Decade as much as I loved panda fight I chronically hate you for slimming my chance of one of those delightful wacoms :(

And Tom yeah an autograph with the wacoms would rock... but only if I win one ;)

never heard of them and im giving my congratulations altho on the inside im easily jealous enough to kill them in the face

goshdarnit thomas! start giving some out to the more bleh users! that's 5 amazingly popular top-of-the-range flash devs now.... so get blurting out some of us lower people on that list of yours... LIKE ME!!!

(you're my santa this year and I swear to god I have been good)

circuit skirmish has always been a favourite of mine, absolutely amazing, the day i saw it i got put in the mood to go animation-crazy :p

still extremely jealous though! i would literally kill upto 15 people with my bear hands right now to by the 6th winner! ive found loads of other non-flash related uses for a graphics tablet :p

......and no sticking the pen up my ass is NOT one of them. would come in INCREDIBLY helpful for my graphics coursework though!

tom are they being sent out daily or are you going to send them all out for christmas or what? O.o

I'd never heard of them before now but I like their stuff =D

I'm also getting really jealous of everyone else that wins them :(

I saw a BMF in the shop last night for £150 and it looked absolutely heavenly! I just can't afford to chuck that kinda money around though :(

I must say I did rather enjoy Foany.

Tom are you giving out the tablets in order of something? Or just randomly give them out in no particular order from those on the list that you've chosen to give them too?

Sir Luis! I'm too lazy to read pages 4-20 of this thread... are we gonna be going anywhere in particular? Are there any plans that are set in stone? Or do you all just turn up and see where you end up bumming off too?

At 11/22/08 04:04 PM, Murad136 wrote: Do you have your 8 glasses of water a day?

Definately.

Are you a heavy drinker?

No. Only when there's a party or if I go into town at the weekends and get wrecked. I'm not one of those people that just drinks when hanging out with friends or watching tv... it has to be for getting trolleyed at a party or in town =p

At 11/22/08 11:46 AM, digololo wrote: How do you make a flash GAME? I know how to make movie already thought ...

Actionscript.

How do you code a game? Is it like HTML? What's a script? What's the program they use in the tutorials!?!? O_o Making a flash game looks so freaken hard >.<

Decent devs use flex or add actionscript to frames using actionscript 3.0 however I'm a n00b so I use AS2.0 and place actionscript on movie clips. The program is ALMOST always adobe flash.

I wana make flashs D= I got good ideas in my head ... but i just don't get it >.<

Spill your idea! By the time you learn you will have either forgotten it or not want to make it anyways.

starting to belive i should give up on that crap O.o

Never give up, we all started somewhere!

I can't do it, I don't think I understand properly :s

Post a vid/pics!

"Let's see if you're better than your sister."

LOL@original post :p

I've had such idiotic comments as:

"Is pepperoni a fruit?"

"If you hold your breathe does your heart stop beating?"

"I wonder what melted carrot tastes like."

-_-

You look like a complete pillock in all 3. Your clothes, hair, pose and camera all need to be thrown away. However I would pick the first picture. Originally I was going to say 3 then I decided that you don't suit posing AT ALL, which also ruled out option 2. SO yeah, picture 1.

I have never actually seen a starbucks in my life :(

I always hear about it on American sitcoms and people chat about it online but I've never seen one over here :( My friends insist they are everywhere and I really want to find one and see if they live upto the hype!

nope, whenever i find money it's just "oh, i found £X, k then" and yeah that's about it :s

Congrats, just watching the killing spree stuff now =D

Played DOOM earlier as well, loved it like I did back int he day! I have no idea how Mike managed to get it so perfect in flash but whatever xD

TOM: POST LOADS OF PICS FROM THE NG OFFICE!!!!!!!!!
We have a few pics here and there every few months but some of us want to see every little bit of it! Pleeeeeeease? O=)

fixed =D thanks to the guys over at FGL for looking at the .fla and letting me know it was all because i was using shape tweens xD

At 11/21/08 03:49 PM, Skeik-Sprite wrote: if (this.hitTest(_root.cloud)) {
if (_root.score > 1) {
_root.score += 5;
this.gotoAndPlay(1);
} else {
_root.gotoAndStop(6);
}
}
trace(_root.cloud);
trace(_root.score);
trace(this.currentframe);

tell me what the trace functions return. I dunno, if you're working with more then one movie clip something else could be changing, also if the movie clip is already on the first frame there would be no change.

Sorry if these are things you've done already, but I want to make sure it isn't something like a naming mistake messing up the whole thing

still nothing happens at all. at first the trace thingy was coming up with loads of messages but not it isnt at all :s

gust, please don't post if you're not going to help!

At 11/21/08 03:21 PM, Polioman wrote:

At 11/21/08 03:13 PM, mooseisloose wrote:

At 11/21/08 03:00 PM, Wurmy wrote: ?

if (_root.score > 1){
if (this.hitTest(_root.cloud)){
_root.score += 5;
this.gotoAndPlay(1);
}
} else {
_root.gotoAndStop(6);
}

Got it! (maybe)

if(_root.score >1 && this.hitTest(_root.cloud)){

then just anything else down here

still, nothing happens! forget the whole IF thingy for now... let's focus on the first bit, this is what i have now:

onClipEvent(enterFrame){
if(_root.score >1 && this.hitTest(_root.cloud)){
_root.score += 5;
this.gotoAndPlay(1);
}
}

but doesnt do anything :( no errors either

At 11/21/08 03:00 PM, Wurmy wrote: ?

if (_root.score > 1){
if (this.hitTest(_root.cloud)){
_root.score += 5;
this.gotoAndPlay(1);
}
} else {
_root.gotoAndStop(6);
}

I think that's what you're looking for. First you test whether the score is greater than one. If it is, is the cloud hitting the movieclip that the code is on. If yes, add 5 to the score and make the movieclip that this code is on gotoAndPlay to one. But if score is not greater than one, make the main timeline gotoAndStop at six.. right?

Yeah that's what I want... but it still doesn't work :s same thing again, no errors but nothing happens when the MC hits _root.cloud :s

At 11/21/08 02:24 PM, Polioman wrote: you missed the this.hitTest

bleh still wont work, just does the exact same thing like nothing's changed :s

Well done LazyMuffin! I've always enjoyed your work, well worth a WACOM =p

ive been doing waaaaaaaaay too much flash stuff lately and im trying to keep to my schedule which means a hell of a lot more work tonight! only problem is that im now incapable of the simpeist tasks out there and need some help. i'm using AS2.0 still and i can't figure out this simple problem:

I want the MC with the following code to do the following things:
If _root.score is more than 1: When it hits the MC _root.cloud it should add 5 to _root.score and this MC should go to and play frame 1 of this MC.
If _root.score is less than 1: WHen it hits the MC _root.cloud the main timeline should stop on frame 6.

Such simple things but I can't get it right! I currently have no errors popping up but nothing happens at all when the MC's collide, here is my current code:

onClipEvent(enterFrame){
if(hitTest(_root.cloud)){
if (_root.score>1) {
_root.score += 5;
this.gotoAndPlay(1);
}
else{_root.gotoAndStop(6);
}
}
}

I know it's going to be something really simple like I put something in the wrong place or the wrong order or something but it's getting really frustrating that I can't figure it out! Help please? Thanks :)

The CD looks good but WHEN i do finally buy something from NG it's gotta be a poster or a t-shirt =p

Also Tom I was gonna suggest this to you in PM but seeing as you are swamped with the wacom thing now I shall say it here: GIVE US MORE OFFICE PICS!!! We got a few pics for a mod meet ages ago, we got a few pics when you got the office and we've seen a bit more during the munny competition and NBC10 thingy...... but show more!!! Just go crazy, take pictures of every single part of the NG office! Everyone loves it and I'm sure I'm not the only one that wants to see more :p

Will also help with your "post everyday until christmas eve" thang you got going on ;)

usually you don't have to save your flash as an swf it just automatically makes an SWF file when you test your flash =\

i've never heard of this before so if you find out what's up make sure you update us so we know for future references... and make sure you aren't just saving to the wrong location =]

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

blatant lie :p

At 11/19/08 05:05 PM, TomFulp wrote: I'm not replying because I got over 200 reponses so far and I don't want to get any hopes up until I wittle down a final list.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/46 8953

oh right fair enough :p loving the way you plug a submission with every post, really helps out authors that can't seem to get noticed :)

At 11/19/08 05:08 PM, TomFulp wrote: BTW who saw the news????? It ran just after 4:50.

They showed a full screen close-up shot of Luis' tank trophy, which he told us to keep at the office. So congrats Luis, your trophy with your name on it was on TV.

bleh couldn't see it where I was so waited to watch the uploaded video of it... i'm pretty sure NG would be the best place to work ON EARTH.

At 11/19/08 11:59 AM, Luis wrote:

At 11/19/08 10:13 AM, TheL1st wrote:

At 11/18/08 04:51 PM, STEM wrote: Psh, you should give out a Cintiq to the MOST deserving artist

hes gonna ruin his screen, our college uses them and if you your hand/wrist on the screen it will be ruined within a few years, and you dont want go go around buying a new one they arnt cheeap

Also given the fact that current tablet artists seem to break their tablets at an alarming rate, i imagine the same ones that won will be back next year wanting a replacement cintiq.

I think the most deserving people are those who have a good deal of work over the years on the portal (even if it wasnt award winning) and have struggled with the mouse/trackball/bamboo and are virgin to the professional tablet experience. In that aspect, its like opening a brand new world for these artists. It makes it more worthwhile and exciting than just renewing someone with the same tablet

*cough*......... thanks Luis =p

Tom will you be replying to private messages to tell us if we DO or DON'T get a wacom? I know some people might like the surprise but some of us are just impatient control freaks that need to know everything :p

entanglement could you please PM me the link? I'ts very doubtful that I will actually want to do this but I'm still very curious about the site and would like a look =)

I wish some of these expo type things were near my house.... or in my country! Sucks so hard as they always look so good from the pics!

I've just sent my WACOM message as well *fingers crossed*