"The Reg Lounge... He's dead, Jim."

'nother day, 'nother strangely-made dollar (somehow I keep making these on a single terrible Flash video)
also finally went to get some clothes, I had one pair of jeans and three pairs of underwear left. I have no idea where my underwear went, though I do believe they've found someone else's balls to comfort.

Aaaat any rate it's been a strange couple of days because Turkeys but i'll hopefully be getting back on schedule tomorrow with more content for my channel and more work on the Concerned Joe launcher. I'm almost done with the launcher, guys, I swear D: - I just way-overcomplicated it like I usually do with programming things. Should have some fancy features if that makes up for it.

OH I almost forgot to mention (again) I actually submitted my first AS3 game to the portal a little while back. Made it through with some bumps and bruises, but it made it through. Have a look?

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/628973

At 11/29/13 11:51 PM, egg82 wrote: Aaaat any rate it's been a strange couple of days because Turkeys but i'll hopefully be getting back on schedule tomorrow with more content for my channel and more work on the Concerned Joe launcher. I'm almost done with the launcher, guys, I swear D:

Slide us a copy of the launcher so we don't have to pay omar.

I can't tell if I'm being very productive. I don't have my mechanical keyboard, so typing isn't as fun and I can't dota. I don't have my second monitor, so distractions are a bigger deal. My chair is broken, so I can't be comfortable while coding. I got started with saving game data (mainly just implementing IExternalizable), but that hasn't been much.

my keyboard has cherry blues, so typing is extremely annoying to everyone nearby which is also fun :D
maaaaybe why my freshman roommate hated me

At 11/30/13 12:09 AM, MSGhero wrote: Slide us a copy of the launcher so we don't have to pay omar.

With the system they have, getting a free copy of the launcher won't really get you anything xD
So, yeah. You COULD pirate the game, but no (otherwise free) updates if you do D:

At 11/30/13 12:13 AM, egg82 wrote:

At 11/30/13 12:09 AM, MSGhero wrote: Slide us a copy of the launcher so we don't have to pay omar.

With the system they have, getting a free copy of the launcher won't really get you anything xD
So, yeah. You COULD pirate the game, but no (otherwise free) updates if you do D:

@4urentertainment @3D-xelu I see how it is. For all my future games, I'm gonna check for ng username. If it finds yours, the game will stop and you won't be able to play it until you pay me.

At 11/30/13 12:24 AM, MSGhero wrote: @4urentertainment @3D-xelu I see how it is. For all my future games, I'm gonna check for ng username. If it finds yours, the game will stop and you won't be able to play it until you pay me.

hah! :P

At 11/30/13 12:24 AM, MSGhero wrote: @4urentertainment @3D-xelu I see how it is. For all my future games, I'm gonna check for ng username. If it finds yours, the game will stop and you won't be able to play it until you pay me.

Now that's just downright evil.

At 11/29/13 11:51 PM, egg82 wrote: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/628973

The keyboard randomly stopped working in the middle of the game so I crashed :(

At 11/30/13 05:15 PM, Rustygames wrote: The keyboard randomly stopped working in the middle of the game so I crashed :(

D: I heard about this once or twice but was never able to reproduce it or figure out what was causing it. To be fair, the programming for it is shite compared to what I should have done but I didn't think it was going to be as complex as it turned out to be in the end (after everyone's suggestions)

At 11/30/13 05:33 PM, egg82 wrote:

At 11/30/13 05:15 PM, Rustygames wrote: The keyboard randomly stopped working in the middle of the game so I crashed :(

D: I heard about this once or twice but was never able to reproduce it or figure out what was causing it. To be fair, the programming for it is shite compared to what I should have done but I didn't think it was going to be as complex as it turned out to be in the end (after everyone's suggestions)

Just press the opposite direction you're going and things fuck up. That's probably how to reproduce

Actually it's holding down keys which freezes it

At 11/30/13 06:32 PM, Rustygames wrote: Actually it's holding down keys which freezes it

ooooooohhhhhhhh fuuuuuuck. I used key down events instead of key up. I'll just get it to check the last value in the vector and see if it's the same key.

At 11/30/13 06:58 PM, egg82 wrote:

At 11/30/13 06:32 PM, Rustygames wrote: Actually it's holding down keys which freezes it

ooooooohhhhhhhh fuuuuuuck. I used key down events instead of key up. I'll just get it to check the last value in the vector and see if it's the same key.

Use MSGhero's keyboard class. Why reinvent the wheel.

At 11/30/13 07:17 PM, kkots wrote:

At 11/30/13 06:58 PM, egg82 wrote:

At 11/30/13 06:32 PM, Rustygames wrote: Actually it's holding down keys which freezes it

ooooooohhhhhhhh fuuuuuuck. I used key down events instead of key up. I'll just get it to check the last value in the vector and see if it's the same key.

Use MSGhero's keyboard class. Why reinvent the wheel.

My goal from 2 years ago was for someone to say that about something I made. Boom.

At 11/30/13 07:17 PM, kkots wrote: Use MSGhero's keyboard class. Why reinvent the wheel.

I actually have an acceptable answer to that this time: Because I felt like it :P
I already had a ton of pre-made classes for things I did in that game, but I just felt like making new ones. And I was too lazy to go hunting or the other classes. Yeah, my logic's a bit warped :3

At 11/30/13 07:40 PM, MSGhero wrote: My goal from 2 years ago was for someone to say that about something I made. Boom.

grats :D

The Launcher! EET LIIIIIIIIVES!

also i'm still fixing Snake. By which I mean I looked for the project for half a second in the file browser and gave up because a YouTube video showed up in my sub box. I'll get 'round to it in a few, after this video and most likely some sleep.

At 12/1/13 01:10 AM, egg82 wrote: I'll get 'round to it in a few, after this video and most likely some sleep.

Sleep is the biggest waste of time humanity can ever commit. How much time you could have spent working on amazing, ambitious projects, but instead wasted on worthless sleep? How can you even think about sleeping, when you have so many things unfinished, and yet so many plans?

I personally, have not deserved sleep. I try to resist it until I collapse.
Then I get bad marks at university...
But at least the projects are going somewhere, and at a much faster pace than normal.

At 12/1/13 06:12 AM, kkots wrote: How much time you could have spent working on amazing, ambitious projects, but instead wasted on worthless sleep?

You will die if you don't sleep, so it's not exactly worthless. You will also work significantly less efficiently if you're deprived of sleep, so it's counter-productive to deliberately avoid it.

At 12/1/13 06:12 AM, kkots wrote: I personally, have not deserved sleep. I try to resist it until I collapse.

I don't recommend doing that, but, hell, it's your health.

At 12/1/13 02:30 PM, Innermike wrote: Do you genuinely think you'll make adequate use of all the time you actually will have awake in your life?

At least something will be done. Much better than nothing. Because when I'm being normal, nothing gets done, so I suppose this is the way to go.

At 12/1/13 02:41 PM, Diki wrote: You will die if you don't sleep, so it's not exactly worthless. You will also work significantly less efficiently if you're deprived of sleep, so it's counter-productive to deliberately avoid it.

That's what makes me think that sleeping is OK.
I guess you're right. But then I'd have to fix my daily schedule. Because it's got messed up from 3 years of additional courses (that were going at evening, on top of school, which is at morning + Flash coding at night)

At 12/1/13 06:12 AM, kkots wrote: I personally, have not deserved sleep. I try to resist it until I collapse.

I don't recommend doing that, but, hell, it's your health.

Well, usually at these very moments I achieve the most results. Maybe I simply do not know how bad it actually is for health.

But I agree, this is a problem that should be fixed.

At 12/2/13 01:13 AM, Innermike wrote: Have you ever been awake for more than 48 hours?

No, because even if I don't get "official" sleep on bed, then I at least faint right on the workplace, for indefinite time, and it's like having good sleep. So it's cheating, and the answer is no. But yeah, there were periods of 2 days when I wasn't touching the bed. Like, one day I was trying to make myself work, the next day I was trying to stay awake in order to switch my sleeping schedule to normal (trying to "survive" until night). That was pretty difficult. So I decided to just work at night and sleep for short periods of time whenever I have the chance. I'm not all-out against sleep, I'm for minimizing it, and making use of the night time, for example.

And now what Diki said maid me confident that I should fix this. So I now I'm trying to do everything at day and sleep at night. Just trying to find the right time for when to go to bed, to get enough and non-excessive sleep.
Thank you guys.

P and othersss. Is this a good intro? lagging at all for anyone?? I had it originally at 30fps but just up it to 60 fps cause was a little slow when i tested it locally. Once i uploaded it, and played it in the browser. It was fast and did not lag at all.

PS: Actually used stuff I learned in a data structures class last year to hold the particles in a linked list :D

At 12/2/13 06:38 PM, swishcheese wrote: P and othersss. Is this a good intro? lagging at all for anyone?? I had it originally at 30fps but just up it to 60 fps cause was a little slow when i tested it locally. Once i uploaded it, and played it in the browser. It was fast and did not lag at all.

PS: Actually used stuff I learned in a data structures class last year to hold the particles in a linked list :D

That's pretty sweet. Can you make it repeat on click? Flash lags at the beginning, so I can't really tell if it's lagging at all. Probably not, though.

you could use scout to see how badly it'll mangle p's computer

At 12/2/13 06:55 PM, MSGhero wrote:

At 12/2/13 06:38 PM, swishcheese wrote: P and othersss. Is this a good intro? lagging at all for anyone?? I had it originally at 30fps but just up it to 60 fps cause was a little slow when i tested it locally. Once i uploaded it, and played it in the browser. It was fast and did not lag at all.

PS: Actually used stuff I learned in a data structures class last year to hold the particles in a linked list :D

That's pretty sweet. Can you make it repeat on click? Flash lags at the beginning, so I can't really tell if it's lagging at all. Probably not, though.

you could use scout to see how badly it'll mangle p's computer

Sure thing

Looks to me it takes some time in the beginning to initialize everything, and then runs smooth.

hmmm. whats scout??

At 12/2/13 07:06 PM, swishcheese wrote: Looks to me it takes some time in the beginning to initialize everything, and then runs smooth.

yeah, looked about 40 FPS at the start of your particles. Why not use FLiNT?

At 12/2/13 07:06 PM, swishcheese wrote: Sure thing

Looks to me it takes some time in the beginning to initialize everything, and then runs smooth.

hmmm. whats scout??

Well, I meant for the content to restart and the fps meter to persist, but w/e.

Scout is third on the list of amazing free things you will want to make flash (flex sdk and flashdevelop being the first two). This might make for a good buzzfeed "article."

At 12/3/13 01:22 PM, PSvils wrote: I keep writing engines, but no games... :/

I know, right? I think it's just that we bury ourselves in the fun aspects of things and avoid the boring stuff like importing images and splitting sprite sheets up for animations.

At 12/3/13 01:42 PM, egg82 wrote: I know, right? I think it's just that we bury ourselves in the fun aspects of things and avoid the boring stuff like importing images and splitting sprite sheets up for animations.

Menus are bad. Embedding images is bad. I usually get artists to split up spritesheets for me to throw into texturepacker, but defining animations is something I hate so much. I have stuff like "addCommonAnimations," "addPrefixedAnimation" and stuff to remove as much typing as possible, but it's still irritating.

At 12/3/13 01:53 PM, MSGhero wrote: Menus are bad. Embedding images is bad. I usually get artists to split up spritesheets for me to throw into texturepacker, but defining animations is something I hate so much. I have stuff like "addCommonAnimations," "addPrefixedAnimation" and stuff to remove as much typing as possible, but it's still irritating.

I use ZOE. Creates all that for me from a flash timeline. Don't know what I'd do without it :P

At 12/3/13 02:19 PM, Rustygames wrote: I use ZOE. Creates all that for me from a flash timeline. Don't know what I'd do without it :P

Well he uses paint.net. I tried zoe, but it didn't give me registration point info or something dumb, so I went with grapefrukt which is alright. Still waiting on bryce to finish his.

At 12/3/13 02:23 PM, MSGhero wrote:

At 12/3/13 02:19 PM, Rustygames wrote: I use ZOE. Creates all that for me from a flash timeline. Don't know what I'd do without it :P

Well he uses paint.net. I tried zoe, but it didn't give me registration point info or something dumb, so I went with grapefrukt which is alright. Still waiting on bryce to finish his.

It's not very well documented, but if you make a clip on stage called "registrationPoint" then it will use that as the ref point :)

At 12/2/13 07:34 PM, egg82 wrote: Why not use FLiNT?

Because I'm a boss.

Actually, I did not realize there was particles engine thing. I mean, I knew there would be, but when i was thinking of the idea my first thought was how I would go about setting up data structure for pixels, rendering the pixel, etc.

And that is good to hear P. Thanks for the test.