In this part of my Scratch learning journey, I began exploring more advanced features—particularly broadcasting and cloning. These tools help create more dynamic and interactive experiences, and I was excited to apply them in a simple project prototype.

Animated Button with Custom Style

To start, I followed a YouTube tutorial to create an animated button. I customized the colors to match my personal taste, which made the button feel more vibrant and playful. It also gave me a better understanding of how Scratch handles visual effects and layering, especially for UI-like elements.
While working on the button, I also discovered how powerful Scratch’s paint editor is. It allows you to easily design your own sprites from scratch, which gave me the freedom to experiment with original designs. In addition to creating drawings, the paint editor also supports uploading custom images, making it flexible for both artistic and practical needs.

Scene Transition with Broadcasting

Next, I experimented with broadcasting, a feature that allows different sprites to communicate with each other. I wanted to implement a basic scene transition from a title screen to the main game screen.
Here’s how I did it:

• I added a “Start Game” button sprite.
• When this sprite is clicked, it broadcasts a message: start the game.
• Other sprites listen for that message. When they receive start the game, they show themselves using the block when I receive [start the game] → show.

To test this, I placed a chicken and an egg sprite on the stage to represent my temporary “game scene.” When the button is clicked, the chicken and egg appear—signaling the start of the game. This was a simple but effective demonstration of how scene transitions work in Scratch.

Quick Cloning for Code Reuse

Scratch has a very convenient method to duplicate a sprite along with all its scripts: right-click and choose duplicate. This allowed me to quickly reuse sprites with identical logic, which is especially useful for prototyping.

Reflection

This phase gave me a deeper appreciation of Scratch’s event-driven design. Broadcasting made it easy to coordinate multiple sprites and create responsive, modular behaviors. Even though my “game” is still very simple, I now feel more confident about using Scratch to organize larger projects.