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Suggested Project Types

Story Project

https://wiki.scratch.mit.edu/wiki/Story_Projects

Suggest ‘interactive story’ where choices made by viewer lead to different story paths.

The Collab Camp Scratch group have made several interactive stories that look to be good examples, their way of doing things could even be used to make a text adventure game with pictures for locations and things that happen.

Game Project

There are also lots of useful examples online for game projects, here are the main types:

https://wiki.scratch.mit.edu/wiki/Game_Projects

Here are some scrolling tutorials and examples from the Scratch website:

Backgrounds cannot scroll in Scratch yet ( they tried it but left it out of Scratch 2.0 ) so we need to use one or more sprites as the background, there are different ways to do it, it’s quite hard work but looks great and is important for some games.

Scratch Wiki – Scrolling Sprites

Scrolling Tutorial ( good scrolling, nice background )
Scrolling Tutorial – Code ( some really good code here, could use the technique from the Scrolling Platformer Code below to scroll more than just the big square… )

Scrolling Platformer Tutorial ( ok scrolling with edge detection )

Scrolling Platformer Tutorial – Code

How To Make a Scrolling Game

Scratch Wiki, lots of useful info here:

https://wiki.scratch.mit.edu/wiki/Scratch_Wiki_Home

Links to look at for making Scratch Game

Doesn’t have to be a game…

https://wiki.scratch.mit.edu/wiki/Scratch_Wiki:Table_of_Contents/Project_Types

Games

https://wiki.scratch.mit.edu/wiki/Game_Projects

some great examples

Animations