At 11/4/09 06:09 PM, Ray80 wrote:

At 11/4/09 02:31 PM, portalwarpedJP wrote:

At 11/4/09 02:05 PM, LegolaSS wrote: is anyone not seeing the medals under the games?... or is it just me :S

they just take a little while to show on the game page for me, nothing else.
have you waited?

I cannot see any medal on the game page.... could be the classic layout??

Yes, because it's too much trouble to constantly support multiple versions of the portal, classic view is going to stay 100% classic and get none of the new api features. After looking at our database we found less than 0.1% of our members even use it. And since those few fear change so much... we'll keep you safe from new stuff >_>

At 11/3/09 05:34 PM, LDAF wrote:

At 11/3/09 05:05 PM, PsychoGoldfish wrote: along with the groundwork for some new API features you'll start seeing in use in the near future.

I can't help feeling that this has something to do with the level/sharing API used it Time Fcuk. :3

I can't help but feeling you are right and that everyone should go look at Time Fcuk again >_>

I've been installing updates which includes a more efficient script to reset everyone's medal scores based on valid medals, along with the groundwork for some new API features you'll start seeing in use in the near future.

Right now we have 2 separate database tables regarding your medals. One stores what medals you currently have unlocked and is not biased to the overall functionality of a medal (such as the ones in fear unlimited), the other holds your actual medal scores.

When this new script runs it adds up your medal points for every medal that is currently marked as an approved and functional medal, and skips points for the broken ones.

If the authors who made the broken medals ever fix them, those medals will be worth points again and anyone who has them unlocked will have those points automatically added.

I do not have a list of what's all been de-approved in the overall list of medals, but I know there are a few games that only have one or 2 broken ones that are not worth any real points. The ones worth no points shouldn't show up on the game page, but will show up on your profiles.

There's still a lot of touch ups to do on the system overall, but we have been listening to the complaints about people cheating to get unatainable medals and we agree those unatainable medals should not reward people anything.

As I eluded to at the start of this post, we have a LOT of new stuff in the pipeline so addressing every minor issue with the medals may take some time, but know that the way things are set... if you unlock a medal and do not get points for it... you still have the medal linked to your acount and on the next score sync, your points should reflect that.

Yay my very first b-day thread on NG.... I'M FINALLY ONE OF THE COOL KIDS! (Okay, kids may not be the best term given my current age of OLD YEARS OLD)

At 10/13/09 08:15 PM, 14hourlunchbreak wrote:

At 10/13/09 07:21 PM, brewbeer wrote:

A lot of high caliber flash artists have tried medals and failed thus had them removed from their game.

You make it sound a lot harder than it is. Here's basically what happens.

1. You email a staff member with a preview of your game and why you want the medals in it etc etc etc
2. They'll email you back (hopefully) with an outline of what you need to give them (icons, descriptions)
3. They'll send you a file that includes the medal popup animation and a bunch of other stuff, also samples of codes that you'll have to use to make the medals work.

That's more or less it. The code is relatively simple, I was able to implement it with no problems. You're making it sound like a big and scary thing.

I think the point he's getting at is a lot of novice programmers, or animators with NO programming language have had a hard time making their games actually work properly where it comes to calling medals.

Some people overcomplicate things by adding their own sharedobjects, some people don't test the medals at all and just assume they work, some people pull achievements out of their ass that aren't even possible, etc etc...

The unfortunate result is we havn't been able to help everyone who wants medals because the ammount of time spent supporting them or hounding lazy programmers to fix their bugs just detracts from time that should be spent making self service pages so you can set up your own medals... not to mention other kickass features.

As to the OP's question, if you are confident in your programming skills you could send Tom a PM as he is currently setting up most of these medals so I can keep working on finishing the system. Just keep in mind he gets an assload of pms and has a lot of stuff to do himself.

those are games where the medals have been revoked because the authors refuse to fix them. I'm sure there are other games that need to be pulled as well, but we've got bigger fish to fry at the moment

At 10/12/09 03:38 PM, Wylo wrote:

At 10/12/09 03:16 PM, liljim wrote:

At 10/12/09 02:48 PM, brewbeer wrote: Not all of them are on that list yet.

Yes, they are. Any submission that's got approved medals is automatically on that list.

What about the games that like Hover Bot Arena 2 and Fear Unlimited Issue2? They don't have medals on the game page, but they register and show up on the profile pages.

FIRST POST!

At 9/29/09 03:30 AM, JadeTheAssassin wrote: Sorry I couldn't be around to hang out. We went to Rock Bottom on Sunday and couldn't find anyone, so me and Missing gave up and slummed around.

You were a day late lol

I've contacted the ad company about these annoying ads, should be resolved soon... unless they have a case of the Mondays.

yay the fucking rain stopped! Now I can drink indoors AND outdoors

At 9/17/09 05:12 PM, mrty wrote:

Then again, why not have medals open to public? What could possibly happen? If they are afraid of people making thousands of medals for spamming purposes, they can just have a maximum medal limit.

because everyone keeps pming me about medals and using up the development time that could be spent making this happen

Also, it's a lot of work being awesome 24/7... so that takes up a lot of my time

oh and if you live under a rock.. or pretty much anywhere else that isn't gay... you can tune in at http://www.radiogrounds.com

Radiogrounds is not a desolate website, and the gay sex party can resume... altr and myself are on the motherfucking air.

also... "DUDE"

At 8/11/09 04:25 PM, citricsquid wrote:

At 8/11/09 04:22 PM, PsychoGoldfish wrote: If Newgrounds doesn't fucking fix this I am canceling my membership.

good luck with that, the stupid nazis don't even refund our membership fees! Dicks!

That's bullshit.... I think it's time to protest... I will not work on chat until this horse dick issue is resolved!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I hate these fucking ads, they keep crashing my Netscape 2.0 Browser on my windows 3.1 supercomputer.

If Newgrounds doesn't fucking fix this I am canceling my membership.

At 7/13/09 05:30 AM, Dented wrote: k don't know if this helps but...

when im on ng it tells me that i'm not logged on for medals even tho i am.
what's wierd is that i just used my moms comp to go on newgrounds and play "it's a nice day today" and got the same message, but when i played i still got the "failure to communicate" medal, which i got to keep.
i just tried to get my last "spewer" medal on my comp and it did the same thing it did before, meaning that i don't have the final medal for it still T_T

If you can't get medals send me a pm and let me know what operating system you use, what browser (and version), any ad-blocking plugins you may have running, your flash player version and any specific games you can't run

At 7/12/09 03:07 PM, PeiMei wrote: So much publicity.. How much is Zeebarf paying you guys?

We get paid in hugs and kisses

At 7/12/09 02:37 PM, Ismael92 wrote: If it was for a better efficiency, then it can't be bad :)
Thanks for keeping us updated ;)

by "better efficiency" I really meant I dumped my coffee all over the medals system and had to take it apart for cleaning

We had a brief outage of the medal system as some key database settings were being upgraded for better efficiency.

Everything should be up and working now, but the only way to really know for sure is for you guys to go and get all the medals in [start shameless plug] Reemus 3 [end shameless plug]

Journeys of Reemus: Chp 3, by Zeebarf Type: Game Rating: Ages 13+

At 6/10/09 12:24 PM, C-Doodlez-Man wrote:

At 1/23/09 04:44 PM, speeling wrote: God damn it, I'm only 14.

Being 15 poses a problem to. I live in Colorado Springs, this was actually a possibility...... time to pull a McLovin.

I anyone ever read more than 2 lines of this thread they would know there is gonna be an all ages meet on the 26th.

I can't stress how valuable of a resource the facebook page for this meet is:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=48 192436949

At 6/8/09 01:10 PM, AsthmaticHamster wrote:

At 6/5/09 11:30 AM, PsychoGoldfish wrote: Okay kids, tickets to beerfest are on sale now and selling fast... if you are coming, I suggest you buy ASAP!

http://www.greatamericanbeerfestival.com /

Fuck, I can't afford a 4 day pass...
Is there a day in particular we would be attending?

the Friday one

Should be working now

At 6/6/09 01:03 AM, LtMcMuffin wrote:

At 6/6/09 12:47 AM, PsychoGoldfish wrote: like, totally remember dudes... you can download the original turtles arcade game on the 360...

PIZZA TIME!

ugh,... Shell shock....

COWABUNGA!

That's totally what dying and continuing sounds like dude. It's like, totally radical!

I just bought that game on XBL a week ago, most pointless fun I have ever had.
Talk Like a Ninja Turtle Day's theme song, because only one band had the nads to cover it.

wrong...

<3Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, by lessthan3 Type: SongGenre: General Rock

At 6/6/09 12:40 AM, Snow-Fox wrote: I don't know if its just me, but the ads aren't even showing up anymore. I don't have an ad blocker and the page has completely loaded....

Strange

Try clearing any cookies from cpmstar and you should be right as rain

like, totally remember dudes... you can download the original turtles arcade game on the 360...

PIZZA TIME!

ugh,... Shell shock....

COWABUNGA!

That's totally what dying and continuing sounds like dude. It's like, totally radical!

At 6/5/09 10:51 PM, SevasTra wrote: Tom I'm sorry I block the ads, I would love to run the ads and give the site money but I can't, it's not because I want to block the ads but because I can't run the ads. If I run the ads my old PC bogs down so much the site runs so slowly and I can't buy a new one because I'm broke and hell if I could get a job in this economy.

So if you want ad money from me send me a new PC, or perhaps I will check out flixel and win that $250 to put towards a new PC.

if a couple little banner ads (that get disabled when you dim the lights btw) make your shit run that slow, how the hell are you watching the flash movies and playing the flash games on the site? You must have a special plugin that makes just those things work huh?

GO NINJA GO NINJA GO!

At 6/5/09 01:53 PM, Twilight wrote: What the hell is a Ninja Turtle?

like, only one word can totally describe a turtle:

AWESOME!

At 6/5/09 01:52 PM, PowerRangerYELLOW wrote:

At 6/5/09 01:50 PM, CuntPunter wrote: Quit fucking around Jeff and finish the chat before I sic Shredder on your bodacious pizza ass.

No way, That's bogus and the turtles are much more important than some faggot chat room. dude

Shell yeah they are!

In honor of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 25th anniversary, I hereby tottally decalare this most radical day to be "Talk Like a Ninja Turtle" day.

Cowabunga dudes!