At 4/5/09 04:12 PM, Alpharius120 wrote:

At 4/5/09 03:30 PM, tomocles wrote: haha, even people who do flash constantly dont care about group projects. :(

It's mostly the people who are fairly new to flash who participate in collaborations. Not always, there are exceptions, but for the most part. People who are better with flash or more experienced generally lean towards the solo project or coder/animator aspect of flash while the less experienced prefer working with people as practice so they can make an animation but the animation doesn't have to be a full length animation.

You guys kind of missed the point of what I asked about....I was asking why it is that people ONLY flock to collaborations?

My Animation Tests thread failed: this tells me that either people could give a shit less about improvement through small short animations, or that they are too embarassed to show them (or dont want to), which isnt a good sign either way.

My Animation Warzone thread failed: you guys obviously dont want to do anything out of the plain ol' collab. :\

Barely anyone participates in my screenshot thread: means that either you have nothing to show, or you dont really care about much more than submitting your creation.

These threads work so well in even stick animation communities, so why are newgrounders, who number in the millions, so resistant/lazy?

At 4/16/09 05:27 AM, Depredation wrote: iPod Apps

Anyone else done anything with em?

I downloaded the app maker. Couldn't figure out how to start it up. It'd never work, it kept crashing.

I'm done with classes now, just got 6 finals next week and then I'm free to work on new closure.

- Engine compiles on mac and windows now with no changes to the code (although I have some #ifdef __APPLE__ and #ifdef __WIN32__ blocks in the code

- configuration file where I can define stuff like resolution, FPS, fullscreen, widescreen, etc. Easy to add new options to it codewise

- PNG loading
- animation and sprite file formats (saving/loading) and classes
- shaders
- render to texture (similar to flash bitmapdata)
- extract pixel data from texture
- buttons, textboxes, textbuttons

- file manager keeps track of loaded files by filename and only loads/releases them when it needs to

- framerate lock/delay (delay limits framerate, lock forces an exact number of update cycles per frame, skipping render if necessary)

- key/mouse handeler (released, pressed, down, triggered (triggered will register once, pause, then register periodically like holding a key down for a textbox) can handle all mouse buttons and all keyboard keys

runs pretty well. I get 160 fps on my test of 100 sprites, 3 post process shaders, 720p resolution. 80 fps for 1080p.

If I play my cards right i might get to see it on the wii in the future

-

hey guys guess what!

i just go on one of the computers thats in the resort, and i see someone is logged onto MSN. so i decide to open it up and log them off. this is what i found.

i assume this is a private MSN, but im still gonna change her name and everything. and send hateful messages to this "louis"

but the picture i am posting right now is not edited in any way other than image cropping.

hey if she leaves herself logged on like this its free game

At 4/17/09 10:58 AM, fluffkomix wrote: hey guys guess what!

Come on man, you're at least two years too old to do stuff like that.

At 4/17/09 12:43 PM, knugen wrote:

At 4/17/09 10:58 AM, fluffkomix wrote: hey guys guess what!

Come on man, you're at least two years too old to do stuff like that.

being 2 years old is 2 years too old for that.

Everyone heard of Scarygirl? http://www.scarygirl.com/

Guess what haXe it was made with? I mean, language. :D

T-Mobile G1
Contract ended yesterday, renewed and got a new phone. 700 mins and unlimited texts for £35/month.
Anyone else got it? What do you like or not like about it?

Pros
3inch touch screen
Fast and smooth scrolling
Customisable apps on desktop
Market for apps
Sync with google mail
Fast internet
Accelerometer (Tilt Sensor)
Good speakers

Cons
Bad battery life, have to turn off alot of stuff to keep it alive
Not multitouch
No Flash Player - wtf :(
Little memory
Bluetooth sucks - wont pair with the Macbook
Bottom gets really hot

But man its a fucking awesome phone.

At 4/16/09 11:12 PM, tomocles wrote: My Animation Tests thread failed
My Animation Warzone thread failed
Barely anyone participates in my screenshot thread

These threads work so well in even stick animation communities, so why are newgrounders, who number in the millions, so resistant/lazy?

Its because of the credit crunch...

Also, generally, people in stick animation communities tend to be fairly new to animation, and so are far more pleased with their work and like to show it off more, so you're more likely to get a better response somewhere like that.

At 4/17/09 02:31 PM, Saza wrote: T-Mobile G1
Contract ended yesterday, renewed and got a new phone. 700 mins and unlimited texts for £35/month.

T-mobile, sim only, 350 mins, 650 texts £15 a month, + cheap £70 phone.
Definately the way forward. If you use more than 350 mins and 650 texts a month, you have issues.

your phone Pros:

my phone Pros:

3inch touch screen

buttons are better

Fast and smooth scrolling

slow and rough, thats how i like it.

Customisable apps on desktop

Non-customisable apps means no need to spend ages changing stuff

Market for apps

a variety of different ring tones

Sync with google mail

Sync with text messages

Fast internet

Fast phonecalls

Accelerometer (Tilt Sensor)

ditto

Good speakers

speakers

Your phone Cons:

my phone Cons:

Bad battery life, have to turn off alot of stuff to keep it alive

sometimes turns itself off

Not multitouch

not singletouch

No Flash Player - wtf :(

no player

Little memory

4GB memory

Bluetooth sucks - wont pair with the Macbook

dont have a macbook, so my bluetooth is perfect.

Bottom gets really hot

doesn't have an anus.

But man its a fucking awesome phone.

But i still love my phone.

I like to think of phones like women. You can keep telling yourself that its whats on the inside that counts, but in the end, its all about the way it looks. I have had a phone with all sorts of apps on, but in the end i just used it for phoning and texting.

At 4/17/09 01:49 PM, GustTheASGuy wrote: Everyone heard of Scarygirl? http://www.scarygirl.com/

Guess what haXe it was made with? I mean, language. :D

I tried it. Art was AMAZING! I didn't know haXe was an art tool too!

Gameplay was fairly average, it felt very flash game-y, which was kind of a letdown considering how beautiful it looked.

Cybex why did you dissapear.
):

At 4/17/09 04:06 PM, Saza wrote: Cybex why did you dissapear.
):

newgrounds = bunch of cocky teens trying to one-up each other all the time
real life >> newgrounds

I just decided to come on here for a bit to avoid packing for going back to uni and because i hadn't been here in ages.

At 4/17/09 04:18 PM, CybexALT wrote:

At 4/17/09 04:06 PM, Saza wrote: Cybex why did you dissapear.
):

newgrounds = bunch of cocky teens trying to one-up each other all the time

That wasn't meant to offend anyone btw, thats just how i see newgrounds in general (well the flash forum anyway), not you guys. <3

I love you to Cybex.

Aha everyone at my school is playing paintball after 3 years.

At 4/17/09 04:18 PM, CybexALT wrote:

At 4/17/09 04:06 PM, Saza wrote: Cybex why did you dissapear.
):

newgrounds = bunch of cocky teens trying to one-up each other all the time

the internet in general = bunch of cocky teens trying to one-up each other all the time

At 4/17/09 03:39 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: I tried it. Art was AMAZING! I didn't know haXe was an art tool too!

Gameplay was fairly average, it felt very flash game-y, which was kind of a letdown considering how beautiful it looked.

I was going to type the same stuff (well, that the art was amazing and that is all I was impressed with) - but you summed it up well. It's nice to see haXe is being used for SOMETHING though, else I would feel bad about all the work the developer is putting into it D:

'Ronald McDonald' came into the McDonalds I work at today (to entertain the kids). Clowns are awesome :D

Also, I've decided to put my Vista scheme to "Classic" because dwm.exe (desktop windows manager) was totally fucking my processor. It'd be fine at times but every now and then (usually when I have flash open) the processor usage would hit 100% and things would grind to a halt - I was getting very pissed =P Setting the scheme to classic has totally fixed that.. I miss Aero but it's worth it :/

I meant to add these 2 uninteresting tidbits in my last post but forgot =]

At 4/17/09 05:36 PM, UnknownFury wrote:

At 4/17/09 04:18 PM, CybexALT wrote: newgrounds = bunch of cocky teens trying to one-up each other all the time

the internet in general = bunch of cocky teens trying to one-up each other all the time

Nice job one-upping Cybex there :P

At 4/17/09 06:09 PM, liaaaam wrote: 'Ronald McDonald' came into the McDonalds I work at today

You WORK at McDonalds?

Nepotism is everywhere these days.

At 4/17/09 12:43 PM, knugen wrote:

At 4/17/09 10:58 AM, fluffkomix wrote: hey guys guess what!

Come on man, you're at least two years too old to do stuff like that.

ya eventually i decided i wasnt immature enough to leave a completely stupid message, and instead left a message saying that she shouldnt leave herself logged on.

the picture i posted was what she had already had on her MSN. thank god i found it and not a 5 year old or something like that.

At 4/17/09 06:03 PM, liaaaam wrote: I was going to type the same stuff (well, that the art was amazing and that is all I was impressed with) - but you summed it up well. It's nice to see haXe is being used for SOMETHING though, else I would feel bad about all the work the developer is putting into it D:

haXe isn't underused at all, I figured Scarygirl is something you guys would've heard about.

Feel bad he says. Pft.

Pixel bender works really well with photoshop.

I had a black and white image that I needed to add an alpha channel to, so that it would preserve antialiasing (i.e. new alpha = color of original, new color = white).

Forget trying to figure out how to actually do this small but specific task in photoshop, googling got me nowhere. But, 2 minutes coding up a pixel bender kernel (literally 2 lines of code) and clicking a button... bam works perfectly.

Do any of the AS3ers make functions like this:

myButton.addEventListener( MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, function(event:MouseEvent):void{ play(); } );

Was just reading a book where the author does all his functions like that :S

At 4/18/09 08:09 AM, crushy wrote: stuff

No. I used to in AS2 with timers but now I prefer to have things more structured.

At 4/18/09 08:09 AM, crushy wrote: Do any of the AS3ers make functions like this:

Sure, did that in AS2 too.

Liam: nothing unstructured about it. The less syntactic noise you make the clearer the intent is. Although AS has a really short limit in how expressive it can be.

AS3 function (e : MouseEvent) { play (); } haXe (uhuh) function (_) play () Purely (lol Haskell) const (play mc) const _ x = x play :: MovieClip -> FlashEffect ()

Do you think it's best to define a member only to express the intent 'const (play mc)'?

At 4/18/09 08:09 AM, crushy wrote: Do any of the AS3ers make functions like this:

myButton.addEventListener(
MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP,
function(event:MouseEvent):void{
play();
}
);

I only do that when I know the line will be really long.
I absolutely despise having to horizontally scroll to see a portion of code...

I HAVE TWO OPTIONS;
FGL, or send emails to sponsors I like.
Which one brings home the bigger, fatter portion of bacon.

At 4/18/09 04:17 PM, K-Guare wrote: I HAVE TWO OPTIONS;
FGL, or send emails to sponsors I like.
Which one brings home the bigger, fatter portion of bacon.

For the love of god do both. IMO you should always try to get as many potential sponsors interested as you can, with a bit of luck they'll start bidding up against each other as well. I've been trying to get my game sold for a good 4 weeks now and it's killing me... I never should have started working on that bitch... Oh well...

I prefer working with sponsors I know rather than random ones why are just looking to capitalize on your work. By far newgrounds as been the best to me, even though they haven't always thrown the most money at me. Tom's really nice though and he cares about the work as opposed to just the money, hell he even lent me stamper to do the title for closure.

At 4/18/09 05:02 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: I prefer working with sponsors I know rather than random ones why are just looking to capitalize on your work. By far newgrounds as been the best to me, even though they haven't always thrown the most money at me. Tom's really nice though and he cares about the work as opposed to just the money, hell he even lent me stamper to do the title for closure.

Does tom sponsor stuff anymore, with the ad system and all i figured he might have left that. If he hasn't i'll definitley get in touch though.

Also, i just found the iPod Game Rolando, sold 700,000 copies in 5 months, that's $6,000,000 in 5 months :O.

At 4/18/09 05:08 PM, Depredation wrote:

Also, i just found the iPod Game Rolando, sold 700,000 copies in 5 months, that's $6,000,000 in 5 months :O.

I don't know what sort of maths you're doing..

700,000 sales, sale price of $4.99 (according to the official site), that is approximately $3.5m - with a 70% cut (Apple take the other 30%) that is approximately $2.5m or £1.65m. Then there will be tax, and with that sort of income comes a LOT of tax; dropping the income to probably £1m or so. That's obviously a LOT of money, in 5 months! But it seems ngmoco have a lot of people to pay too - investors and such :/ I'm much more interested in the indie developers that are making hundreds of thousands of pounds on their own - that is remarkable. Especially the ones that are stupid (Fart Button, anyone?).

I've bought quite a few iPod apps for my Touch, they're so cheap it's totally worth it. It's microtransactions at an enormous scale, a very interesting market - like PSN, XBL and WiiWare.