Scralaxy Team

The **Scralaxy Team** is a group of users on Scratch (scratch.mit.edu) who work together to create various games, mostly inspired by Nintendo!

A list of members can be found here.

A history of the team can be found below.

## The Scralaxy Team's History! (How did we get here!?)

The Scralaxy Team was founded by Pickleodeon on May 21st, 2017, alongside the release of the first version of Super Mario Scralaxy. Initial development was smooth, with 19 versions releasing in the span of 1 month, 3 of those releasing on May 21st.

Sometime before Super Mario Scratchy World was even thought of, Pickleodeon announced that they no longer had interest in developing Scralaxy, stating that "The game's your problem now." In short, they simply were bored of working on it, and wanted the game to be ran by people who cared about it. Super Mario Scralaxy remains to be the only game without a "director" as all of us who were left to work on the game deserved it. Below the "Games" section is a short explanation of "directors" in Scralaxy Team games.

Super Mario Scratchy World started development on August 23rd, 2018 by -PotatoTornado-. The game was to set itself apart from Scralaxy with it's more traditional level style, and scrolling. Development of the game was notoriously slow, with the most likely reason being that Super Mario Scralaxy was still in development, and with it being more popular and more finished. Since it was revealed that -PotatoTornado- was using an alt account to trash the official studio for the game, there has been theories that he knew the project would be unpopular, and the development was a sick joke, although no actual evidence can confirm nor deny this. On March 2nd, 2022, DoritoDude123 stated they were considering scrapping the project and restarting, due to there being very little progress until that point, with game only going up to 0.1.0.5 at the time.

Mario Kart 8 Screluxe began development on September 8th, 2018, less than three weeks after Super Mario Scratchy World began it's development. The game was much more successful than Scratchy World however, with it getting 7 versions in it's first month. The success can be tied to it being a much more unique project than Scratchy World. The game was the first project that featured fully functioning AI, which was essential for making the game playable in single player.

Mario Party S, the fourth game of the Scralaxy Team, started development on October 12th, 2018. The game was set to be a party game, in the vein of Super Mario Party. However, the game (like Scratchy World) has had considerably less support than the other games, most likely due to the fact that there were already three games they haven't finished, and they had just started two new games very recently.

Many were anticipating a fifth game, however, DoritoDude123 stated that they wouldn't start any more games until one game was finished. Most people were disappointed, but understanding. This statement would soon end up being false.

Super Scratch Bros. Scrultimate had the longest buildup to release, with the project being confirmed to be the team's fifth game in 2019. DoritoDude123 released the first version on April 8th, 2021. However, Scrultimate was the team's slowest project yet, with only 2 versions releasing in it's opening year.

The Game 6 Poll was the first instance of us not just going "Hey, let's do this!" Each voter was allowed a total of 2 votes. 5 games were considered. From DoritoDude123, an untitled Mario & Luigi game, as well as an untitled Paper Mario game. From Xbull\_Studios, Super Mario Scrunshine. From RedsLab\_, Ice Sclimbers. And finally, from Nour250508, Super Mario Tennis Scraces. All games from the poll were stated to have a future, however, the game that won with a total of 12 points was...

Paper Mario: Tear In Reality! The sixth Scralaxy Team game begun development on the April 12th, 2022.

## Systems & Roles

* The application system can be found in the Scralaxy Team Development Hub, also known as the STDH.
* The development system can also be found in the linked project above.
* To explain "directors" we have a piece of a conversation between DrEleven and DoritoDude123.

DrEleven: "...Would you say there is a director to scralaxy team projects, since they're inherently highly cooperative?"

DoritoDude123: "I'd say for everything other than Scralaxy... Yeah? But not a director in the normal way. Like it's not like the director has full control over what's in the game or not, it's still a collab and everyone should be able to contribute equally. If a director does have a vision, they can of course share it, but that doesn't mean the game is set to follow their exact idea. Hope that's a good answer :)"

DrEleven: "It's a fantastic answer! It's not fair when people who do a lot of work can't put their own ideas in, this statement needs to be shared more often."

* Every member of the Scralaxy Team is allowed to code, create artwork, compose music, and more, but there are some kind of considered "sections" of the team, where those who more skillful in a certain area tell us that they are coders or artists. It doesn't stop them from doing other things, it just allows us to more easily communicate with each other. For example, if someone needs to speak to an artist to create an asset, they can more easily know who to ask.

## Our Beloved Team Members

ScralaxyTeam

DoritoDude123

goldfish678

LexDoesGames

AAlanScratch

GreenCat2401

newbie20909

Highcell713

marxcute19

scratchU90

Harlow21

redyoshi857

djsparta

ToadfanSchool

LuigiJr

dominic305

ToadfanTest

Meowlit12

pbj063

MegaHedgehog

nayr0325

Hasanmajid10

Shy-Reaper

2freehi

endersmash994

ZappyBarbecue10

TheRealDeanMeTn

JamesRayArt

-CoolCoder-

FoxySonicMaster108

diamondluigi64

JJJ031

lev1up

qaxduk

wisewabbit2000

LizardStudios

KarateToast

Pickleodeon

Xbull\_Studios

-CreativeCatStudios-

mario490

Super\_Colino

CodeKirby

JerrytheSlime01

GarbageTV

ScratchTheGreatest

superpi2

BUCKCLUCKFROMROBLOX

SuperScratchMaker001

woadwii2

nathanmalaman

-TordRedLeader-

MagiCarson08

Nour250508

gabeknight999

chengot

RedsLab\_

Ethan-3

Scratch\_Product1ons

Ryanewomazino

dumb\_male