At 8/18/08 11:26 AM, Paranoia wrote: By the way, since when can mods lock threads this old? :/
I think it only applies to deleting threads. 7 days limit.
Non regs spamming the lounge
Okay alpharius wurmy122323 ans Wolfy23 sorry for misspelling your names but whatever. stop posting here you are not regs and the fact that you spam doesn't make you regs why on earth would you think that ?? the whole last page are posts by you one after the other..
j1mp game
the bottom one looks a lot cleaner and better the upper one is just distracting..
Locking the lounge
I drew a lot. Assembled a new bboy team and went to bboy jam. Was fun..
I think you should lock it once a weak..
P.S
sperm game looks awesome genius idea...
El presidente
i was wondering if maybe you would want to make a game with me if so pm me =]
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/45 5729
We have finally been allowed to release this! I am well happy with this, definitely the best thing ive made with flash, technically anyway. SO pleased with how the art came out.
At 8/18/08 02:15 PM, Depredation wrote:At 8/18/08 02:09 PM, patu1 wrote: Okay alpharius wurmy122323 ans Wolfy23 sorry for misspelling your names but whatever. stop posting here you are not regs and the fact that you spam doesn't make you regs why on earth would you think that ?? the whole last page are posts by you one after the other..El presidenteDon't break your own rules you hypocrit. You can't rant at someone and then do the same yourself :P.
i was wondering if maybe you would want to make a game with me if so pm me =]
That wasn't a spam post you can't ignore most of my post because a little bit of it was off topic...
also they are not regs and every single post they make is spam...
Foul play
Nice game. The graphics are awesome but the engine wasn't really fun, the birds came to fast and the poop came out to slow..
P.S
no spell checker on this computer. My internet died while i was trying to use google bat spell cheker..
At 8/18/08 03:10 PM, J1mp wrote: what a WANKER I uploaded the wrong file :D Ive reuploaded the right file, but its still showing the old one. I guess it just takes a while to change?
Do you guys see a grey rectangle in the bottom right corner of the menu?
Im seeing that grey rectangle. Did you try uploading a different filename? Sometimes uploading an updated swf of the same name doesnt outright patch it..
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At 8/18/08 03:17 PM, J1mp wrote: Ok its worked now :)
Haha, amazing game.
I loved the art, but the gameplay got boring.
After a while I gave up on pooping and just started hacking birds down with my propellers.
Housekeeping
In an effort to get the thread going in a more positive direction, any posts that are:
- one liner conversations between 1-2 people that can easily be ported to PM / AIM / MSN / etc
- totally out of the realm of flash. (ie. walking your dog. girlfriend/boyfriend troubles etc )
- post stat posts
- meaningless banter
will be deleted without warning.
If you find that your post is deleted, it simply means that whatever mod has concluded your post could be more effective elsewhere or through other means of communication.
Obviously, there are workarounds. You could for instance mention that you have reached level xx as a SIDE comment to the real matter of your post about your 10-page theory on the flash scene (lmao)
Please bulk your comments if you are planning to make small flash related comments. No need to make a new post, if you intend to reply a wide variety of comments.
I know its lame that it has come to this but lets try and curve this 10 pages a day stuff... its part of the reason people hate to abandon the lounge cause they are instantly behind by hundreds of pages when they return.
Concerns / Questions let me know via PM or as a side comment.
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At 8/18/08 03:41 PM, zrb wrote: You can delete this post when (hopefully) you finish reading it.
So let me get this straight, any post we make has to be relevant to the flash scene or they get deleted.
Say you write your main reason for posting, and then "as a side comment", could you write anything irrelevant or even just dumb that you feel you need to say ?
As a side comment, holy shit you just deleted page 1,260 !
I don't see the point of filtering throught the last pages to delete useless posts.
Yeah, im trying to harness good habits. I think the thread fell off the wayside and started to feel out of place in the context of this forum category.
I dont think its too much to ask anyway, If you dont really have anything flash related to say yet you want to share something trivial. Well why not just sit on that side comment until you DO find something flashrelated that you want to discuss or share and then use the side comment as a catalyst to your post.
I know there was no reason to delete the previous page junk posts... i just figured id knock out a bunch for the sake of getting on the right foot and to see how long itd actually take me to keep things clear. I want to be semi sensitive to other mods' time. I dont mean it to become a CHORE.
Youre in a flash forum, keep it relevant. Its a simple concept. Theres creative ways of making what could be a mundane topic and giving it a flash relevant spin.
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At 8/18/08 02:09 PM, patu1 wrote: Non regs spamming the lounge
Okay alpharius wurmy122323 ans Wolfy23 sorry for misspelling your names but whatever. stop posting here you are not regs and the fact that you spam doesn't make you regs why on earth would you think that ?? the whole last page are posts by you one after the other..
I'm not a reg, but I've never thought of you as one.
At 8/18/08 03:51 PM, Luis wrote: I know there was no reason to delete the previous page junk posts... i just figured id knock out a bunch for the sake of getting on the right foot and to see how long itd actually take me to keep things clear. I want to be semi sensitive to other mods' time. I dont mean it to become a CHORE.
Youre in a flash forum, keep it relevant. Its a simple concept. Theres creative ways of making what could be a mundane topic and giving it a flash relevant spin.
Yeah I think its a good idea keeping it at that level of conversation. I know im being hypocritical cos i just made 2 pretty pointless posts, but i do think that keeping the thread a bit more relevant will make it less of a waste of space and time. Hopefully in keeping with the productivity discussion it will also make people work a bit more and be more productive to be able to show off what theyve been working on here.
At 8/18/08 03:17 PM, zrb wrote: I am very pleased ! It was a really fun game to play, and slicing the birds was really fun.
The art was really good J1mp !
How much did you guys make with this ;)
Cheers man :) yeah i was happy with it, its a shame we had to force it down to medium quality after the first level, I wouldve liked people to have seen it in all its glory haha :P
we got £800 for it split 50/50, although that is for the source file aswell. I was a bit pissed off about it but at the end of the day it isnt a bad price and they let us post it here on our own accounts so im happy :)
That's a bit nazi way to put it Luis.
Anyway. A game I'm working on takes half a second to load a level. The age of non-download loading times in Flash is about to begin!
Oh luis! i never realised you had so many posts, i mean lyk GAWD you're dog must really love being walked by you!
Oh yeh! ;D
Where should we post interesting stuff we find on the internet and want to share with the rest? Like that brain test thing I posted a while ago, apart from that my non-flash posts are just answers to other people. I think the problem with the reg lounge is that people become too "addicted" to it and do it instead of working on flash, not that people post about non-flash related items.
Is it just me, or does it seem like the longer you're working on a project, the more cluttered it gets? I try my best to organize things, but eventually the shear size of everything becomes overwhelming. I put layers into folder based on what section of the game they pertain to, and folders in the image library to match.
What methods do you guys you to keep things organized?
=]
At 8/18/08 04:32 PM, Cryzabey wrote: What methods do you guys you to keep things organized?
Use classes.
At 8/18/08 04:32 PM, Toast wrote: Where should we post interesting stuff we find on the internet and want to share with the rest? Like that brain test thing I posted a while ago, apart from that my non-flash posts are just answers to other people. I think the problem with the reg lounge is that people become too "addicted" to it and do it instead of working on flash, not that people post about non-flash related items.
If you do a search for 'inspiration' theres a thread I made not long ago that is all about sharing finds on the web. Mostly flash but sometimes its not flash too.
Anyway we've beaten the issue of the problems with the lounge long enough. Lets move on to something else. Store was supposed to release today but they had technical difficulties, dunno if anyone noticed parts of the site down earlier. I'm excited to see how it panned out in its finished state.
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At 8/18/08 03:58 PM, J1mp wrote: we got £800 for it split 50/50, although that is for the source file aswell. I was a bit pissed off about it but at the end of the day it isnt a bad price and they let us post it here on our own accounts so im happy :)
Wow they asked for the source file? Thats extremely unusual i thought? Are they allowed to make sequels to your game without paying you now? Them 'allowing' you to post on your own accounts is kind of giving them too much credit me thinks.. I mean you made the damn thing I think you should be entitled in atleast being able to release it once the sponsors grace period has ended (if they had one) You shouldnt have to ask or something.
Theres something not quite right about your sponsor, if youre happy with it then I guess its moot but you should definately consider a new sponsor if it ever gets to a point to where you have to give up your source file to make a buck. It just puzzles me as to why a sponsor would have a need for the master file...
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At 8/18/08 02:09 PM, patu1 wrote: Non regs spamming the lounge
You have no room to talk. Wurmy's a cool guy i dont see him spamming or anything.
Cryzabeys Organization
Heh, glad to see my coder is actually keeping it organized. =P
i cant help but make things a mess.
At 8/18/08 05:14 PM, Luis wrote: Theres something not quite right about your sponsor, if youre happy with it then I guess its moot but you should definately consider a new sponsor if it ever gets to a point to where you have to give up your source file to make a buck. It just puzzles me as to why a sponsor would have a need for the master file...
Yeah im not sure why they wanted it really. But to be honest the game took way too long to make and we were getting tired of it, I posted it on flashgameliscence.com way back when i posted those images of it on here, and since then I have had 1 $100 offer... so i thought fuck it and just signed the damn thing.
They seem like legit people though, they are based in the town where I go to university, my programmer went and had a meeting with the owner, and they have paid us the money so as i said im happy! They also gave me £50 for the intro which was alright too.
haha but who knows, maybe youll see fowl play 2 popping up with shoddy pixel graphics :D
At 8/18/08 05:19 PM, Blackfang wrote:
Cryzabeys Organization
Heh, glad to see my coder is actually keeping it organized. =P
i cant help but make things a mess.
You're lucky. My coder is in the hospital. It kinda smooshes out the chance of it being finished soon.
Hey yo
At 8/18/08 02:09 PM, patu1 wrote: Non regs spamming the lounge
Okay alpharius wurmy122323 ans Wolfy23 sorry for misspelling your names but whatever. stop posting here you are not regs and the fact that you spam doesn't make you regs why on earth would you think that ?? the whole last page are posts by you one after the other..
I posted twice on that page.. and I dont even post that often anyways.. I don't see how I'm spamming, or why I shouldn't be able to post at all.. And I don't really consider myself a reg, more of a lurker person thing..
At 8/18/08 05:49 PM, Wurmy1029 wrote:At 8/18/08 02:09 PM, patu1 wrote: Non regs spamming the loungeI posted twice on that page.. and I dont even post that often anyways.. I don't see how I'm spamming, or why I shouldn't be able to post at all.. And I don't really consider myself a reg, more of a lurker person thing..
Okay alpharius wurmy122323 ans Wolfy23 sorry for misspelling your names but whatever. stop posting here you are not regs and the fact that you spam doesn't make you regs why on earth would you think that ?? the whole last page are posts by you one after the other..
Wow, I'm in the Newgrounds Collab and I'm doing edible castle and I drew all the characters like perfectly then flash decides to piss out on me. Now I get to do it all over again. Now to put on the sidenote I made this for.
unflashrelatedsidepost: I completely agree with you. I've seen patu post like 5 times here, I don't cosider myself a reg and neither should he. I've only posted on this thread like 4 or 5 times, so you can't really consider me a spammer.
Hey yo
Urgh I made it back from Warminister :)
Does anyone else start a project then the next day get bored of it and start something else? I do and it annoys me intensely. Any helpful hints from the pro's? ^^
At 8/18/08 05:58 PM, tommattox wrote: Urgh I made it back from Warminister :)
Does anyone else start a project then the next day get bored of it and start something else? I do and it annoys me intensely. Any helpful hints from the pro's? ^^
I do that all the time. I have alot of unfinished movies in my folder. I would reccomend actually writing out a story that you really want to do, and start animating that. Also play games or watch movies for breaks, or have another flash project going so if you get bored doing one you can go to the other.
Hey yo
At 8/18/08 05:55 PM, Alpharius120 wrote: I completely agree with you. I've seen patu post like 5 times here, I don't cosider myself a reg and neither should he.
back in the day (like...'06 - '07), patu would be here a lot more.
HAAALLP PLOX D:
since my last post calling out for help was more or less ignored....here it goes again, lawl:
so i've dabbled a bit in AS3, but i never really made a fully-fledged game with it, and now it's really nagging at me. AS2 is pretty easy for making games with lots of dynamically generated movieclips with their own onEnterFrames and properties and shit without too much hassle, but i need someone to sort of mentor me in how to do this with AS3.
add my msn, clan2kroolz[at]msn(dot)com, plzkthx, because i'm sure delta is sick and tired of helping me out ;3
snyggys
At 8/18/08 06:22 PM, Rammer wrote:At 8/18/08 05:55 PM, Alpharius120 wrote: I completely agree with you. I've seen patu post like 5 times here, I don't cosider myself a reg and neither should he.back in the day (like...'06 - '07), patu would be here a lot more.
HAAALLP PLOX D:
since my last post calling out for help was more or less ignored....here it goes again, lawl:
so i've dabbled a bit in AS3, but i never really made a fully-fledged game with it, and now it's really nagging at me. AS2 is pretty easy for making games with lots of dynamically generated movieclips with their own onEnterFrames and properties and shit without too much hassle, but i need someone to sort of mentor me in how to do this with AS3.
add my msn, clan2kroolz[at]msn(dot)com, plzkthx, because i'm sure delta is sick and tired of helping me out ;3
Adding movieclips really is not as hard as it may seem.
First example is making a new movieclip through AS,
First, you create the new movieclip. It's like declaring a variable:
var mc:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
Then you 'draw' the movieclip:
mc.graphics.beginFill(0xFF0000);
mc.graphics.drawRect(0, 0, 100, 80);
mc.graphics.endFill();
Notice the graphics between mc and the other methods. Before in AS2, it was just
mc.beginFill(0xFF0000);
So remember when you draw your movieclip to have the graphics between mc and the method.
Next, all you have to do is add the movieclip to the stage like so:
addChild(mc);
If you wanted to add that movieclip inside another movieclip you would just do this:
parentMovieClip.addChild(mc);
Next, is adding movieclips that are already in the library.
First you have to set a class to the symbol. Right click on the symbol, and click "Linkage". Click the "Export for Actionscript" checkbox, then type a name in the "Class" textbox. It will give you an error (unless you have a class of the same name). Just ignore it and click ok.
Then you do this:
var mc:Class = new Class();
Replace "Class" with the name that you gave to that movieclip (in the "Class" textbox). And you're good to go!
Just don't forget to add:
addChild(mc);
Otherwise it won't show up :)
At 8/18/08 06:38 PM, Wurmy1029 wrote: Adding movieclips really is not as hard as it may seem.
it's not so much adding movieclips - it's attaching loops to them that's giving me loads of shit.
i wouldn't ask for someone to actually mentor me if i just needed help attaching movieclips. that's in AS3: Main, after all.
snyggys
At 8/18/08 06:22 PM, Rammer wrote: because i'm sure delta is sick and tired of helping me out ;3
That offends me! o.X
now to abide by luis' rules
So yeh, flash 'n' all, yeh.... wooh!! hats off to the flash guys, they're some real cool dudes!
Anyhoo, to all programmers; Who would like to see a more C++ style of coding come to AS in terms of having source and header files? I think it is a wonderful way of organising things, having seperate modules that can be compiled seperately with header files that give the interfaces for it's related source file. Gives a wonderful disctinction between what the user needs to know, and what can be hidden from him if desired while also having a clear distinction in use between declaration and definition. Example being that in AS when you write a class in it's own external .as file, you cannot seperate declaration and definition, you have to have each method defined one by one and then you can add a big comment block at the top that tells user what each method takes and returns and a description etc. Some might say you should have a documentation like AS but that is just a nuisance. in C++ you would have something like this:
header file
class Entity
{
public:
Entity(int, int); //optional to include parameter names in header file declaration.
private:
void move(double x, double y);
bool attack(const Entity &);
}
source file
Entity::Entity(int x, int y) {....}
void Entity::move(double x, double y) {...}
bool Entity::attack(const Entity & obj) {...}
This isn't a great example, but you can imagine with a large class with many many methods that like this the header file basicly has a listing of each method, what it takes, what it returns grouped into public,private methods or you could have sub groupings if you liked grouping related methods together. so if a user wants to check for method he/she can go into the header file and quickly find it. in a proper OOP sense, the user should not need to know how a method works internally, only what it takes, what it does to the input in terms of the output. in AS if you want that sort of mentality, you have to imagine that the user never checks the .as and you include a documentation for the class. I prefer the C++ way ;p
At 8/18/08 06:42 PM, Rammer wrote:At 8/18/08 06:38 PM, Wurmy1029 wrote: Adding movieclips really is not as hard as it may seem.it's not so much adding movieclips - it's attaching loops to them that's giving me loads of shit.
i wouldn't ask for someone to actually mentor me if i just needed help attaching movieclips. that's in AS3: Main, after all.
If you're talking about the AS3 equivalent of "onEnterFrame = function(){" etc.. then you would use listeners:
addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, theFunction);
function theFunction(event:Event):void{
trace ("oh hi");
}
Where, theFunction, is just that. A function. That function will be executed every frame.
Of-course there are other listeners, like mousedown, keydown, etc..
Here's a good page: AS3 Event Handling
At 8/18/08 06:48 PM, dELtaluca wrote:At 8/18/08 06:22 PM, Rammer wrote: because i'm sure delta is sick and tired of helping me out ;3That offends me! o.X
i feel like i ask you for too much help, BUT IF YOU INSIST... C:
Anyhoo, to all programmers; Who would like to see a more C++ style of coding come to AS in terms of having source and header files?
the only thing i want to see in AS3 is C++-style variable and function declaration. i am so sick of typing "var blah:VariableType = new VariableType();". >_O i'd save a fuckload of time if it was just like "variableType blah = new variableType();"
snyggys
