Is the imagery in this project too dark for an all-ages website?
This is a poetry generating program that I transcribe to Scratch from the original BASIC language. I've included the original BASIC program in a comment in one of the sprites.
my tester in real life said it was too dark for the youngest people on Scratch so I'm looking for a second option.
I also wanted to try to use the text printing options on Snap but that turned out to be a little frustrating. (I did try a forum search but didn't find any guiding advice.)
Original program: From Tom Hartnell's "Giant book of computer games" (1983) called Amaneunis.
It fine if you say that it's not appropriate to use the Snap community to guess what would be appropriate for the Scratch community.
And it's also ok if you say that it's pointless to make Snap act like a VT100 (if a VT100 could display letters with color.)
We don't advertise ourselves as an all-ages site; our official target audience is teenagers and up. So I'm not inclined to be as strict as Scratch in moderation. At the same time, I recognize that we do have some single-digit-aged users.
I confess I didn't make it all the way to the end of your generated poetry; I'm not that much of a poetry fan. But when it comes to project content, I'd be more concerned with pictures than with words. Having said that, if the whole point of a project is to shock people, I'm not sure we need that.
One thing you can do, if you're not sure about your project, is start with a warning screen: "Trigger warning: this project describes such-and-such. Rated PG-13." (If it's rated X, then yeah, don't publish it.)
I'm not sure that all the moderators would agree with me about any of this.
It’s randomly generated so it has no end. I’m not sure what the point is I just thought it was interesting. A warning might be helpful for this site but it’s not permitted on Scratch. I don’t know if it can be saved with a few word changes or not.
And I don’t mind removing it. Part of doing this was to work with the text processing in Snap - which didn’t work out but interesting to try.
This is one of the standard Scratch techniques but does not work here because your costumes are case insensitive. Your costumes don't have fonts but there must be a default font for imported projects. I thought it was worth a try.
This does not have word wrap. This is what I ended up using, printing each individual characters so I could manage wraps, explicit new lines, and colors.
Thank you. We'll keep these in mind for any future revision of that library.
I'm not a big fan of Scratch-style fonts as costumes. Stamping characters is a pretty painful way of showing text on the stage. It should work to write the text as text.
