Also, there is nothing really "basic" about Hi-Q. It was really hard to make.

At 9/30/01 06:00 PM, cOrEy2050 wrote: How can I make a basic side-scroller game like Hi-Q skateboarding?

I used arrays to hold the level. Then I made an engine to turn the array into a playable level. That was actually the hardest part, and there's no quick way to tell you how.

Die you crazy mo-fo!

By the way, when I shot him, he fell but didn't die instantly.

I found a nice bug. First of all, you can't even see the links to stats, learn flash, complaints, and random portal entry, since the text and background are the same color.

The 1st and 3rd links give 404 errors. The 2nd one links to frames, and the 4th one works fine.

At 9/21/01 05:02 PM, Infin- wrote: Bring back the frames! The frames made it a whole lot easier to navigat through NG. Sure it was complex, but how can we jump from the portal to the bbs and then to the cam page with out the frames at the bottom? I mean, you already had it all done, so why change it now?

Um, all the links are on the top of every page now... Webcam and Forums are all the way at the top.

It might just be my computer...but sometimes when I go to the portal, a little bar goes on my list of programs open, but nothing shows up... I click it, nothing happens, I right click it, nothing comes up, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO CLOSE AND IT RECENTLY SCREWED UP MY COMPUTER!!! The bar says "Cannot find server".

I believe that was the boobs ad. Somehow it was scripted so the only way you could close it was to click close this window. But, since it obviously can't find the link, you have no way to close it, except to push ctrl-alt-del and close it through there.

I found a frames link! If you click on other movies by this author, or movies by this author in a profile, it links to frames.

Ahhhh!!! No more frame?!

So I'm sitting here surfin' Newgrounds, and all of a sudden the frames disappear, and there are these new buttons and whatnot! What's going on?!?! Heheh.

Just some more comments after reading everyone else's:

I have a feeling that people coming to newgrounds and expect to play a game for about 2 seconds and then move on, so when they find a game that actually takes a little bit of figuring out, they don't take the time to. This is probably due to the high volume of portal crap. I wish there were some way to weed that out...

I think this game is groundbreaking for flash. It's a quality game. I think we (Tom, myself, flash makers alike) need to set a new standard for flash games, so that people will treat them as if they were console games. Something they must set aside time for and obssess over, not just whenever they are drunk or bored and want to waste a few minutes. This game has done that, although there are many people out there to convert.

One thing I have found to fix frames that freeze for no apparent reason is to just put a play statement on that frame that's freezing. I have a feeling that whenever two different movie clips are accessed and one is told to stop, the other too sometimes.

I loved whiny ramond when he's on the floor crying his head off! That's so hilarious! And the name "Papa Whealy?" I laugh out loud even still just thinking about it!

Death was hard, but I figured out a way to be him. Oh, and I really loved the AI! Like how they go around you and try to attack you from behind, brilliant! The crap-slinger was kind of tough though, but see, I expect that from a flash game. I'm looking for a quality challenge, and that is what you have provided.

Again, good work. I can't wait to see what else you come up with. Hopefully I will be able to help you on your next project.

I finally got the time to beat this entire game. That's the most time I've spent playing a flash game (other than debugging my own, hehe)! It took about 3 hours I think (with intermittent chatting).

There are a few bugs which I hope you will work out, but like I said before, this is a great game!

Everyone who says they can't beat the arm-wrestling is a wimp cuz I can do it, though my wrist hurts afterwards.

If you ever want another programmer to work with, I will gladly do the job! I'm going to school for it right now so I know a little bit about it.

By the way, Tom, I think it is so cool how you just do newgrounds and that's your thing. My flash gets me behind in school and work, and I wish I could just focus on it instead of it being a "distraction."

DaFlasher and I are going to work on that GTA game again, so I hope to release that sometime soon. I have a lot of other ideas if you want to email me! I'd like to just talk about other stuff too if you have the time.

I just got done reading this webpage:
http://www.somethingawful.com/archives/news-archive-13-9-2001.htm

Someone posted this link on the first page of this post, and it's really hilarious!

This is a review I wrote for a movie that was very controversial for the time. I have been thinking this ever since tuesday:

Anyone out there thinking to yourself, "How could you make this at a time like this?" Well guess what, that's hypocracy! If you're going to trash America, do it! Don't be all hardcore Anarchy one minute and then the next cry about being offensive when we actually need our government's help!
Now don't get me wrong, that's a real tragedy what happened yesterday. I don't think that our government is exactly idealistic, but it works, and we are pretty well off. And realize how much anarchy would suck, and how much it does suck for those countries who currently have it.
This movie is funny nonetheless though, not because it's anti-america, but just because it's senseless violence, and that's what NG is all about.

Here's the link to that movie: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/frames.php?id=30648

At 9/18/01 01:48 PM, punkjunk wrote: Nuke the mother fucker

Why don't we nuke YOU, mother fucker?

At 9/17/01 08:45 PM, Cyprus wrote: Alright, I am already aware I am going to sound like I am a young punk that has no idea what I am talking about but listen. I seriously want to bomb the hell out of Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran. The whole world is now against them and did you see the people CHEERING when they heard that innocent Americans were killed? 1,000's of men, women and children killed and they are CHEERING! Why the FUCK! should be show them any mercy? They are born to die, they are born to kill the U.S they recruit the poor kids of the country and train them for 9 years to HATE us. By time they are 8 they could kill you and spit on your body. Don't give them the chance. We have 3 days untill we go to war unless Afghanistan turns Bin Ladin over which we all know wont happen. And IF they do there are about 100 other people that will take his place. Turn the place into a big crater and make it a tourist trap. Personally, I would be the first to cheer when we bomb them. I'm tired of America never fighting back. It is OUR time. They started something they can't finish and they WILL pay.
-Cyprus

That is a small image of the whole country. I don't think anyone would mind if those children would die. It is the other innocent lives, the people who are not cheering. The people who are probably crying to themselves, praying to their God that we don't bomb them, because they had nothing to do with it! They didn't kill, they don't support terrorism. They are the ones that don't deserve to die.

Yes, some innocent MAY have to die, but we should try to avoid it if we can. Bombing a whole entire country is in no way trying to avoid innocent deaths.

The terrorists who committed this atrocity deserve to die, as does the country that accepts them.

When we are refering to "innocent," we are refering to those tons of people in that country who don't accept the terrorist actions. No one is saying that supporters of terrorism are innocent.

What would happen if one of the many freaks living in our very own nation were to flip out and go crash a plane into an afganistan building? Would you (as an innocent civilian) want to be held responsible for that man's actions?!?! Of course not.

Think the golden rule people. Without it not only will innocent suffer, but possibly our entire species.

As I said though, that doesn't mean something shouldn't be done. Punish those responsible.

This doesn't change anything I feel because I already believed that. Just because a bunch of our innocent people died doesn't mean that we should "return the favor" on other innocent people. I'm not afraid to admit that I am at least partially ignorant of the correct thing to be done, but most people are. Rather than think about what they are saying, they just react with fighting fire with fire.

Something must be done, but it doesn't have to mean killing more innocent people.

Everyone who is saying that Palestinians should die, and that they are not even human are no better than they are. Yes, it may come down to having to kill some of them in order for us to survive, but to say they are not even human is just wrong. Many Americans are prejudice too, and I'm sure many of these kids cheering our loss are just doing so because they were raised with the belief that we are not human.

Also, another note:
Just because an organization claims to have committed the acts, that doesn't mean they did. I'm not making any suggestions on who did do it... But, I'm sure the Palestinian organizations would love to have committed the acts, and are more than willing to claim responsibility for them, even if they didn't.

I am an atheist and cannot pray, but my thoughts go out to those who's lives have been/will be effected by this. My best friend lives in Pittsburg where one of the planes crashed close too, so I felt a peice of the scare.

Tom, don't let the negative reviews get you down. I know how hard it is to make flash games. My Hi-Q Skating Game took a lot of effort, but didn't really get that great of reviews. Well, the graphics on this are TONS better than my game. So, from one creator to another, I think this game is really great. The idea is really funny. The depth in characters and mini-games is really worth a thumbs up. Great job!

If you are going to be doing a redesign, here are a few ideas:

1. I think there should definately be an inbetween vote.

2. You should put a percentage of the movies on NG that a movie stands. (I.e. "This movie stands at 70% of all the content on NG.")

3. Is there anyway to have one movie appear under two users lists? That way collaborative efforts can be given just props to both creators.

4. Can't you simply set a cookie to play/not play music on newgrounds, with a checkbox to toggle? I have my mp3 list, and I hate clicking the little stop music button that you have to precisely click the letters of the words. And on the portal page you don't have a choice.

Here are some things that I think NG definately needs:

1. Searching is important. You should be able to search with option buttons for just games.

2. There DEFINATELY needs to be more ways to view random content. I think even on the front page make a way to randomly link to all content, or exclusively games or movies.

3. There should be a way to make it so that if two authors make a game, it can be listed in both of their drop-down menus. This is a MUST! I am working with people on projects now, and it's just not the same if it's not listed under my drop-down.

4. I know you don't want to promote demos in the portal, but people are doing it way too much. Maybe you should put a selection in there so that you can choose movie, game, or demo. I guess this probably won't solve anything, but demos are driving me nuts.

Either that, or make the demo section a whole section on it's own, and not so exclusive as the alpha section. If the demo isn't all that developed and shouldn't be on there, it's our duty to delete it by giving it a 0.

The preview section could also have a place for people to give suggestions on how to make games better, or ideas that people have for games, but who can't make it themselves.

5. It would be cool if there was a way to keep highscores in a file along with the swf on your site. I'm not sure how that would be done, but maybe when we upload, put a spot with a checkmark saying you want to use CGI score script. Even top ten scores would be great!

Well, I'm out of ideas for now...

I like the new portal look. It looks more centralized, and it's easier to load, especially on my slow-ass computer. I think you should get rid of the frames, because if you can make it all solidified like that, you shouldn't need them.

One thing, why are there so many pop-ups everywhere? A few here and there are ok, but it's driving me crazy! It seems like every page I open has about 4 advertisements with it!

Heheheh, looks nice man, nice.

I just thought I give my little pearl of wisdom to y'all out there, so you don't have to go through the same frustration as I did figuring it out.

1. /:variable is a toplevel variable, as well as _level0:variable

2. ../:variable is a variable that is out one movie clip. I.E. if you are in a movie clip within a movie clip and you use this type, it will go out one movie clip, not to the top.

3. There is no use for GetProperty. Instead of GetProperty("/player",_x), you can just say /player:_x. It saves room that way, and it's just easier. You can also do MC's within MC's like this too: /player/weapon:variable. So, as you can see, variables and properties can be accessed this way. The only thing is when setting properties you cannot use set variable. But you can use it like a variable when retreiving it.

I know the question was already answered, but I wasn't sure if everyone was clear on exactly how it worked. Huzzah!

I think it's funny how many people think they can just make this great RPG like nothing, especially when they obviously don't know anything about variables. I bet this guy has a little turned-based fight that uses click and go animations, thinking he's the shit. Well guess what, collision detection is not easy, and neither is any other element of a game. The easiest part is the battle.

But, if you are not one of these people, then good luck to you!

I feel pretty confident that I can program pretty much anything within scope (in flash 4). Email me if you want me to work with you. My work includes Garbage and Snake: The Game

I'm willing to help (preferably by email), although keep in mind I'm going to teach you flash (unless you pay me). I'll be hear to help with specific questions. Keep in mind, however, it does take a certain amount of ability to do flash stuff. Obviously you can do what someone tells you to do, but you need to be creative, and make something that is fresh and exciting. It's tough, I know.

That's such a broad question. It all depends on what you want. You could slap together a stick animation that lasts five minutes in less time than that (please don't). Or, you could make this extremely intense movie with 3D effects, prerendered graphics, music, SFX and everything. Five minutes is a long time to keep people interested though, so it will probably take at least a good 2 weeks for something good. If you're just learning, it could take 2 months.

If there is just 1 to 4 lines keeping the object, then just use if statements in the buttons testing if /object:_x>0 or something, then move it. Otherwise, it's kind of complicated, because you'll have to set up a bunch of hidden movie clips that you have to call each time you move. Email me if you need more help.

You've got a lot of good points there. This is exactly why I am agnostic. I wrote a lot about this topic on my website if anyone is interested. Philo for the New Millennium