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  Block Parkour V1.0 Demo by TheOriginalSpartan

  Its a work in progress, so there's only one level hence the word demo.

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At 8/27/13 02:58 PM, TomFulp wrote: The judgment system has been updated. Movies and games can now get blammed as early as 50 votes and as late as 150 (vs 200). The final threshold is 1.75 vs 1.6, so slightly more stuff can get blammed.

I'm completely ok with this. Sweet! :D

Have you considered deleting content that gets below a score of, say, 1.00 even if it's passed Judgement? I know it's not a storage issue, but even having poor scoring content around opens the possibility that imitators will come. And if it gets to a score that low, there's got to be a reason. Do we really want it around anyway?

This eventually exceeds the acceptable limits:

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  Live Nude Tennis by mz87

  Play tennis against naked girl

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All I get is a 9.6mb still picture of Dragonball Z that I'm sure he didn't make:

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  World War X by Doctor-Gordon

  It's the war!

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Not his per author comments. Says his 'friends' said he could upload their stuff.

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  When You're Drunk by raccooon325

  DA DA DA AFRO CIRCUS

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Catapult Stencyl tutorial. Will someone please do sumthin about this guy? Please??

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  angry mecahnics by philipv11

  shoot with catapult

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Here's the original Stencyl tutorial submitter:

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  rolaf the great by philipv11

  your a dwarf and have to rescue a baby

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And here's the newest Stencyl tutorial submitter:

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  Rolaf the Great(Original) by tomshill

  A Dwarf on an Adventure

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Both are the same.

At 8/23/13 01:14 PM, ForNoReason wrote: My view on tutorial games is that they would have to of added something to the game itself. Just ripping it straight is not allowed, but if they took the engine and built on it it would be worth discussion.

We have it from the top on the subject (via SCTE3):

At 6/13/13 11:15 AM, SCTE3 wrote:

Not at all, as Tom Fulp once said when people kept trying to submit Choco Break as their own:
"No matter how much you modify the original game/tutorial, it's not your own work."

As cool as this is, it's cool cuz all the footage was taken from Final Fantasy: Advent Children. :\

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  Advent Children Varaxiis by Shadowspartanx66

  Sakii - Varaxiis

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This is straight out of a Stencyl framework/demo. How is it that non-working and barely working games pass judgement?!

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  Mr. Block BETA by Mtguy56

  A Game About Blocks And Misters

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Stolen!! His art was stolen. His audio was stolen. I remembered him from before, and realized he's a repeat offender in those areas, so I decided to check into his game, and guess what...

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  AZ by Bowser3000

  Fight with tanks and almost 5 weapons!

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Stolen from:

http://www.newkidsgames.net/play/tank-trouble-v2.html

Stencyl tutorial. I thought I had reported this one already, but maybe not.

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  Drop Jimmy by Zehoan

  A game about dropping blocks.

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This is all Skyrim footage, not animated by the user. Maybe modded Skyrim gameplay? There's a small bit of real video at the end, but the majority is taken from Skyrim:

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  Meanwhile in Skyrim by Boarofspore123

  From Dawnstar to Riverwood, this Nord is Bored.

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Stencyl tutorial with the black rectangle that has red & green test parts. You know the one.

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  philip the jumper by philipv11

  your a parkour jumper from minecraft test your skill in jumping

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This one is a demo that doesn't work:

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  phiilp story the game two by philipv11

  your a zeldalike player

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No user generated content. It's a clip from one of those high def animal scene videos. No animation. No user generated content.

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  Wildlife by MerlinTheMage

  A movie about animals, nothing special.

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  Banned From Equestria 1.5 by HenatiDude

  You're welcome Pokehidden

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This one's different that the one reported above, yet same situation almost. The submitter gives credit tot he author. He DID actually change things, but it seems he decompiled and chaged it. The original work was pokehidden's. Here's ver 1.4, but 1.5 is avalable around the internet, including 'share' sites: http://pokehidden.tumblr.com/post/39349620489

This ine has surgety footage. It's intended to be spam anyway, but is this what we want around here? There's little or no blood, so I don't know if it falls under the gore rule.

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  Im A Little Teapot by ZabuJard

  im a little teapot short and stout

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Is a Stencyl tutorial game still 'someone else's game' when it's made by the Stencyl people (if it's truly them)?

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  DownTown Racing by StencylGames

  Race Towards Victory!

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Problem is that even if it is the real Stencyl people, it's still the same old thing that so many people have submitted. They didn't add anything above the standard.

Also, here's another unrelated tutorial per author comments:

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  Basic Racing Game by urbanAnimator

  Simple Racing Game

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At 1/8/13 02:07 AM, SimplyRobot wrote: ...so I sit at my desk wondering where to start.

Another thought. WHERE to start.

I wondered the same thing. Many noobs start throwing something together and it looks like crap, because it is crap. So, without putting a project together, how can you get practice?

I wanted practice, but I knew that if I started building a project without any experience, I'd either end up with something crappy, or I'd learn things part way thru that I'd then want to redo the stuff before it. Why work only to have to re-work, y'know?

My solution: make storyboards.

I started making storyboards from my ideas. That way, I can get my ideas out for people to see, but I also get experience working in Flash as I make the storyboard. Since it's a storyboard, you're going to have to redo it all anyway, but it's not the same as having to redo everything, since the first 'build' was just the storyboard. Also, this allows you to refine your story, and to figure out things like timing of the scenes, that may not be apparent when you've only got a script in front you. Timing? Yeah, like:
-Is this coversation between the characters boring?
-Should I start the music at :05 or at :25?
-Do I have enough time to add all of this to the scene before the music changes?

Making a storyboard helps answer these questions.

Not only that, but it also give you drawing practice. And you can start with the standard black and white sketches, and then add some color, and add some tweens, etc as you move along the storyboard.

That's a great way to get real experience, and yet not waste your time creating something that looks noobish, or needs to be completely redone to look nice.

I've built several storyboards, and so now I'm working on my first submission.

Here are some examples:

Backstory: Making a music video to 'Mama, I'm Coming Home' by Ozzy. The story is that the king quits and goes to live in the wilderness. However, he gots bored of that and wants to return home. The music video is scenes of him and his travels and his attempts to get home.

Mission 1: Fill 85 seconds with content in the middle of the animation.

My Storyboard: http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/63b108b18baaa27f16276d2708b51b70

Mission 2: I need an ending.

My storyboard: http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/615d97cd628b8edf36f1fcc80f4e8f69 (loops, no preloader)

And here's the final submission: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/615020

Notice how I started out with just still black and white images, then color gets added, then some tweens. As I went along, I decided to try new things, and that was the result. It got better and more complex as I went on.

So build storyboards. They're great practice. :)

Actually, auto-play is annoying. You assume that no one has other things running at the time, or that they even want to watch it. If they want to and are able, they'll watch it. But if they've got other things up, or have a slow internet connection, or just don't want to watch it, they'll not be happy about it playing without them choosing it. :\

At 1/8/13 02:07 AM, SimplyRobot wrote: I don't know what I should do to put my foot in the door. No classes are offered about the local schools, so I sit at my desk wondering where to start.

You found my news post. I hope something in there was helpful. The books from www.lynda.com really are awesome. They'll teach you not only the animation aspects, but they'll teach enough that you'll be able to program stuff for webpages and things like that.

http://www.lynda.com/Flash-Professional-training-tutorials/204-0.html?category=cs5.5_623 I see lots of video tutorials, but CS5.5 is new enough that I don't see a book. I prefer books, as you get the same info, and you buy it once and you always have it. Looks like you have signup/pay for the videos, though.

As for animation tips, Jazza's got the best tutorials. http://www.youtube.com/user/DrawWithJazza/videos

At 7/20/13 02:10 AM, Asandir wrote: Thank you, I see that it was pointed out in the past but atleast there he concerted it to a mp4 file with Swivel. This however is just the same and it's obvious that he is just fishing for views and therefore I unpublished it now. Just imagine if everyone would pull this crappy behaviour, we would be stuck in an infinite loop of old flashes appearing again and again. Really tired of this guy.

Rojay again.

He keeps submitting, removing, and resubmitting as new. He did it several times with Rojay 1, and now here's Rojay 3:

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  Rojay 3 by Rojay101

  Rojay saves the day and at the end he was faced with a desicion

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Resubmit:

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  Rojay .3 by Rojay101

  Rojay powers exploaded unexpecteddly and saves the day

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He's been warned by me, and I don't know if others have, but I'm tired of it, y'know?

Alright, not wanting to sound bitchy or anything, but I've reported this guy's Stencyl tutorials over and over, and the first ones were removed, but not the recent ones, nor his non-working games, but now he's submitting stolen content.

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  pizza boy travel to house by philipv11

  your pizza boy that travel to houses

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Stolen from Mausland and Crazymonkeygames: http://www.crazymonkeygames.com/Pizzaboy.html

Stolen from another stencyl user per Site-Lock white screen info that said 'It looks like someone copied this without my permission...'. It gave a link, but the user changed something and now all I get is a black screen:

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  sonic anime game by philipv11

  a anime game of sonic hope you enjoy!

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As for his other games, I've already reported them in a previous post, so I won't retype them here. Please, will someone 'attend' to this guy?

At 8/16/13 01:10 PM, TomFulp wrote: We will also be revisiting the Alphas concept from years ago, where unpublished projects have a public face where news can be posted. For example imagine if Road of the Dead 2 had a hub this entire time that it's been in development.

Is that like a dedicated "test" section? I'd like to see a 'test' section that isn't right in there with the Portals, but isn't something that has to be searched out thru a maze of pages.

There are many "tests" that come thru the Portal because people are new and don't know about Dumping Grounds, or they don't care and want the views that the Portal provides. Having a Test Portal would allow tests to come thru and get views and critiques without having to post a link in the forums. The Test Portal could be an extension of the forums, tho. Submissions to the Test Portal could/should be auto-deleted after a period of time (a month?), so that unfinished works don't sit in the database for decades (like the 3300 pages of unscouted art that'll never go anywhere).

This would allow us a place to send people when they submit tests to the Portal, rather than having a low scoring, incomplete submission pass judgement. It just seems wrong to allow unfinished, pointless tests to sit right next to something that someone actually spent time and effort on, y'know?

No.

Art, yes. Videos, no.

Speedpaints can be cool when done right, but they're not always done right. About 6 months ago, a guy submitted a "speedpaint" that was 28 minutes long. It was removed or I'd link it. But still, speedpaints, as cool as some are, they're not animation.

Newgrounds started as a site that hosted animations and games done in Flash. While the available software has expanded beyond Flash, the fact that this site caters exclusively to animation sets it apart from others.

Allowing more speedpaints by creating a place for them encourages more of them to come in. Separating the animation from the 'movies' is an option, but it opens the floodgates for massive abuse.

I fear that the animations that people worked hard on, and were the core and heart of Newgrounds, would be eclipsed by the sheer volume of the videos that people didn't. Examples?

A child with a video camera can be a dangerous thing. When one sees this, someday, another will want to "do that too." With the automated system here on newgrounds, the constraints can easily be missed, and then abuse happens. (Yes, the file size and run-time you saw are correct.)

For every video submitted, there's that danger that someone will decide to copy them. That's great with flash. Yes, PLEASE come join us in making GOOD animations. They don't have to be perfect, but we can tell if you tried and if you didn't. I'd MUCH rather see a submission that's still not perfect, but he keeps improving and trying, than to see anything from a bored kid with a camera. (BTW, that's a 'speedpaint' ...er, speed-draw..?)

Youtube accepts everything, and that's why we avoid it and spend so much of our lives here on Newgrounds. Opening the door to more videos opens the door to "Newgrounds" becoming "Newtube," and hard working animators' works being mixed in with those who didn't, those who don't, and those who can't.

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  Clockday 13 - Big Brother by SixMoon

  BIG BROTHER WATCHING YOU

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o66FUc61MvU

It's all clips takes from the shows. No user generated material here.

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  Sonic X MLP Music Vid by necromancer540

  Music Reach for the Stars

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  SFA Meeting by theicecubeclock

  Shitty Flash-Makers Anonymous.

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  Strawberry's Break #1 by MistyEntertainment

  Strawberry resigns as king of the portal after seeing the corporate crapfest it's become.

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  The clock tower by ReporterClock

  Reporterclock finds himself caught up in yet another newspiece!

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  Metal Slug by bianji

  Metal Slug

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