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Gobo is a sprite included in the sprite library. Gobo was named by Scratch Team member Natalie Rusk.[1] It was drawn by Wing Ngan.[2] On February 14, 2011, the Scratch Team announced that Gobo was the ninth most common sprite used in projects uploaded to the Scratch Website.[3] Numbers have not been recorded in recent years. Gobo was made to be the main mascot for Scratch, but the Scratch Team decided that a cat would fit the name better.
Name Origin
Gobo was named by Scratch Team member Natalie. According to Natalie, she got the idea from the Gobo vegetable, which is 'burdock root' in Japanese.[4] Gobo was originally going to be called "Blob".[5]
Uses outside Scratch
A modified version of Gobo, named Alonzo after Alonzo Church, is used as the mascot for the Scratch modification Snap!.[6] It has a "tail" depicting the Greek lowercase letter lambda (λ), which, in computer science, is often used as a symbol of functional programming. Some Scratchers say that Snap! stole Gobo,[7] but it was used with permission from the Scratch Team.[8]
Images
- Some of the versions and appearances
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The normal Gobo sprite (vector) -
The second version of the Gobo sprite (vector) -
The third version of the Gobo sprite (bitmap) -
Gobo from behind -
The mascot for Snap!, Alonzo. -
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Concept art of Gobo, shown in Video update 5 -
Keychain created by Scratch Team member cheddargirl -
Gobo as an onion with Gobo's Friends as food in the 2015 April Fools' Day. -
Gobo in a box with Scratch blocks in the old 500 Error image. -
Gobo on the Front Page of the Scratch Website in Scratch 2.0 advertising for users to join the site. -
Gobo when hovered over on the Scratch Website in 2.0.
Gobo Emoji
In a comment, if a user types _gobo_ it will create an emoji. The emoji appears as an image of Gobo, appearing as 
. This image was introduced in Scratch 2.0, alongside _waffle_
.[9]
To use this emoji on the Scratch Wiki, see Template:E.
Trivia
- Gobo is sometimes misidentified as a fish.[10]
- Gobo sometimes has a tail[11] and sometimes does not.[12]
- Gobo was originally going to be the main mascot for Scratch[13], and was created before Scratch Cat.
- Gobo is featured in the profile picture of the official Scratch Design Studio account. [14]
- The other Scratch mascots are known as Gobo's Friends.
See Also
References
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20121205020306/http://blog.scratch.mit.edu/2012/11/meet-scratch-20-development-team.html
- ↑ projects:10001345
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20110222202556/http://blog.scratch.mit.edu/2011/02/top-10-images-in-scratch.html
- ↑ users:natalie/#comments-3492143[dead link]
- ↑ yt:a- YhpoqHBk
- ↑ "Alonzo, the Snap! mascot, is named after Alonzo Church" https://snap.berkeley.edu/snap/help/SnapManual.pdf
- ↑ gameboy987. (13/01/2022). "i found a site copying scratch and their name is "Snap!", their mascot is a cheap copy of Gobo and their site is snap.berkeley.edu" topic:571932
- ↑ Brian Harvey. (19/07/2022). "Gobo is not freely licensed, but we have special permission for our modified version." https://forum.snap.berkeley.edu/t/new-costumes-in-v8-0/11512
- ↑ Scratch_Emojis#gobo_and_waffle
- ↑ projects:60372828
- ↑ post:699158 (archived image)
- ↑ projects:2777405
- ↑ projects:273675374
- ↑ https://scratch.mit.edu/users/ScratchDesignStudio/
