Alternatively, you can click Create at the top of the web page to start creating immediately online inside your web browser.
Windows Select “Only for Me” or “Anyone who uses this computer”. Click Install Click Yes to allow the Scratch installer to make changes to your system. Click Finish. Mac: Scratch the Scratch app icon to the Applications folder.
Select “Only for Me” or “Anyone who uses this computer”. Click Install Click Yes to allow the Scratch installer to make changes to your system. Click Finish.
Scratch the Scratch app icon to the Applications folder.
The first time you open Scratch, it asks if you want to send data to the Scratch team to help improve Scratch. You can click No thanks or Yes, I’d like to help improve Scratch. If you select Yes, usage data will be sent to the Scratch team. The Scratch team does not collect personal information.
To upload your own background, hover the mouse cursor over the icon that resembles a photograph and click the icon that resembles a trey with an arrow pointing up. Click an image you want to use as a background and click Open. To draw your own background, hover the mouse cursor over the icon that resembles a photograph and click the icon that resembles a paintbrush. Use the paint tools to paint your own background.
Like backgrounds, you can upload and paint your own sprites to your scene. To do so, hover the mouse cursor over the icon that resembles a cat and click the icon that resembles a trey with an arrow pointing up to upload your own sprite. Click the icon that resembles a paintbrush to paint your own sprites. If you need to delete a sprite, click the sprite in the list below the Preview window in the upper-right corner and press the Delete key.
The game sequence starts when you click the green flag icon above the preview window. Use the block that says “When [green flag icon] is clicked” to create an action that starts as soon as the game starts. It’s at the top of the Events blocks. It has an icon with a green flag in it.
If the block has an arrow pointing down (⏷), click the arrow to display a drop-down menu. Select an option (such as keyboard key) from the drop-down menu. If a block has a white bubble with text in it, you can change the text inside the bubble.
Example blocks 1: Select “When this sprite is clicked” as an Event block. Then attach the block that says “say [hello!] for [2] seconds” from the Looks blocks. Example blocks 2: To make a sprite move left and right when you press the left and right arrow keys, add event block that says “When [right arrow ⏷] is pressed”. You’ll need to select the right arrow key from the drop-down menu in the block. Then attach a block that says “point in direction [90]” from the motion blocks. Then attach another motion block that says “move [10] steps”. Then drag another event tag into the code area that says “When [left arrow ⏷] is pressed” attach a motion block that says “point in direction [-90]”, and attach another motion block that says “move [10] steps”.
