icons for kids who don't read or write

[dgutson]

Hi,

any chance to make this Scratch-like (or Scratch-junior) in terms of commands having icons enabling young kids who don't read or write yet? (but know block programming)

[wolfgangmeyers]

I can see the appeal of the idea, but I think the complexity of the Roblox platform is a bit too much for it. That said, it would be nice to simplify the interface with built-in behaviors that make development much easier, it might be doable then.

[dgutson]

What about using these? https://github.com/LLK/scratchjr/tree/chromebook-optimize/editions/free/src/assets/blockicons

Too hard to add them to the blocks instead of the text?

[wolfgangmeyers]

I'm not sure, would have to try. The bigger problem is that there would be a large number of icons to expose the platform capabilities, so it might not be all that helpful in making things easier. Maybe deleting an Instance could be represented as a trash icon, but how do you identify which object to delete?

I think it's possible but it would need to be a very limited subset of functionality for Roblox that was exposed. I haven't tried using icons for the blocks but I don't see why it wouldn't work.

[dgutson]

I haven't tried using icons for the blocks but I don't see why it wouldn't work.

This is exactly what I'm proposing :)

Sorry I just checked that I said this nowhere that I was referring to the blocks only. My bad.