I hope you have a DOG gone happy hatch day.... see what I did there?

Also CHOCOLATE FUDGE CAKE YUMMY YUM YUM. (cuz there is poo)

MY PICO IS INFECTED

At 4/24/08 04:53 PM, Schizo-Sephy wrote: I live in America. It's horrid.

I can't wait till I'm outta this oppressive town...

see... he thinks america is a town... this does not support the 'americans r smrt' argument....

I think we can all agree on one thing:

LOL MEXICO

At 4/24/08 02:33 PM, physco-pickle wrote: Your "superiors" didn't make you fat, all that taco bell, Macdonald's, and Burger King did.
I don't think Bush shoved that nasty shit down your throat.

Then again... look at it this way... the govt has sunk the economy so low that people (at least those who still have jobs) are working excruciating hours and don't have the time to prepare proper meals anymore, nor can they afford to eat at good restaurants... fast food is all people have the time and money to eat anymore.

At 4/24/08 02:28 PM, CyprusX wrote:

At 4/24/08 02:28 PM, PsychoGoldfish wrote: drink... a lot

HOLY SHIT YOU POSTED

Yes, my typing fingers have finally healed after that horrible horrible incident in Bombay. Thank you for your letters and prayers... keep on trucking!

drink... a lot

It's hard to say the american people aren't stupid though when over 50% of them re-elected bush.

The fair thing would be, america is onl HALF stupid i guess....

At 4/24/08 12:36 PM, FBIpolux wrote:

At 4/24/08 12:20 PM, PsychoGoldfish wrote: I've been working on developer tools such as the flash API and Flash Ads since around September '07. I'm basically a 3rd site programmer working with James and Rob to get stuff done.

Hopefully that'll help you finish the Chat... like a little kick in the butt or something :P

unfortunately, the chat isn't soley dependant on me, I have a partner who is developing the socket server NG Chat will run on, and he's got a full-time job already that eats most of his time.

Anyways, congrats on that! Are you going to move to Philly?

Not in the forseeable future, but I'm sure I'll be making a few trips here and there.

I've been working on developer tools such as the flash API and Flash Ads since around September '07. I'm basically a 3rd site programmer working with James and Rob to get stuff done.

Does that happen in your browser or does it happen after you download it?

Some browsers mess up file headers and try and load the file as if it was a text file... so you may need to 'save target as' or whatever you mac people do to downlaod files from a link.

At 4/23/08 03:49 PM, MarcyVF wrote: None of those pre-loader links work for me. I just get a load of ÿ's and _ (TY-8¢¡%u2260}¢012@®}{¢/34wn's.

One of the ÿ's attempted to rape me. It was not fun.

I have a Mac, sooo.... Uh... Dunno. Maybe it's my flash player or something else...? :O

.M.

I have a rolling FAQ on the API stuff on my blog: http://psychogoldfish.newgrounds.com/new s/post/112595

If you have any general questions post a comment on there and I'll get them added.

At 4/21/08 01:28 PM, CoolDrMoney wrote:

Hopefully rather than motivate people to sell themselves out to get page views, this will act as a way to motivate artists to get shit done and to submit higher quality stuff

Probably won't be the latter though. Might not have any effect at all

So far I have noticed a pattern. Stuff that has a lot of effort makes money, stuff without does not.

The lazy people wanting sortcuts to cash probably won't find success with this, nor will they care as long as they can get lump-sum sponsorships without having to work any harder.

At 4/21/08 09:58 AM, JackPhantasm wrote: So silence = "no jack you have to use that preloader and only that preloader."

That's fine.

haha, use whatever you want

Once again it seems you are having trouble reading the help.

For flash 5 and MX, you put the NG_API_OBJECT across your whole timeline. The AD object just goes on the frame you want... if you put THAT across your movie, you will SEE it across your whole movie.

At 4/20/08 06:04 PM, ZekeySpaceyLizard wrote: Okay so.

I've done everything properly.

And I have dragged NG_AD_OBJECT onto my timeline.

So now I have this big fat black newgrounds logo which spawns popup windows taking up almost the whole screen for the whole flash cartoon.

....

So....how are people supposed to watch the cartoon with this big black ng_ad_object billboard blocking their vision?

Or is that the whole point of this thing?

At 4/19/08 09:57 PM, FBIpolux wrote: Even ONE ad is kind of a pain.

I understand they are nice for the Author, even though you need like 10,000,000 views a Month to actually make good cash out of it... but they are really annoying when they're on small games / movies. It's kind of annoying having to wait for their fake loading bar to load when you know it's a 500 KB - 3MB game that already loaded in a few seconds...

I agree with that.... having an ad pop up fpr 10 seconds claiming to still be loading the movie can be annyonying on a game that should take 2 seconds to load (or that you have loaded already). The NG ads don't work that way, they load asynchronously with the game/movie... if the movie is done loading, you can play right away.

At 4/19/08 10:36 AM, squeakytoad wrote: Is it permissible to place ads in an already released animation (one that may be getting a very large amount of continuing views- one that you never actually made money off of because the project fell through and the sponsor didn't pay)?

you sure can

At 4/19/08 09:29 AM, K111 wrote: so do you have to sign up for pico day or just submit a flash

Just gotta show your love for pico, tankmen, the bots and/or dad n' me.... that's all the day is about.. just having fun with NG characters

At 4/18/08 10:38 PM, Bezman wrote: What version of Flash do you need to be able to use the API?

MX2004? Or can you use it in MX?

every version of flash from 5 up is supported

At 4/18/08 06:22 PM, PinballWizard976 wrote: Wait, with this API thing, do I need to make the movie in Flash? Because I use Liveswif and I don't wanna activate something and then it tells me to add this .fla file or something. I'm confused what I'm really doing with this.

Yeah right now everything is based in flash. The main classes for as2 and as3 are .as files, so I dunno if that makes them of any use to you.... Flex users can probably work with the AS3 class.

At 4/18/08 07:20 PM, TheStarSyndicate wrote:

is this also a sort of protection against your swfs getting stolen by sites like ebaums?

yep

At 4/18/08 06:51 PM, Arkuni wrote: This is everything I see :(

All my browsers are at default settings, I even tried turning off Kaspersky.

yeah that's how it should look. on the flash ads panel, ENABLE that and you'll get those options back.

At 4/18/08 05:56 PM, ZekeySpaceyLizard wrote: i just tried adding that api thing to my new "cocksplosion" short
nothing happened
so I assume you guys have it set up to only work on pico day submissions

PRETTY SNEAKY, SIS

Did you install the API or did you just grab the pico day ad preloader? You gotta get both.

BUG FIX 1.3489penis

It seems I had a little fart when I went to update the API file this morning, and some of you might have downloaded an outdated version.

If you get a "There is no method with the name 'isInstalled'." error, simply re-download the API and try it again. You may need to clear your cache/temporary internet files if you downloaded the bad version fairly recently.

If you were an early beta tester, you WILL need to get the latest version... the old one will not work with the new pico day theme.

At 4/18/08 05:48 PM, Arkuni wrote:

At 4/18/08 05:42 PM, Arkuni wrote: I just realised.

Opera browser + revenue settings = FAILURE!!!
Half of the options are missing.

Alright, this is weird, now I also miss half of all the options and the Terms and Condition text in Firefox and IE.

if you have any of the options disabled some of the stuff will dissapear cuz you don't need it... hope that helps

At 4/18/08 05:44 PM, Matt-Porter wrote: Can this new API system be implemented in a submission that also includes sponsorship?

if your sponsor is cool with it then you sure can

Good news... if you got to the page where you download the API files, we gotz some PICO DAY preloaders that can run them newfangled ads!

At 4/10/08 11:03 AM, tooters wrote: will you guys ever use paypal as a payment option?

What's everyone so hung up on paypal for? They take like 5% of your money.

At 4/9/08 10:01 PM, NG-Unit wrote: Sounds cool, BUT...

I haven't gotten any games sponsored (mostly cuz I suck at life) and if I ever do, and my sponsor doesn't allow these ads, I'm gonna take the sponsor's money, not these.

1,000,000 views using the ads = $1,000

Average Sponsor = $500-1500 up front, no matter what

Sponsorships are hands down the best way to make a lump sum of money without doing as much work.

But, if you want something more residual, and you are serious about doing this, a high quality game can make over $1 ecpm ... possibly over $2 ecpm for the first few months, and not drop all that much afterward. (for those just tuning in cpm is how much you make for 1000 views).

Now, those cpm's mean nothing without traffic, so you really have to get your games on a bunch of other sites as well. If you get your game on just 10 big sites, you can hit the 1 million views mark in just a few weeks. Good games can (and have) earned over $3k in their first month, and continued to earn between $1k and 3k for several months afterward.

Now, doing the math... you counld make what a sponsorship would have earned you in 2-3 months, plus extra as time goes on.

Do some more math and think about what happens when you have 5 completed games running ads... you could be making $5k a month without having to even make new games for some time.

Personally I feel THIS is the biggest benefit of ads vs sponsorships as it gives you more breathing room. Not only could you very likely make over 10k per game (if you put in the work), but once you have enough games published, you can spend more time on your work and pump out your dream projcts without worrying about beer money during the development time.

You also have the option to sponsor yourself this way and drive traffic to your own websites. This is the reason sponsorships even exist, so the sponsor can pull viewership from your work to their sites, and it usually pays for itself within a year. So if a sponsor can make back the money they paid you just from web traffic... what could you do with the same web traffic?

But again... these theories really only apply to those of us who are willing to work for it. The more you put in, the more you get.

At 4/9/08 07:26 AM, Powergames wrote: since neither this nor mochi are contract deals would i be allowed to add both (to one submission) by, for example adding one in the preloader and one in between levels?
or would that be cheaing? :~(

I don't think that's cheating, but over-using ads will likely be a turn-off to players and end up hurting your earnings more than helping, unless you have really long levels. Our ads don't force a 10-second view time either so maybe they wouldn't be as annoying in-between levels.