At 11/21/09 07:55 AM, Bogoblin wrote:

At 11/21/09 07:41 AM, hdxmike wrote: Instead of making the walls hit the mouses postion make an object that follows the mouse with some lag

Thanks very much! I can't believe I was so stupid.

Not so "advanced" now is it

It's impossible, it's been baffling scientists for generations. Flash is only good for making animated intros to your website

BT don't give a shit how bad their service is because you have no choice but to pay them! (I'm reffering to line rental in general)

At 11/12/09 05:29 PM, mulatto401 wrote: Arguing over price isn't going to solve anything. Pricing is usual discussed in private. You are probably used to the usual 1-2 man team paying you for work and they post the price within the forum.

On top of that questioning someone's financial situation or status is just plain rude. Just because a website doesn't get much traffic does not mean they are not raking in. I'll have you know I have sites that won't even get 10% of these sites traffic and put both their conversion rates combined to shame!

Mate, it's not rude to question someones financial status when they are offering you work on a forum which is notoriously known for time wasting kids

At 11/12/09 01:50 PM, awesomewhitegold wrote: cmon people! lets get this started!

Can I see your part so far :)

At 11/12/09 11:53 AM, Lloydiecom wrote:

You've got to look at the bigger picture... Don't forget Rustyarcade.com used to be in the top 10,000 back when we put a lot of resources into it, so I know the profit margins for this sort of thing and it isn't enough to employ people from the UK, so unless he's making 10 times more then a 2 million hit a month site I doubt he's got the cashflow he's implying...

If he wanted to hire a full time or contract dev then he wouldn't be posting on Newgrounds.com, he'd be going to agencies like normal people do. He's clearly a time waster or he would post some kind of figures.

I don't see what this has got to do with you anyway? But thanks for trying to contribute to something you no nothing about

Have you considered that I AM actually looking at the bigger picture and that any investment I make doesn't have to come from Gamenet revenue. You know nothing about my other ventures and if you did you would know that I have 'the cashflow'. I've employed large teams of people just like you, I have founded, grown and sold businesses in this space and I am a major shareholder in the largest digital agency in the UK (which I also co-founded and is quoted on the London Stock Exchange). I am using other sources to find people but the reason I came to newgrounds was because I was told I might find some great new talent. I like to conduct business in a professional (and sometimes private) manner and anyone interested in talking detail AND RATES can PM me (including proof of what I say above is true). Thank you again for all the PM's so far.

Hi,

Please understand you're not the first person to sign up for an account and post saying you want to hire people. 99% of these posts are just some kids trying to get free work.

The reason I'm questioning you is because you've not given any solid contracts, so it's all very vague. I've PM'ed you anyway if you'd prefer to respond that way

At 11/12/09 09:07 AM, citricsquid wrote:

At 11/12/09 08:47 AM, Rustygames wrote: Looks like TomFulp and another looks like Stamper from Newgrounds.com?

They do, but chubbier! liljim, fat fulp!

Fat gay fulp ;)

At 11/12/09 08:47 AM, citricsquid wrote:

At 11/12/09 08:39 AM, Rustygames wrote: Stuff

I havn't acted like a dick at all. He posted an ad to hire people but neglects to put any terms up until probed, and he still won't disclose any details on pricing, which is obviously the number 1 issue. Whatever problem you have with me just suck it up and ignore me, stop following me around and argueing with everything I say

Is it just me or does one of the models on the front page:

http://www.mysuitestuff.com/

Looks like TomFulp and another looks like Stamper from Newgrounds.com?

Or is it them and I'm just being slow?

At 11/12/09 07:47 AM, citricsquid wrote:

At 11/12/09 07:23 AM, Rustygames wrote: Also I'll have you know that according to alexa his game site performs about equally with Rustyarcade.com, and my site has nowhere near the assets to pay a full time wage to anyone in the UK, let alone a freelance wage. So I'm guessing, due to this and also the constant avoidance of a basic question such as how much are you offering for the work, that this this is completely bogus

Please show me where you found his and yours alexa rank then, because according to alexa.com (the source of the alexa rank) his site is half the rank of yours. Yours is in the top 68,000, his the top 34,000. He's also mentioned above (and in private if you weren't a dick) that he has run quite a few big sites, I highly doubt he'd do that and then come here to mislead people.

You've got to look at the bigger picture... Don't forget Rustyarcade.com used to be in the top 10,000 back when we put a lot of resources into it, so I know the profit margins for this sort of thing and it isn't enough to employ people from the UK, so unless he's making 10 times more then a 2 million hit a month site I doubt he's got the cashflow he's implying...

If he wanted to hire a full time or contract dev then he wouldn't be posting on Newgrounds.com, he'd be going to agencies like normal people do. He's clearly a time waster or he would post some kind of figures.

I don't see what this has got to do with you anyway? But thanks for trying to contribute to something you no nothing about

At 11/11/09 10:45 AM, citricsquid wrote:

At 11/11/09 09:48 AM, El-Presidente wrote: Start answering some price ranges. Either choose out games on Newgrounds and give us a hypothetical of what you would pay for those, or just answer Rusty's question. It's not too hard, and you're clearly avoiding answering it...no way to get people interested.

At 11/11/09 06:51 AM, Rustygames wrote: Ok say I have experience in all of the above, what would the contract look like for a permanent role. You're avoiding the question

He runs a big flash site (much bigger than rustygames) and has proven he's connected to it so why should he divulge such information in public? Sure if we had no proof who he was, but he's shown that he's running a successful site so you don't need to be so hostile. Maybe he doesn't want to tell everyone what he can afford? He wants to conduct business in a professional manner, say you're interested and speak in private. I highly doubt he wants to give us the figures he can afford in public.

No need to be so hostile guys...

When you advertise for a job you have to advertise a price range otherwise you're wasting everyones time.

Also I'll have you know that according to alexa his game site performs about equally with Rustyarcade.com, and my site has nowhere near the assets to pay a full time wage to anyone in the UK, let alone a freelance wage. So I'm guessing, due to this and also the constant avoidance of a basic question such as how much are you offering for the work, that this this is completely bogus

At 11/11/09 04:02 AM, Lloydiecom wrote: It really does depend on the the range of services you can provide. We would pay more for developers who have:
1. A proven portfolio of robust games able to handle millions of players
2. Have solid multi-player expertise
3. Integration experience with third party API's e.g. Facebook Connect, micro payment systems etc

On the other hand, we would pay less (but be equally interested in) those who dont have huge amounts of experience or all of the skills, but have the raw talent and want to gain the experience and work with us long term on some really exciting projects.

Ok say I have experience in all of the above, what would the contract look like for a permanent role. You're avoiding the question

At 11/10/09 11:46 AM, Lloydiecom wrote: We are looking for either freelance developers or permanent staff wanting full time employment. Probably working from home but they would need to be available for occasional group meetings. Regarding rate, it would depend on experience, length of contract etc as i'm sure you know.

Ok for example a permanent role for a senior developer, what sort of terms we talking here?

I assume on a freelance basis. Wouldwe come to your office or work from home?

Current market rate for freelance flash dev in the UK is easily £400 a day, is that the sort of cash we're talking?

That tutorial is 4 years old, just so you know

At 11/8/09 03:52 PM, trig1 wrote:

At 11/8/09 06:51 AM, knugen wrote: Did anyone try this thing out? It's almost unbelievable how he "guesses" right almost every single time :O

Didn't get Keith Chegwin.

good old cheggers...

He was the "special guest" at last years christmas party. He's still annoying

At 11/9/09 05:31 AM, henke37 wrote: Isn't this another way of saying "let's make a collaboration about nothing"?

It's another way for a bored idiot to spend his time

Hey,

For future reference, I've come up with the solution.

Stupidly the class I had attached to the component was NOT extending MovieClip, and therefore no graphics could be displayed!

All I did was added to the class definition "extends MovieClip" and it worked perfectly :)

What do you do? Let me guess, managing?

At 11/8/09 02:49 PM, Johnny wrote:

At 11/8/09 02:45 PM, CkGordon wrote: Hi, not sure if this is much help from a noob but maybe you could try and fake it by just adding the background "sucking in" animation to the explosion movie clip on a lower layer and masking off everything outside of your boundries? Sometimes the quickest and simplest can achieve the same effect as the complicated. ;)

The lines would only line up a small percentage of the time, and it would be horribly obvious that it had been cheated.

Yea it will look awful and won't be very easy, displacement filter will look cool I think and will take all of about 30 minutes

At 11/8/09 12:24 PM, Johnny wrote: I think you could achieve something like that using bitmapData and either a convolution or displacement filter.

Ah yea that's true, that's better then my idea

At 11/8/09 11:45 AM, knugen wrote:

At 11/8/09 11:11 AM, Rustygames wrote: It's just 20 questions.

Have you been on http://www.20q.net/

I have not before, seems like a good site as well, but I think I'm more impressed by Akinator though. 20q is divided into quite limiting categories, while Akinator often guess right among a huge amount of people with always the same set of questions :)

I do think that A cheats a little though, perhaps by looking up the location of the user's IP for example (he often asked me very early on if the character was Swedish).

Ah that's kinda clever. Macthing IP's to what people are trying.

20Q has many more modes then just the classic, it has a character one too :)

Flex builder is more for application development specifically whereas flashDevelop is just general purpose coding.

FD is free though...

Yea just have a bunch of points joined together with lines and each point moves towards the player if he's near by but each point is restricted.

Good luck

At 11/8/09 07:20 AM, knugen wrote:

At 11/8/09 06:51 AM, knugen wrote: Did anyone try this thing out? It's almost unbelievable how he "guesses" right almost every single time :O

...

It's just 20 questions.

Have you been on http://www.20q.net/

At 11/6/09 10:05 AM, hdxmike wrote:

At 11/6/09 10:03 AM, Mahora wrote:

At 11/5/09 11:30 PM, exzeta wrote: nevermind

I take it you noticed it was suppoused to be "_x"

Yeah probably , hes using shitty AS2

You've no right to call AS2 shitty since you don't know how to use it

Balls screwed that post up

var so:SharedObject = SharedObject.getLocal("myGame");
so.data.myVar = 100;
so.data.flush();

It's simple, just do the reverse. You can also call a function called flush which will make sure it saves it then and there:

so.data.tname
so.flush();

At 11/6/09 01:33 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: made it 6 days without drinking coffee... crappiest week ever I can't live like this.

*makes coffee*

No one cares

At 11/5/09 04:15 PM, BeefJuice wrote: Oh WHOA. Worth the money? Whatever do you mean? lol.

He's right. I'd quit now unless you're serious about becoming a programmer, and if so learn your shit first and you'll be able to do it in a year or 2 :)