At 9/15/09 01:47 PM, The-Super-Flash-Bros wrote: Yaaaay, I just got my ticket confimation for this years Flash On The Beach. Any of the other UK regs going?

Tom-

That looks like a cool event, let us know how it pans out. It would be good for newgrounds to be better about keeping a pulse on flash /game development events and conferences like that. Maybe even to the point where are able to finance a person or two that lives near the event to go in and be the communities' eyes and ears.

Recently mike attended the Flash on Tap event up in Boston and he thouroughly enjoyed it as a programmer, he said I probably wouldnt have found as much value as an animator but even little info like that about events is a great thing. Knowing what event caters to what niche.

DING!

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  Duders: Sadistic Sabotage

  by TheCriminalDuder

  Be Val in a neat leather suit and blow up Mr. Bad's new lab and a lot of other stuff!

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Remember how I was workin' on a game few months back and couldn't get the game over screen to work?

I'm not a programmer and never got it workin' working at it on/off so I said fuck it and decided to turn it into a very interactive Duders short. Theirs a few lil' things that still annoy me 'bout it, but I got no time to focus on remaking the programming for an old game. Glad to see I found a way to get it out there though.

The story for the game - the scenes are special to me. This was one of the first times in a bit I managed to recreate what I imagined almost exactly how I'd like it and it turned out wonderfully.

Ive discovered my own art inspires me to animate even more - especially when the other Duder E. staff compliments it.

I like this. I feel I've made it to another stepping stone up the way. I look at my last 4 submissions and they all have a great new look to 'em that was the look I was after when I started animating. No offense to the Super Flash Bros, but starting off with tween inspired card board cut out characters was probably not the best first step. Especially just getting into flash - it wasn't until Jay Short 1 & 2 and Jay Vs. Val 1 that I started FBF and mixing the two.

Yes happiness. I have found my style for sure and I can now only continue to improve upon it.

I'm surprised at how many explosions, smoke, arrows, axes, animated units and dynamic backgrounds I can have on-screen, without knowing jack shit about (efficient) programming, whilst keeping a steady framerate. Today is a good day.

At 9/15/09 02:23 PM, Luis wrote: That looks like a cool event, let us know how it pans out. It would be good for newgrounds to be better about keeping a pulse on flash /game development events and conferences like that. Maybe even to the point where are able to finance a person or two that lives near the event to go in and be the communities' eyes and ears.

Recently mike attended the Flash on Tap event up in Boston and he thouroughly enjoyed it as a programmer, he said I probably wouldnt have found as much value as an animator but even little info like that about events is a great thing. Knowing what event caters to what niche.

I've been going to a lot of events recently, just 2 weeks ago I won Dim a copy of Flash CS4 at an Adobe sponsored poker tournament, after winning myself a copy last year. Every month theres the London Flash Platform User Group meetings, which I presented at a few months back. Plus Flash Camp, Flex Camp and now FOTB. The London/UK flash scene is pretty busy!

It always amazes me how few 'real life' flash developers have heard of NG, or if they have, who think of it as 'that anime porn site'. Sad :(

Tom-

At 9/15/09 03:19 PM, The-Super-Flash-Bros wrote: It always amazes me how few 'real life' flash developers have heard of NG, or if they have, who think of it as 'that anime porn site'. Sad :(

wait, there's other stuff here? Oh yeah they sell stickers or something, right?

At 9/15/09 03:19 PM, The-Super-Flash-Bros wrote: It always amazes me how few 'real life' flash developers have heard of NG, or if they have, who think of it as 'that anime porn site'. Sad :(

Tom-

It's true though, NG isn't exactly a site the average flash developer would care to visit since it's full of rude and immature little kids (or at least 99% of it is)

I was going to go to the poker tournament thing, but I couldn't be bothered to rush off from work and get into London just to play poker with a bunch of programmers which actualy doesn't really make sense :P

Is the LFPUG still in Farringdon? I went once because I worked right next to it, but I didn't really enjoy it and wasn't worth the extended work day

At 9/15/09 05:00 PM, Rustygames wrote:

At 9/15/09 03:19 PM, The-Super-Flash-Bros wrote: It always amazes me how few 'real life' flash developers have heard of NG, or if they have, who think of it as 'that anime porn site'. Sad :(

Tom-

It's true though, NG isn't exactly a site the average flash developer would care to visit since it's full of rude and immature little kids (or at least 99% of it is)

Tom's been doing a pretty good job of getting out of that whole feel, though. I've no idea how someone could go about improving the image of Newgrounds on a global scale - it's really a pioneering site and a force for massive good on the Flash scene and nobody seems to care.

At 9/15/09 05:00 PM, Rustygames wrote:

At 9/15/09 03:19 PM, The-Super-Flash-Bros wrote: It always amazes me how few 'real life' flash developers have heard of NG, or if they have, who think of it as 'that anime porn site'. Sad :(

Tom-

It's true though, NG isn't exactly a site the average flash developer would care to visit since it's full of rude and immature little kids (or at least 99% of it is)

no way, maybe back in the day when sim dates covered the front page, but a lot of people from deviantart are coming over. and the bbs community has gotten better

At 9/15/09 01:47 PM, The-Super-Flash-Bros wrote: Yaaaay, I just got my ticket confimation for this years Flash On The Beach. Any of the other UK regs going?

Tom-

I was thinking about going, but the tickets were as much as a festival, so yeah. Tickets were pretty limited too, amirite?

I guess I should start going to some of these things but as an "art guy" I dont know how much of it would actually be relevant/interesting to me. Id probably get more out of going to a meetup and making a load of contacts.

I think Newgrounds does have a slightly shit rep, but it is getting better. I went for a drink with Mike from 4t2 Media and he spoke very favorably of NG as a community, but from a business and industry standpoint its just not seen as "important" any more for some reason. This is as a real fucking shame considering it was so innovative early on, but I guess the corporate giants have overtaken it due to monies and other shit.

NG just doesnt seem to get the traffic compared to other sites, hitting a million views is so hard here unless youre having the shit featured out of your game. The market is so saturated now that nostalgia just doesnt stand up against lots of money and investment, which again is a real shame. Hopefully Po3/Behemoth will help bring it back to the top of the game :)

Fuck it, NG will always be my home <3

I dont know how much of what I just wrote made sense, very tired.

At 9/15/09 05:49 PM, Jimp wrote: I was thinking about going, but the tickets were as much as a festival, so yeah. Tickets were pretty limited too, amirite?

I guess I should start going to some of these things but as an "art guy" I dont know how much of it would actually be relevant/interesting to me. Id probably get more out of going to a meetup and making a load of contacts.

Yeah, by the time I decided I wanted to go, tickets were about £460. Luckily, Rob Bateman is selling me a spare early bird pricing ticket, so I'm only going to pay £260ish, plus hotel etc.

I agree that artists are usually left out of these kind of events, but you should definately come along to the poker next time - free to play, free bar all night, sweet prizes and best of all, all sorts of flash people, not just programmers.

Tom-

While jmtb02 was getting hitched this weekend, I was riding my butt off:

http://bomtoons.newgrounds.com/news/post /374598

I wanna get drunk.
But with flash people.

I'm saying it now - if their ain't going to be a NG meet close to my parts in B.C. Canada then I'm going to be the sucker to host and pay for it. Assuming I can round up enough people to go also assuming people would come, fly, or actually live in the general area.

I wish a fellow NGer lived near. Then I could run down and get drunk and talk flash with him/her.
What day is it? Tuesday? Shitty... much to early in the week to get drunk. Where's that peotry book I'm writing? I guess I'll pick that up....

I should to start not posting half posts and half thoughts on this thing... but when theirs a keyboard and being so use to letting it vomit out my mind onto this machine... its difficult.

Also some evil creature stole my herbs last night.

At 9/15/09 06:47 PM, TheCriminalDuder wrote: much to early in the week to get drunk.

No it's not.

At 9/15/09 06:47 PM, TheCriminalDuder wrote: I wanna get drunk.
But with flash people.

I'm saying it now - if their ain't going to be a NG meet close to my parts in B.C. Canada then I'm going to be the sucker to host and pay for it. Assuming I can round up enough people to go also assuming people would come, fly, or actually live in the general area.

i live in winnipeg! fly over here now!

At 9/15/09 06:52 PM, Kirk-Cocaine wrote:

At 9/15/09 06:47 PM, TheCriminalDuder wrote: much to early in the week to get drunk.

No it's not.

These words have inspired me.
I love whiskey. I picked up a bottle of Crown Royal after class yesterday. I got class tomorrow, but a lil' hangover will be nothin'. It's sitting for an hour and 20 mins listening to a crazy prof talk about modern poetry and quantum mechanics once and a while.

Now everyone in the lounge - my flash peers!
Do me a huge fav and test out this lil' tutoreal for my upcoming next game. (The game over screen was the first thing I made sure that worked this time. :P)

DING

At 9/15/09 07:00 PM, Duchednier wrote:
i live in winnipeg! fly over here now!

Winnipeg does sound like a rad place.
Ok. I'm coming to Winnipeg either later this year or after winter - most likely sometime after december when I'm off uni. We'll have to arrange some stuff but ya, it'll be sweet. Even if theirs no meet up I'll come just to get drunk with Duchednier! :D

At 9/15/09 06:47 PM, TheCriminalDuder wrote:
I'm saying it now - if their ain't going to be a NG meet close to my parts in B.C. Canada then I'm going to be the sucker to host and pay for it. Assuming I can round up enough people to go also assuming people would come, fly, or actually live in the general area.

i live in BC and the closest thing to a meet i've been to is PAX.

At 9/15/09 05:31 PM, ImpotentBoy2 wrote:

At 9/15/09 05:00 PM, Rustygames wrote:

At 9/15/09 03:19 PM, The-Super-Flash-Bros wrote: It always amazes me how few 'real life' flash developers have heard of NG, or if they have, who think of it as 'that anime porn site'. Sad :(

Tom-

It's true though, NG isn't exactly a site the average flash developer would care to visit since it's full of rude and immature little kids (or at least 99% of it is)

no way, maybe back in the day when sim dates covered the front page, but a lot of people from deviantart are coming over. and the bbs community has gotten better

Look at the results of the recent demographic. It's still full of kids, not really a real flash community as such. By that I mean it's not for professionals, and that's why hardly anyone in the industry knows of it.

At 9/15/09 05:31 PM, ImpotentBoy2 wrote: but a lot of people from deviantart are coming over

Is that supposed to be a good thing?

Coding and Baseball

Does anyone here like to code while having a baseball game on in the background?
To me it seems like a great idea to keep yourself entertained without distracting you from coding.

At 9/15/09 05:00 PM, Rustygames wrote:

At 9/15/09 03:19 PM, The-Super-Flash-Bros wrote: It always amazes me how few 'real life' flash developers have heard of NG, or if they have, who think of it as 'that anime porn site'. Sad :(

The crazy thing is, if it wasn't for the anime porn ads that used to infest the site, there may not be a NG today. (read the history of NG if you're confused, its totally in there)

At 9/15/09 07:08 PM, TheCriminalDuder wrote:

At 9/15/09 07:00 PM, Duchednier wrote:
i live in winnipeg! fly over here now!

Winnipeg does sound like a rad place.

Its not, but i'm here so we can has fun times :D

Ok. I'm coming to Winnipeg either later this year or after winter - most likely sometime after december when I'm off uni. We'll have to arrange some stuff but ya, it'll be sweet. Even if theirs no meet up I'll come just to get drunk with Duchednier! :D

Lets do it man! We'll go clubbin or something lmao! You coming by yourself or what?

At 9/16/09 07:40 PM, Treerung wrote: Coding and Baseball

Does anyone here like to code while having a baseball game on in the background?
To me it seems like a great idea to keep yourself entertained without distracting you from coding.

that's if you actually like watching baseball.

Working with sports on in the background is almost the very best setup for me, unless it's a game that I'm too interested in of course.

At 9/16/09 07:40 PM, Treerung wrote: Does anyone here like to code while having a baseball game on in the backgro...

Treerung, I'm happy for you, and ima let you finish, but football is the greatest sport of ALL TIME.

At 9/16/09 11:16 PM, Coaly wrote:

At 9/16/09 07:40 PM, Treerung wrote: Does anyone here like to code while having a baseball game on in the backgro...

It would probably help put me to sleep >_< no offense to baseball lovers but the sport is just so boring. . . (in my opinion)

BasketBall FTW.

Baseball is more fun to play then it is to watch.

Had a dream last night, influenced by time fcuk. I was driving two cars at the same time, switching from one to another to keep them on the road. One of them was a sedan and the other was a van pulling a small camper or storage thing. I was driving on a road that I recognized really well. I ended up crashing both cars in a pretty violent way so that one ended up 100 meters away from the other. Some obnoxious woman came over to make sure I didn't run away and screw the driver of the van. I was trying very hard to not give away the fact that I had been teleporting between both cars to drive them, which made for very awkward conversation because I couldn't go over and see if the van driver was alright because he didn't exist.

the end.

At 9/16/09 11:16 PM, Coaly wrote:

At 9/16/09 07:40 PM, Treerung wrote: Does anyone here like to code while having a baseball game on in the backgro...

Treerung, I'm happy for you, and ima let you finish, but football is the greatest sport of ALL TIME.

I couldn't agree with you more..its just that I become a littletoo interested when football is on.

At 9/16/09 11:16 PM, Coaly wrote:

At 9/16/09 07:40 PM, Treerung wrote: Does anyone here like to code while having a baseball game on in the backgro...

Treerung, I'm happy for you, and ima let you finish, but football is the greatest sport of ALL TIME.

Judging by the context I'd say you're not talking about real football :p