At 7/29/08 12:31 PM, J1mp wrote: I decided to submit an animation I made for my girlfriend for our 1 year anniversary. I wasnt sure whether I should submit it or not... but i put sooo much work into it I just thought fuck it, why shouldnt other people see it?

link!

Man that was so beautiful. I especially enjoyed the train sequences and the overall pleasant feel to it. Amazing job, that must be some lucky girl.

At 7/29/08 12:31 PM, J1mp wrote: I decided to submit an animation I made for my girlfriend for our 1 year anniversary.

Nice job man, I loved the use of colour, nicely fitting music as well. Coincidentally, one of my colleagues told me to check out a Porcupine Tree a couple of days ago, I guess I should go and do that now :)

i just had a really nice shit lol (really big). not intending to spam btw, just thought you guys should know because it was the most important part of my day.

so what are u all up to? where are all the summer games u guys are supposed to be working on?

At 7/29/08 12:31 PM, J1mp wrote: I decided to submit an animation I made for my girlfriend for our 1 year anniversary. I wasnt sure whether I should submit it or not... but i put sooo much work into it I just thought fuck it, why shouldnt other people see it?

link!

That was amazing, I can tell you put an amazing amount of effort into that flash. Your girlfriend is lucky and now I'm going to make you one of them flashes for our 1 year anniversary!

At 7/29/08 01:14 PM, Toast wrote: i just had a really nice shit lol (really big). not intending to spam btw, just thought you guys should know because it was the most important part of my day.

facepalm

Hey thanks for all the awesome comments guys, really really means a lot to me, this is definitely the most personal thing ive ever done with flash, or maybe even created.

aww, love you guys :D

Hey guys, a friend of mine is in a youtube scholarship contest and needs votes and views to get into the finals. I'd appreciate your help if you all could take a gander and drop a vote if you feel he's deserving. He's an incredible guy and very deserving of this scholarship IMO.

More info on my userpage.

Thanks all!

RE: Summer

At 7/29/08 12:34 PM, DawnOfDusk wrote: Wouldn't that be called "fall"

Except Autumn isn't really that warm and the days get pretty short. =P

At 7/29/08 12:36 PM, Blackfang wrote: Yeah that would be really amazing. If winter had very long days like summer, id love winter soo much.

You should move to the north of Normay for the summer. They have like constant sunlight from April to August and average temperature of about -7°C.

It's a rainy day and everythings wet, but I'm the dryest I've been for months.

I also inhaled too much lighter fluid this mornin'. :C

At 7/29/08 01:40 PM, Kirk-Cocaine wrote: RE: Summer

At 7/29/08 12:34 PM, DawnOfDusk wrote: Wouldn't that be called "fall"

Except Autumn isn't really that warm and the days get pretty short. =P

eh, true. it's warm down in Ohio though, so it's nice (well, not hot, but cool... w/e)

On a flash note, I just started on an arcade-style game...
Tell me what you think of the menu.

link.

At 7/29/08 03:00 PM, DawnOfDusk wrote: On a flash note, I just started on an arcade-style game...
Tell me what you think of the menu.

link.

Pretty snazzy menu you got going there, nice funky SFX.
What's this game going to be based around, and what kind of arcade-style game is it going to be? From the menu at least, it looks like it'll be pretty good :]

At 7/29/08 03:05 PM, hashbrown wrote: 5.8 earthquake MOFO

Meh, so it shook a lot of shit.

At 7/29/08 03:06 PM, Resolution wrote: Pretty snazzy menu you got going there, nice funky SFX.

ty.

What's this game going to be based around, and what kind of arcade-style game is it going to be? From the menu at least, it looks like it'll be pretty good :]

Well, the game mode itself (It'll have an "arcade"/"realistic" mode) looks like.. shit. lmao

I just wanted to see if I could make a good menu, (I want this to be sponsored btw) so, is that menu a good enough menu, or should I crunch about another 3 hours into it?

At 7/29/08 03:14 PM, hashbrown wrote: try having the square flash a bit. pretty good though

do you mean the selection square? and when do you believe it should flash?

If you use a vcam, how do you keep the UI in place?

The Dark Knight

Just saw it, any yeah it's a hell of a lot better than the first new Batman. Heath Ledger's performance is completely hypnotic. I hear he's not in the next one, though :( The direction was a load better too, this time round.

On the minus side, Nolan seems incapable of pulling off a decent climax. He seems to approach it at several points in the film before backing off, but at the end everything just seems to collapse of exhaustion. I mean, what ever happened to ending something with a good ol' fashioned fist-fight on a skyscraper? Also, the right-wing elements are a little annoying, as is the clumsy attempt to make up for them by sledgehammering in an inappropriate reference to wire-tapping.

All in all, Ledger's performance and the way it's handled make this an awesome film. The rest isn't quite so great.

At 7/29/08 03:53 PM, zrb wrote: Why not just make the frame's _x position move instead of a vcam ?

That's basically the only thing the vcam does, no ?? vcam._x += 5 = _root._x -= 5 afaik. usually I just move the ground and all that shit but it becomes too messy when you got loads of enemies out there.

At 7/29/08 03:54 PM, Paranoia wrote: I mean, what ever happened to ending something with a good ol' fashioned fist-fight on a skyscraper?

And why doesn't Batman dance anymore? Remember the Batusi?

At 7/29/08 04:45 PM, Kirk-Cocaine wrote:

At 7/29/08 03:54 PM, Paranoia wrote: I mean, what ever happened to ending something with a good ol' fashioned fist-fight on a skyscraper?

And why doesn't Batman dance anymore? Remember the Batusi?

You jest.

At 7/29/08 05:13 PM, citricsquid wrote:

At 7/29/08 03:54 PM, Paranoia wrote: The Dark Knight

I want to see it :( Stop making me jealous.

dude go see it already. it doesn't matter who you go with, because you'll want to watch it at least 5 times because it's so awesome.
it's annoying we can't reveal spoilers because of all the noobs here who didn't see it yet.

I joined face book today... do a search on Derek Leroy Vandenberg if your interested.
An old friend called me up and suggested I sign up since so many of my old school friends were on it.
I ended up being on it for hours today. Fuck that thing is addicting.

At 7/29/08 05:24 PM, TheCriminalDuder wrote: I joined face book today...

pff im not part of your networks or friends so i can't even see you on facebook.

At 7/29/08 05:34 PM, Toast wrote:

At 7/29/08 05:24 PM, TheCriminalDuder wrote: I joined face book today...

pff im not part of your networks or friends so i can't even see you on facebook.

pfff social networking sites..

At 7/29/08 03:00 PM, DawnOfDusk wrote: On a flash note, I just started on an arcade-style game...
Tell me what you think of the menu.

For a whole minute I couldn't understand that I had to use the arrow keys. Afterwards when I got it I thought it was pretty snazzy.

At 7/29/08 06:04 PM, Coolio-Niato wrote:

At 7/29/08 03:00 PM, DawnOfDusk wrote: On a flash note, I just started on an arcade-style game...
Tell me what you think of the menu.

For a whole minute I couldn't understand that I had to use the arrow keys. Afterwards when I got it I thought it was pretty snazzy.

Ditto, I was waving my mouse around and I thought it was broken. But yeah it looks nice.

At 7/29/08 06:17 PM, Ani-Money wrote:

At 7/29/08 06:04 PM, Coolio-Niato wrote:

At 7/29/08 03:00 PM, DawnOfDusk wrote: On a flash note, I just started on an arcade-style game...
Tell me what you think of the menu.

For a whole minute I couldn't understand that I had to use the arrow keys. Afterwards when I got it I thought it was pretty snazzy.

Ditto, I was waving my mouse around and I thought it was broken. But yeah it looks nice.

lol, my bad. I also allow W,A,S,D keys, so I thought that was enough, I might as well add the mouse feature.

Thanks for the comments (btw, the "going back to main menu" animation needs work, but I had football practice so I half-assed it so I could show you guys)

At 7/29/08 04:49 PM, Paranoia wrote: You jest.

I'm super cereal.

Camp 60's Batman > Mother-beating 00's Batman.

At 7/29/08 03:46 PM, Toast wrote: If you use a vcam, how do you keep the UI in place?

I just put the UI inside the vcam's movieclip, it just moves with the vcam. If you do something like UI._x+=5 you'll notice a lag as it's trying to keep up, just put everything in the movieclip and if one moves, so doesn't the other, because they're the same thing.

At 7/29/08 06:09 PM, BritishMoose wrote: Facebook +1

Eh, Facebook++ causes a lot less lag. ^_^

Just forgot to add this picture from Australia / Papua New Guinea. Thought you guys might appreciate the craziness of this shot taken of me there. Photoshop at free will.

I'm packing up my things right now... geeze my box of video games is so freaking heavy....

Does anyone live in the seattle/redmond/bellevue area? I'm moving to the border of redmond/bellevue on friday. For college (digipen)

Networking sites like facebook

Are good for finding old friends and giving out links to your own site/flash. :3

Social Networking Sites

I never got into them. I understand why people like them but its not my thing. Also, it is damn annoying when people ask me If I have facebook and I'm like "no." and they're all like "OMG ANI, YOU DON'T HAVE FACEBOOK!!??" while they look at me like I'm some four-legged freak with their jaw dropped and everything.

I miss the days when people actually talked in person and on the phone and sent mail. Now its all just some form of text.