◈ Download to avoid lag ◈ Harry Potter Mini-Projects: http://scratch.mit.edu/studios/451661/ This project is generally targeted at younger audiences, mainly from a graphics perspective. However, information-wise there is something new to learn for just about anyone, whether it be a Potter layman or a pro. The controls are quite simple and are explained for a large part in the project itself. For all but one screen, you will have to navigate using only the mouse.
For those of you who don't know, I am releasing on Scratch after a long spell of inactivity due to my (now concluded) A-levels. It's exactly a year to the day since I released my last project, so it has indeed been a very long hiatus. Here's a project I created with the objective of shedding some light on the various ways in which many wizard (as well as Muggle) families are interlinked. For a while now, I have been receiving comments from users who are confused by how wizarding lineage works; hopefully this will help clear some things up. Much of this project was programmed during my last few days as a high-school student, in between lesson times during intervals and free periods in the library. Due to this, I worked on the project in short bursts of time, so it has taken about three-quarters of the year to finish. The project posed some challenges, like the new virtualised elastic grab-and-pull engine for the tree itself, but I was satisfied with how it eventually turned out. As a whole, it's been quite nice to program and design different elements (all graphics have been vectorised) and integrate them into one project. As in all the previous installments in this series of Harry Potter informative mini-projects, the music is by Oliver Boyd and the Remembralls, a 'wrock' (wizard rock) act. The song, called 'Back for the Fight', somewhat fits in the context of the project as it deals with Harry and Ginny's complicated relationship.
