Awesome Number Counters 💯 | Exciting Scratch Game & How to Tutorials

Easily and quickly enhance your Scratch Games by replacing the player's boring Score variable reporter with a bespoke costume based Number counter.
Let's face it, the Scratch Variable reporters look old and boring - So liven things up by learning to code a number counter using clones and any font costume you can find or draw yourself! Then drop it in to any project!
My tutorials are for all budding game & software developers using Code Blocks. Scratch On guys!
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-------------Video Chapters-------------
0:00 Intro
0:34 Clicker Game Variable Reporter
1:36 Importing Font Costumes
2:44 Letter to Costume Name
5:22 Using Clones for more digits
7:07 Identifying a clone (Clone ID / index)
9:33 Updating the Score in real time
10:30 Score Lengths & Blank Digits
13:00 Score Positioning
14:39 Centre Aligning Text
17:48 Run without Screen Refresh
18:18 Animating Digit Changes
21:00 Text Engine?
21:58 Scratch Studio
22:18 Outro

[@SomeoneCalledAdrian]

when the world needed a Scratch tutorials channel, a person by the name of Griffpatch appeared and helped millions. what a great channel!

[@Glainwats]

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[@NoobmanDiaherra]

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[@SomeoneCalledAdrian]

@@NoobmanDiaherra *proper scratch youtuber*

[@NoobmanDiaherra]

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[@Adventure_Epic]

if you set size to 0% rather than 100% in the setup custom block, you get a cool effect where the numbers pop up

[@moonlightgaming3067]

true

[@ronardneto]

100% true

[@paradox_225]

I'm using this for a fnf game on scratch

[@vidyav1925]

@@paradox_225 fnf games are banned now

[@not.Delta4]

@@vidyav1925 why?

[@wilhelmjtard]

This man’s tutorials are really special, instead of him saying “do this and then this” he shows us how we could figure out solutions ourselves, which is really awesome.

[@teapotnews5505]

I cannot stess enough how your videos help me so much, with things like this I always thought the coding must be so hard, I always wished I could have better looking variables but I thought it would be really hard to code, but, yet again, as always, you find a simple way of sloving these problems.

[@ruchikataria1594]

Great! Also, I can't wait for the 2-d procedural generation video. Griffpatch is destined to do revolutionary scratch coding yet again.

[@beastmaster6945]

Yes ... I want to make minecraft 2D

[@glanmatan6835]

Same.

[@beastmaster6945]

He disserve 1 million subscribers

[@a.v2622]

Maybe a 3d game for a series

[@kccubing7649]

@@beastmaster6945 he is almost there

[@Pineyyyyy]

Thanks, GriffPatch for the detailed tutorial. I was worried because i didn't leave a blank costume, but you explained that later on and that really helped me, thanks again.

[@FeniteFr]

After 1,5 years I finally followed this tutorial ! 😹 It's for a new little project where I just needed this 🙀 Thank you Griffpatch ! 😎😻

[@Purbii704]

PHOENIT?! (hey wassup i'm Cosmolan_Coder)

[@FeniteFr]

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[@daniyalnaeem7080]

@@FeniteFr Hey i have a question does make a game over thing cuase i cannot find it

[@reenactable6]

@@daniyalnaeem7080 what type of game over screen do u want i can help you

[@TheDuckDude806]

Ive needed to know this forever😂 Thank you Griffpatch!

[@IG00Channel]

OMG, thank you for making this tutorial, it really helps. I was struggling to make a timer in my maze project (from your video), I have it as a variable for now but now I can make it as costumes! 💛

[@griffpatch]

Hey mate, don't span it please

[@IG00Channel]

@@griffpatch Why not?

[@shravyajain672]

@@IG00Channel It would cover some pathways, I think?

[@IG00Channel]

@@shravyajain672 You could've put it on the bounds

[@donutcuties3579]

@@IG00Channel 🙄

[@X1525]

Your tutorials are really easy to follow and understand! Before seeing this I thought making one of these would way too hard for me. Thanks for the video!

[@tuanhungnguyen4343]

yeah

[@GeekSHO]

Outstanding presentation! I'm looking forward to adding this to my Lemonoids (based on your other tutorial) and my Mowing Simulator 3000 projects.

[@RenardioMFG]

I was just going to make a number counter in my game using a list variable, but this is a whole lot simpler and arguably better

[@Official_zaDpi]

Very helpful! I had made one myself but it was bad because it re-created the clones every time the score changed (so it was some lag and glitches), but this is a lot of better! Also thanks for the centre text aligning.

[@Abhilasha84]

Wow I have been waiting to learn this for so long I am glad u made a tutorial on this😃

[@cristianospohr69]

The center aligning part REALLY helped me with a Pizza Tower Text Engine i'm making on Turbowarp! Thank you very much!

[@samuelyeokaikiat4130]

This was surprisingly simple! I was accepting it to be harder to code it using if blocks! Awesome tutorial!

[@badbarnabas1359]

Your videos are definitely worth a subscription. Good job 🙂

[@jamespennington6428]

I think you should do (if ((length of (SCORE)) > [Max amount of number that can be shown]) repeat [max number] [script goes here] else repeat (length of (SCORE)) and in the first “when I start as a clone” after the costume is set do if ((length (SCORE)) > [Max number but minus 1]> set costume to (Glow-+) show variable SCORE [then place it under the numbers] so that if their score is higher than the max amount that can be shown they will know what their full score is and not think that it decreased

[@squixypixl]

Cube Creator 3D fan?

[@jamespennington6428]

@@squixypixl ?

[@SeazzYT]

Thank you very much, I really needed this because I was making a platformer game in scratch so I needed this for my "Coins" Score so thank you and i also might use this for my clicker game too! so thank you very much i really appreciate it!

[@commanderlabs]

Awesome video! Just wanted to add that you could automatically expand the number of clones by replacing the 6 in the repeat loop with a length of "Score".

[@fabricioamirpairazamanmalc3370]

@That clone trooper in the back on the high groundu sure? I don't think so!

[@starbeam7679]

That would work. I did think there must be an easier way to do that, but couldn't figure it out while watching.

[@peacrab]

i was thinking the same way too

[@Dudjdychehryfkdkw]

I have tried that and it works!

[@nvshrushikeshreddyvii-b5076]

An IQ 999 move right there

[@fakerolnando]

Wow, I can't believe you make this with only 1/2 amount of blocks I used to make this and its even work more effectively when I don't need to delete all numbers when I want to add one more number like from 99 to 100

[@TheHungerGamesPerson]

I used the center varible system for one of my games, this tutorial really helped me. Thanks Griffpatch! :D

[@BadaiYT]

Thanks for the tutorial griffpatch. This would really help out my game that currently in production!

[@ego-lay_atman-bay]

I have made my own score counter before, but it used deleting all the clones and creating new.ones so I can stay below the clone limit, and have as many characters as I want. I still could have improved it by only deleting clones that don't have a digit, and just changing the clone costume when the counter updates. I think I'm gonna try to creat a new project with my new idea.

[@jlhohbein2100]

Tip: if you want the amount of digits shown to always be enough to display your score, then make a block, make sure it runs without screen refresh, then make a variable to display the amount of clones you have, put “change by 1” in your repeat loop that makes clones of the score thing after the “create clone of myself” block, then make a new, make sure you checked the “run without screen refresh” box, then duplicate the contents of the repeat loop into the block that says “define ”, then make a forever loop and put it on the “on start” event block, then put an “if length of score greater than ” statement in the loop, then put in it “”, then run the code and make sure it works and if so, you’re done!

[@gemeosnosgames]

Thanks for the tip, really helpfull and cool. But i'm lazy and i'm just gonna finish this tutorial because i'm an almost at the finish.

[@Roader_021]

or u can just put in the repeat loop to repeat lenght of score

[@Roader_021]

but the big madness at 17:08 didnt work for me and i think it was bc of that so i changed it to (0-(((length of (score))/2)-((index)-(0.5))*((size)/2)

[@dayaairody4367]

thank you soooo much griffpatch! this helped me make my project so much better!

[@MiniConDog]

Omg i have seen these before and never knew how to do it and griffpatch came in and helped all of us

[@monicadua7]

I would absolutely love to see a tutorial on "adaptive ai" in scratch, I know it will be a tough one to make and think through, but it is a topic I have interest in...

[@griffpatch]

He he me too!

[@monicadua7]

Cool!!

[@brayanxd4547]

Yes, I'm Brazilian and I was inspired by this Channel @Universo Programado

[@sombimcjunior4451]

ive been looking into machine learning on scratch, it would be epic to see griffpatch make a vid on it !

[@blenderfox_foxwastaken]

Even I want to really see an AI tutorial, so I can make some awesome projects of different creatures interacting!

[@hnmodder6391]

This is great! If Scratch Lab text thing finally came to the normal Scratch, we would do this thing easy with some fonts. Though, thanks for the tutorial!

[@camelcam6008]

I hope they add that before 4.0 comes out

[@hnmodder6391]

@@camelcam6008 YES

[@ChiChibi_Personal]

I'm making a calculator using scratch and this has really helped so far with the calculated value.

[@Rebuild3]

i used this to finally get the price counter working in my game! Thank you so much for this!

[@MikeyMandFluffyMainProductions]

I set my glowing font colors to rainbow and when they changed, they actually looked pretty cool, probably cooler than the light blue.

[@golden.raja_]

I also did that

[@thepebble6709]

omg hi mikey

[@srl1978]

I'm copying you lol

[@Cyberfishofant]

by updating the number by a message of the score adding source you could get a really nice performance boost. They will only update in case of a score change(you could alos achieve that by waiting until the current costume =! the assigned... yea, you get it)

[@kanavkumar8079]

Not sure if you included this in the video, but the maths is if you want to align the numbers in the center of the entire screen. If you want to move the digits, you have to offset the maths by the x position. So it would be: set x to {requiredXPosition + { [ (index - 0.5) - (length/2) ] * (size/2)} } Put simply, add the required position to the equation that griffpatch makes in the video. *I couldnt find you mentioning this in the video, and thought this tip would be helpful to others

[@manishasdrawing4065]

I was very excited to watch this video, that much excited that you ever can't imagine !!

[@ZnidrqXizzrJh]

Griffpatch, you can actually use repeat ( lenght of [variable] ) to make number long just how many you want without having to add it all in

[@kuperlilu5340]

I'm not sure how to do it so that it automatically updates when the score changes though- if you start at a score of 0, then it'll only be supportive of 1-digit values.

[@ZnidrqXizzrJh]

@@kuperlilu5340 already tested and it works perfect :)

[@kuperlilu5340]

@@ZnidrqXizzrJh Could you tell me the code?

[@ZnidrqXizzrJh]

@@kuperlilu5340 replace the number (input) in the repeat that repeats how many clones the sprite spawn ( how many digits the number has) with the < Lenght of ( ) > fill in the blank with the score variable on ur project

[@yusong6729]

This is something I really needed! Thank you Griffpatch!

[@j.carpenter9682]

Other than the overlooked opportunity to use the ‘length of (input)’ variable, this was an amazing tutorial

[@Advik-5315]

Me: goes to scratch to open editor Griffpatch: …and that fellow Scratchers, is how we solve nuclear wars

[@Milan12234]

Love it! And also we can use this for timer like 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 and time's up! 😘

[@no_face1]

Yes just *Wait '1' second* *Change 'variable' by '-1'*

[@Milan12234]

@@no_face1 Yes. Really simple. :)

[@Dxuser5]

@@Milan12234 You'd also have to have a script for deleting the other numbers, idk how you'd do that though

[@Milan12234]

@@Dxuser5 You don't need to do it. It will work. You remember that blank costume?

[@Dxuser5]

@@Milan12234 oh yeaaaaa, im stupid XD

[@AviationFish_001]

12:23 thank you I did make it this far!

[@tdog_]

I'm making a trading game and to see how many resources the player has in their inventory, I didn't wanna use normal boring scratch variables. this is so helpful!! Now all I need to do is figure out how to assign them to each resource and make multiple of these...

[@Geezi24]

TYSM i needed this for my game and this rly helps and makes things easier!!! thank you!

[@brayanxd4547]

Hi griffpatch. I don't know if you are reading this, but, could you make a tutorial for massive cloud multiplayer? Like your MMO platformer! I know that is needed to make each cloud variable to a group of 10 players, just for example, and then, with 8 cloud variables, you have 80 players! But how do we do that?

[@KashTheKingYT]

lots of encoding stuff

[@brayanxd4547]

@@KashTheKingYT duhh

[@creepersaur]

I would watch a whole series in a day if you made a project where you can make your own code. Like drag and drop or nodes, that control a character.

[@qwertyuiop.lkjhgfdsa]

-scratch within scratch-

[@zepplinkiwigamer8217]

Those exist, thought extremely limited.

[@weegeenumberone2]

Wait, its just Scratch in Scratch?

[@eteled6312]

@@weegeenumberone2 always has been

[@darkboi12]

@@eteled6312 lol.

[@oliverthamissus6769]

I want to say thank you for all the hard work you put into your videos and projects

[@BibiBrawls]

Awsome! It works Really smooth! I just recreated it, and will use it in many projects! Griffpatch saved another Day!

[@drynshockgameplays]

12:20 el nos limita a usar 4 clones por "score-table" pero hay una funcion que se llama, "longitud de..." podemos usar esta para ponerla como longitud de la variable SCORE, y asi crear los clones que sean necesarios

[@endlesscheetah2927]

*¡Muchas gracias!*

[@thelegoreaper]

This looks great, and I can’t wait to start coding. I’m always bored with the lame counter that Scratch defaults

[@boxyanim8ion]

Ah yes, Scrtahc. (sorry if i made fun it just made me laugh lol)

[@thelegoreaper]

@@boxyanim8ion lol it’s okay I didn’t realise I was typing fast

[@nuttyboy23231]

This is so helpful! I use this in EVERY project now!

[@RaphaelBranco-tu3xu]

Thank you so much! This was such a lifesaver for my project!

[@N64Mario]

Fun Fact: Using a negative number spawns a 0 in front of the other numbers if for example, it is something like -123 would display as 0123. Also, There is no decimal point display if you set the number to something like 12.34. Perhaps in a future tutorial, there could be an explanation how to set these up?

[@griffpatch]

Easy, you just need costumes with a . And a - as the next character after the Glow-

[@anquocnguyenchannel9978]

@@griffpatch i got one bug

[@anquocnguyenchannel9978]

oops nevermind. That not a bug.

[@Oskarix-2012]

@@griffpatch you should make a tutorial on bigger numbers (since they can't fit on the screen) and change the counter to 1.35M (million)

[@Woopor]

@@griffpatch it keeps setting it to n.199999

[@calvinshu1435]

FYI If you want the numbers to align to the right, you just have to do two things: 1. Change the clones so that indices are opposite (4321 instead of 1234) 2. Instead of switching costume to (letter(index) of money), switch it to (letter((length of money - index) + 1) of money)

[@ZombieWithABra1n]

what? i dont get it sorry

[@oxintoma32dev]

dude,thank you so much! i really needed that! You're helping us so much!

[@griffpatch]

My pleasure!

[@theKeroseneTeam_3347]

Thank you Griffpatch! My number counter works and I already used it for my Scratch game.

[@FeniteFr]

OMG 🙀 this is just an incredible idea to create tutorials that we can follow alone and in a serie 🔥 THANK YOU GRIFFPATCH ❤️😸 I'll join the membership soon 🎉 🍋

[@amos9g]

I´ll also join the membership soon!

[@FeniteFr]

@@amos9g 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@jcgamer2222]

@ 0 NO

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[@user-no9xt6cq7p]

Right on time this is what I was looking for thanks

[@ImaDonutDev]

I love your videos because you explain it so good, that I understand it XD Great Tutorial by the way

[@loganroman5658]

This helped me make an engine! Thanks griffpatch!

[@thegrayninja4999]

Oh my god! Thank you so much! You are a lifesaver and honestly my favorite scratch youtuber!

[@sorengaming1541]

Huh, this is actually really neat. Taking coding in year 9, so this might help. Maybe you could make a video about making *upgrades for an incremental/clicker game,* if you haven't already. Buttons you push if you have enough of a SCORE value that makes each click give you more score, and other buttons that even give score automatically. That'd help a bunch.

[@vert_exium]

You can make a button with a variable named something like cashNeeded. this would be how much cash would be needed/upgrade. every time the button was clicked, it would multiply it by, for example, 1.5 times. you would also have another variable called multiplier. If you wanted to do a clicker game, every time clicked, you could add multiplier, or, (for example, 1, but you could do something bigger) x multiplier. hope this helped!

[@Slapper9000]

18:18 got me laughing “Tromkin”

[@daveobi9439]

This helped me alot, Thanks for making this video! You are the best! Keep going!

[@cringegaming8764]

Thanks for this! Currently making a platformer game, and this helped me create a gold counter for it!

[@Ironyum99]

THANKS this helped sooooo much thanks griffpatch!

[@The_Complicated_Fish]

Thankyou griffpatch! you helped me understand numbers with a sprite!

[@user-rw8cg4gb3e]

You explain your vids! No other Scratch YTbers do that! Thank You!

[@nenpolo6959]

when I first watch Griffpatch on YT he had 40k subs. Great job on improving the scratch community!

[@Hesei_gojira]

Thx so much for the help has improved almost all my projects

[@thefrostyguy99]

THANK YOU SO MUCH GRIFFPATCH I NEEDED THIS FOR MY CLICKER GAME I SEE WHY EVERYONE LIKES YOU NOW (first time watching)

[@JustSice]

Thank you griffpatch. You made me learn how to make a clicker game! Never quit your channel, Because we need more people like you.

[@HanbingGaming]

i love how you make tutorials and channel!

[@thinukishihara8460]

Oh my god your the best teacher ever. Learning with you is soo fun . Thank you so much for doing this!!!

[@seektheobbybuilder8891]

thanks so much for the great tutorial again ! first engine and tutorial where i can actually understand what i make !

[@dorianprogrammiren7405]

your tutorials are sooooo easy to understand i learnd sooo much THX

[@michaelestrada7748]

I needed this so much thx!

[@nathanw6884]

while this video didnt completely solve my problem it really helped. I got my number counter working :D

[@PROBS1]

I saw ur AMAZING getting over it. This video is gonna be good

[@BlazeYT-]

Amazing Tutorial! Really helped my game shine!

[@cut_copper9233]

Thanks! Your tutorials help a lot!

[@BluieCatGD]

Thank you griffpatch it helped me a lot!!!

[@lisagreer6412]

Thank you so much this helped out a lot.:)

[@KoalaStudy]

Your tutorials are amazing!

[@GamerSneak-pq5te]

This actually worked you earned a sub

[@thund0300]

Thank you this was truly informational

[@Cuddlii_Pawzz]

I love that he is still here, and scratching on! This will come very handy, tysm griffpatch :] (btw I'm another scratcher.)

[@shreyx1286]

This is soo cool thanks for the best tutorials ever!

[@tacticalclips]

I have been helped immensely by your vids!!

[@user-el9eb3tj5x]

thank you! I just need this!

[@akankshapal2106]

That really helps to create my clicker game. Thank You!

[@anquocnguyenchannel9978]

Good score griffpach! I will give you a like!

[@xonstuff6352]

Thank you! Love your content.

[@C02_themonke]

Thank you so much! It works great!

[@RalphyTheCoyote]

I'm working on an interesting game. A remix of Don't sh*t your pants. I needed the number counter for the time I had left until I pooped (in game) and your number counter honestly helped me!

[@zahraalsinan9917]

I Like your tutorials and i subscribed!

[@applecollections2371]

Thank you griffpatch! now Im gonna use this nunber counter... I mean the AWSOME number counter!

[@kirol3307]

Thanks so much griffpatch, my game is less boring now!

[@Levitationable]

THANK YOU SOO MUCH!! :D

[@nathanstoysandmore]

Thank you so much!

[@Dixions_clips]

12:53 You can also set repeat "length 'Score var' " And so there will don't need blank costumes.

[@DUMB_PERSON_NEAR_ME]

It's not gonna work