8 Years of Game Development

In this game development video, I show you how I progressed from a total noob into a Programming GENIUS in Scratch 3.0.
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I'll take you through my 8 journey of scratch, from my first game, made all the way back in 2013, which was basically a Pong ripoff, to Airplane, a high-caliber, multiplayer first person shooter which I made three months ago and in Unity.
I'll show the progress of me transitioning from Scratch 3.0 to Unity, and maybe even Unreal Engine. I can now make awesome 3d Multiplayer Games because of what scratch taught me.
Our Website: www.Jackson-Academy.org
Discord: / discord

[@CEFORMIVinhedo]

What an amazing journey, man! Congrats!!! Thanks for sharing your story! We are a public school channel from Brazil and we've recorded an interview with the artist responsable for drawing and create the Scratch cat and other characters. We believe you might enjoy the content. Best wishes on your new journey, we'll be cheering for you!

[@JacksonAcademy1]

Hi! Thanks for the comment, I really appreciate it. Who was the artist of the Scratch Cat? A scratch team member? I would love to watch the video when it releases.

[@ErikSepp]

0:33 This is the most madlad move I've seen in scratch.

[@McVincient]

EPICC Video! I really like your airplane unity game! 👌👌👌

[@JacksonAcademy1]

your air-o-plane game is better

[@McVincient]

@@JacksonAcademy1 if we compare to your scratch version, yes lol, but not better than unity

[@kiplingashton9242]

i cant find the airplane unity@@JacksonAcademy1

[@seth-blank]

Hyped for the unity content.

[@carmygames]

Long and cool journey, bro (game with your sister's head is really something beautiful) Someday I'll make a video of my journey in gamedev too)

[@samyam]

Wow I didn't know scratch could be used to make such cool games :o

[@JacksonAcademy1]

Only good programmers can make good games out of a terrible programming language

[@aivanosgg2269]

they literally made 3d projects using math and pen blocks

[@LEFFEOHMANOHMAN]

YOU are underrated your so much better than any other scratch guy

[@user-cb4lf3qu6e]

bro, your airplane unity game was just so clean :D

[@JacksonAcademy1]

You think so? I remade it in 3d on Sullystudios.itch.io, tell me what you think!

[@JoshKoledoye]

Awesome. Hope to be awesome like you and griffpatch someday❤

[@JacksonAcademy1]

Good luck! ♥ 🍀

[@JoshKoledoye]

Thanks

[@amethystexpress1398]

I am back to tell you that Jackson Academy is the type of guy to respond to a comment and never respond back.

[@JacksonAcademy1]

true

[@Spid5G]

true

[@spoingus1st]

True

[@lavandula._.]

true

[@recomical]

true

[@JMTF1341]

Man I started on scratch recently and no one saw it it’s really motivating

[@JacksonAcademy1]

Just keep going!

[@Gandi_IDE]

Very inspiring presentation, looking forward to seeing the games you will create in the future.

[@mason0133]

This vid is really inspiring. Whenever I watch your videos the first thing I notice is how good your thumbnails are. What software d'you use to make them?

[@JacksonAcademy1]

Adobe Photoshop, and thanks!

[@amethystexpress1398]

How did he even learn hoe yo code this easily , learning all the scratch code is like learning the palagrithm theroy

[@SK3LO]

ngl i would love to see you make some unity vids

[@meehdrescher]

This reminds me of what I started with back in 2013 when I was 6 years old... It was basic as hell, but I made a game where you drive a car through a labyrinth and you try to get to the finish without crashing... Back then, my coding skills were god awful and you could only turn in 90° steps x) I then went on to create an open world racing game, it was 2D and there was pretty much no graphics, but I already had collision physics and even some vehicle customization and upgrades, never finished the project though. And in 2018, I managed to make my first ever tolerable driving physics which I combined with 3D graphics in mid 2020. Not the real 3D, just a bunch of stacked images. What am I doing now? Well... I am close to finishing my biggest project yet, which I call Pixel Driver Motorsport. Open World, 6 maps, I'm aiming for about 50 cars with 14 more to go, realistic sounds, shadows, particles, different physics for each surface and more. The game would probably be completely impossible to make without the custom extensions and features in Turbowarp, but eh, I'd rather have more FPS, a minimap, offline gamesaves and steering wheel support instead of running it on OG Scratch.

[@VenusMoonBunny]

I'm close to finishing a project. It's called Eternity at Fuzzy's. It only needs one more thing. And a bit of polishing.

[@kosuken]

Same here (kinda), I went from scratch to unity, then to unreal, then back to unity (now I work mostly in unity but sometimes in unreal)

[@UnbornXB]

love your videos🤗

[@benpackwood]

Cool😀

[@SFSEARTH]

Nice

[@BobandSteve1]

Awesome, follow him instead of your dreams.

[@Thegamingpirate684]

Same bro 2013 scratch was pretty bad but I still loved it

[@ChillJ4ck]

Me my brother and my friend are really good at scratch and we are BY FAR the best in our class 😂 ❤

[@ronaldtherabbit3065]

"Space" seemed like it was based of the spider gamemode in "Geometry Dash"

[@JacksonAcademy1]

No, I have never played Geometry Dash in my life, except for terrible scratch ripoffs of it. It is very similar though!

[@epoxychamp4246]

YO, I was just going to comment that 😂😂, not like any scratchers that I know of play GD 😅😂😂

[@epoxychamp4246]

Also the ship game mode icon from space never let me go lol

[@daxtonrogers7097]

Geometry dash!!!(that part from dash plays)

[@Guysfromfortnight]

That is so cool

[@scobkeo]

After 91 years it will have a 1-1 recreation of life

[@lungilesimelane5193]

New subscriber

[@JacksonAcademy1]

Thanks for subbing

[@MarshmelloDJ1006]

Epic

[@mekh-ib9uw]

space unity looks cool

[@DrAndyShivers]

cool

[@inoblox8185]

honestly I thought making scrolling games was harder than I thought (it's not that hard)

[@In_and_ours]

How

[@KingRad155]

I have been dreaming to make a game like Airplane Unity. HOW DUDE, HOW

[@JacksonAcademy1]

once you master scratch you can basically do anything. IT's like you have creative mode on or seomthing. Do you use scratch?

[@kAiWerXx]

Hey scratch jr is great I love MAKEING games with it it’s easy

[@superbro64-mh7ld]

That thumbnail tho we robot gyatt to take over the world

[@16BitDoggo]

Yoo finally

[@johnvernieisles626]

The game space makes me remember spider gamemode on geometry dash

[@Mamajee-my2rh]

from where did you learn to make variables and use the oberaters i am stuck can you give me an advice? btw awesome journey!

[@Kylennthegirlgamer]

Hi idk about operators but for variables you can make a variable and make a score and you can use Chang score by 1 or set score to any number or you can hide them hope this helps

[@AvrgScratcher]

this guy's character looks like the winning smile

[@savagecatdev]

make space a unity game! i would love to see that

[@JacksonAcademy1]

It already is! sullystudios.itch.io/

[@johnchristianuy2716]

a world i built for you🎵

[@johnchristianuy2716]

just like you Jackson

[@ryanroman1137]

Yo be honest I lie how that jet pack city one looked I love pixel games.

[@Scratch_Fakemon]

bro cant stop movin' around--

[@user-so5hk8ln2v]

The space game you made is kinda like geometry dash spider

[@huttle]

you should do roblox i think that would be simple like scratch but 3d like unity and theres millions of people on roblox and a really polished game page!!

[@SonicBahasa]

We are a public school channel from Brazil and we've recorded an interview with the artist responsable for drawing and create the Scratch cat and other characters.

[@Challenger10K]

good for you

[@NaudVanDalen]

How do you stay sane when having to scroll through all that "code"? Is there only one tab available to store it on?

[@eggman3400]

where did you make your art for the games (what software)

[@MrDefault.]

nice vid i like ur new vtuber character (:

[@JacksonAcademy1]

Thanks! It looks a little weird animated though. ANy suggestions?

[@MrDefault.]

​@@JacksonAcademy1 maybe make the t shirt more detailed with your logo

[@EtanMarlin]

@@JacksonAcademy1 the mouth looks like it's facing the wrong way, I would flip all the mouth sprites, and the neck needs to be a little more polished, maybe by making it a tad wider

[@dianadong8486]

Made this scratch game it called Beats Levels You have click it jump and flip

[@dianadong8486]

What made disconted

[@dianadong8486]

Make just 20 second

[@claptonsmith7640]

Yes

[@sillygooberlilly]

Hello Jackson Academy. I'm EiramC and I am here to remind you that I have one day on my membership. This will probably be the last time you see me spam the genuine emoji and not this 😳garbage. Anyways, cool video 10/10 changed my life forever

[@JacksonAcademy1]

Hi @EiramC I appreciate the kind gesture. Hopefully, this will be a moment that you remember in your life. I can see you now, in the future, informing your grandchildren how you were once a member of the Jackson Academy elite.

[@FORRBIDENUSER]

🤑

[@zexin8838]

Why do you use for your character to move around the screen?

[@TheForgottenXL]

bro got the undertale moving sound effect 💀

[@Tempo918]

i started with scratch too, 3.0, nearly 3 years later, im now coding with python :) thanks to the scratch community for giving me the motivation i need to keep coding!

[@JacksonAcademy1]

Nice work! What kinds of things are you making with python?

[@Tempo918]

@@JacksonAcademy1 im still learning but im good at it, learning gamemaker studio and html too :)

[@NaraSherko]

Link to the projects

[@GamerGADGETS-vh8yc]

bro becuase of the newest tutroials of 2024 i made my 3scratch games movement and most things down im 11 turning 12

[@POTUSJoesph]

Great video, wanted to let you know that 3d multiplayer games are possible in scrqtcj

[@JacksonAcademy1]

hah, no. scratch doesn't do actual 3D, it's Fake "3D". You can't publish to mobile, PC, console, or anything else except scratch. Scratch is incredibly limiting.

[@Disbanded9998]

​@@JacksonAcademy1 you can lol use turbowarp packager

[@AndevOG]

if jackson academy replies I'll attempt to make a raycasting engine in scratch jr.

[@MrNadav1995]

Derek Trucks!

[@katakuti08]

Hey, 8 years! That's how old I am loll!

[@robloxfunny7450]

Hey @Jackson Academy is it possible if you make a game where the character chops trees and gets wood and buys lands and buys weapons to chop easier the trees and in each land the trees get harder to chop? that would be great if you did it!

[@ENRGguy]

ofc

[@itsray5257]

That sounds like lumber tycoon but of course, not recommend to do it in scratch because it is a very bad engine with no programming but yeah

[@landnpr3414]

chipper and sons : -_-

[@VenusMoonBunny]

​@@landnpr3414yeah. Is it that Scott Cawthon game before fnaf?

[@vegansharkanims]

​@@itsray5257bro this game is ez to make

[@misterdot6923]

yes

[@Whovswho306]

Who else thinks scratch block coding is way more simple and more colorful then unity

[@JacksonAcademy1]

sure it's colorful and simple, because it's for BABIES. you can't improive your game development if you stick with scratch

[@Whovswho306]

@@JacksonAcademy1 EXSCUSE ME THAT IS OFFENSIVE TO SCRATCH!!!!!!

[@mitchkiggins9661]

I want to play your first scarcth game...

[@ravikant4110]

i cant get your Aroplane series and i cant make it so will you relese it

[@AJADoggPapay]

WINING SMILE ARMY

[@axpir0876]

I was the only one that noticed that at minute 7:54 says "My Computer" in Spanish?

[@JacksonAcademy1]

🤓

[@officialblueify]

Maybe next vid you should make a io game.

[@I_Love_Om_Nom34.]

please find me the project link for dont burn mimi.

[@qwerty_qwerty]

space all alone is just gd but that gamemode that I forgor the name of 💀

[@Networknukes]

*3 Years Later* I Had created merely 20 projects...

[@JacksonAcademy1]

but actual good projects, i make

[@amethystexpress1398]

But actually responding to a comment you commented on , is hard

[@Networknukes]

@@JacksonAcademy1 Yes True, though its sad you keep getting banned :(

[@jay-sealz]

Damn

[@galak-two-ya]

The fact that you can't link social media or YT on Scratch is honestly bullshit but we just have to deal with it.

[@JacksonAcademy1]

"Scratch is safe" - The Scratch Team Scratch comments: "Click on this link to get free robux!: (sus bit.ly link)"

[@kubewithak4030]

how do you make a great pixel art

[@baongocnguyen6631]

What’s the third airplane game name? 😊

[@Inky_puppets]

i just lost a year of work on my scratch game and looks like theres no way to get it back

[@1trie]

cool, but why the video is so small?

[@JacksonAcademy1]

what video?

[@1trie]

@@JacksonAcademy1 this one bruh

[@benstoic]

sully's new avatar looks goofy asf

[@markyurkuns1234]

why is half of the raycaster project cut? Even if you followed the tutorial and it did that, you could of fixed by yourself at the level you where alr.

[@JacksonAcademy1]

what?

[@EthanGutierrez-kh8re]

10 years

[@alanchan3814]

There is a Raycasting tutorial made in KZbin by griffpatch

[@screechv2254]

Wait why i can regonize evrey sound effect and music in airplane unity?

[@JacksonAcademy1]

in my game?

[@screechv2254]

@@JacksonAcademy1 yes

[@YessoN-YT]

2:53 When you get griffpatched :

[@JacksonAcademy1]

griffpatch didn't make the tutorial wut?

[@YessoN-YT]

@@JacksonAcademy1 I confused, he did the same system but with cars :)

[@JacksonAcademy1]

@@YessoN-YT gruffoatch didn't make a 3d top down city tutorial, and if he referenced one in a tutorial, it wasn't 5 years ago.

[@YessoN-YT]

@@JacksonAcademy1 Ah ok

[@BM32524]

He made a game like this but not a tutorial

[@MERRKATT9945]

Wut is your scratch?? cant find it!

[@rodrigolefever2426]

He got banned

[@imaguyyesmale]

7:02 bro is a gd player

[@In_and_ours]

Now I got to do this stupid dumb “first”

[@JacksonAcademy1]

WHAT FIRST

[@In_and_ours]

>:( why

[@rebeccab2771]

I was born that year

[@rbrtnewoneforeverandalways]

can you reupload airplane on scratch

[@JacksonAcademy1]

yes, check my account @Sughly

[@Rye_bread174]

Who is the pink robot in the thumbnail?

[@maDU59_]

Your projects are cool but not so complicated sadly

[@Shinji-That-has-always-been]

i don't really know why but i don't think that you could make unity-level games with scratch

[@5starralfie]

im playing this in school

[@mujur9663]

You just basically make geometry dash spider-9yo indonesian

[@Senveralk]

Can you make a game with one sprite?

[@afandy4324]

Scratch only gives you the basics, it doesn’t give you any fancy tools, main reason why it’s easy to learn but the reason it’s so limited is because it doesn’t give you anything besides the basics

[@amaliaaraiza4499]

Whats the plane unity game called?

[@JacksonAcademy1]

it's called airplane, find it here: sullystudios.itch.io/airplane

[@darkninja37]

Geez

[@Gl_3tch]

Where can I find your Google play games? I checked and couldn't find them

[@JacksonAcademy1]

look in the description, i just updated it.

[@Gl_3tch]

​@@JacksonAcademy1 where is airplane

[@JacksonAcademy1]

Check the links in the description!

[@Gl_3tch]

​@@JacksonAcademy1 airplane isn't there

[@Gl_3tch]

nvm it is there but it's not compatible with any of my devices even though they are all android

[@robertdenes4006]

It looks like the space series is inspired by geometry dash

[@The_Random_Youtuber]

bet scratch has no problems with banning back then

[@supabuddysoup6023]

where did your "making a game in 1 hour (or 30 minutes)" video?

[@JacksonAcademy1]

i unlisted it

[@supabuddysoup6023]

@@JacksonAcademy1 oh ok