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Scratch: My Second Game

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 Scratch: My Second Game ---------------------------------------------------------------------- When I was younger, I enjoyed playing baking/restaurant games, mainly the decoration part.  I remember finding a 'go-girl-games'-like website where certain choices you make end up making unique wedding cakes; Chocolate cake with strawberries would make it resemble a zombie apocalypse, vanilla with chocolate-chips would resemble a more normal wedding-cake.  Though I can't find that game, it was fun, it was one my favorites, and so I decided to make a cake-decorating game. It may not lead to alternate endings, I still enjoy playing it for myself. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The story is simple. The Red stick-figure, who I'll name Vermillion, has finished baking a cake and wants you to decorate it! I didn't have the proper coding experience to do the whole baking part, so instead I have focused on decorating it. ---------------------...

SCRATCH: My First Game

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  SCRATCH: My First Game ----------------------------------------------------------------- I'm familiar with block-based coding, yet I never really tried using Scratch till a couple months ago. I've used it briefly in August 2023 but stopped in September. School just started and it was important school year for being my introduction to GCSEs, in turn, I left coding to focus on my studies.  Since winter break is close, I'm done with my first assessments, I may as well start coding again. I mainly picked up coding as, well, a hobby, a hobby to get into colleges. I've heard blogging is also a useful hobbies to get into colleges, so I may as well write about my experiences. ------------------------------------------------------------------ I of course, started with a story for the game, my thought process flowed as this: 1] Make a game about Stick-Figure 2] Give the Stick-Figure a simple story so I can make a simple game, as this was my first time using scratch 3] Insert b...