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At 8/2/09 05:31 PM, Depredation wrote:

I really think we are coming to a peak of 2D graphics now (all real time, all 3d). I don't think we can progress a huge amount more without moving into the realms of VR or an entirely new perspective on gaming.

I think theres still a lot of room for games to get better visually. Games like Crysis and Gran Turismo do look amazing, but I still think there is way more room for improvement. The thing I always do is look to the 3D animate films, we havent seen anything near the visuals in Up, or even Spirits Within yet. Hopefully when we reach that "photorealistic" stage where everything looks perfect, developers will look to other ways of improving visuals to make them stand out from all the other pixel-perfect games out there.

Glaiel, Closure is way more visually stimulating to me than yet another first person shooter with 40 shaders stuck on would be.

See, im the total opposite. The more I do it, the more I love making games, and I think Flash is the perfect medium to make great games quickly and get them played by a huge audience.

I disagree that you cant make great games with Flash. As Paranoia said, the large majority of flash games are simple because that is the formula that does well, and a lot of developers are young and these kinds of games are easier to make.

That doesnt mean you cant make awesome games, and there are plenty of games out there that have been truly amazing. We just need to push the platform, hopefully the introduction of MT's will allow us to spend longer making these awesome games.

At 7/31/09 01:50 PM, chidori457 wrote: where did i make a grammar mistake? stop being a smartass

Well, it was a pretty stupid question. Care to elaborate a little? Most people here use Adobe Flash... Photoshop for bitmap bgs?

Im gonna go on dragons den with a wacom with the pen attached by a piece of string. Ive lost the little bastard AGAIN!

Anyone else have this problem? :P

At 7/31/09 12:28 AM, Blackfang wrote: TV SHOWS

The Office, is hands down best show ever.

Please not the US one?

Ive been watching Dragons Den quite a lot recently. They either click or just fail and get ripped apart, either way its entertaining to watch :)

At 7/30/09 06:43 AM, citricsquid wrote: anybody who's done it before know how much the train from london to birmingham is? I don't trust the internet.

Book it in advance on the website if there are any cheap tickets left, youll save shit loads. Itll cost whatever it says on the site!

At 7/29/09 04:41 PM, Luis wrote: shtuff

Wicked man loads of great stuff there, ill work all of them into it! cheers for the help :)

We havent see a new luis game in a while?

At 7/29/09 03:06 PM, knugen wrote: For some reason I Googled it before I checked the NG version, this version actually works :)

[SWF]

Awesome! Cheers for that man, I would probably have never found that :) Looking at that game, I cant believe how long I spent on some of those animations, considering how small they are. You can zoom in like 4 times and they still look sweet. Ive got lazy!

Thanks for the comments about the ROOTS too, they are staying!

Ive been working on some ideas for a new site layout, what do you think? People say the roots are hard to read but i like them :( It doesnt need to be the most accessible site in the world, id rather sacrifice something for art than have a boring layout. Any thoughts?

I lost a game today :( I totally forgot Christmas Cannon was on Gamejacket, now its vanished to the world! I dont even have the source files, what a bastard.

4 pack of the nicest stuff you can find, and then a crate of the cheapest lager is the way to go, it all tastes the same by that point, i aint made of money.

At 7/28/09 01:52 PM, Neo-13 wrote: I like the atmosphere and music. The animations of the walking and jumping need adjustments though. While the walking animation is good, it is the wrong style for this. It's way too cartoony, and seriously doesn't fit in.

I actually think it looks great, I like the cartoony look to the character, makes it seem like some 1940's cartoon, along with the black and white filter. It looks different, but I think thats a good thing, especially for a game like this.

Just my thoughts!

At 7/28/09 02:40 PM, BoMToons wrote: http://bomtoons.newgrounds.com/news/post /351124

Haha great photos!

It must be wierd to meet a shit load of people off NG all at once. I went for a drink with Chaz the other day which was pretty cool. I imagined him to be 15 for some reason :)

At 7/28/09 12:56 AM, CraneShot wrote:

But the best place is here
http://tinyurl.com/nj48a5

Brilliant :D

I mostly drink lager and rum. Lots of nice lagers out there, i usually go for the cheap old fosters or becks though. Stella sorts you out too. I love Sol, Hoegaarden and staropramen too, amoungst many more :)

As for rum, Sailor Jerrys for lyfe bro'

I dont drink non alcoholic drinks

At 7/28/09 10:46 AM, FlashtooREV wrote: Right-click on it in the library, select Edit with... or something and then select an editing program, such as Audacity. Then save the File again with that program and you're done.

You fucking sweetheart.

cheers boy

Does any one know how to get sound files back out of an fla? And I dont want to go through each one, put it in the timeline and export it as a wav.

I like Guinea Pop, might use that :)

At 7/26/09 02:41 PM, Deadclever23 wrote: Awesome.

Do you think Bubble pop pigs is a better name?

Shittest name for a game ever?

epic

I think the space could be handled a little better... Hopefully once the front page is wide it will give that extra room to allow a lot more content on the front page. The problem is that Newgrounds is such a large community with so many different aspects to it (games, movies, audio, art, user pages etc), that to fit a large range of the best work and keep it constantly updated is a big task and hard to do on the current layout.

At 7/25/09 11:41 AM, Wolfears2 wrote: Yo J1mp, I was inspired by Penguinz. I drew a few guns as well in semi-tribute on my Kongregate holiday.guns

Those look sweet man, are you working on a game?

Whats a kongregate holiday?!

haha I think Rupert Grint is starting at Bournemouth uni this year, even better!

looks great man! i like the perspective youve got on the platforms/character.

Right, so: You want someone to animate an entire series of a cartoon, which might be released on DVD, so the animator might POSSIBLEY get paid?

At 7/24/09 05:11 PM, Mercenary81 wrote: I think this whole things been coming out pretty nicely

Looks great, 2 things if you wanna improve it :
Having the head as a static movieclip looks a bit wierd when everything else is nice and frame by framed, maybe put a bit of movement on the head, even if its every other frame?

His torso stays in the same place, ad a bit of vertical movement in there, even if its just tweening the whole movieclip.

At 7/24/09 02:08 PM, Toast wrote: Rockman X much?

Never played any of them :(

Its probably not the most original thing in the world, but its gonna be awesome :) I cant wait.

At 7/24/09 01:46 PM, Coaly wrote: I think something that will stand in the way is the sense of entitlement to free content that most players have, and on top of that the fact that there are so many many many free games people can play already.

I think the key is to have as much content as all the free games out there, but offer extras as an option to the players that love your game. The time it takes to make a few extra levels, add some new enemys and maybe a new gameplay element is tiny compared to how long the initial game takes to build. You can see it as an investment.

At 7/24/09 01:33 PM, Depredation wrote: I'm still not sold on micro-transitions. A large chunk of the flash game audience is aged 10-16, and the chance of people at that age having someway to transfer funds is not going to be high.

How about xbox 360 and PS3? And as Coaly said, you only need to sell to a tiny percent of your audience. If you hit 1%, thats fucking huge.

At 7/24/09 12:41 PM, Doomsday-One wrote: Penguinz certainly was a popular game, but you won't get money for more of the same!
Without this sounding too much like an interview question, what are you adding to Penguinz 2 to make it even more addictive, and make people willing to hand out their cash?

Oops missed that, ages ago aswell! I suck.

Nah dont worry, this aint gonna be the same :) The first game was pretty much a tech demo compared to this! I dont really wanna say too much cos (hopefully) its awesomeness will be a nice surprise. But yeah, think outside the 30 second arena deathmatchs. No staggy, think more Metal Slug. But with dragon Boss battles on top of speeding trains. And its not just snowy, you fight every where and every kind of animal. And Zombies. Im not saying anything else :)

Check out this article regarding Flash Game monetisation and micro transactions. Very useful article if youre interested in this kind of thing, I think I wanna go down the MT route with Penguinz 2.

At 7/21/09 11:56 AM, WhoknowsmeaUdiO wrote:

*Coughcough* Spewer *cough*

haha nah its nothing like spewer at all. Just a fun little week project, I need to make a game with animals where you dont kill them :P

Just started a bubble-gum-chewing guinea pig based puzzle game. Yes.