It's time for a proper goodbye. Alright: 1. THE BEGINNER'S ERA: I started my scratch career on @CBZHLL. Making broken projects. They never worked. Ex: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/391518771/ My older brother (used to be scratcher, also retired) helped me and supported me. I sometimes made projects for fun. My second grade self was very creative and I quickly fell in love with the program. After around 2 years of coding, I lost interest in scratch. My projects never worked. NEVER. I quit. (At least, temporarily.) Then after a month break, I decided to come back. I was determined to make a project that actually worked. But, I also wanted a fresh start. And that's when I created @stepleket351. 2. THE DOORS ERA. On Roblox (which I also quit now) I quickly fell in love with a game called DOORS. You had to navigate between tricky rooms and puzzles whiles entities hunted you down. Some were blind, some were fast with one eye, and others were green and rebounded up to 6 times. The suspense quickly made me addicted. I was determined to get through all 100 doors. However, the game was extremely hard and I struggled to beat it. This made me think: what if I could get a better understanding of the game, by recreating it - ON SCRATCH. I started with a very complicated doors project. It worked - but was buggy and looked messy: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/835896883/. 3. THE BEGINNING OF THE FRIEND GROUP That's when scratcher @khangkgb found my project. He loved my doors projects because he loved the game too. He invited me into the friend group - at the time me, khang, and sushi. More people joined, fishguy, garlic (timeless, quit), player, jeavni (quit), and much more friends joined too. The friend group was at its peak. I was averaging 50 messages a day. It was amazing. Then, I wanted to create a better doors project. I worked hard for a couple hours every day for a week. Then, the project was done: IT BLEW UP. I was shocked. I was getting now 60 MAILS PER DAY. But it wasn't just me. Jeavni released his own doors project. Sushi was working on eternal nightmares. Khang released Neighboorhood. This is the absolute peak of the friend group. Until the drama arrived. 4. CRAZYBANANA Crazybananadev was a mass reporter and hacker (banned now). He caused mass mayhem on scratch. He even led to an entire investigation group being opened. We tried our best to stop him. He brought in his friends. Annoying mass remixing filled our mailboxes. His comments making us shiver in our seats as we watched him slowly report and ban sushi until his account - WAS HACKED. And that was the start of the craziest month - and probably my worst ever scratch decision - ever. 5. NEW ACC AND TROLL ACC I moved to . And then, I made more games, Pi factory, DownDeepAI, and I teased my new big game - the hacker. Then, I made a fake acc impersonating one of my friends. Pretending to be a hacker. That got be banned for violating the scratch rules. I tried to get around with other accounts - but that failed. I wrote emails to scratch team - that failed. Then, I decided to quit. But that experience had a lasting impact on the friend group - up until now. My friends now thought the platform was too childish. One by one, they left. First - Jeavni. Then - Garlic. Player barely gets in touch will the friend group. 6. COMEBACK I made a comeback by coming to this account. On a different laptop. It was all going well, but then I LOST INTREST. Slowly, khang, the most active friend, also lost interest (I can't blame him he was an amazing friend). 7. And finally, leaving. After losing almost all my intrest, I decided to try to complete my game - that ship already sailed. But I couldn't stand seeing my friends leave, one by one. It made me so sad. Which brings me to today. This is my last project. My final shout, my final goodbye. Thank you to everyone who supported me this whole time. Scratch on my friends, - Skep/Nathe.
