDE, last time I checked (And this may now be out of date), only one user can edit a sprite at a time.

@greeniwastakenyt Do you mean like Gandi IDE’s Invite button?

@info-creaticode What I am suggesting wouldn’t expose their age. If would still use their age, but it wouldn’t display it. It would only display a maturity rating.

The alternative is to adopt Gandi IDE’s rating system. This means you can either set the project as being for everyone, or not for everyone.

@info-creaticode How about instead of exposing the age directly, instead a block that returns the maturity rating based on the user’s age. For example, a block that might return G, PG, or M, based on the user’s age.

@the_true_odst We may do that. By the way, if you want a PFP, there’s a Scratcher named TechVantage who for a limited time is offering high-quality Canva made PFP’s and banners.

@the_true_odst By the way, here is the link to the track called Risk: https://pixabay.com/music/main-title-risk-136788/

@the_true_odst Potentially not. I personally don’t know much (yet) about Delta Time, but I do know there is a turbowarp extension (Check it out here: https://turbowarp.org/editor?extension=https://extensions.turbowarp.org/XeroName/Deltatime.js). Looking at the blocks, both the FPS and the Delta time are constantly changing.

@the_true_odst Well, whatever you use is up to you. I do know (without any context on what you want to use) that L’Orchestra Cinematique do an epic version of In the Hall of the Mountain King. Just keep in mind that’s not royalty-free.

@the_true_odst What is the pace of the mode? Is it fast paced, medium, or really slow?

@the_true_odst According to the web, “Delta time is the time it took to render the frame. Another way to put it: delta time is the time period between last frame and the current. Delta means “difference”. Assuming a consistent framerate of 50, delta time will always be 1 / 50 = 0.02 seconds per frame.” Link: https://dev.to/dsaghliani/understanding-delta-time-in-games-3olf#:~:text=This is where delta time comes in. Delta,1 %2F 50 %3D 0.02 seconds per frame.

@jd131111 If you’re going to do that, you need the ability to delete old messages, or even better, sort them as to who or what they are from, like in SMS or Teams.

@the_true_odst How? We’re still trying to figure out how to remove the numbers at the end of ours.

@011830-0a42ef84 Not that I personally know of (I’m not familiar with the platform). Pixabay is a great royalty-free resource, used by many people (including famous scratchers like griffpatch), and we have used it a lot - in our Youtube videos, tutorial games, and even in our latest game we released on our Scratch profile just for fun.

@011830-0a42ef84 You’re welcome!

@011830-0a42ef84 Pixabay has a great track called Risk. Overall, there are about 19,214+ action and adventure tracks on Pixabay (https://pixabay.com/music/search/action | adventure/)

@011830-0a42ef84 What is the theme/genre of the game? For a game we recently released on our Scratch account, we used royalty-free electro-swing music from Pixabay to create a fun, up-beat atmosphere.

@c Or an instrumental (I personally haven’t heard the song, but instrumentals are always clean.)

@tyller_ Removing fencing has nothing to do with canvas size. Remove fencing lets sprites move entirely off-screen.

@tyller_ We’ll look into it!

@011830-0a42ef84 Along with music and sound. Everything is royalty-free.

@011830-0a42ef84 Have you heard of Pixabay?

@c Gandi IDE is a Scratch mod.
https://modsquadacademy.weebly.com/gandi-ide

@c Gandi IDE has a similar collection of sounds and other assets.

@011830-0a42ef84 It’s not an extension. It’s a feature. IF suggested, it could be implemented into Creaticode - in fact, the ability to change CreatiCode’s theme in general might be a good suggestion.

@c Where did you hear that?

@011830-0a42ef84 Turbowarp has the ability to choose between light and dark mode for the background in the costume editor - would this help?

@jeffreyrb03-gmail Thanks!

@jeffreyrb03-gmail PenguinMod is a mod of Turbowarp. But did you know there’s a mod of PenguinMod called Snail IDE? And there’s mods of that too! Links are on the create page of our website here: https://modsquadacademy.weebly.com/create.html

@jeffreyrb03-gmail
Surely this:

((abs(X))*(-1))

Would take up less space than this:

(join (-) ((abs(X)))

@tyller_ Could you please clarify?

@jeffreyrb03-gmail We’ll let you know if we think of something. We teach kids how to use not only Scratch, but advanced Scratch Techniques and Mods of Scratch, such as Turbowarp, Gandi IDE, Penguinmod…etc.
On our website is a list of mods (CreatiCode isn’t on there yet. We may add it at some point). and their respective extension galleries. We get excited when we find a new orignial Scratch mod, extension, or extension gallery - hence why we asked.

@c In that case, it can be good to add a visual epilepsy warning.

@011830-0a42ef84 True, that would be handy. What would be cool is if that was part of a custom extension, because then it could be used in other mods such as Turbowarp.
(We have mentioned the Idea to add support for custom extensions).

In the meantime, that block can be created using this short code below. X represents the number you are working with.

((abs(X)*(-1))

You know what block would also be cool to have? The to the power of block. It might look like this:

(X^(Y))

@jeffreyrb03-gmail Okay, cool. Well, if you ever make more, please let us know!