Griffpatch

Griffpatch is a scratcher who got the most followers in Scratch. He is also known to make Incredible and almost unrecreatable games in scratch. He also has his own youtube channel where he makes many scratch based advanced tutorials. However his real name is never revealed and he joined scratch in 24th October 2012. According to his profile and youtube, he got hooked to coding when he was a kid. But still nothing has changed and still his day to day job involves java coding. In his spare time he makes games (especially in scratch.) and also drumming in church. He has 3 Childrens (griffinboy, griffingirl and griffingirl2.)

Early Life
He started programming in BBC Basic on an Acorn Electron when he was 8 years old along with his brother @Psiborg. He learned coding using books with help from his mom. He later used Amstrad 6128 (still programming in Basic), however this is when he learned Assembly. When he was 13, he used an Amiga A500 to allow him for the first time to make games. He programmed in Amiga Os and coded a few good games and without internet there is no way to be published. At this time he wrote a game called snail which he later recreated in scratch.

Then he took computer science and learned to program in Borland Pascal (Now Turbo Pascal.) He got his first pc in that time(pentium 286 dx with 4 mb ram.) Programming in Pascal slowed down his game devolopment because it lacked the basic game libraries supported by Amiga OS on the Amiga. In 1996, griffpatch wrote 2 games using Turbo Pascal and Assembly. One of the game is called as Flagz a platformer game. All graphics and sound libraries were written in assembly directly accessing the graphics and sound hardware, etc. Even the graphics were hand drawn by himself using his own home coded graphics package. At university he studied Computer Science learning various programming languages like Ada, C, Java and Prolog, along with theory of algorithm and data structure, etc... Also Hardware lessons were taken like building and wiring the pc. At his university, he had many audience for his games, so he wrote his own graphics package (Pascal + Assembly), for the first time created a network game called Shipfat which became very popular in PC Labs. This caused troubles like the network traffic taking down pcs in lecturers class. After his university days his game programming has came to an end as he got his job where he programmed applications. In his free time he just played guitar and created music in his computer.

Scratch Life
Several years later in 2011 (or 2010) his elder son's school announced that they were running a computer club and they were going to introduce to scratch and this is the time when he knew Scratch. So he downloaded Scratch 1.4 so that he could teach his son some basics. At this time Scratch 2.0 was never there and never bothered about the website, but he created a shared account for all (griffpatch and his son) called griffpatch. Then he started making projects in Scratch (1.4 Offline Editor). This is when he felt enjoyable to again be creating games like he done before. When scratch 2.0 Beta and Beta site was emerging so he decided to make seperate accounts for his childrens and he officially became griffpatch. His first game known that is still available is Pacman HD with full Ghost AI (Scratch 2.0). Then he made a walking animation for his game scratchnapped which got featured twice by scratch team in the scratch 2.0 site which his when his followers and fame started increasing steadily(One in beta site and other in completed 2.0 site.) He reached 100 followers and was blown away. Scratchnapped game accelerated his fame and also his first popular game. Then later when he was thinking for his next popular game he saw many scratchers trying to recreate bits of minecraft, he never played minecraft but he tried finding information and checking some projects creating the bits of the project learning what it was and creating the basic game engine for it. Soon he made the most popular project in Scratch until now Paper Minecraft and made updates every year reaching 20 million views.

Then in his youtube channel he started making tutorials. Later in 2016, he made box2d extension for scratch 2.0 and then in 2019 made the extension of box2d for Scratch 3.0. He also made a browser extension for scratch 3.0 called Scratch 3 Devoloper Tools which is a really useful tool that helps to search for scratch blocks that you put in the scripting area in case your making a project and this project was forked in github and eventually a new updated browser extension called Scratch Addons was released. This was maintained by several scratchers like @World_Languages.