Anyone started working on some X-mas games and/or animations yet?

I'm extremely motivated to code a shooter right now, something that would ressemble left for dead. i spent 10 hours on it in 2 days and it's amazingly fun, then i had "visions" of a l4d flash version. The lsat thing i was working on in flash was gonna have zombies that jump at you, but the problem was that once a zombie jumps on your back and clutches you, there's no way to really shoot him off, so you're basically dead, which is not fun. In a l4d version however, you could have some bots following you around specifically for these kind of situations: to get zombies off you and make sure none of them are coming from the back etc.

l4d flash = great fun

who's up for it? ^^

el presidente
Happy birthday and a lot of e love
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computer fixed
Yay soon i'll be back to flash =]

short spammy post but whatever...

At 11/17/08 12:13 PM, Toast wrote: who's up for it? ^^

Sounds good, it'd certainley be a challenge. I'd love an online flash game, even something as simple as one team is zombs, one team is humans, and the zombies have to rush the humans. Sounds great.

I just won L4D in a competition :D. So i can play you tomorrow toast, i'm occlusion btw on steam.

At 11/17/08 12:40 PM, Depredation wrote:

At 11/17/08 12:13 PM, Toast wrote: who's up for it? ^^

Sounds good, it'd certainley be a challenge. I'd love an online flash game, even something as simple as one team is zombs, one team is humans, and the zombies have to rush the humans. Sounds great.

I just won L4D in a competition :D. So i can play you tomorrow toast, i'm occlusion btw on steam.

I'm not even talking multiplayer as I don't know how to set up a server for flash, but even a flash game that portrays l4d's single player campaign mode would be cool. you and a few bots vs a shitload of zombies. I got you on steam, hopefully I'll be able to buy the game soon.

From the Internet
I went to a job interview today. One of the people there at that office is a fellow NG Reg, and the moment I walk into the office they shout "It's Keith from the Internet!". It's just the kind of surreal slap in the face you need when you've got a need to clear those butterflies in your stomach.

You're still going to pay for that though. You know who you are.

You're still going to pay for that though. You know who you are.

Can we find out who he is :P? Think of the possibilities if you get the job, sharing stories on NG, banning people from the office. Oh the fun times to be had.

Busy

If you havn't noticed, i havnt been on for a while due to the fact that i've been so busy T.T. I hate school.

Christmas Game

Mhm, Dep and I are making one, at least i still hope, but its moving sorta slow due to the fact that i've been so busy. And because i have World At War and LBP.

London Show
My dream is for my band to play a show in London for all of you ;)

Ng T's

So i recieved 4 new Newgrounds Tshirts. I was so happy.

I started wearing them, one for each day of the week. Some people automatically assumed I love the hentai that is on the site. Isnt that a great feeling and a good conversation to clear up? NG has some serious rep problems among "regular" people. I'm cautious as to who I show off my tshirts now too :(

But alot of them liked the Blockhead Tshirt... simply cause it's so random.

At 11/17/08 05:07 PM, KaynSlamdyke wrote: You're still going to pay for that though. You know who you are.

Sorry :'(

At 11/17/08 12:48 PM, Toast wrote: I'm not even talking multiplayer as I don't know how to set up a server for flash

nonoba.com has a free server you can use. I don't really know much about it so I suggest you read through the site, if you haven't heard of the site already.

At 11/17/08 09:21 PM, mexifry895 wrote: Official Flash Battles Thread
I thought that would be a good idea to make people get more active, but I wasn't sure if it had been attempted before and failed.

Official Flash Battles Thread
There was one a long time ago, and it was really awesome. Things like that and weeklies don't really fail, they just come and go. I loved it when it was around, and I think it'd be cool to see another one come into existence.

At 11/17/08 08:42 PM, Coolio-Niato wrote: Ng T's

XD Thats priceless man. You really are true though. Sometimes i ask people, hey do you go on newgrounds? And i get answers like the comments you get.

At 11/17/08 09:32 PM, mexifry895 wrote:

At 11/17/08 09:27 PM, Coaly wrote: Official Flash Battles Thread

Definitely think I'm gonna try to put one together. ;D

Sweet, i'll have to check that out!

At 11/17/08 05:07 PM, KaynSlamdyke wrote: You're still going to pay for that though. You know who you are.

At 11/17/08 09:22 PM, NG-Unit wrote: Sorry :'(

Last time I checked you weren't Ninjachicken ¬_¬

At 11/17/08 05:07 PM, KaynSlamdyke wrote: I went to a job interview today.

You made it then, how'd you get out of work in the end?

NG T's
Whoa, that sucks. Guess word got around about the bad shit, and hasn't got around about the awesome stuff on the site. Pity.

Flash battles
Are these AS battles, or animation battles?
I'm a bit confused.

General forum
Yeah, been going to the general forum a bit lately, I just wanted to check it out.
It's... weird.
For some reason, I say "Fuck ..." heaps, my posts are tiny and short, and I tend to be more obnoxious and hateful when I post in the general forum.

I think I'll only visit there rarely now, and try to stay in the art and flash forums :P

At 11/17/08 05:07 PM, KaynSlamdyke wrote: stuff

How did it go?

Is Matt a douche IRL? :D If he's in London is he coming to the meet in January?

At 11/17/08 08:42 PM, Coolio-Niato wrote: stuff

I'm at uni doing games programming, the only responses I've had from people seeing I'm on Newgrounds is "oh, Newgrounds, cool" and "Ooh Newgrounds, everyone knows that as awesome". The last one was a bit random, and didn't stem off into conversation as you'd expect, but yeah :p NG is cool. I just bought a T-shirt too, should arrive.. next week. With my calender. YAY. Shit, I'll have to go home (I go too much as it is).. or wait til Christmas, hmm.. I'll see.

At 11/18/08 07:34 AM, liaaaam wrote: I'll see.

I'm on my last new tshirt today, the madness one. I hope that won't generate as much controversy > :(

People have to love madness...right? :)

At 11/18/08 06:57 AM, xTOXICxEMPIRE wrote: Flash battles
Are these AS battles, or animation battles?
I'm a bit confused.

Both and yeah, there have been threads like that. It would be good if we (or well, you, because I'm too cool) started competing again.

Is Matt a douche IRL? :D If he's in London is he coming to the meet in January?

He's okay actually. That's respect!

T-shirt contraversy
I've never gotten any negative conversation anytime I've been approached about newgrounds shirts that i happen to be wearing. It is always interesting how non-heavy ng goers approach the site tho. The last time i was out of town the security guy at the airport giving me a pat-down was randomly like so when are they going to make another charlie the unicorn? It was kinda wierd cause this dude is like gropping my leg and hes trying to initiate casual conversation.

Other popular toons people have asked me about were Salad Fingers and Foamy.

NG invading real life lmao
I havent ran into any ng regs as co-workers unfortunatley, but I remember when my parents started snooping around my web presence, my mom, who is a worry wort and thinks the worst-case scenario for anything/everything... she called me up and she was like what is luis day, please be careful dont give your real name to the internet, these people might come and kill you.

At 11/17/08 09:22 PM, NG-Unit wrote: nonoba.com has a free server you can use. I don't really know much about it so I suggest you read through the site, if you haven't heard of the site already.

Nonoba's servers can't hold much people, though I've heard that something about that something about the new microsoft cloud holding decent servers, look that up, whoever wanted that help.

CS4
Who's gonna get one?
CS3 was a failure to me.

At 11/18/08 09:24 AM, Luis wrote: NG invading real life lmao
she called me up and she was like what is luis day, please be careful dont give your real name to the internet, these people might come and kill you.

Haha, that's exactly like my mom, she kept asking me if what I'm doing is legal, and if sponsors are drug dealers or something. And when I get stuff from newgrounds she gets paranoid. It has helped getting some ad money checks in the mail, because then she kinda realizes it can't be some illegal drug company if they're sending me checks.

When I talk to people about Newgrounds it usually boils down to Numa Numa Dance or Charlie the Unicorn to draw association.

NG Calendar

Also I got my ng calendar yesterday, and it's really awesome, so if you were thinking about getting one, but you aren't sure, you definitely should get one, and if you were thinking about getting a calendar but not the ng calendar, you should get the ng calendar, and if you weren't thinking about getting a calendar at all because you don't really need one, you should still definitely get the ng calendar.

</unwarranted advertising>

Penicorn

Today at my school I quite possibly saw the greatest sight I have ever seen. There was a guy standing on the balcony holding a string wrapped around a Penicorn and dangling it over the students. I actually fell over laughing.... Then the kid got in school suspension :(

At 11/18/08 09:11 AM, GustTheASGuy wrote: He's okay actually. That's respect!

You've met him IRL? :O

He's an ok guy, he just used to be an ass on here at times.

Charlie the Unicorn
All my friends know about Charlieeeee (we actually had a 5 minute conversation in the unicorn voice yesterday, scary stuff), but mostly because of YouTube. FUCK YOU TUBE, MAAAAN.

Rant

In 2 days there's gonna be a pretty big event in my school for 11th graders (or whatever grade it is for students aged 15-16). We're gonna recieve our oh-so-fancy diplomas for passing some shitty exam. It baffles me how they put so much effort in congratulating people for succeeding at an exam that has 98% success rate, instead of focusing on things that actually matter. It's the way things are in french schools. No one really cares if a student is bright and could have good potential, all they care about is things that they would realise are completely retarded if they actually looked at the outside world.

I'm very thankful for not being born in france, I can actually get a perspective on this country and kinda see things from outside the box. When you get born in a family that does many silly things for no reason and you never get to look at other families, you'll never really realise that those things are silly and you shouldn't be doing them. And even if you grow up and do look onto other families, chances are you'll be so used to your habits that you won't even think about questioning your ways of doing things.

This is my conception of france and why it sucks. Usually when someone offers a shitty idea and it is accepted among the people, later on in the future they will realise it's shitty and they'll cancel it, but that's where something went wrong in france. We are still stuck with primitive rules and mentalities from 1800 but no one with enough power to stop it actually questions it, and everyone got used to it. I generally dislike things that could easily be more effective where other people don't care about it, but this is more than that. This can also ruin my potential future and that's why I'm angry.

I'll just give you a few examples of specific things I find stupid in my school (and apparently my school is one of the most tolerant ones in France as it is international; I feel sorry for the other people):
If you're most than 5 minutes late to a class you need to go to see some woman in the administration and tell her why you were late, and ideally she will write a little note for your teacher to say that you are allowed to go into class. If, however, she judges that your excuse for being late is not acceptable (or if you have no excuse at all) you are not allowed to go in class and you must spend the rest of the time in a room filled with other idiots who did stupid things and got punished.
If you are absent in a class, you must present your excuse, and if you have none (like when i overslept morning classes many times this year) you aren't allowed to go to this specific class until the next day if you got your parent's permission with an excuse, or if you call your parents on the phone and ask them to tell this woman you are allowed to go in class.

WHAT THE FUCK! why the FUCK would they not let someone go to a class that HE WAS ALREADY ABSENT TO?! Is that their solution? Make you absent to this class AGAIN so you can be sure you'll have to spend 4 hours at home getting the lessons from your friends and writing them on your note book? WTF!
Just the other day we were in economics class and this guy was 5 minutes late, the teacher told him to go to the woman and he came back 30 minutes later with another woman who said "the woman was not there so this student couldn't get his permission to go to class, so he had to wait in the room but no she is back and it's all ok". what the FUCK! this guy was 10 times taller than her, and they treat him like he's 5 year olds or something. This happens no matter how old you are or who you are, even 18 year old people can get stuck in this "room".

Another thing that bothers me is having to study a bazillion things that I don't give a shit about. I always see people complaining about math lessons and asking "why do i have to do this? When will I ever need to know this math in my life if I want to be a <xyz job>? ill just buy a calculator to pay my bills". As much as I disagree with this behaviour and think that this world would be a better place if everyone supported science, logic, and common sense, I do agree that people should not have to study things they don't give a shit about at this age. I agree with this because I have to study ridiculous things in subjects like french, economics, literary analysis.

I won't even dicuss literary analysis with you because I don't think it's worth the effort. We all know it's COMPLETE bullshit as demonstrated by the xkcd web comic. People derive absolutely ridiculous ideas from texts that don't suggest anything. You know when something is bullshit if you can give 1000 different interpretations of it and all of them will be considered valid by literary critics. That's not the point of my original argument though, because why literary critique may be retarded, my argument is that we should not have to study things we do not want to study. It's ok that you learn this stuff when you're 10 year olds, but once you're 16 or 17 and you decide something doesn't interest you at all, guess what, studying it more will probably just make you hate it more.

This is why I admire England for its A-level school system. I would be much more satisfied with my life if I only studied the things I want. My teachers think that I don't want to study, that I don't want to learn. Heck, last year they apparently even thought that I was doing it on purpose so I could go back to Israel, obviously they are missing the point. If I had only math, physics, and computer science classes, I am confident that I would be a lot more motivated to study at home. However, when i come back from school at 6 o'clock every day after 10 hours of stupid shit, I don't even want to study the subjects that most interest me (vis a vis physics and mathematics mostly).

This is how our school is very effective in one area: making students dislike studies. I find myself in a class of people who are already not very bright to begin with, and additionally, in the process of being in this shitty schools for so long, have lost interest in subjects like maths. Well, I don't know if they lost interest or not, because it seems like the huge majority of the school studies a lot at home. However I presume with confidence that they are only doing this because they "have to" and that's what they are used to. I'm actually starting to question my theory about french people accepting this shit only because they are used to it, as in this international school many students from across the world are not acting differently than the french students. Perhaps it's just me, perhaps something went really wrong in my life which made me become a failure at school. Or maybe, as I would hope to think, the problem isn't with me, it's with the school.

Sometimes, due to my grades at school, I'm actually not sure if I'm a retarded person or a genius. Usually I just gain confidence in the fact that I won this french logic and maths contest thing, but still I cannot help but notice that it's too easy to always say "the problem is with them, not with me", because I see students who are retards who always say it, though I hope it's not for the same reason. I would like to think that I'm a smart person, and the reason that I'm not doing well at school is because I'm smart and I don't want to co-operate with this stupidness, as much as this view of things may look stupid. My physics teacher, who actually recognizes my intelligence, advised me to go to a special school for people who learn fast, but I can't go there as it's only for ages 10-16 (ill be 16 on my next school year). It made me think about einstein, who also failed at school when he was young, but I don't see the point in comparing myself to him as most of the other great theoretical physicists such as max planck, richard feynman, diarc, schrodinger, etc all excelled at their studies. bah no more characters. I guess most of you didnt read half of it anyw

At 11/18/08 05:44 PM, Toast wrote: Rant

You're always so angry toast.

Friends 'n Games
Just curious, what do you all think when you see people playing games from fellow "colleagues?" One of my closest friends was playing Ansel's Supertank. I personally was just in awe thinking that half the games I see played at school are games that people on NG have made. It's cool how quickly and well some stuff spreads. I have yet to see someone play something of mine :(. When I release something good, I hope it'll happen.

Couldn't think of an interesting title.

Weirdos
Some cab driver started talking to me about how he wants to become a tech kind of guy and he sounded pretty smart and stupid me I mentioned my affiliation with it. He gave me his card, but it blows because he knows where I live, even though I threw out the card. How awkward is it gonna be if he ever drives me again [it's not like the city where there are thousands of cabs, it's very possible I'll get him in the next few months at some point]. That's what bugs me about cabs, they know where the fuck you live. DAMN :)