At 5/6/10 04:29 AM, 4urentertainment wrote: That christmas arcade game you made could have easily gotten $2K+. Simple flash games earn way big. Ironically, a large, epic game with tons of features and cutscenes and all that jazz, may not earn much at all.

That's crazy. Back when I used to make flash games, $2k was what you'd expect to see as the grand prize of the AGC contests or something. I'd totally be up for making a quick game with someone and have fartzaboy sell it. I send Sam game engines every once in a while but he never gets anything done. Disappointing !

Yes, that's a shout-out for animators.

At 5/6/10 07:26 PM, Toast wrote: That's crazy. Back when I used to make flash games, $2k was what you'd expect to see as the grand prize of the AGC contests or something. I'd totally be up for making a quick game with someone and have fartzaboy sell it. I send Sam game engines every once in a while but he never gets anything done. Disappointing !

If you still have that child catapult .fla, i'll finish that if you fix the bugs.

I feel its time for a forum image change...HAH nobody is going to be used to this :P

Full image here

But yeah, pokemon, yugioh, beyblade..those were the days!

Everyone wish HDXMike luck with his 48-hour game!

OK.

I will use words that Mike will understand intimately:

"Let the hate flow through you, and your journey towards the dark side will be complete! Ptuh. ptuh."

Naw, in all seriousness, good luck. That's a real fast turn around time, but a great challenge. :)

British elections

So are we looking at a hung parliament, labour/lib dem coalition or what?

At 5/7/10 03:05 AM, ImpendingRiot wrote: Iron Man 2 was rad. Good night Newgrounds.

Iron man 2 was alright, but i felt that it ended too soon and the ending didn't feel like an ending.. Idk its hard to explain.

Lots of small problems instead of 1 big one? Maybe...half ish, they kinda tied together but in a loose way. (Rourke and Rockwell)

Still was an entertaining movie, liked the first one better though

At 5/7/10 02:32 AM, Deadclever23 wrote: British elections

So are we looking at a hung parliament, labour/lib dem coalition or what?

wtf is a hung parliament, i thought you just obeyed the queen's every word

At 5/7/10 08:35 AM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote:

At 5/7/10 02:32 AM, Deadclever23 wrote: British elections

So are we looking at a hung parliament, labour/lib dem coalition or what?

wtf is a hung parliament, i thought you just obeyed the queen's every word

From what i understand the queen still exist out of tradition, she doesnt actually do anything nowadays.

also anytime i hear the term hung parliament i picture a bunch of black politicians sitting in a room without pants on...

At 5/7/10 08:35 AM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: wtf is a hung parliament, i thought you just obeyed the queen's every word

This is the race to elect the guy who'll be the queen's advisor (hence the term Prime Minister). In Disney's Aladdin, picture Jafar. We're electing him. Only in practice the monarch's even less powerful and I'm pretty sure the PM's not going to have a talking parrot..

As for hung parliaments... You know how the US Senate is totally incapable of doing anything thanks to the fact that the Democrats don't have a supermajority?

The Hung Parliament's sorta like that. Sorta.

The Conservative Party (our version of the Republicans, but less likely to hold thier convention in Hawai'i, led by yes-man David Cameron and backed by Rupert Murdoch's Global Empire) has won the most seats here, but lacks the outright 50% majority to be able to claim parliament. The other two parties, Labour (see the US Democratic Party, only less competant and led by an angry scottish cyclops NOT armed with a grenade launcher) and the Liberal Democrats (the 'other' group thanks to the fact we don't favour a two party system that looked like it was doing well until opinion polls worked out people lie quite well) together don't have enough to take control of the 50% either if they combined forces to become a Coalition Government.

So currently Gordon Brown is still in control, but there's immense pressure from the larger party for him to step down. And currently, we're not sure who's going to run things. The Lib Dems could coalition join with the Conservatives, in which they'll promise to help run the country with them in exchange for first pick of thier guys (yes, british politics works like playground football...), or the Conservatives could try running the country without the supermajority in a Minority Government, and get constantly shouted at by the Lib Dems and Labour, grinding most political processes to a halt.

My constituency in Derby kept Labour in, despite our MP changing, and the Conservatives kept thier seat in the Mid Bedfordshire seat my family lives under. Nationwide there are calls for parliamentary reform since despite the Liberal Democrats earning 23% of the nation's votes (contrast with 29% Labour and 36% Conservative, the numbers are pretty close!), they managed to LOSE seats.

I'm personally ignoring them all now and waiting for the foot to drop after this election when whatever person we're all living under has to break the bad news about budget cuts and tax hikes...

At 5/7/10 10:15 AM, Luis wrote: also anytime i hear the term hung parliament i picture a bunch of black politicians sitting in a room without pants on...

Some old straight faced political commentator on the BBC said "seriously hung" last night and I could not stop laughing.

Anyway Con-LD coalition is the only way to go. Like it or not Cameron won this election and he should form a government.

Disclaimer: My previous post is a little sketchy and has many, many things wrong with it, but is adequate to explain things.

At 5/7/10 10:35 AM, Kirk-Cocaine wrote: Anyway Con-LD coalition is the only way to go. Like it or not Cameron won this election and he should form a government.

By definition of how the election system works in this country, Cameron has not won. No one has. None of them attained the required number of votes. Thats what the hung parliament means, boy.

Yes Cameron won the most seats. And that means diddly-squat at the moment - by constitutional right, Gordon Brown gets to stay on because the tug of war didn't drag him off the cliff. He gets to keep ruling the country if he manages to restart parliament and no one grumbles loudly. Anyone who is saying anything different is actually lying - and at any rate, has to go plead thier case to the aforementioned figurehead of royalty, who isn't likely to listen to "I got the most seats so fuck this 'PM gets to stay on business', gimme!"

In practice though, LD-Con is likely to happen. Brown won't be able to hang on with this kind of pressure (I dunno. First the Sun, then Clegg, then Cameron and now the unbelieveable power of Kirk... poor guy must be FEELING that burn), and so Cameron's going to try either running a Minority government (unfuckinglikely - look at a map of the UK. How many CITIES didn't vote Labour? How much of a standing in Scotland, Wales and NI do the Tories have?), or more likely talk to Mr Clegg. Which is actually what they're doing now... cheaters.

At 5/7/10 10:43 AM, KaynSlamdyke wrote: By definition of how the election system works in this country, Cameron has not won. No one has. None of them attained the required number of votes. Thats what the hung parliament means, boy.

Well not won outright but with 36% of the vote and the most seats gain, I'd say he can claim victory.

Yes Cameron won the most seats. And that means diddly-squat at the moment - by constitutional right, Gordon Brown

You seem to be implying that are constitution isn't a horrible horrible mess.

or more likely talk to Mr Clegg. Which is actually what they're doing now... cheaters.

How's it cheating?

At 5/7/10 10:58 AM, Kirk-Cocaine wrote: Well not won outright but with 36% of the vote and the most seats gain, I'd say he can claim victory.

We don't go with percentage of the vote, silly man. And he can claim victory, but on the same token so can the English football team when we draw with Germany just because we had more posession of the ball...

To put it in football terms - No score draw in politics, Labour wins on aggregate unless they can convince the Lib Dems to take it to penalties.

You seem to be implying that are constitution isn't a horrible horrible mess.

Sorry to give that impression. It is a horrible mess. Mainly because unlike those clever yanks we didn't write ours down.

How's it cheating?

Because Gordon's meant to be denied it first :p

At 5/7/10 11:11 AM, KaynSlamdyke wrote: We don't go with percentage of the vote, silly man. And he can claim victory, but on the same token so can the English football team when we draw with Germany just because we had more posession of the ball...

You seem to have stopped reading that sentence half way through, I said he had the most votes and the most seats. Read the whole thing before giving your shoddy analogies.

I just downloaded Box2D to try for a game I am making, but not even the "example" files will compile...

How can the "Vector" class not be a "compile-time constant" if it is a Top Level class? Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

At 5/7/10 11:27 AM, Archon68 wrote: How can the "Vector" class not be a "compile-time constant" if it is a Top Level class? Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

Compile for Flash Player 10, not Flash Player 9

At 5/7/10 08:35 AM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote:

At 5/7/10 02:32 AM, Deadclever23 wrote: British elections

So are we looking at a hung parliament, labour/lib dem coalition or what?

wtf is a hung parliament, i thought you just obeyed the queen's every word

That's because you're an ignorant American

At 5/7/10 11:32 AM, KaynSlamdyke wrote: Compile for Flash Player 10, not Flash Player 9

Awesome, it worked. Thanks.

Nape + Flash Player 10.1 prerelease

Yaaay, my big large pyramid demo get's an fps boost from 38fps to 50fps in browser when everything is active when using the 10.1 prelease plugin :D Though the 10.1 prelease seems to have an fps cap of 66 compared to the usual 125, not sure why.

Newgrounds Baltimore meet video

Take a last look at the red axe. I get a bronze fist tomorrow.

EVERYONE WILL BE SO CONFUSED

At 5/7/10 06:13 PM, Archon68 wrote: Take a last look at the red axe. I get a bronze fist tomorrow.

EVERYONE WILL BE SO CONFUSED

Oh look at you, with your badass bronze fist, and I'm here with chains.

At 5/7/10 07:10 PM, Sam wrote: Oh look at you, with your badass bronze fist, and I'm here with chains.

Chains suck. I miss my bullwhip

Actionscript 2 nerd reporting in, want to learn 3 but is too lazy + dumb. What to do?

At 5/7/10 07:39 PM, andrease wrote: Actionscript 2 nerd reporting in, want to learn 3 but is too lazy + dumb. What to do?

Learn AS3 and be happy.

Then get FlashDevelop and be even happier.

At 5/7/10 07:41 PM, Archon68 wrote:

At 5/7/10 07:39 PM, andrease wrote: Actionscript 2 nerd reporting in, want to learn 3 but is too lazy + dumb. What to do?

Learn AS3 and be happy.

Then get FlashDevelop and be even happier.

If you're going to go an use an external tool, you may aswell just learn haXe instead :P

At 5/7/10 07:53 PM, dELtaluca wrote: If you're going to go an use an external tool, you may aswell just learn haXe instead :P

Meh...

FlashDevelop is just a tool to make coding easier. The code hints and general ease of use of it is why I use FlashDevelop. I don't need to learn any new languages or change my coding habits drastically.

From what I understand, HaXe is a separate language altogether, so it's not as seamless a switch between it and Flash.

I dislike how FlashDevelop assumes I want to code this way, though:

Those brackets are just disgusting.

if anything it's an easier switch to coding outside of flash :P

FlashDevelop AS3 template code:

haXe AS3 template code: