Game Development Reference
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Saving and loading projects
When we've done a lot of work on a project, it's a good thing to save it so that we don't lose
our progress. This also allows us to coninue work later.
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The good news is that the online Scratch environment saves your progress automaically to the
server. So even when we don't take any acion ourselves, it's unlikely that we will lose a lot of
work. But it can sill be useful to save manually as well because the bad news is that Scratch
doesn't save diferent versions. While auto-saving the last saved ile, it is overwriten. This can
become a problem if you've worked along a path that turns out to be a dead end, or if you
(want to) have several variaions on a project. In these cases, it's a good idea to save the ile
manually, preferably with a new name, so we can sill access older versions of the project.
In the top menu bar, underneath the File buton, are the saving opions. We can simply click
on Save now to force an immediate save. This overwrites the project but can be useful if
you want to quit for the day and close the browser. If we use Save as a copy , we can save a
new version of the project. Then there's the opion to download to and upload from your
computer. These funcions are very useful to create local backups of your projects, or if you
want to move project files around without having to rely on Scratch accounts and the server.
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There isn't much to say about saving files, other than just save often and be smart about it.
It's always beter to have a back-up ile that you will never look at again than to lose valuable
work and ime just because you forgot to save your project.
Sharing the backpack feature
Besides sharing enire projects with the community through the Scratch website,
it's now also possible to share sprites and scripts between projects easily with the
new Backpack feature.
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Previously, when you wanted to reuse parts of other projects, you'd have to open the old
project and either import and adapt it in the new one or manually retrace its steps to recreate
the scripts. With the introducion of the Backpack feature, this is no longer necessary.
 
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