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Ooh, I know that YungJazz is a good aritist. Good for him!

At 12/1/08 12:35 PM, TomFulp wrote: There are only eight 2009 CALENDARS left in the store and we aren't planning to print another run. Today is probably your last chance to get one.

Oh noes!

I was planning to submit a Flash animation today, but that might not happen because of a scene problem I've encountered. In total, I have five scenes and the first scene has four buttons to go to another scene. For each button I have added script that looks like this:

on(release){
_root.gotoAndPlay("frame");
}

In the next four scenes I have labelled a frame at the beginning. "frame" is just an example and I have labelled each of these four frames with a different name, repeating the same exact word in the script. This script works for two of the scenes, which instantly play as soon as I release over the corresponding button. However, the other two go to the scene but don't start playing; it pauses. To the first frame I added:

gotoAndPlay(nextFrame)

This goes to the next frame, but it still pauses and doesn't even play with the right-click menu. So far the only thing I can do is add the same script to every frame in both scenes, but I will never resort to that. What is going on and how can this be solved?

At 11/30/08 01:06 PM, TomFulp wrote: Today's Wacom tablet winner is Shaun McGlinn, aka Blordow! Shaun joined NG in 2003 and started submitting Flash at the age of 15.

You're really starting to encourage the potential of young animators, which I should be happy about.

While his first year consisted of Mario and other sprite movies, WHICH IS TOTALLY FINE,

Remember kids, everything by everyone!

At 11/29/08 10:54 AM, TomFulp wrote: With an arsenal that includes programming chops AND a drawing tablet, Night-Mare should be unstoppable in 2009!

Soon he will take over the world!

At 11/28/08 12:25 PM, TomFulp wrote: Now that he's being reunited with a tablet, I'm excited to see Tim back in action! WE MISS YOU FROMMY!

Do we?

I guess so...

At 11/27/08 10:11 AM, TomFulp wrote: Today's Wacom tablet winner is Decade! Decade first appeared on NG as a participant in the "Paralyzed" collab. It turns out he was only 11 at the time!

For those who still make a stereotype about younger Newgrounders being fat masturbaters with a furry fetish, Anigen and Decade are good examples that go against you!

His submissions aren't particularly high-scoring, but he's made us all realise that Newgrounds will continue to have many generations of artists. As a 16 year-old, hopefully I'll become as well-known as him one day.

At 11/25/08 12:40 PM, TomFulp wrote: While all of his submissions are worth checking out, here are the two most recent and noteable:

Oh, those two I have seen! I haven't watched many submissions from a few of the Wacom winners so far, you're doing a good deed by making sure they're heard!

At 11/24/08 12:24 PM, TomFulp wrote: Attention programmers! Glaiel-Gamer has issued a Tron AI Flash-Off. What now?

You tell me, Tom!

The Wacom winners are not being announced in any specific order, and will represent a variety of artists who have contributed to NG in the past.

So even if I did ask for a tablet, I wouldn't have won because I need more than three submissions... okay!

At 11/23/08 12:44 PM, TomFulp wrote: Hopefully the fame won't make him self-destruct or something.

Hopefully... if he isn't a robot.

He could be.

At 11/22/08 11:34 AM, TomFulp wrote: You may know Master-Samus best for his Killing Spree series, which ran through most of 2003 and a few sporadic episodes in the years that followed.

Oh, I remember watching the first few episodes back on the early half of this decade... I hope the conclusion comes soon along with Joe Zombie, I've been waiting for both to finish in a long time!

In other news, Mike has ported the freeware, open-source DOOM to Flash with Adobe's Alchemy tools and a bunch of adjustments to the Doom source code.

Wow, that's only the third time Mike has submitted something to the portal!

At 11/21/08 01:34 PM, TomFulp wrote: Yotam is nervous that making the leap to a drawing tablet will offend his fellow mouser Luis, but he hopes it will improve his abilities and enhance his animations.

I like his mouse-based drawings, but I hope the power of the Wacom will go to good use! I've tried a tablet once in my life and went back to the mouse within seconds, but I might want one some time.

We have also just released a Nameless t-shirt in the store! You can now sport Crippleboy and Chocolateman wherever you go!

So many store additions, I need to get some new t-shirts (and penicorn) soon!

At 11/21/08 02:49 AM, maxvm wrote: Thirty two posts in a row, I hope you can actually do it. I'll be waiting for some more good topics!

Oops, I counted 34 but must have mixed it up with something else I was thinking about.

At 11/20/08 01:56 PM, TomFulp wrote: I'm gonna be posting EVERY DAY from now until Christmas Eve!

Thirty two posts in a row, I hope you can actually do it. I'll be waiting for some more good topics!

At 11/17/08 10:59 AM, TomFulp wrote: Also, share your thoughts on artists you would like to see spotlighted.

Myself, please... I would like some home page exposure! What kind of an animator doesn't?

The only CoD: WaW topics I've seen are people asking whether they should buy it, followed by sentence-long answers by others who have bought the game. Having found the game disappointing, I felt that I had to make a lengthy review to go over Treyarch's mistakes.

Having got the game yesterday, gaming websites have praised it so I was expecting a game that could be as good as the fourth installment of the series. The last time Treyarch made a Call of Duty game was the third one, since they alternate turns with Infinity Ward to create the sequel. The third game wasn't as good as the second and nowhere near as great as the fourth. When I started playing Modern Warfare, I was instantly drawn in by the campaign and spent the whole afternoon playing until I had to go to bed. The next morning I finished it just before lunch, because I had to get to the end. World at War, however, was not like this at all.

In Modern Warfare, the first time I died was a few levels into the game. When I started dying, I was always given a nice quote about war and ready to learn from my mistake before the checkpoint loaded. In World at War, I first died half a minute after being handed a gun. I was left shocked and even worse, Treyarch decided to abandon war quotes. My character lied there in several second of silence before the the screen dimmed into black, and I had no idea how I died. Brought back to the start of the game, I managed to get to the next few checkpoints before something new happened. I had no idea what to do next and ran aimlessly about wasting ammunition before finding out what I had to do. Eventually I finished the first level and I couldn't have felt worse about it.

I try to finish a game's campaign before I forget about it, so I went on with more levels throughout the day. I started to realise that World at War is a lot like Modern Warfare, because my first level as a Russian had me sneaking around with a sniper rifle while a higher ranked soldier was ordering me to kill some important Nazi officer. Sounds similar to a certain level in the last game, doesn't it? This level was also really bad, since I could only see darkness most of the time and I still don't know exactly when I had killed the officer. Instead of knowing exactly when my target was dead in Modern Warfare, I was randomly shooting at the enemy until I got the right person. When I finish this game, I definately won't replay most of these levels.

In another level, I was controlling the guns of an amphibian plane, just like the gunship part in Modern Warfare. The plane is even introduced in a similar way, as all the guns are pointed out with details about them. I enjoyed the gunship level last time, but World at War made this part confusing and had no excitement at all. I was just shooting at boats and the occasional plane that I couldn't shoot down, so there's another bad level that eventually ended with no sense of accomplishment.

There is one level, however, that is worse than any other level that I have currently played. In this particular level I had a flamethrower and just had to burn out the enemy. It was simple enough, but there were a few troubles. First of all, I had already used the flamethrower in previous level and it's only fun for the first ten kills, then actually I started feeling sorry for anyone slowly burning to death with their arms failing and screaming painfully. This level also had bullets coming at me from everywhere, and there was one checkpoint that I had to replay seven times because I kept dying. For the first time, I was actually cursing at a game and wanting to break the disc in half.

Another level with a tank was very hard to control and at time I couldn't hit a target because it was hiding too far behind a hill, so I was glad when that one ended as well. Between the occasional level I tried the online multiplayer, since Team Fortress 2 had stopped me from playing the Modern Warfare version. It's certainly better than the campaign, but it's hard to enjoy since nobody sticks as a team and kills happen by opportunity. So far my death/kill ratio is 2:1, since I don't shoot at everything that moves. A lot of people don't seem to check for green text above your head and will waste half a clip on someone before they realise it's a team mate. Oh well, I might stick with online play and make it to level 65 one day.

In all, I don't recommend buying World at War. I won't give a number out of ten, I'm just giving my personal experience and listing where Treyarch went wrong. I also got Fable II, which gets boring after a while but can be better than World at War during points in the game. I also wanted Far Cry 2, but apparently that isn't good either except for the map editor, which is the main reason I would have bought it. Seriously, wait for a game that you know will be good, mine being Rock Band 2 which comes to the UK next week. Also, remember that the new dashboard experience comes out on the 19th!

At 11/13/08 03:36 PM, TomFulp wrote: TOP FIVE MOVIES:

1. Fallen Angel Ep. 1 (Pt1)
2. Fallen Angel Ep. 1 (Pt3)
3. Fallen Angel Ep. 1 (Pt2)

Of course those would have won! I guess Robbie only gets one calendar instead of three, right? And that image... that would be Guile as in the Street Fighter character who does sonic booms?

Just a year ago today, Envy submitted Heaven Rd. 2 (Ng Mix) to the Newgrounds Audio Portal. Personally, it's the greatest dance song I have ever heard and definately my favourite song on Newgrounds. Let's give a big congratulations to Envy, who was only sixteen years old when he wrote this amazing song!

In other news, a new Potter Puppet Pals is out.

I wanted the Edmund CD as soon as I saw it with no purchases yesterday, but unfortunately I couldn't get my mum to enter her credit card details. If there are still signed copies left, I'll try to do it today. Although, I might wait for a calendar if I don't get Weebl's.

Those are some very good pumpkin designs, now I know what standards need to be met for next years contest. Today I walked around with...

Change: Even trees support it

... written on my arm all day.

At 10/31/08 08:38 AM, TomFulp wrote: It's time for the annual pumpkin carving competition! Many of you have hopefully already carved an NG-themed pumpkin and taken pictures, but if you haven't:

1. Get a pumpkin.

I already fail at this part, for some reason nobody in our household has bough a pumpkin so I have to miss out on the contest. But now I have 365 days to plan out the ultimate winner for next year!

At 10/24/08 12:22 PM, TomFulp wrote: Check out the new Mastermind shirt in the store! That's Swain modelling it in the office.

More store updates? Sweet...

The Treasure Hunt thread received 1,138 replies with thousands of recommendations. I watched EVERY SINGLE ONE and parsed them into a list of almost 180 submissions for consideration.

So you watched my submissions then? Sweet...

This first post will cover undiscovered movies, while upcoming posts will examine undiscovered games, unappreciated front pagers and lesser-known works by celebrated artists, and finally, undiscovered series.

So my submissions still have a chance to be shown? Sweet...

This is the first time I've visited the BBS in several months, and I remembered why I stayed away from it in the first place. Anyway, the Pakistanis aren't bothering me, so I have no reason to give revenge...

At 10/22/08 03:42 PM, mwmike wrote: There've been a few bugs with NGFiles, there might be a small bug in the .JS directory. It's probably nothing at all, just sign out and back in.

I'm not too worried, I don't have a reason to have been deleted and I can still log in.

Look at the picture below, top right corner. Sometimes I'm apparently logged in as deleted, as if an admin has cancelled my account (for no reason). It's not too much of a problem, since I can go to another page and I'm maxvm again. Has anyone else seen this? I'm slightly afraid to log out...

At 10/21/08 03:06 PM, TomFulp wrote: We spent a week in Chiba for the convention, followed by a week in downtown Tokyo, where we stayed in Shinjuku but travelled to places like Shibuya, Harajuku, Akihabra, Roppongi, Ginza, Tsukiji and Mitaka. The Ghibli Museum and Tsukiji fish market (with fresh sushi) were two highlights,

I don't know how you remembered all those names without the aid of Asperger Syndrome. Anyway, it sounded like you had a good time!

Huzzah! That makes me very happy, but then again most front page posts do anyway.

My first submission has so many positive reviews that I'll have to do my own.

• 
  A Day Of Tim Miller by maxvm

  Click to view.

  Type

  Movie

  Rated

  Everyone

Sweet, time to check out the new Flash updates!

At 9/26/08 01:11 PM, TomFulp wrote: Luis has announced a DIY Teddy Troops Contest.

I'll be joining in!

We will also be having our third annual Treasure Hunt and another pumpkin carving contest in October, sooooo stick around!

I'll be joining in with that as well!

If you wanna dress up as HANK this year for Halloween, all you need is a black t-shirt, two Big Red party cups and some duct tape. BEHOLD!

Who is that?