LibraryMakers - Create a conversation with Scratch

Create a conversation with Scratch

Intro

With Scratch, you can create simple stories using different characters. In this example, we will create a simple conversation between two characters.

If you’re not familiar with the Scratch editor interface, see this intro.

This is what we are building (though this is just an outline that you can create your own story from)

Conversation in space

How

The first thing to do is to choose your ‘Sprite’. To remove the default Sprite (Scratch cat), right-click on the sprite icon and choose ‘Delete’.

You can then add a new sprite from the sprite gallery.

We can add a backdrop to help set the scene for our conversation to take place. Click on the ‘New backdrop’ option and choose where you’d like to set your story.

Add a new backdrop

Choose whatever backdrop you want for your library. For this example, we’re going to use one of the Space backdrops.

Backdrop library

Now, let’s add our first conversation script.

We start with a ‘When Flag Clicked’ block. It looks like this and you can find it under the Events category:

This means the script will start running when we click the green flag icon that appears at the top of the stage.

Run the script

Then add a dialogue block. It’s found in the Movement palette. You can add whatever greeting you want here.

Next add a wait block. This gives the pause in the conversation where another character can reply.

Your script should now look like this:

First conversation block

Let’s add a second character for our robot character to talk to. As before, add a new Sprite from the sprite library. Select the new sprite and add a script that continues the conversation.

Second conversation block