Alice is Dead

That game is really great, congratulations ImprendingRiot, it has a really creepy yet humorously sarcastic vibe to it, really enjoyable, or at least until I get to the stomach, where I don't know what to do.

Whoah ignore my ignorance, just found the soft spot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaXPxxk3s Kg&feature=related

WHATEVAH, I DO WHAT I WANT!

At 1/13/10 11:49 PM, Zyphonee wrote: Whoah ignore my ignorance, just found the soft spot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaXPxxk3s Kg&feature=related
WHATEVAH, I DO WHAT I WANT!

Why did you post a link to a video about a 15 year old slut on youtube?

At 1/12/10 03:45 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote:

At 1/12/10 03:31 PM, Jimp wrote: hmm, any idea what things exactly? Are we talking signing over the rights to our games or what?

I remember the discussion involving some clause along the lines of "mochi has the right to modify and redistribute your game" or something.

Yea itll be interesting to see how heavy handed this new chinese company is. they seem to have alot of power in asia and obviously have the money to make power moves. The tos of mochi is kinda weird, it was never no secret though that they intended to sell that company eventually. Maybe the acquisition will bring better ad rates for the mochi ads, they have declined over time and its more worthwhile to use cpmstar rather than mochi as a vendor.

In other company buying news, did anyone ever end up buying ebaums? It was on sale again a few months ago, for only like 10 thousand, a couple million short of what it was originally bought for... i wonder what the hell that company that bought it was thinking? Talk about taking the money and making a run for it.

At 1/14/10 01:57 PM, ImpendingRiot wrote: This whole thing was probably caused by the NG China takeover prank. The flash community has offended their honor.

It's all a matter of time.

My expert opinion (I am not an expert) is that mochi thinks that flash game profit-potential will take a dip or even a steep fall once the economy recovers, so they sold it off while it was still worth a ton

At 1/14/10 02:28 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: My expert opinion (I am not an expert) is that mochi thinks that flash game profit-potential will take a dip or even a steep fall once the economy recovers, so they sold it off while it was still worth a ton

Now why would flash game profit decrease when the economy recovers?

At 1/14/10 02:28 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote:

My expert opinion (I am not an expert) is that mochi thinks that flash game profit-potential will take a dip or even a steep fall once the economy recovers, so they sold it off while it was still worth a ton

I think that might have an effect, although I'm not sure how big that effect will be.

At 1/14/10 04:08 PM, 4urentertainment wrote: Now why would flash game profit decrease when the economy recovers?

A gazilion amount of small factors which might be noticeable when you combine them. There were several articles in the news here last year about the fact people spend more money on things like Christmas gifts and fireworks than the previous years, despite the recession. Researchers think that's because people want to buy a little happiness in these sober times. So maybe more people play flash games as a diversion (wild theory there, it would be interesting to see some numbers from game portals so you can compare the amount of visitors though).

Another reason might be that Flash games are free, so that might make them more popular now that people have a little less to spend. There are also people who were fired and do nothing all day but play flash games :) And then of course there's less to do in offices because there aren't as many orders and such, so it could be people spend more time playing flash games during business hours. In all seriousness though, I don't think the recession has that big of an impact on the amount of views games have. Besides, when the economy recovers wouldn't more companies have a larger budget to spend on ads and such (thus making Mochi more money)?

At 1/14/10 04:21 PM, Xeptic wrote: Besides, when the economy recovers wouldn't more companies have a larger budget to spend on ads and such (thus making Mochi more money)?

There's that, also right now the flash playing audience is a large range of people, especially cause people can't afford to buy retail games as much, but they aren't about to sacrifice, so they seek out the free to play stuff.

When the economy recovers, you'll still see a lot of kids and teens playing flash games, but they aren't the type that have money to spend on advertised products anyway.

On a side note, do you really think Mochi is actually hitting its target audience when they display a video ad for PRESCRIPTION YEAST INFECTION MEDICATION on this site? I'm willing to bet they aren't, and were probably smart enough to realize that it's about to head downhill.

It is a lot of little things though, some counter each other, some don't, and it's hard to tell for sure, but you can bet that the boom in online gaming recently has something to do with the economic downturn

At 1/14/10 04:43 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: On a side note, do you really think Mochi is actually hitting its target audience when they display a video ad for PRESCRIPTION YEAST INFECTION MEDICATION on this site? I'm willing to bet they aren't, and were probably smart enough to realize that it's about to head downhill.

There's indeed a limited amount of businesses that can effectively promote their product with MochiAds. Now that I think of the only companies that usually do are somehow related to gaming, and those companies probably benefit from the recession. So you might be right in saying that when the economy recovers those companies will actually have a smaller marketingbudget. We'll see how things develop I suppose.

At 1/14/10 02:28 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: My expert opinion (I am not an expert) is that mochi thinks that flash game profit-potential will take a dip or even a steep fall once the economy recovers, so they sold it off while it was still worth a ton

My expert opinion (I am not an expert either) is that when a company is worth nearly 7-8x their VC funding that it's a no-brainer to sell. 700% return investment in that few of years is phenomenal to the investors.

At 1/15/10 12:04 PM, jmtb02 wrote:

At 1/14/10 02:28 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: My expert opinion (I am not an expert)

My expert opinion (I am not an expert either)

Then who's supposed to be the expert here?

anyone else in MA currently seeing nothing but non-stop commercials for the elections for senate seat?

At 1/15/10 05:32 PM, turtleco wrote: anyone else in MA currently seeing nothing but non-stop commercials for the elections for senate seat?

when I was there for christmas / new years I didn't see a single one

At 1/15/10 09:30 PM, zrb wrote: HAHAHAHA.
Go watch now !

You have got to be kidding me

Just released my new game : http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/52 4638

Play please :D

At 1/16/10 07:40 AM, adman1993 wrote: Just released my new game : http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/52 4638

Play please :D

lol! The game is so positive about poor playing. Its like the positive version of wii fit :P

At 1/16/10 11:11 AM, Duchednier wrote:

At 1/16/10 07:40 AM, adman1993 wrote: Just released my new game : http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/52 4638

Play please :D

lol! The game is so positive about poor playing. Its like the positive version of wii fit :P

is that a good thing? I don't even know what that means?!

At 1/16/10 07:40 AM, adman1993 wrote: Just released my new game : http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/52 4638

Play please :D

Hooray for Tom Deaap!

At 1/16/10 11:19 AM, adman1993 wrote:

At 1/16/10 11:11 AM, Duchednier wrote:

At 1/16/10 07:40 AM, adman1993 wrote: Just released my new game : http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/52 4638

Play please :D

lol! The game is so positive about poor playing. Its like the positive version of wii fit :P

is that a good thing? I don't even know what that means?!

I was probably pretty vague... i had JUST woke up, possible hangover, and tried it lol!

What i meant was, i was too lazy to press Z or X to shoot, so i was just kinda dodging shit with the arrow keys, and the game was all "GOOD JOB!" and "NOW YOU"RE GETTING IT!" and i was like "yaay! I'm accomplished! :P"

Haha well I'm glad you enjoyed it! Any recomendations for a sequal?

At 1/16/10 02:31 PM, adman1993 wrote: Haha well I'm glad you enjoyed it! Any recomendations for a sequal?

Well because i'm primarily an animator and storyteller, i reccomend putting a story around it. Have some cutscenes too and stuff, but i have that mindset for everything. Like even tetris...

Hmm..gameplay wise, add in difficulty modes, more types of enemies, upgrades to your ship, maybe collectibles in the air, that kinda thing? :/

Also, LOL FAIL

At 1/16/10 04:57 PM, Duchednier wrote: Also, LOL FAIL

It's also very much like Dances with Wolves and The Last Samurai, among with countless others.

At 1/16/10 05:43 PM, PBass wrote:

At 1/16/10 04:57 PM, Duchednier wrote: Also, LOL FAIL

It's also very much like Dances with Wolves and The Last Samurai, among with countless others.

Those are the two that i first thought of, you can pretty much write any of the scripts by saying

"A soldier is a part of a mission to attack the _____ (japanese, alien, native) people, and ends up switching sides. "

heh

Wait are you guys saying that hollywood movies tend to follow a few generic plot outlines? I am blown away by this knowledge.

At 1/16/10 05:49 PM, Duchednier wrote: "A soldier is a part of a mission to attack the _____ (japanese, alien, native) people, and ends up switching sides. "

The same formula is also used in comedies in the social scale. For example, the terrible movie Band Camp.

They're never friendly at first. Then they grow to like the other person/group. Then they get busted. Then redemption.

But hey, as long as it's entertaining it can be as cliche as it wants. The security leader in Avatar was about as cliche as cartoon villain, but I really liked him as a character for some reason.

At 1/16/10 05:55 PM, Coaly wrote: Wait are you guys saying that hollywood movies tend to follow a few generic plot outlines? I am blown away by this knowledge.

Yeah I'm sure they thought they were the first ones to announce it. Alert the presses people repeat things.

Let's not for get this one...

Once upon a time, this nobody kid gets thrust into an epic battle between the forces of good and evil, and manages to save the day, against all odds.

Yeah... that works for just about every Star Wars movie, War Games, Avatar The Last Airbender, The Last Starfighter, Dune, blah blah blah...