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Hey Newbie97!

Thanks a lot for your remarks, the first two were only mistakes left in the text, what I am mostly interested in is the "- you think" part.

Isnt there a rule about narrating a sentence what is in present tense, that you should put the - you think - you ask statements in past tense?

Like: "I am going to the mall" -- you answered, while putting up your clothes.

I am making a text based adventure game by the way, in the style of choose your adventure books, if you know those. That is where I use this narrative in second person, the reader is always "you".

Ifritgames

When you write in any tense, the person can say anything they want in any tense, and it doesn't have to be the same tense. I can talk right now (present) about yesterday, today or tomorrow. Yesterday,(past) I might have told you about last week, or my plans for today, or what I'm doing in the future. And tomorrow, I might look back on my childhood, or review what I did today, or make plans for next weekend. Any way you want to combine them works. So...3x3=9. You can pick any of the 9 ways to write it. There is no rule that says any of them does not work.

Like: "I am going to the mall" -- you answered, while putting up your clothes.

There is not a rule, people just do that ("I'm fixing my sink,(present)" she said (past).) a lot in books. Here is an example that is still okay:

"I am going to the mall," you say. He looks at you carefully. "Why?" he asks you. You frown at him and say, "because I want to buy shoes!"

It is not a solid rule, it's just that people write a lot of books in the past tense: ("Hello!" he said.) If you are doing a second-person point of view (you say, you do, you think) because it's a text adventure, then you would normally write it in the present anyway. (You open the door and the witch says "Who are you?") As far as I know, there is not a rule on what tense you use, it's just that some combinations of tenses are more popular than others.

So basically, there's no rule. Usually, with text adventures, you can just put everything in the present tense. Like the example about buying shoes.

At 9/10/14 09:17 AM, ifritgames wrote: If you write in conversation with reader style, and you want to narrate the readers thoughts, are these correct?

You only get about halfway up, when you trip over in some rock. "Or was it the sand tricking me?" -- you wonder while rolling back down to the bottom of the hill.

"It might not be a good idea to enter that room" -- you thought after hearing that noise.

Ifritgames

*you trip over some rock* (I took out the word "in")
*Or was it the sand tripping me?* (I think you wanted to say "tripping", but maybe I'm wrong)
*you think, after hearing that noise* ("thought" is past tense, when something already happened before, but the rest of what you wrote looks like it's in present tense and is happening now, and the past tense of "thought" has a present tense of "think")

Good luck with whatever you're writing.

At 9/2/14 01:57 PM, FishpasteTom wrote: The app is incredibly simply, probably requiring small amount of coding. Those interested will be reimbursed with whatever profit comes from the app store.

Can you please be more specific?
Also, if it's incredibly small, and it happens to be on Android, may I suggest MIT's App Inventor 2? It's got drag-n-drop programming that's actually pretty useful.

yeah i'll go for it.

http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1370000

http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1370101

-Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue

-Make two different games that share a universe/storyline, or just otherwise complement each other

-Hands (like your hands, or clock hands, apparently there's a band named hands, dealing a card hand)

-You Play As A Zombie. I say "AS" a zombie, not like you breed them as an army, or you shoot them as a survivor, but you actually ARE one.

-2d to 3d and 3d to 2d
where you could use 2d software like flash to make an apparently 3d game, or 3d software like unity to make an apparently 2d game.

At 5/2/14 06:01 PM, larrynachos wrote: I've had a lot of trouble coming up with any good game ideas, so I'm looking for a team.

I'm a musician, and I have a lot of experience with construct 2, so any writers/artists looking for a musician/programmer, hit me up!

I'll go for working with ya. I'll PM you.

At 5/2/14 04:58 AM, Troisnyx wrote: Hey everyone, Troisnyx here. I'm just testing the waters with a massive collaboration idea, which I'd love for as many of us to be part of.

You see, NG was created on 6 July 1995... which means 6 July 2015, ie sometime next year, is NG's 20th anniversary!
I'm thinking of some massive art, audio and animation collab or some such, but I'd really like to see what you all may have in mind for it.

I'll come up with drawings and drafts later. But for now, do tell me your thoughts.

This sounds like a really good idea! I have to say, you've covered all four tabs at the top of the NG page except for games, so can we add that in as well?

I read what you typed and I imagine a sort of event/fair/carnival/IDK for the entire day. This could mean 24 hours from midnight to midnight in Philadelphia (I think the Fulps are in Philly, right?), or it could mean midnight in the earliest time zone till midnight in the latest, making it 48 hours total, depending on preferences and logistics.

And then we'd have a sort of 'ng20th' tagged collection of games, movies, audio, and art that would be at this event and there could be things happening, like lotteries or something.

IDK about the other things but I realize that the game idea can be integrated a bit. In addition to being for fun/high scores/medals/IDK, what if there was a game that actually took info from players, like when tv shows tally up the votes on their website to choose which version of a season finale to air? Maybe that could determine what big-finishing movie to show at the end of it. (Oh yeah, with a movie of some sort at the end. could be animation, livestreamed speech, IDK)

Maybe teams by specialty (like "5 points to gryffindor") like, artists vs musicians vs blank slates vs programmers vs ??? could be racking up points during the event for...IDK, for fun. but yeah, how about that? ALL of that insanity, not just the last part?

One of the first Google results:

http://www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2030.htm

-Global population is reaching crisis point
-Desalination has exploded in use
-"Smart grid" technology is widespread in developed nations
-The USA is declining as a world power
-The majority of new vehicles are plug-in electric, or hybrids
-AI is widespread
-Depression is the number one global disease burden
-The Muslim population has increased significantly
-India becomes the most populous country on Earth
-Full weather modeling is perfected
-Orbital space junk is becoming a major problem for space flight
-Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE) reaches the Jovian system
-The Lockheed Martin SR-72 enters service
-A new generation of military helicopters
-Hyper-fast crime scene analysis
-Emerging job titles of today

Just some stuff to help people get ideas.

At 3/7/14 07:26 AM, cuteboy99 wrote: you no understand! it's same this:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/625907

oh ok then count me out. im not the animator type.

At 3/7/14 05:01 AM, A-Genius wrote:

At 3/6/14 07:49 PM, Britbau wrote: This sounds like a lot of fun, i'm down to join if you're willing to let me!

Just remember to check the rules so there not going to be any misunderstanding!

Ok so what exactly do we do/make/post? I thought it'd be a sketch image we drew but then you said FPS so...are these games? movies? art? mixed categories?

This is my first attempt to win a thingy for money so id have to ask:

-how do you guys judge these things? My best guess was that it would be how well the entries integrated the theme but in this case that idea is shot.

-In what different ways can that money be paid? Sounds greedy but I'm asking because I'm curious about the system, and not because I'm expecting to win.

Oh yeah, and I'm excited and making a thingy too.

What does leading a collab entail, anyway?

Give the game description plz.

At 1/8/14 08:58 PM, MrFalcon wrote: Looking for animators & voice actors for anime series. Shonen style. Male & female voices needed. The first episode is nonpay but if it becomes popular, everyone will be paid from then on.

Please be more specific.
-What is the series about?
-What is it rated? (E,G,T,M)
-How big of a main-character cast are you looking for?

I've seen forum threads with a lot of replies and they usually have a good long paragraph about each character role and a description of the story/setting.

Is anyone thinking of doing the zombie one? I think that sounds neat and I can at least try to get it started if I'm not stepping on any toes there.

At 1/6/14 09:02 PM, danman113 wrote:

Awesome. You can find that here. As for the corrections, just copy them to a text or word document and pm them to me, or send them to my email which you can find here.

roger that.

At 12/27/13 09:16 PM, danman113 wrote:

What I'm looking for now is some people interested in the project who could give me some good feedback on the things I've added so far, as well as bounce ideas off of, and even contribute ideas for features to add. Also I need a writer who can write a variety of dialogue options and a myriad of descriptions for buildings and objects. On the other hand I am in desperate need of a graphic designer/artist who can help me make the UI less terrible and make the few images I need.

Also you can pick up things and will be able to use them as weapons. Just thought I'd share that.

If you're interested in the game, you can find it at Here

If you're interested in becoming a tester, writer or artist, leave a reply. Thanks for your time

I personally am involved in stuff already but if you could somehow share with me the game file(s) I'd be happy (VERY happy) to do touch-ups on the grammar/spelling of the text. Even if it's later after you finish writing the game, I'd still be willing to do that for you.

At 11/15/13 08:15 PM, Spoonardo wrote:

At 11/15/13 04:58 PM, Newbie97 wrote: Hi, I'm not CS5 compatible, and I don't have a portfolio for anything because I'm not a professional at anything. That having been said, I'd be happy

Do you have proper knowledge and experience in story boarding for film/animation?

Officially, no.
Whenever I try to do something that is a full-blown job for some people, I google it, watch behind-the-scenes from movie productions, and check out any tutorials I can find on it online. I am sorry to say that I have none to show you already, but I could draw up something for you on the spot in a set time period of your choice, if you'd like. Anywhere from minutes to days.

I appreciate the response.

Hi, I'm not CS5 compatible, and I don't have a portfolio for anything because I'm not a professional at anything. That having been said, I'd be happy to

-storyboard (via screenshots of flash cs3, I suppose)
-background voice act (faar~ in the background. I sound pretty young, so if Patches is at school I could try to help there)
-make various sfx (I have a room full of technical junk that I think would be good for steampunk-ish sounds)
-give a second opinion (I always keep my criticism constructive)

and above all else, I can keep in touch and not randomly leave you hanging. Beyond that, I think this is a cool idea and I'm definitely interested in watching it even if I'm not a part of it.

1) I personally prefer Tumblr.

2) I'd hope for your main characters to include a boy and girl who aren't related but also aren't in a romance. That would definitely interest me, because I never get to see that.

3) I like clean comedy :D

Good luck with your story!

At 11/2/13 01:34 PM, CrazyRock wrote: No! Don't go with the shitty embded thingy.

Why not try something like this;

1. Convert each part into a separate movieclip
2. Place the first part on the timeline (let's say the whole part is 398 frames long inside of the movie clip)
3. make the movieclip stay on the frame for 398 frames
4. Make a new empty frame after the 1st part ends (note, on the main timeline, not inside the MC)
5. just fill it black and add a StopAllSounds() code to it
6. new frame, put next part here (same technique as the 1st one)
7. repeat

That should most likely solve it.

I second that motion. I'd be willing to do the work myself, if-

someone finally punches Newbie97 in the face and shuts them up

At 11/1/13 07:58 PM, VaguelyWonderful wrote: Ok right...
From what I can see we have two options. These are as follows:

Option 1 - Reconstruct the main section with the animations in and keep the project entirely swf based
Option 2 - Embed the video within the project (an example of this in action can be seen here: link)

Option 1, and I volunteer to help reconstruct it if it gets converted to cs3/someone can let me use their computer.
I think vectors are awesome because they can look great at bigger sizes, and that they're worth keeping, as opposed to pixels. Plus navigation's high on my list when I browse other collabs.

At 11/1/13 07:51 PM, Newbie97 wrote:

At 11/1/13 07:39 PM, larrynachos wrote:

At 11/1/13 07:24 PM, VaguelyWonderful wrote:

At 11/1/13 07:22 PM, larrynachos wrote: We can always just keep the menu, then just embed the rest of it as video in the animation, right?

Actually that's a really good idea.
Do you think we would still be able to use navigation buttons with that method?

Hmm.... Maybe if there's an action to skip to different parts of the video. It would take some heavy scripting, though.

If it opens for me this time, I'd be willing to do that. Lend me (and whoever else is trying this) your powerz, guys.

Not even mine opens. I honest to goodness am willing to do the programming if someone who can open this would screenshare with me.

At 11/1/13 07:39 PM, larrynachos wrote:

At 11/1/13 07:24 PM, VaguelyWonderful wrote:

At 11/1/13 07:22 PM, larrynachos wrote: We can always just keep the menu, then just embed the rest of it as video in the animation, right?

Actually that's a really good idea.
Do you think we would still be able to use navigation buttons with that method?

Hmm.... Maybe if there's an action to skip to different parts of the video. It would take some heavy scripting, though.

If it opens for me this time, I'd be willing to do that. Lend me (and whoever else is trying this) your powerz, guys.

At 11/1/13 04:32 PM, A-Genius wrote: http://www.mediafire.com/download/9ac1mv9zfudu44w/halloweencollab+helpy_CS5.fla

if anyone want to fix the .fla file !

Any chance of converting that to cs3? anyone?

At 11/1/13 12:32 PM, A-Genius wrote: It's actually completed but there are 3 entries that doesn't play!
http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/76505041f724f79764686d58952e6ae4

if anyone know how to fix this

Has anyone heard of a website called join.me? It's very good for screensharing and I'm hoping somebody who can open the file would be willing to let me try to fix it on their cpu. Pweeze. <-- look, I misspelled it and everything.

At 10/31/13 10:18 PM, Reaxrami wrote: Also, at Newbie97's animation I can't hear the kids on background sound and the 2nd+ time it loops there's only one kid, the others dissapear

Yes those kids have stop(); actions at the end of their walking animations because the animations are too short and would loop otherwise.

I feel pretty obnoxious for messing the timeline up but I really do feel like I could fix something in the file (besides my part) if anyone could help me edit it somehow. I'm relatively desperate here. Anyone who can open it, please.

At 10/31/13 07:48 PM, VaguelyWonderful wrote:

would anyone be willing to reconstruct the section which plays all the animations?

PC: "Unexpected File Format"
Me: "WHYYYY??!!!!!"

Seriously, does anyone have CS4? because I have cs3 and I hear that cs4 can convert things to cs3. I am really itching to get my hands on this thing. Anyone willing to join.me (screenshare) with me? I know that's a trusting thing to do but I didn't want to not-ask if there's the tiny chance that someone (who can open the file) would do it.