Simple Background Scrolling Tutorial

Do you want to know how to create scrolling backgrounds in ‘your’ Scratch projects? I’m Griffpatch, and I can’t wait to share with you how go about creating this cool effect. We'll also cover how to loop background sprites using the maths mod operator, and lastly introduce parallax scrolling and vertical scrolling, not to mention having an awesome animating Scratch Cat Walk Cycle!

This is a relatively basic tutorial, but is useful to understand as we use this, or similar techniques a lot in other projects. We will shortly be using this one in the titled scrolling tutorial series.

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[popanemone]

Griffpatch actually kind of sounds like mumbo jumbo now that I think of it ._.

[zombotrombo]

I've been using scratch for about five years yet still manage to learn something new that's really useful in each of these. This is brilliant!

[Justgor]

Wow! I love watching your tutorials even without creating a project

[reglan_dev]

griffpatch: simple background scrolling

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[crownedbw]

Thank you so much; you helped out on my game a lot (I also used your scrolling platformer tutorial from 3 years ago, and I'm pleased to say it all works perfectly)

[calogiga]

So many many many thanks for sharing your knowledge... Now, as a father, I have a mission to simplify all of this to explain this clearly to my daughter (12 years old) : she's coding and playing with me with Scratch. Many many thanks...

[perezpixelgamers]

Thx, i needed a scrolling background for a running scene, and this helped so much. I tweaked the code a bit, but most of your example was the base. Thx again. You may just have got a new subscriber! ;)

[toluyole]

I really love your videos . . . it makes me want to learn more . . . you know what would be cool, on of those zoom features, in those fighting games, where the camera zooms out to try to fit every one in the screen. Thanks for these videos . . . keep up the good work!!!

[ThatBSgamer]

Love the animated background tile you did it explains very well how it’s going to work

[basarentsen]

Griffpatch, i have one thing: thank you. Thank you for all the fantastic games. Thank you for all the amazing tutorials and the help. Respect for you! ❤️ 👍

[blueqmusics]

It's probably undisputable that this is one of the most sought-after features people want in their game. I'm sure this will help countless scratchers - even I had trouble doing this before! But you make it so easy griffpatch. Thanks so much!

[decade]

I wished to be a game maker. your videos really inspire me GriffPatch. I don't know how i would've been great without you. You are the best scratcher ever!

[efun]

Wow! Thanks a lot. This *will* help me so much in the future of my scratch journey. I used to do a lame way of scrolling, but this is better.

[Mountaindivisionrailfan]

I never knew about using the arrow keys for the resizing! I can now shape my train vectors correctly.

[goldcoins]

Very well done! I was surprised how long it took me to understand what each variable meant, but after taking a good look at it, reading the code blocks and understanding what they did, I think I have it now!

[Abfalder.J]

I'm surprised you only have 193k subscribers while you are like one of the best players on Scratch showing all the other people how to be like you

(Also thank you for posting these videos because i just started scratch yesterday and i learned so much now from you!)

[dr.archanamuralidharan]

I always wanted this, I didn't want to make a whole scrolling game, I just wanted the scrolling background, thank you griffpatch

[wolfgangr.]

2:26 Nice hack! Much better than using a frame or the complicated stamp method as in the old days (less than 2 years ago).

Other methods seem to have evolved as well. Everybody seems to be using ticks now.

Thank you so much for your quality input and editing.

[elytra]

i have been searching all of your videos and finally one showed up about scrolling, thanks griffpatch

[MrCrompz]

I already knew how to do this from your Scrolling Platformer tutorial series, although this is more detailed and now I understand more