At 3/29/09 06:49 PM, jmtb02 wrote: How about you guys start making board games and flipbooks to save some electricity.

I actually do that. I spend my physics and chemistry lessons building board games out of paper. I made a nice set of chess, now I'm onto a game like Heroes of might and magic. I use my calculator to determine the enemy's moves.

At 3/30/09 10:23 AM, Toast wrote:

At 3/29/09 06:49 PM, jmtb02 wrote: How about you guys start making board games and flipbooks to save some electricity.

I actually do that. I spend my physics and chemistry lessons building board games out of paper. I made a nice set of chess, now I'm onto a game like Heroes of might and magic. I use my calculator to determine the enemy's moves.

You are either any of the following:

1) Extremely bored.
2) Too much spare time.
3) Really sad.

At 3/30/09 12:36 AM, Josh-B wrote:

At 3/29/09 10:20 PM, Wurmy wrote: Some Game Ideas..
So I need some ideas. I have this small game (use arrow keys to move, jump on bombs to jump, go through hoops). However, the feels rather empty right now and I have no idea what to do with it.. halp D:

Cough, indestructotank, cough.

Exactly what I was thinking.

Another Snow Day?

Yup, another snow day. Anddd yesterday was like 60 degrees. I love it.

At 3/30/09 11:00 AM, Deadclever23 wrote: You are either any of the following:

1) Extremely bored.
2) Too much spare time.
3) Really sad.

4) NERD

5) GAY

At 3/30/09 10:15 AM, Alpharius120 wrote:

At 3/30/09 08:55 AM, Paranoia wrote:
I hear Tom isn't even married.

I hear Tom isn't even real, and that we imagined him into existence.

I hear that Tom is the thing that goes bump in the night.

I just bought Adobe Flash CS4 upgrade for my Web Premium CS3. Apparently you CAN'T just upgrade one program, they treat the entire Web Premium as one product. Therefore you must upgrade all of Web Premium. Luckily they'll give me a refund, but it was annoying to have to call Adobe to find out. They need to say, "oh hey, Flash CS3 in the bundle is NOT Flash CS3, it's just a chunk".

At 3/30/09 12:52 PM, jmtb02 wrote: I just bought Adobe Flash CS4 upgrade for my Web Premium CS3. Apparently you CAN'T just upgrade one program, they treat the entire Web Premium as one product. Therefore you must upgrade all of Web Premium. Luckily they'll give me a refund, but it was annoying to have to call Adobe to find out. They need to say, "oh hey, Flash CS3 in the bundle is NOT Flash CS3, it's just a chunk".

That sucks balls but from a marketing perspective it's a good way to rob your customers of money, seeing as a lot will just accept it and pay the full amount to upgrade everything seeing as they are getting something new.. but the difference between CS3->CS4 just isn't much of a difference. Fireworks & Dreamweaver 8 are fine still =D

Flash CS4 completely passed me by. What's actually new in it? The only notable things I've heard of are an actual vector class (which is cool), and skeleton tools (which could just pave the way for a swarm of hollow, gimmicky ragdoll stuff).

At 3/30/09 02:01 PM, Paranoia wrote: Flash CS4 completely passed me by. What's actually new in it? The only notable things I've heard of are an actual vector class (which is cool), and skeleton tools (which could just pave the way for a swarm of hollow, gimmicky ragdoll stuff).

3d animation, new tweening and Pixel Bender. And of course double memory requirements as with each iteration of Flash. :p

At 3/30/09 02:20 PM, GustTheASGuy wrote: 3d animation, new tweening and Pixel Bender. And of course double memory requirements as with each iteration of Flash. :p

I like it, the 3d stuff could be a bit more in-depth, but there are plenty of other libraries around to do that stuff. It's good for quick effects, which is what most people will need.

The layout is much better, the bone tool (which i've not used) could be useful for animation. I'd say if you've got cs3 stick with it, if you're still using 8, it's a good upgrade.

As far as CS4 and programming is concerned, the best feature is a new object called Vector. It's an Array but it only allows for one type of object (for example, Vector.<uint> or Vector.<String>). We found it runs at minimum twice as fast for computations than an Array.

3d stuff is actually pretty nice. It's nice to actually be able to do a perspective tilt (think Star Wars intro).

Best feature in CS4 though is some new features in the interface, most importantly the Library search feature that means you can stop hunting through multiple folders and such for your symbols. Also, multiple select in the library means I can stop clicking all 100 linked movieclips to "export in first frame" and do it just once now.

Overall, it's probably worth updating... maybe. I think for many it'll be worth the $200 but for others it'll be not up their alley. We mostly needed the Flash 10 for the Vector object and a few other things. But of course, if you are Flexy you can do that already... I think.

At 3/30/09 03:15 PM, jmtb02 wrote: As far as CS4 and programming is concerned, the best feature is a new object called Vector. It's an Array but it only allows for one type of object (for example, Vector.<uint> or Vector.<String>). We found it runs at minimum twice as fast for computations than an Array.

Pretty nifty, but it doesn't sound like it's worth £130 for.

3d stuff is actually pretty nice. It's nice to actually be able to do a perspective tilt (think Star Wars intro).

Really, some of the 3d stuff has had some bad reviews, like it's a bit too simple.

Best feature in CS4 though is some new features in the interface, most importantly the Library search feature that means you can stop hunting through multiple folders and such for your symbols. Also, multiple select in the library means I can stop clicking all 100 linked movieclips to "export in first frame" and do it just once now.

Cuts out a lot of time by the sound of it.
Stuff like that always helps.

Overall, it's probably worth updating... maybe. I think for many it'll be worth the $200 but for others it'll be not up their alley. We mostly needed the Flash 10 for the Vector object and a few other things. But of course, if you are Flexy you can do that already... I think.

Nah, I'll stick with CS3 for now.

At 3/28/09 08:40 PM, Vengeance wrote: How do I post in here?

I'll appreciate you're comeback even if no one else will. :D

Reading Mania

Just got tickets :D :D lineup not as good as last year but Bloc Party, Jamie T and Gallows being there has made me happy. Arctic Monkeys are good but it's embarrassing to like them :\ Rumours of Daft Punk but I don't believe it. That'd be too good.

Chickens

Also: I got chickens. 3 of them to be precise, because my old ones died a while ago. Marmaduke, Rasputin and The Disabled One (it has a limp). They're all happy at the end of my garden. Pix if I can be bothered / if I ever take any. (my old ones with me on the right looking like a fag and my brother in the background).

At 3/30/09 04:23 PM, trig1 wrote: Reading Mania

AHEM

LEEDS MANIA

now where was i? oh yes :) I got my tickets at like 2 minutes to 7pm with absolutely no traffic at all whilst everyone else was stressing.

Plus; eh? to your lineup shit, you have no taste :P

At 3/30/09 04:23 PM, trig1 wrote: Just got tickets :D :D lineup not as good as last year but Bloc Party, Jamie T and Gallows being there has made me happy.

Bloc Party sounds pretty terrible live (or at least it sounds like it on YouTube). Like the music is alright but the black dudes voice sounds bad live.

At 3/30/09 04:26 PM, dELtaluca wrote: LEEDS MANIA

You're a lucky son of a gun :P I got them at about half past 7.. not too bad, better than some. The line up isn't terrible but compared to last year it is shit. Prodigy, Kaiser Cheifs.. placebo maybe.. meh. :P

Just saw the 118 advert Weebl did. I'm 99% sure it was, definately the jingle (:

At 3/30/09 12:36 AM, Josh-B wrote:

At 3/29/09 10:20 PM, Wurmy wrote: Some Game Ideas..
So I need some ideas. I have this small game (use arrow keys to move, jump on bombs to jump, go through hoops). However, the feels rather empty right now and I have no idea what to do with it.. halp D:

Cough, indestructotank, cough.

That is part of the problem I'm having.. half way through I thought of how similar it is to Indestructo Tank :( Anything obvious (like different types of helicopters, bombs, etc..) would basically be me copying Indestructo Tank which I don't really want to do.. so in an attempt to make the game mildly original I added hoops, however it's still basically the same thing :( Except you can't kill the helicopters but whatever...

The Reading/Leeds line up is terrible. There's 2 or 3 OK bands, not great or even good, just OK. The rest are terrible. I used my ticket money to buy the Futurama box set instead =)

At 3/30/09 05:50 PM, Kirk-Cocaine wrote: The Reading/Leeds line up is terrible. There's 2 or 3 OK bands, not great or even good, just OK. The rest are terrible. I used my ticket money to buy the Futurama box set instead =)

Is Reading like the big festival in the UK? I think it's one of the only festivals in the UK that I'm actually familiar with. I wouldn't mind seeing the Kings of Leon, the Kaiser Chiefs, Radiohead and a couple of others in that list, I'm not much of a festival person though, I'm afraid those 3 days would be the end of me. I did buy tickets for the U2 tour though, U2 is one of those bands I'd like to see before they get too old and completely sound like shit and/or die.

At 3/30/09 06:01 PM, Xeptic wrote: Is Reading like the big festival in the UK?

I'd say Glastonbury is THE big one, it normally has bigger (i.e. more commercial) acts and get a lot more Press. Reading/Leeds is the big rock festival where all the decent bands play. Or at least they normally do, this year leaves a lot to be desired. Last year we had RATM & Metallica, this year we got T'Arctic Bloody Monkeys.

I'll go to't foot of't stairs!

At 3/30/09 04:26 PM, MichaelHurst wrote:

At 3/30/09 04:23 PM, trig1 wrote: Just got tickets :D :D lineup not as good as last year but Bloc Party, Jamie T and Gallows being there has made me happy.

Bloc Party sounds pretty terrible live (or at least it sounds like it on YouTube). Like the music is alright but the black dudes voice sounds bad live.

Really? I'm seeing them on Halloween so I hope there not too bad.

Btw, congratulations J1mp on the Kongregate badges!

At 3/31/09 12:20 PM, crushy wrote: Btw, congratulations J1mp on the Kongregate badges!

Freakin' deserved. That's a flash game right thar.

Haha cheers guys :) Got loads of great feedback on it, the next game is going to be so much better in every single way!

A lot of the artwork for that is like a year and a half old now.

Download lineup is looking amazing! Dream Theater, Killswitch, opeth, devildriver, slipknot, the prodigy, down.... YESSSS

Uhmm, j1mp..?

At 3/31/09 05:13 PM, knugen wrote: Uhmm, j1mp..?

Nevermind, this guy had uploaded your Penguinz game to the portal. It's flagged now though :)

I saw Penguinz on Kong as well, congrats on getting it frontpaged and on finishing the game itself, it must feel great!

What a dick, glad that got sorted quickly :)

How did it do? :P

At 3/31/09 08:01 PM, J1mp wrote: What a dick, glad that got sorted quickly :)

How did it do? :P

It didn't have time to get through judgement, so I guess you'll have to wait until you upload it yourself to see ;)

Why is it that you haven't done that yet btw, some kind of deal with Kongregate?

Yeah its gotta be 7 days exclusive on kong. I was pretty annoyed aboutit butfuck it. Loads of siteshave already ripped it anyway. But yeah, friday :)