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The creators of Mario in Scratch are isolated? - 2DDGAMES - 01-11-2026
While browsing a forum, I realized that nobody talks about Scratch projects or similar ones. They seem like a completely disconnected community from the general community (not just MFGG, but other platforms too). I've seen that they even have their own Mario studios, so are they true fans or just mini-fans?
Maybe they are, because they make Mario games, but they don't leave their original platform, so technically they're isolated... But I don't know, to me they are fans, even if their projects aren't that complex... I don't know, maybe we (all the Mario fans out there) should help their community become less isolated and connect it to the world, because on YouTube I've only found gameplay videos, but not a single video about the history of this community... What do you think? 
RE: The creators of Mario in Scratch are isolated? - littlelum - 01-11-2026
I think the reason for the isolation is because the only people interested in scratch are those who already use it. I've also never encountered a scratch game out in the wild, since most scratch users only share their projects on the scratch website. So most people never see their works because they never bother to visit the website. People never bother to visit the website because there is this stereotype that scratch games date overly simplistic and not very polished.
RE: The creators of Mario in Scratch are isolated? - VinnyVideo - 01-15-2026
When MFGG was first created, MFGG was a Clickteam-centric community. Most game developers here used The Games Factory, Multimedia Fusion, or one of the other Clickteam products. As time went on, GameMaker started to steal Clickteam's thunder, and eventually GM became the most popular game development tool on MFGG. We also see some other tools like Unity, Godot, Construct, and Stencyl.
Scratch has never been a popular game-making tool on MFGG. Every once in a while we see a game submission on the mainsite where the creator used Scratch. However, most of the those games had issues and we had to decline them.
Scratch is a good tool for learning the fundamentals of coding, but it's also a very limited tool. If you want to get serious about making games, I'd recommend that you check out one of the tools I mentioned above. That said, I'm sure there's someone out there who can make a really interesting game in Scratch, in spite of its limitations.