At 11/21/09 06:34 PM, turtleco wrote: and newgrounds is full of TURTLESSSSSS!!!!

And you're ful of PURPLE!

That's a compliment by the way. Maybe.

A 'bug report' from Kongregate.

"this game is the most sukest game i have ever played in my life and i am 13 years old why would someone wan't to wast there time clicking 100 times"

I like the fact that he uses his age as if to say, "At the ripe old age of 13, I have seen the world. After these 13 years, I thought nothing would surprise me. I thought I'd seen the highest highs and the lowest lows. Then I saw your game and found a nadir previously unimaginable - I'm amazed you can still surprise me at this point but there you are."

At 11/21/09 01:40 PM, Fyndir wrote:

At 11/20/09 09:41 PM, Luis wrote: Are the rails made of styrofoam. i dont get how a train system could get so broken everyday of its existence.

You know what city has a nice public transport system that rarely, if ever, lets me down?

Glasgow.

JUST SAYIN', BRO.

It's also rather miniscule by comparison. The entire Glasgow underground is smaller than London's Circle line.

At 11/10/09 08:43 AM, Luis wrote: Sometimes i wonder if he even has film in his camera.

It's true. I don't.

At 11/8/09 05:09 PM, citricsquid wrote:

At 11/8/09 05:00 PM, Bezman wrote: £31 via Megabus.

Have you been on it before? Any idea what it's like? It's my first time, sorta scared it'll be cramped and shit.

Well, it's not as nice as a train but it's just the same as most coaches. So yeah, kinda cramped.

Get there early, bring a book and grab the seat near the front at the top for a little extra legroom. ;-)

At 11/8/09 04:53 PM, citricsquid wrote:

At 11/8/09 04:49 PM, Bezman wrote: Coach tickets booked. Arriving 7:05 on Saturday so I'll find somewhere to sit and have a cheap breakfast until you guys wake up.

How much is that costing you? It only cost me £10 to get a return from birmingham on the bus!

£31 via Megabus.

If I left Friday morning, it'd be £9 cheaper but I have classes.

I checked Megabus and there's £3/4 tickets between London and Birmingham on the Friday and Monday! I guess it's just much closer...

Coach tickets booked. Arriving 7:05 on Saturday so I'll find somewhere to sit and have a cheap breakfast until you guys wake up.

I'll bring down Jungle Speed and also 'Jungle Speed: La Totale' which is about ten times more confusing.

I'll leave you all around Sunday noon to spend a day with my niece.

See you in 3 weeks!

At 11/1/09 07:46 PM, citricsquid wrote: Also I'm shitting bricks.

because you owe me a picture?

At 8/12/09 09:36 AM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote:

At 8/11/09 11:16 PM, Sziphix wrote: As liljim said, both your parents are cool for letting you do something like this. I don't think I could/would be able to meet up with "people from the internet" with mine.

I'm 20 tomorrow and they treated me with so much suspicion when I told them about it :(

We share our birthdate.

In unrelated news, I thought I'd link to a picture of the cards in the Jungle Speed expansion:
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/29539 5

I found a site that sells 'La Totale' - the original game, expansion and some EVEN MORE evil combinations. I'll let you guys know what I think when I get it.

At 8/11/09 09:43 AM, LegolaSS wrote:

At 8/11/09 07:11 AM, Shalashaska-1 wrote: Lol, how can anyone confuse me with Dean? He's like, 5 inches taller than me and 4 stone in muscle heavier.

well its easy to confuse people if you have never met them before... and they tell you that their username is someone elses... which confused me beacuse i didnt hear your very clearly when you told me it in namco... :S....

I think you maybe just heard the tail end of the conversation and got confused. We were discussing the fact that 'skeleton gimp' is easier to say than 'shalashaska' and I just noted that I have dave's number stored under his username.

I wasn't trying to impersonate anyone.

Maybe I will, next time, though.

It was fun.

I took far fewer photos this time - only 600ish. I didn't get a chance to speak to everyone, nor got a chance to do everything and didn't bother to photograph that many folk this time. I enjoyed it more that way though - just sitting down and taking it easy.

I know folk will ask so: due to money 'n' shit, my web hosting is down so I will either upload them if someone gives me access to a subdomain or at the start of September, whichever comes first.

Dave, where were you on Sunday? Last time I saw you was on the dance floor, then you vanished!

At 8/7/09 09:49 PM, Sheizenhammer wrote: Bezman seems to think I look like someone everyone else at the meet knows, which is kinda confusing when you have no idea who he's on about.

http://thecriminalduder.newgrounds.com/

At 8/9/09 10:07 AM, EviLDoG wrote: I had a good time.. came straight from work, wearing my tie (The only person may i add),

Liar! There were at least 3 others.

P.S. Depending how I feel, I may engage in some slightly-more-sedate rhythmic body movements.

At 8/5/09 02:23 PM, Sheizenhammer wrote: Hmm. It seems my suitcase is only half full, even after putting all the stuff I need in it. At this point, I can see 3 distinct choices for what to do with the empty space:

1. Travel light.
2. Take it as a hint to buy ridiculous amounts of souvenirs while I'm down there.
3. Fill the space with utterly random objects from around my house, just for the hell of it.

So NG, what should I do?

3. Then hand them out to random folk on the street.

Dudes, given the once-a-year-or-maybe-twice nature of the event, I definitely plan to come for some time. I'll just avoid some of the more risky activities, probably including my usual madcap dancing and eating anything wider than a finger...

Please be gentle with me.

I was beaten up last night by 4 folk and had money stolen, as well as my tickets down.

I'm not 100% sure what I'm doing.

At 7/26/09 10:08 AM, Cally wrote:

At 7/26/09 08:40 AM, Kirk-Cocaine wrote:

At 7/25/09 10:26 PM, Cally wrote: Bezman was taking pictures of all our asses at the last meet... what, exactly, did he do with them?

You don't want to know...

On second thoughts.... no, I don't!

I'll tell you anyway. ;-p

I uploaded over 2,000 pictures from the last meet, including the arse pictures. My host seems to be shit atm though, so you can't check them out. :-/

Despite my grand plans, though, the arse-matching game was never made. I suffer from Too Many Plans, Not Enough Execution syndrome, aka laziness/disorganisation, frankly.

Like most photos, they've lingered on my hard drive, unlooked at and unloved for.

At 7/6/09 12:08 PM, jmtb02 wrote: News is surfacing about MX2004 activations no longer working. Be careful if you are still working in Macromedia products. Be careful if you deactivate or switch to another computer.

Shit.

A friend of mine bought MX2004 a few months back and was waiting a better PC since he was haing trouble activating it on his current one...

Is his software rendered totally useless?

At 7/1/09 12:10 AM, nexusknight wrote:

At 7/1/09 12:03 AM, XxHellHoundxX wrote: ..... A free animator that lets you create Flashes, and is safe to download? Im new here so.....

Liveswif: Flash program for people that can't afford flash here it isLiveSwif 2.2

It isn't actually there - the page just says it found 0 applications...

I found this after a bit of searching though.
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/WE B-Design/Flash/LiveSwif-Lite.shtml

Remember that most software offers free trials. Flash gives a 30-day trial: enough to make something worth watching; whilst Koolmoves lets you use it indefinitely, I think, but adds a watermark. If you're just playing around, you may be fine with that.

http://www.koolmoves.com/download.html

I don't see how you can call this collision detection - I mean I can't see any of the pixels moving, let along colliding. :-/

Despite your snide comments I'm sure folk - including myself - WOULD care if you bothered to clearly explain what's going on.

There's an issue though - without embedding the fonts, other folk will not necessarily see the same stuff as you, so your considerations regarding layout and typography can be rendered useless.

Remember that you can embed sections of fonts - e.g. for a score, ember the numerals.

At 6/30/09 07:07 PM, trig1 wrote: This might not make sense and I drank a bit tonight, but I'll try and explain whats been bugging me recently about the flash forum:

Enh.

There's always new folk coming and learning Flash, so you can't really expect an ever-changing pool of folks to collectively mature.

Sounds like you may have outgrown this place for now.

Or if you have a great idea for a thread, you could always try starting it.

I really enjoyed Luis's typography thread and the "pool of inspiration".

At 6/25/09 08:06 PM, bgraybr wrote: My stuff already looks pretty mechanical, and I haven't even started doing walk cycles or anything yet. What helps you to get movements right?

Stick Figures

You only show an arm raising and expect us to give comments? Do more! Practise and get experience.

One point - don't make movement a constant speed. accelerate e.g. into a punch and slow down - e.g. after a sigh.

if tweening, use easing.

Anyway, I think most folk here are still fumbling about themselves - specially me.

I don't think he's a coder.

Dear OP,
I suggest you reveal something about your story or share at least a snippet of your writing if you want anyone to take you seriously.

And make more descriptive topic titles.

Love,
- Bez

At 6/24/09 08:59 PM, KoopaKun wrote: hi im new to flash and i have no clue on how to use sprites in flash cuz im use to pivot can any one send me a tutorial or give me some advice

I advise you to make use of punctuation and selective capitalisation. When asking for help it feels annoying - if you can't be bothered taking an extra minute to clean up your text, why should we take time to help you?

I'll say this:
import to stage. Use motion tweening. Maybe make a movie clip containing the frames of a walk cycle or whatever.

At 6/24/09 01:32 PM, Insanimation wrote: I dunno why they're hated in games, because I don't make games, but the problem I have is that when you're making a flash movie, streaming sounds can't pass through scenes, so it's impossible to sync anything to audio properly. It is virtually impossible to make a music video.

Enh. Yeah - I wouldn't bother splitting a bgm into two for the purpose of using two scenes.

But even despite the sound not streaming across both, another scene can be used for the pre-loader/menu then one for the actual music vid.

I find even that level of separation useful.

And taking away movies with one long bgm still leaves the vast majority. Why not use a new scene when the bgm changes if you feel like it?

Sure, it's no panacea and not without problems. But then mcs and graphic symbols both have their advantages and disadvantages - same with organising a movie/game on one scene or splitting it up. Nothing can be used in 100% of cases, but that doesn't mean it should be hated or avoided when it can actually serve a purpose.

Is there some drawback other than the fact that sounds can't stream across that I'm missing?

We can't tell you - you'll probably have to ask Tom.

After all, it's his event and thus his final judgement.

Of course, it's worth asking your teammates first to see how they feel.

Assuming you're the sound dude, I don't see an issue with recording other folk playing instruments or you casting VAs. But it's not really for me to say...

At 6/24/09 12:30 PM, LDAF wrote: Well, if you want to have something that looks decent but still was a lazy job, I suggest using a high frame rate. Then if you screw up badly on a few frames of your animation, nobody will be able to catch it.

That's terrible advice! YOu'd then have to do more work in drawing all those frames! Also, you assume he would even be using a fully fbf method.

At 6/24/09 12:32 PM, Deano10 wrote: ok what is a code im really confused i now its for flash but what does it do and how do u use it

Code can be for anything. A code is essentially a method of transcribing information, whether it's then meant to be hard to understand (as with the 'enigma code') or just a format easily understood by computers.

I assume you're talking about Actionscript?

Actionscript is something that tells the Flash Player to do non-standard things such as stopping playback, jumping to another part of the timeline, moving stuff about, storing variable which are later used to change elements on the screen, etc. etc.

Have you gone through the tutorials linked to at the top of this forum?

At 6/24/09 12:07 PM, Yambanshee wrote:

At 6/24/09 09:52 AM, bladeofluigi wrote: OK, I recently found that scenes can be useful for flash games.

I disagree. Their annoying to use!

I disagree with YOU!

I find that they help with organisation.

I've never understood why scenes are hated.

I don't know prototype. Others may not either or may not particularly care for it. Do you have any suggestions for potential jokes or things to point out in order to get folk excited about making such a thing?

Why is it a better candidate for being parodied than, say, Project Sylpheed?

There's a million games that haven't been parodied so there's plenty of ground yet to be covered.

Personally, I think Unirally/Uniracers needs some love.

What kind of art? Animation? If so, try the Animtor's Survival Kit by Richard Williams.

At 6/17/09 08:45 AM, Coop83 wrote: I trust the facial hair has become even more impressive since then?

I've been shaving, actually. Also, I've had my annual haircut.

I could maybe try letting my beard grow the week before and shave it into some stripes... or lightning bolts or something...

The handlebar was mainly for Luis's birthday though.