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You guys can go ahead and make your second picks! That's why I set it to a certain time.

At 6/28/12 06:00 PM, idiot-monarch wrote: Why start a thread like this already? Teams aren't finalized and the theme isn't know. Leave this to Austin.

Woa monarch, cool it, he's not worth it.

At 6/28/12 06:19 PM, ESTAR48 wrote: Anyone knows whats the theme of this game jam?

You guys gotta adapt your favorite Family Circus cartoon into a game. I'm doing this one.

At 6/28/12 02:49 PM, Goat-Man wrote: But now there seems to be a conflict...

It's all up to you guys, I'm sure you'll work something out.

At 6/28/12 02:46 PM, AustinBreed wrote: Technically sign-ups stopped last night, but if all the guys you're picking are okay with joining your time, then it's all cool. Also, Shredator has already been nabbed.

I meant team. Also, blackmist already has a team as well.

At 6/28/12 02:30 PM, MikeyS9607 wrote: I want to join in. I posted in your newspost.

TEAM DIARRHEA...

Technically sign-ups stopped last night, but if all the guys you're picking are okay with joining your time, then it's all cool. Also, Shredator has already been nabbed.

I just updated the list of remaining people! Thank you Jacob for helpin' me out.

I'm going to bed, but I'll be updating the list tomorrow. Until then, I'd advise that programmers do a quick ctrl+F on the pages before you before you make your final pick, good luck everyone.

Yeah, sorry for the delay guys. I hit the button right at midnight, but the BBS kept giving me an error regarding the html. So I just put that fat list on my newspost and got it through.

Here is the link to the team pickin' thread by the way.

At 6/28/12 12:38 AM, Grent wrote: Does this mean that if we have a full team we can pick more or is this just for those who have incomplete teams after the mess dies down?

Yeah, you can add more people to your team. This is to assure that everyone gets a team, and that a bunch of people won't get screwed if some programmers don't show up.

At 6/28/12 12:31 AM, MonoFlauta wrote: Austin, can you post the first list of teams?, how its going? I mean, is 100% confirmated my team is as I picked?

Yeah, totally. So far, all the teams on the first page are as posted. You might want to check back in at 6pm and see if there are any stragglers that need to be picked up.

At 6/28/12 12:24 AM, ZeroCreativity1 wrote: Is it alirght to contact the teammates before the jam to work of scheduling? Or is that not allowed?

Nah, go crazy with all your contacting!

You guys can thank Google Docs for the weird stuff in place of an apostrophe. And sorry for the delay (for some reason I couldn't get that huge list of links on a single post.)

Oh wow, itâEUTMs Team Picking Time!

+ Every programmer needs to compile their teams by posting in this thread. In each post, the programmer needs to establish the following:

YOUR TEAM NAME (example: Team Thinkofsomethingclever)
1 ARTIST PICK
1 MUSICIAN PICK
1 WILDCARD PICK

+ Picks will be âEUoefirst come, first serve.âEU So if two people happen to pick the same person, the first programmer who posted their pick gets to keep that person.
+ IâEUTMll be trying to keep the list updated!
+ At 6pm (Newgrounds time, EST GMT -5) there will be a second round of picks to pick up any leftover participates and add them to teams. At this time, programmers can post like before (1 artist, 1 musician, 1 wildcard) to ensure that everyone who signed up is on a team

ThatâEUTMs it, let the team picking commence!

(Also, BIG thanks to 4urentertainment, Wallross, and Nathaniel Milburn for helping me organize all the participants!)

The list of all of the participants will be on my newspost.

Let's just compile everyone into one team, 170+ people.

At 6/27/12 02:28 PM, Luis wrote: Something you could try is setup a Google Doc with view only priveledges...

Sounds neat! It think the docs can also work through the hangout thing. I like to talk one-on-one with my teammates while I work.

At 6/27/12 02:28 PM, 4urentertainment wrote: So just to double super check, this means that when this clock reaches 12 AM right?
http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/usa/eastern-time/

Yeah!

Ahhh, sorry guys! OK, here's what I had in mind.

+ There will be a thread (NG BBS) posted at midnight tonight, East Coast Time. (11:00pm Central.) (I'll post a link in this thread and the main newspost.)
+ In the thread all the participants for the Game Jam will be listed under their appropriate jobs.
+ The programmers will each post their picks (1 artist, 1 musician, 1 wildcard). When I say "first come first serve" I mean whoever posts first gets to make their first pick. (I will be trying to update the pool of people every page.)
+ After each programmer has made their first picks, we will have another round of picking. We'll keep doing rounds of picking until every person who signed up has a team.
+ I'm sure we'll get to a point where there will be a programmer who signed up who hasn't come online to make his pick, and it'll be holding up the next round of picks. If it comes to that, we'll give the missing people an hour to make their picks and then we'll skip them.

When I was writing up the Jam stuff, I really wanted to have all the programmers meet up on some chat and make their picks one at a time, but I was reminded that most of us can barely expect all the people who signed up to make it to first day of jams, it'd be a disaster waiting to happen to expect all the programmers to show up at a specific time on a thread or chat.

Lemme know if you guys have any questions or comments.

At 6/26/12 11:50 PM, Pikanjo wrote: Looking at Archawn's organization ideas, I'm curious how other people plan to communicate/collaborate with their teams...

I'm going to push for my team to use Google Plus this time as I've grown to like it a lot.

At 6/12/12 01:39 AM, Buzzwerd wrote: Could people that end up with a no-show programmer/artist get tacked onto another team maybe? It really sucks to get picked with someone who doesn't make it and then not be able to participate.

A lot of stragglers usually just join other teams anyways. If we do the kickball thing, everyone will eventually get picked by a programmer. The only people who would miss out would be the programmers who forgot to show up.

In the future, it would be really entertaining to make a matchmaker quiz for teams. We could play it up like it's all romantic that four people all like to make space RPG stuff. Valentines Day Jam?

At 6/15/12 07:58 PM, Wallross wrote: For me the jam with the best them was number 5, Literature. It was very easy to notice a lot of the front-page games had the same underlying theme, but they all looked and played completely different.

Literature was my favorite theme too.

I wanted to try the Kickball System for two reasons: to ensure that the programmers who signed up will actually show up, and to leave the choice of who to invite to a team in the hands of the participants, instead of me. But yeah, if you guys would rather have random teams, just say the word and we'll do random teams.

During the first two jams I had the help of Nathan Milburn and a couple other dudes to help me filter out jokesters and balance out teams. Since then, I'd just stick the names in a random generator and hope it works out! If we decide on switching to random teams, I could use a couple volunteers to help me put teams together.

How would you guys like the Jams to be judged? As of now, I'm just intending to let people who participated send in votes.

I like your interviews, good luck with your projects.

Q: When did you first become introduced to art and in what form?
A: I tried to do a lot of animation in junior high but I didn't have a lot of fun with it. Then in high school, I started seeing more lowbrow work around my city and then I found that I really loved illustration.
Q: What first inspired you to create art?
A: Probably when my buddy showed me Travis Millard, who happened to be an artist from my area.
Q: What is in your opinion, the definition of art?
A: Intentional, meaningful aesthetics. Both Caravaggio and Duchamp were intentional and the physical properties of their pieces were meaningful. It sounds dry, but I don't really think defining art is important.
Q: When it comes to your art, where do you begin? How does the creative process start and when does the creation become finished?
A: I always base piece off of sketches. Sometimes I'll just rip a bunch of pages out of my sketchbook and mash them together into one image. For me, it's really important to know what I'm drawing. Like, some people can just draw things that they think look cool and get buyers, but I really like to know what the concept is. I like to know where the characters are from and where they are now and where they are going.
Q: Is there any other artist or person you look to as a guide or mentor?
A: I've learned a lot from just sitting around with my friends and painting/drawing with them. A lot of my painter friends don't visit me much anymore, but I feel like I get just as much guidance hanging out with skaters or photographers while I work.

You gotta draw from life. Go pick up a book on drawing, I heard that How to Draw from the Right Side of Your Brain is a good one.

I think he looks cool. I play a lot of D&D, so I'm always sketchin' out warriors and stuff. Here's a cleric dude I drew a while ago.

Something you could try out is making a press package and emailing it around to different blogs and stuff.

At 4/23/12 01:13 PM, Tyler wrote: Nice. Also, when will the NG game jams start up again? I miss those.

We should do one next month!

I don't always animate, but when I do:

I'll draw a quick storyboard in a sketchbook for reference.
I'll do the backgrounds first, so I can properly frame the scenes.
I'll quickly make an animatic.
I'll go over the animatic with finished frames.
Color it last.

When I'm doing the heavy stuff, like drawing the frames or figuring out the scene layout, I'll sit in silence because I find music or the radio to be distracting. But when I'm doing something tedious, like coloring or simple inbetweens, podcasts usually help pass the time.

Plato thought that everything lost value the more times it was copied. If he is correct, living in an age where everything is undeletable would be very bad for living meaningful lives. I'd like to think that we can only enjoy certain experiences because others much like our own were left forgotten.

I think some of the proportions of the bodies look a little awkward. Also, in the final image, I would crop all the sides so the objects aren't kissing the borders.

At 12/4/11 07:33 AM, 4urentertainment wrote: Also, here's an AS3 version of Austin's button:

http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/3a8c 16b6bb3bd1b1ade3df8414b302ac

Thank you 4ur! It's hard to understand you city-folk these days, with your AS3 and CS5 and MP3, herm a derma herm.

At 12/4/11 07:25 AM, 4urentertainment wrote: What about the official preloader? Also the exact deadline?

Since a lot of people choose to use Flash Ads, I figured it'd be easier to just include a button that they could place anywhere. It's pretty much the same thing. I had written that we'd be using Newgrounds time (EST) this Jam to keeps things simple, but because of the length switch-up it's probably pretty confusing for a lot of people.

The super-fancy-official-deadline is Sunday at 11:59, EST, but it's not a big deal if you submit a little late.