Making a game in Flash makes me realize how much I hate the Flash IDE, and love FlashDevelop/Flixel..

At 8/1/10 06:39 PM, Wurmy wrote: Making a game in Flash makes me realize how much I hate the Flash IDE, and love FlashDevelop/Flixel..

Hello Wurmy.

I've just realised my post quality has got down...

yeyness :)

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  Little Cannon

  by knugen

  Putting those balls in those baskets is a tough job, but someone ought to do it!

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First game in a long time that I actually feel satisfied with. Biggest flaw is probably the graphics, and for that I blame Luis! :D

At 8/1/10 06:39 PM, Wurmy wrote: Making a game in Flash makes me realize how much I hate the Flash IDE, and love FlashDevelop/Flixel..

Flash + FD = epic

At 8/1/10 10:24 PM, knugen wrote: yeyness :)
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/54 4029
First game in a long time that I actually feel satisfied with. Biggest flaw is probably the graphics, and for that I blame Luis! :D

I like the graphics, I think they suit the game perfectly :(

Also, I've never seen the "User Generated Files" thing before. Is that new, or am I just late to the party? It looks like an amazing way to share levels among other things.

At 8/1/10 06:39 PM, Wurmy wrote: Making a game in Flash makes me realize how much I hate the Flash IDE, and love FlashDevelop/Flixel..

Flash + FD = epic

That's actually what I do. I code entirely in FD, and use Flash for graphics, however I am in the bad habit of still using frames when I use Flash which is probably what is throwing me off and creating odd bugs..

Even so, I still love Flixel and have learned so much from it. A wonderful library it is.

At 8/1/10 09:44 PM, Sam wrote:

At 8/1/10 06:39 PM, Wurmy wrote: Making a game in Flash makes me realize how much I hate the Flash IDE, and love FlashDevelop/Flixel..

Hello Wurmy.

I've just realised my post quality has got down...

If you ever feel bad about the quality of your posts, just look at my first posts. If anything it may make you laugh :(

At 8/1/10 10:40 PM, Wurmy wrote:

At 8/1/10 10:24 PM, knugen wrote: yeyness :)
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/54 4029
First game in a long time that I actually feel satisfied with. Biggest flaw is probably the graphics, and for that I blame Luis! :D

I like the graphics, I think they suit the game perfectly :(

They are not the worst I suppose, but after looking at them for months I've grown tired of them xP

Also, I've never seen the "User Generated Files" thing before. Is that new, or am I just late to the party? It looks like an amazing way to share levels among other things.

It's a part of the API (save data). They used it in Time Fcuk, but that's the only submission I've seen making use of it before.

At 8/1/10 06:39 PM, Wurmy wrote: Making a game in Flash makes me realize how much I hate the Flash IDE, and love FlashDevelop/Flixel..

Flash + FD = epic

That's actually what I do. I code entirely in FD, and use Flash for graphics, however I am in the bad habit of still using frames when I use Flash which is probably what is throwing me off and creating odd bugs..

I use frames for some stuff still, but I try to stay clear of multiple frames if I need to reference something that's not in them all.

How do you animate properly without frames?

At 8/2/10 08:05 AM, Depredation wrote: How do you animate properly without frames?

Spritesheets and copyPixels is one way.

At 8/2/10 07:38 AM, vvasim wrote: happy birthday magical-zorse aka vince

DAMN I almost forgot :C, gotta give em something quick

Dear Vince Lesniak:

Happy Birthday

Love, Nick Leong

I boobed

I made a game that took way to long and was way too big and now no sponsors will touch it. Am also most of the way into my overdraft. I suck :(

At 8/3/10 10:22 AM, Paranoia wrote: I boobed

I made a game that took way to long and was way too big and now no sponsors will touch it. Am also most of the way into my overdraft. I suck :(

If it makes you feel any better. I'm in the exact same situation.

At 8/3/10 10:59 AM, citricsquid wrote:

At 8/3/10 10:22 AM, Paranoia wrote: I boobed

I made a game that took way to long and was way too big and now no sponsors will touch it. Am also most of the way into my overdraft. I suck :(

whatcha mean too big? Also not even a smidgen of monies, or nothing near what would make up for the time spent?

(

Too big as in over 10MB, and my best offer at the moment is $1000 which is about a third of what I really need in order to justify the time and effort I put into it.

not to mention to pay my rent

At 8/3/10 10:22 AM, Paranoia wrote: I made a game that took way to long and was way too big and now no sponsors will touch it. Am also most of the way into my overdraft. I suck :(

Would it be possible to cut it down significantly and save some features/levels/whatever for a sequel?
Also, how do you mean? I'm not well versed in sponsorships, so I don't know how big "too big" is.

i guess there is a maximum amount a flash game can be sponsored for to make it worth while for the sponsor. Although you should be able to get a bit more the game looks pretty epic.

Get on facebook chat brah

At 8/3/10 11:23 AM, citricsquid wrote: hey fuzz you disappeared and now you're back. what's it like out there in the real world?

pretty shit so i came back :)

At 8/3/10 11:23 AM, citricsquid wrote: Maybe we could come up with some sort of community sponsorship program, where every pays in $10 a month and then we sponsor one big awesome game a month, although that's insanely ambitious would be hard to organise and would lead to problems, but the idea is nice.

Yeah, nice idea but doubtful it would happen.

At 8/3/10 11:23 AM, citricsquid wrote: oh file size :( do most sponsors have an issue with filesize then? I know Newgrounds don't mind upping the allowance (and I'm sure they'd do it for you) so I guess the problem is sponsors being anal about bandwidth, sponsors suck! :(

It's not bandwidth that's the problem so much as mobility - a big game won't spread to other sites nearly as easily as a small one. Of course, this issue could be resolved with some sort of performanced based sponsorship but I can't even get negotiations open with anone :/

At 8/3/10 01:23 PM, HDXmike wrote: Good god ben, you have some problems.

Really? He drew your vagina pretty accurate.

Stop saving shit as .tiffs you noob

At 8/3/10 01:41 PM, HDXmike wrote: Im sorry almighty master of image extensions, its the default extension for images saved by the grab utility.

You are forgiven, vaginaMike

I can't for the love of life see what that thing is on the far right of the screen that runs all the way up to the other guys, oh wait, oh, I see.

I can't see what Mike posted because I am IP banned from his website.

At 8/3/10 08:10 PM, Archawn wrote: I can't see what Mike posted because I am IP banned from his website.

uploaded to tiny pic for ya, here

At 8/3/10 08:46 PM, turtleco wrote:

At 8/3/10 08:10 PM, Archawn wrote: I can't see what Mike posted because I am IP banned from his website.

uploaded to tiny pic for ya, here

Oh, boy, Mike and I have some strange conversations. That one's a loooooong story.

At 8/3/10 08:52 PM, Archawn wrote: Oh, boy, Mike and I have some strange conversations. That one's a loooooong story.

and you have 8,000 characters to tell us

At 8/4/10 12:25 AM, turtleco wrote:

At 8/3/10 08:52 PM, Archawn wrote: Oh, boy, Mike and I have some strange conversations. That one's a loooooong story.

and you have 8,000 characters to tell us

a picture is worth 1000 words is blasphemy

i'm pretty sure it's worth 10000000

How much money through sponsorship and ads did the SHIFT series make?

At 8/3/10 11:15 AM, fuzz wrote: i guess there is a maximum amount a flash game can be sponsored for to make it worth while for the sponsor. Although you should be able to get a bit more the game looks pretty epic.

Get on facebook chat brah

generally a sponsor won't make back the money they pay for an expensive game, they usually make their money off of a cheap game that randomly becomes a hit, and sponsor bigger ones as part of an overall strategy, not because they individually make their money back more often. That's why it's usually more worth it to get a sponsor rather than try to monetize it yourself with ads and such. Quantity matters a lot more than quality for flash games.

At 8/4/10 08:11 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: Quantity matters a lot more than quality for flash games.

It's rather unfortunate that the whole Flash Gaming market functions that way. I suppose it is a smart business move for sponsors, but it might discourage some authors from making larger games. I'm a fan of big games when I have the time to enjoy them, which I guess is the problem--not many people play a Flash game for a complex storyline or in-depth character development, so those games are more of a gamble when it comes to sponsors earning back their payment on larger games.

Oh well, it is how it is.

I understand classes, I'm so good at AS3.