How to Make a Scrolling Background in Scratch | Tutorial

Ever wanted to make a Scratch project with a scrolling background? This tutorial will show you how! By the end of this video, you’ll be able to make a moving background, including the ability to add multiple scenes, worlds, or locations.

Try it out:

Remix this project (just go to this link and click the green “Remix” button):

Project credits (in order of appearance):

[Zinnea]

If you could have any character in your scrolling background project, what character would you want? :D

[Quackery]

Wow, I haven't really used Scratch for 5-6 years, and knowing that it was still active and inspiring others was wonderful.

[xDandyx]

This helped me make my character fall off a building :D

[iammrp]

Hi, I've been coding with scratch for a while now, so thanks for constantly updating and making scratch a better website, its awesome and I love it! By the way, your tutorials are super helpful, thanks for spending time teaching us the basics of coding!

[arvee]

as a professional scratcher who has made loads of unshared projects I would like to say this works and beginners should definitely watch this tutorial

[indekscard]

huh, I always made a bad jumble of costumes to make it look like it's moving

[tuckerbetz]

This is perfect, right when I needed it :)
It makes me feel better to use official scratch content too

[jusheng]

6:14 That... is really such a simple plant lol

[Bleebtown]

5:14
or... just make the backdrop the sprite without rocks, much simpler

[FireyDeath]

Griffpatch: *right we're done here*

[arisinger]

Thank you Zinnea, this is exactly what I was trying to figure out how to do, except I want to do it with a streetscape, and have my character skateboarding across! Really appreciate your easy to understand explanation, really helpful :)

[mouhiazeck]

This is unironically the best scrolling background tutorial I've seen, thank you so much!!

[kroezelgaming]

Thanks! I remember spending hours to figure out how to do this lol

[mightyjhesstiongson]

We've been studying scratch programming at school but I didn't know how to do that. Very helpful!

[lntelling]

Thought you would use cloning blocks...but this is much easier! Thank you!

[AdamBuyang]

Her voice is much easier than the screen thanks scratch team

[asavage]

She makes the best scratch tutorials 100/10

[ctutorials]

Thank you so much! I recently used this tutorial in 2 of my games!

[RJVZBloxerYT]

Thank you scratch team for making this wonderful coding website. I wanted my games to become an actually game. But other websites are too advanced. And now I have this my dreams are real life. Thanks Scratch Team! :)

[creamwastaken]

griff:much better in presentation
scratch:much better in talking really fast and not caring for the cringing teens