I did a skydive once in New-Zealand, right above two glaciers. It was absolutely amazing. Although I must say that with bungeejumping you actually feel like you're falling towards your death, it's way more intense. When your skydiving it just feels like your floating (apart from the rushing wind) because you're so far from the ground (even when the parachute opens) you don't see the ground rushing towards you.

At 7/18/09 01:24 PM, El-Presidente wrote: On the other hand, I want to get a Dell because I like some of the programs it uses that Macs can't, like FlashDevelop.

Bootcamp, yo.

At 7/15/09 10:26 AM, yousif12 wrote: hmm well the program, its impossible to get for "free" (without paying)
thanks again

This is true. You can however download a trial which will last for 30 days. After that period you can decide whether or not you think it's worth spending your money on.

Remember when I said I was walking around like a knight to help animate walkcycles? Because that was such a success I ran around the house as a barbarian warrior today. Scared the shit out of my dog. Thought I'd share that with you guys.

At 7/14/09 05:46 PM, BabyMaker12 wrote: yes sorry, basically my player has Key.isDown code on it, so that if key is down then it plays an animation, but if you HOLD the key, it stays on a certain frrame.. heres the code..

if (Key.isDown(aKey) && facingLeft == true) {
player.gotoAndPlay("run");
player._x -= playerxSpeed;
playerRunning = true;
}

thanks icn bin habe

Your problem is when you keep holding down the key, it will go to and play "run" on every single frame. because Key.isDown(aKey) and facingLeft are always true. You could do something along the lines of:

if (Key.isDown(aKey) && facingLeft == true && playerRunning == false) {
   player.gotoAndPlay("run");
   player._x -= playerxSpeed;
   playerRunning = true;
}

What key? And are you using any actionscript in your animation?

At 7/14/09 01:07 PM, doctormario wrote: God I love haters. They are a curious lot. :)

Compliments on that movie, I enjoyed it. I still regret I never bought SotC or Ico.

That is awesome! There was a bug though when I upgraded the Band Length to the second level:

Hm bummer, I still need a credit card for the store regardless of the store credits I have. I was looking forward to buying some stuff today, I guess I'll work that out another day then after I've fixed myself a credit card.

Hey awesome, I think I won something in the monthlies!

I suggest you read those tutorials again or buy a book, it'll help you more in the long term. Learning AS really doesn't take too long if you stick with it and don't give up when things don't go the way you want them to. I don't think you'll find anyone here who's gonna just supply you with all the code you need.

From what I gathered from Armor Games they were slowly phasing out ArmorBot. It hasn't been updated for a while and to be honest it was fairly outdated. Why not use the Mochi Leaderboards or something similar?

That's how hitTesting with objects works. It checks to see if the bounding boxes of the object collide (you can see the bounding boxes when you click on a movieclip). You can give the hammer its own hitTesting area so you'd only test against the hammer and not the entire enemy. Or you could work with Point based hittesting. Also, a bump after 10 minutes is unnecessary, you have to give it some time.

You need to speed everything up and work on those arrows. The fighting looks kind of stale too. A good start, but still far from being a solid game.

At 7/13/09 05:22 AM, Luis wrote: Vegas is awesome youll have a great time. Being able to take your drinks outside and just leave em at a different casino when you finish is unreallll.. im not a fake tits guy so i didnt really care for the titty bars. Other than that it was great tho. Driving into vegas is really cool also. Its literally in the middle of a desert and youll know it when you see it type of thing.

I'm afraid your drinking age limit is going to be a bit of a pain for me... Regardless, without being drunk it should still be quite an awesome sight.

At 7/12/09 07:44 PM, SweetSkater wrote: When are you leaving Xeptic?
You should definitely go to Vegas.

The 24th of July, and Vegas is on the list. I can't wait to lose all of our money and our car in a gamble

At 7/12/09 06:36 PM, Brad wrote: Looks like you just took a real pic and bitmaped it

That's because that's exactly what he did. Why not trace trace the bitmapped ear as well? That would fit perfectly with the rest of the shot.

You might want to show us what it looks like right now so we can give you some advice on how to make it look better.

At 7/12/09 03:41 PM, KaynSlamdyke wrote: You've not explicitly marked the Newgrounds offices as you drive through Philadelphia,

Visiting (or at least driving past) the NG office did cross my mind, but to be honest I'd just feel like a moron stopping by there as I don't know Tom & the rest and they don't know me. I'm afraid it would only lead to awkwardness :)

and you miss New Orleans out completely.

New Orleans is on the 'maybe list', if we're ahead of schedule we might drive through/stop in New Orleans, but there's a lot of road to cover in a short amount of time.

At 7/12/09 03:47 PM, Magical-Zorse wrote: you should stop and see the sand dunes of new mexico

I would, but it so far off route :(

At 7/12/09 04:08 PM, Duchednier wrote:

At 7/12/09 03:26 PM, Xeptic wrote:

That is almost the exact route borat took on his journey to find his pamela!

Awesome, coincidentally that movie was on TV just now :p

Fuck.

At 7/12/09 12:53 AM, Luis wrote: ITS LUIS DAY TODAY! lmao
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/38 7969

If Luis Day is on the same day as your birthday, happy birthday. If not, well... I don't know... Happy Luis Day I suppose (it's like father's day, you have 2 birthdays in a year). One day I shall finish the Captain Luis animation I synchronized with the Peter Gunn Theme, I think around Luis Day 2012.

You there, American reg
Below is the general route for my outrageously expensive USA vacation/roadtrip form New York to San Fransico. Any places you think me and my mates should visit along the way (as long as it kinda epic and somewhat en route)?

At 7/12/09 02:01 PM, n-nnnn wrote:

At 7/12/09 01:49 PM, Rustygames wrote: Rubbish, it needs to look more like he's running

yeh uh, didnt really help, and its not a he its a nan

She needs boobs.

And when she runs it looks like she's dropped her contact lenses and she's looking for them. It's not too bad, but it could be a bit better. It looks like her legs shake/shiver a bit when they're in the right-most position.

At 7/11/09 06:34 AM, KaynSlamdyke wrote: I'm damage controlling my account and everything I've touched on the net.

I do hope you use different passwords for different websites/services. Good luck restoring everything :/

At 7/11/09 05:59 AM, Doomsday-One wrote: Thankfully, I don't think mods have that power. Deleting or locking things so old can only be done by an admin, right?
Otherwise, forget us; imagine all of the collabs which would have been absolutely screwed by the deletions!

I hope Kayn comes back. He's a cool guy.

Several collab threads were actually deleted, I don't think the Reg Lounge is any different. Suprised it wasn't wasn't deleted during the 'glitch' *wink wink*. Out of respect for Flash artists?

I'm just glad they didn't delete the Reg Lounge, imagine your post counts :)

At 7/10/09 12:13 PM, supermanvan1 wrote: Sorry, just saw u were doing anagrams, and this one is to good to miss out.

Penys?

It looks like they're going for a huge cover-up. Shhh.

Er, what did I miss? Kayn no longer a mod? Hacked?

At 7/10/09 04:36 AM, KaynSlamdyke wrote:

At 7/9/09 06:13 PM, CybexALT wrote: Maybe let them save, but charge them for better weapons/more health/morelives or whatever.

Again, not an option. Mainly because it'll end up hacked open with CheatEngine like this anyway...

hey Luis! Neg! People are in your game, hacking your goldz!

I never understood why you would want to 'hack' a Flash game. It doesn't seem worth the effort if you ask me. Then again when there are dozens of millions people playing your game I suppose there are always a few hundred who find it is worth the effort :)

Also, if I needed to pay to save in a game I would quit the game, straight away. It would have to be a really, really stellar game for me to consider paying for it. There are hundreds of other free Flash games on the web where I can switch to just as easily to get my 30 minutes of fun and distraction.

At 7/8/09 12:04 PM, KaynSlamdyke wrote: There will be a test.

That was quite an interesting read! I'm glad I'm a student and not someone who has to make a living out of advertising fees, if that's even possible. I see Flash as a hobby that happens to make me a nice amount of cash. Although I've quit my job recently to be able to spend more time on Flash so I guess it's my job as well now... Still as a student I don't have to make 10 games a year to live a comfy life.

W.I.P. Feedback Group
When I'm working on projects I think it's very valuable to show my progress to friends or family because I find it very easy to lose track of things when I'm developing entire projects on my own. Sometimes you spend way too much time on things no one will ever notice, while other times you completely miss things that should be included. It's hard to take a step back every now and then and take a look at your project from your average user's perspective. Friends and family are very useful for this, but most of the time they're not really part of my target audience, they aren't brutally honest and they know nothing about Flash.

I'm sure some of you suffer from the same thing every now and then, hence I thought it would be a nice idea to exchange some contact information so we can send out some W.I.P. projects every now and then, and hopefully get some feedback from each other. I don't want to make a post in the Lounge every time I've worked on my games (besides, we all know that the Lounge isn't the best place to get feedback). Neither do I want to share these things with everyone via my userpage. I don't trust everyone there with ideas and such that are still in early stages of development, but I think I do trust you Regs.

If anyone out there thinks this is a good idea: Maybe we can arrange this via MSN/AIM or maybe a mailing list or something like that?

Oh yeah: Maybe all of this sounds silly as I don't have a lot of MSN addresses and the like from you guys and you already do all of the above. In that case, I want in, add my msn: xeptic(at)gmail.com