Scratching Technology

Videos

You can find my YouTube playlist of all these videos here.

Downloading Your Scratch Files

How to download files from your flashdrive that I've shared online for you.

Animating a Jack-o-Lantern

Some simple ideas for animation.

Signing Up at the Scratch Website

Pac-Man: Simple game techniques in Scratch

This show how the "touching color" tile is used to keep the Pac-Man from moving through walls. Another point is that the scripts for moving and for animating the Pac-Man are completely separate.

Layers in Scratch

Scratch treats each sprite as belonging to its own "layer" so that it knows which one is on top. The video demonstrate how to control this.