Idk I feel like this is generally what things have been trending towards. Too much to do in order to afford rent or keep up with exams or whatever, not enough time for the fun stuff, not too many signs of things getting better. Have to take things in stride to avoid burning out.

I've just come to accept that the issues page in our NG repo is a hydra, and the tickets are the heads. Every time we kill one, 2 more take its place, and that's just the nature of the beast. I can be bad about putting in late nights and working weekends, but I definitely have been better about paying attention to the signs of burnout and walking away or just doing easy busy work when I need to recharge.

The trick I've been doing the past couple of years is before I take these little mental breaks, I make myself write some notes about what task is holding other things up, or what chunk needs doing to make everything else seem simpler. Having that note out there makes my brain latch to the note, not the larger to-do list, and honestly when my brain has that smaller focus, the motivation comes back because it has that ah-ha moment of "this is fucking easy, what am I worrying about?"

I wanted to say something @Gimmick but I'll just say another, dunno if it relates to you

college feels like a limbo for me.

I can't focus on assignments because they are open-ended. I can't focus on paying attention to classes because they are either too easy or too theoretical. I can't focus on side projects because I also want to have fun. I can't focus on having fun because my house is a mess. I can't focus on taking care of my home due to pending college assignments or work. I can't focus on work because of I need to do well in college.

time passes, it feels like I'm going somewhere, but I haven't really gone anywhere. limbo.

so I really just want to finish college. I have this expectation that once I start working full-time, I'll get back my insane productivity I had back in high school. I feel like a well delimited separation of work and personal life would do wonders, and I'd be able to be 100% in each moment of the day, without lingering.

maybe that's true. or maybe it's a fantasy. I don't know.

Id say it’s a mix of both based on personal experience. I am glad I finished college as it was a giant time suck mosty. for mainly the reasons you stated.

I find it’s just simply impossible to reach the level of productivity I had on this site during my most active times. It’s a bit of a bummer for sure but on the other hand, I’d like to think quality over quantity situation.

I think my lifestyle nowadays has a bit more balance as well. As productive as I was back then. All that drawing being hunched over using a mouse to draw took a toll on my wrist and I got a bit scared when I had to wear that glove and shit. So I’d like to think the marathon stuff is probably good to be retired. I say that but I’m marathoning right now for a Halloween cartoon hehe

I know that ActionScript derived from javascript considerably, but how much like java is ActionScript 2.0? Are functions outside of a class (such as like python or C++) where it doesn't have to be a member of a class to be used possible? Or is it like Java where everything must be in a class no matter what? In Python and C++ (And by extension, C) you can define and use functions outside of a class. But all my ActionScript information and documentation point to making it in a class. If I must be more like Java, It's not a big deal, but wanted to know more if I'm thinking too much like python here.

Dude, all programming languages are different, I'll tell you this, Flash8 is the most limited platform, you don't need to know anything else, it's hard to program professionally on Flash8,

Hey guys. Newguy here to the Reg. I'm making a game, or should I say, finishing a demo of a Flash Forward game, that I made back in the beginning of the year with 53xy83457, you may know it as "Ricardo Goes to War", and the assets that I have are really swell and almost ready to use.

I'm in the process of voice actors and retconning some stuff to better make it with my new views, but basically, I am an animator/artist who is looking for a Flash programmer for a team. It's in ActionScript 2.0 btw.

I'll be going to my first job soon so I can't really work full time, plus I'm asking it for free. If anyone is willing to help me in this project that would be cool. I tried so hard with many posts and Collabinators yet that none have worked. I just hope that my dream of gamedevving, like my lifelong dream of animation, doesn't go to waste then.

Anyone can help me out?

feels like I've been here for 20 years

Oh hi @Glaiel-Gamer . Congrats on your porcelain anniversary.

Thanks for resurrecting this thread. I had honestly forgotten it existed.

So...

Can you or one of the other Flash guys tell me what I'm doing wrong? or, at least, tell me I should just relax?

https://www.newgrounds.com/projects/games/6314758/preview/filetype/0

It looks perfectly fine in Windows and flashes red on iPhone. Sounds like you have an Apple problem as opposed to a Ruffle problem

That sentiment is literally why Flash is dead. Are you trying to be ironic? :)

Being more serious, are you saying mobile Flash is a lost cause? It's worse on my Android test device than my daily driver iPhone, but I attributed that to it being slightly older. I noticed your last game was in Heaps.io. The JS version of this test works fine on both droid and Apple.

I haven't exported to flash in slightly over a decade, so I really can't comment on intentionally exporting to flash and having issues with a 3rd party tool on some devices. Their github repo would be the better place to bring it up.

Aw geeze. Well thanks for trying to help anyway. I will attempt not to feel aged by that fact.

Apologies if I didn't make it clear, and I realise I've been saying Ruffle generically, but I'm only interested in publishing to NG. You'd of course be right about Ruffle in general, but The NG portal is certainly not running the repository head and carries its own unique patches. 

I realise it is a newb question and that's annoying, but the programming BBS and this thread are obviously the best places in the world for seeking advice on targeting the NG flash wrapper/player.

On the other hand, if even most of the people here haven't used it in a decade... maybe time to just move on.

https://web.archive.org/web/20130424014328/https://fgl.com/

???

so this is how sponsors used to work???

pretty much i guess, flashgamelicense was huge back in the day

the alternate way was just asking the owners of the various sites offering sponsorships directly (newgrounds and armorgames and kongregate and such), which is how it worked for a few years before FGL (and technically never stopped working that way either, I don't think I ever used FGL)

FGL could get big numbers if there was a bidding war, but I think the average numbers I was seeing on there were less than what I could get by just asking. But I also wasn't making the general-audience stuff that sites would bid war for anyway

I got approached back in the day to put a game on a Chinese flash site and all they wanted me to do was use their library for the scoreboards and play their intro. Second easiest 100$ I ever made.

I feel you. Just a never ending stream of stuff. I've been taking the last few months off because I burnt out, but in a different way than I have before.

If I had known flash games were going to lead me to JIRA boards and grooming backlogs I'd have never joined this stupid website!

hi everyone btw

SAME! I'd kind of resigned myself to putting my life on hold until I graduated, since I didn't have any mental capacity to enjoy things at all - even though I had enough time to waste every day on reddit.

It really depends on you. You'll likely have much more free time once you start working (assuming your place of work has good WLB). However, restraining yourself for so long might mean that you also won't have any idea how to continue once you do get the freedom to do whatever you want.

If productivity and creativity are muscles and you've restrained yourself from using them for a long period of time, then unlike the movies, you're not gonna go on a rampage once you've set yourself free - you'll just find you've atrophied and need time to get back to where you once were.

For me, I kind of shifted my interests away from programming as a hobby. To the extent I didn't even bother shitposting on Clock day, although it certainly didn't help that I was busy that day.

And on a side note I wonder if the feeling of "putting your life on hold" is a consequence of having a single-minded approach to a long term objective or not. Whether it's graduating college, aiming for a high-up position in a company, moving abroad, learning a language, whatever...if it's something that requires a single-minded approach to the detriment of everything else, maybe it's likely to cause that feeling? Balance is necessary, but balance isn't possible when you have deadlines and pressure, whether externally or internally...

Haha! Much as I'd like to say the same, I'm glad I found this website and have the career I do now, if only because of the benefit of hindsight. Given that the only career pathways I had remotely any interest in at the time were CS and medicine, well...it'd be mighty entitled of me to complain about work seeing what doctors and nurses go through!

On the plus side, I guess it does get better from time to time. My post at the time was written after a very long year with almost no proper breaks at all. I'd frequently find myself just biding my time until the next statutory holiday so that I could enjoy a long weekend. Shortly after that post I'd taken a vacation back home to India, and even though I lamented going back to work pretty much the entire time I was there, it was enough to charge my batteries once I came back.

I don't know whether I'm susceptible to burnout or not. But taking a break from it all certainly helped, at least for now. The unfortunate part of it all is that most of us (at least in NA) don't really have the opportunity to take enough breaks. 1 or 2 weeks is better than nothing, but it's barely enough I would argue. Most of Europe has got it right with 4-5 weeks, and I wonder if we'll ever get that here. One can hope things improve, although my reserve of hope has been severely drained recently given the wrinkled orange emperor taking power...