At 7/22/10 04:31 PM, HDXmike wrote: Citric that looks awesome.

ALso does anyone else use rainmeter? Im usually against random widgetry but this seems so much more stylish

that just looks like a waste of space to me, why are those widgets so big? I have a tiny gmail icon and a clock in my top bar which keeps me updated just fine.

http://www.youtube.com/lifeinaday

Don't know if you guys have seen this but it looks pretty cool.

At 7/23/10 04:05 AM, funkycaveman wrote: 10 parts out of a total 30.

I guess it wouldn't hurt for me to participate in this collab :3

At 7/23/10 01:22 PM, HDXmike wrote:

That's what I thought , but then I realised that I hardly ever actually USE that much space

Fair do's, as an artist i'm always short of space in Flash particularly, once you've squeezed in all the god damn panels. I need to by a second screen in fact, i don't suppose anyone has any recommendations for a good 24"+ monitor? Screw forking out for an apple cinema display.

And what happened to that thing with tentacles and a laser beam ?

That was Enola, my final year project at university. I've graduated now but we are gonna develop it a lot further and release it on the web, it just needs a ton more work. I wanted to take some time off to make some other games and sort out my freelance career, but im fully intending to release it. only when im 100% happy with it though!

Me and Meet Ups - 3 things that will happen.
One will be near, maybe Seattle, and I'll go.
I'll get the money, rent out a hall, buy some good Rum, hold a meet up and see who comes.
And for both be very paranoid - cause I'm comfortable here, but socializing is awkward sometimes, though maybe I'm wrong and it be comfortable.

Are meet ups fun? Like, once you find out who someone is do you get along?

I think I'd just get drunk real quick for some Dutch Courage. :P

At 7/23/10 02:30 PM, TheCriminalDuder wrote: Are meet ups fun?

Hell yes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcG3jiX63 YQ

At 7/23/10 06:21 PM, HDXmike wrote: I feel like trolling.
trolltrolltrolltrolltroll

Hilarious because the only way to make sure your not successful is not replying to you at all. I'd like to say "Fucking hell, at least make an effort", but that would make you successful, and that's not something I'd want. So with that in mind, I'll just say:

Grow up.

At 7/23/10 06:23 PM, Sam wrote:

At 7/23/10 06:21 PM, HDXmike wrote: I feel like trolling.
trolltrolltrolltrolltroll

Hilarious because the only way to make sure your not successful is not replying to you at all.

Which you just did... and so did I. We have failed in our mission to eliminate his trolling.

At 7/23/10 06:21 PM, HDXmike wrote: I feel like trolling.
trolltrolltrolltrolltroll

stfu please huge idiot

At 7/23/10 09:05 PM, Johnny wrote:

Hilarious because the only way to make sure your not successful is not replying to you at all.

Which you just did... and so did I. We have failed in our mission to eliminate his trolling.

It's ok, he's a noob.. he uses haXe and has nothing in the portal ;D

• Unpublished Submission

Speaking of the portal, how did that get a passing score of 2.2. I fucking hate this site.

At 7/24/10 05:32 AM, Sam wrote: Speaking of the portal, how did that get a passing score of 2.2. I fucking hate this site.

Passing scores just show how many people thought that it would pass vs. how many thought it would be blammed. Nothing more.

Though, it did make me laugh how it is quite similar to a WIP I started working on recently. Similar artwork (i.e. a black rectangle on black flooring - placeholder art really) and my engine is already better made than that. Even more funny when he says things like:
"every game requires a lot of actionscripts and I´m serious when I say a lot."
Normally I'm nicer to people starting out, but it appears that he thinks too highly of himself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrtANPtnh yg

Dunno if this has been posted but it's badass to watch.

At 7/24/10 02:23 PM, Sam wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrtANPtnh yg

Dunno if this has been posted but it's badass to watch.

Yeah. Good for them. The scientific breakthroughs to allow these kind of technological advances have already been made ages ago. We all know it's possible, we all know we can start developing it, but for some reason some people think that just because it gets shown in videos, it means it's gonna be functional soon, or maybe, if it's not shown in videos, then it's just a sci-fi thing. We will have these kind of devices soon enough. To be fair, it's just a matter of ergonomy. It's not gonna change our lives profoundly, it's just gonna allow us to be more lazy. As with many technological "revolutions"

My personal goal of going to meet up is strengthened so much now.

Also I am in love. :3
I forgot the equation for myself involves two important things - Creativity and Love.
Love of a wonderful girl, do doo do, Love of the hate I have for some things in this world, doo doo,
Love of loving forever more, and more, and more, and moooooooooooorrrrrre... Do doo doo do do doo.

Damn I'm in a good mood. I've had only one beer and not a toke too. High on love - the best high.
Dammit I gotta make a love song. I'm going to start writing that shit now.

What do you love in your life guys? EMBRACE IT!

doo do doo do doo do (yes I'm singing in dos in this post... dammit it feels good.)

At 7/25/10 01:48 AM, TheCriminalDuder wrote: My personal goal of going to meet up is strengthened so much now.

Also I am in love. :3

Use a condom.

At 7/25/10 09:21 AM, Sam wrote:

At 7/25/10 01:48 AM, TheCriminalDuder wrote: My personal goal of going to meet up is strengthened so much now.

Also I am in love. :3

Use a condom.

Your sig has never seemed more appropriate Sam :p Maybe it's just me...

At 7/23/10 02:30 PM, TheCriminalDuder wrote: Are meet ups fun? Like, once you find out who someone is do you get along?

in a nutshell....

im so sorry tom.

At 7/25/10 06:14 PM, Luis wrote:

At 7/23/10 02:30 PM, TheCriminalDuder wrote: Are meet ups fun? Like, once you find out who someone is do you get along?

in a nutshell....

im so sorry tom.

That picture should be posted to promote Racial Harmony.

A McMexican Sandwich.

More like a chicken sandwich (white meat) with a spoiled piece of bun at the top :)

At 7/25/10 06:14 PM, Luis wrote:

At 7/23/10 02:30 PM, TheCriminalDuder wrote: Are meet ups fun? Like, once you find out who someone is do you get along?

in a nutshell....

im so sorry tom.

Well now just fuck waiting for one near. I gotta pop money away to fly to one of these things dammit.

At 7/25/10 06:14 PM, Luis wrote:

At 7/23/10 02:30 PM, TheCriminalDuder wrote: Are meet ups fun? Like, once you find out who someone is do you get along?

in a nutshell....

im so sorry tom.

How did this happen? Did the three of you actually plan this like "Hey it would be really funny if we took a photo of..." or were you just very drunk and snuck up on him ;)

Dammit. I can't complete/fix the game I'm workin on. I don't got the programmin know how to finish or add all the features I want.

I should've made more temp art and finished the entire engine first. Hopefully I'll be able to savage some of what I did and turn my Cute Madness 4 game into an animation for Madness day.
Still a HUGE piss off though. I was real happy workin on this. Fuck... Serves me right for still not developing games properly. I make the game document, I use some temp art to mostly make the engine, then make the real art/animation for it, and assume the last lil' things are simple to program, but of course it turns into a cluster-fuck.

(sigh) I like makin' games more then animations too. I hate when I'm passionate about somethin only to have it fart in my face. It's my curse all over agian - the harder I fuckin try at somethin the more it fucks up for me. This is why I passed school with all C -'s and a few F's. Cause if I tried for an A or B all my grades would've been F. For flash if I try hard it turns out shitty or doesn't work, if I try a bit it comes out decent.

Think I'll grab the platform engine I made for Mullet Mans pickle quest and MTC Cyberspace Assualt. Maybe make another platformer. I don't know what I'll do today now. Don't want to play games or watch a movie. Think I'll have an angry nap.

At 7/26/10 02:36 PM, Rustygames wrote:

At 7/25/10 06:14 PM, Luis wrote:

At 7/23/10 02:30 PM, TheCriminalDuder wrote: Are meet ups fun? Like, once you find out who someone is do you get along?

in a nutshell....

im so sorry tom.

How did this happen? Did the three of you actually plan this like "Hey it would be really funny if we took a photo of..." or were you just very drunk and snuck up on him ;)

me and mike planned it. Tom didnt know about it until the photo was being taken and hence his retard facial expression. There was alcohol involved to some degree but also it just seemed like a humorous idea at the time.

What other stuff to ya'll pull at those things?

Also I clammed down and started a new platformer. When I tell myself I'm makin' a game - I'm makin' a game dammit.

GameStop bought Kongregate

Link and related article.

I did not expect that. Looks like big companies are stepping into the flash business. I'm curious to know how this will affect Kongregate and the flash market as a whole, or if it won't be affected at all.

Back from Comicon. Did I miss much? Bumped into Darth Fulp.

sorry for the double post. He looked like was having a good time.

At 7/27/10 11:13 AM, doctormario wrote: sorry for the double post. He looked like was having a good time.

I must be growing up - Tom looks so much more mature than I remember from when I joined Newgrounds :p

Im not sure what value Gamestop would find in Kongregate, or vice versa. Doesnt Gamestop make the majority of its money by buying selling peoples used video games?

It might be one of those bonehead things like back when ebaums world was bought out, ebaum ran off with millions of dollars and more or less left them with a site that eventually went tits up.

At 7/27/10 11:24 AM, citricsquid wrote: I was about to post this! I'm wondering if it's good or bad for Newgrounds, on the one hand it will (hopefully) raise the profile of Flash games but at the same time, if gamestop whore out kongregate and their features it might drive people away from considering Newgrounds.

I'm happy that more and more people are starting to recognize Flash as a real platform for gaming, but I fear that GameStop will use its marketing powers to push Kongregate to the head of the Flash gaming website competition. It's not really clear why GameStop would find value in Kongregate, but who knows what they have planned?

I think the main problem for Newgrounds is that most people still aren't aware that we exist, and if they do, they have no idea what Newgrounds is. Most people only know of websites like Kongregate, Addicting Games, etc. and those websites fill their hunger for free online games. What's saddening is that a majority of the games on most of the sites these people frequent originated from Newgrounds, and were either stolen or uploaded much later by the author. Every time someone I know tells me about some "super amazing new internet game" they claim to have discovered, I have nothing to say but "That's cool, but that game was released to Newgrounds two and a half years ago."