A Bit About Me

Project Description: In this project, I used Scratch to make 4 scenes about my hobbies and passions. I used broadcasts, sound, and sprites and backdrops for this project. Before I started working on this, I created a plannning table to organize my thoughts and ideas for each scene: 

Project Link: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1125805335

Strengths of this work/project

• Some strengths of my project were the use of buttons to keep the user engaged so that it doesn't keep going

• I also tried to use funny sound effects to keep the user entertained

• Lastly, I think it was fun knowing that I could do this project on whatever I wanted, so that gave me a lot of flexibility in this work

Opportunities to improve this work/project

• Some additional features and additions added could be the use of drawing, user games, and variables

• These would make it more creative as it would increase the user's attention and it would expand the opportunities of features used on the project.

• I could crop the images and add animations to the walking part

Understandings you gained from this work/project

Some insight I gained from this project were that you can broadcast to switch scenes and speak to the user in text bubbles. I also had not experimented with downloading music and sound effects from the web so that was new. The project helped me build a user interface and taught me how to use a bunch of Scratch features to make a fully functioning site, that also looks and feels appealing. I also learned to hide sprites after you are done using them in the scene.

Limitations of this work/project

Somethings that aren't working very well are the recognitions of the song input. Also, there was a bug in the tennis game in the first scene where the ball goes in weird motions and keeps on going even into the band scene. 

Zac Choi's SOUL of this project:

Strengths: I find the tennis game and tennis ball hit mechanic super interesting and engaging. The ability to click on sprites to play music is also fun to play with.

Opportunities: Use voiceovers, additional scene for answering "no" to guitar scene. I also think it would be beneficial if you incorporated voice overs. 

Understandings: Having a ball ping pong back and forth. This was a really fun mechanic in the beginning.

Limitations: Glitch on second scene. Sprites stay in background after background changes. Glitch on first scene, right arrow changes background. Sprites appear in incorrect backgrounds. When walking dog, background changes to white when pressing right arrow.