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Storybeats (Getting Unstuck Day 7)

GIgiulioooo•Created July 14, 2020
Storybeats (Getting Unstuck Day 7)
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Instructions

Click the green flag and follow Kiran instructions to create a story together. At the end you'll be able to export your story selecting the list and copying the content. If you want, comment this project with the story you created.

Description

Today I gave me a time constraint of 15'. This became 1 hour but I feel happy otherwise I would have been here for another 2 hours, I know. The ask block is a great way to create interaction, but I felt my creative energy for that block already gone with the Day 5 project :P So, instead of a meta-conversation between the sprite and the user, I drafted a project with the user mapping the meaning of emojis and then.... boh?! I was stuck. Luckily my timer was ticking and somehow this pointed me in the direction of let the sprite and the user create something together instead of simply have a conversation. While I was thinking about the sprite's prompts I remembered the beatuiful free resource made by Pixar, called "Pixar in a Box" https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/pixar/storytelling/story-structure/a/activity-1-struc and the Storybeats excercise to create a story. From that point was really easy and the most of my time was wasted thinking about the best way to show the story to the user. Scratch has a lot of limitation about showing text using Aspect blocks or variables (since I didn't want to implement a "text-to-sprite" conversion to print the story using letter sprites). At first I wanted to show the story built at each step, but after some testing it would have created bug with long answers from the user. So you don't see the story but you can save it at the end. I felt was a pity not to let the user export the story created, so, luckily, I discovered that you can actually export list elements. I think that with more time I would have added a way to let the story appears as a background. BTW, if you like storytelling, take a look at Pixar in a Box https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/pixar

Project Details

Project ID411514812
CreatedJuly 14, 2020
Last ModifiedJuly 14, 2020
SharedJuly 14, 2020
Visibilityvisible
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