At 1/3/07 10:40 AM, Lord-Sonx wrote: newgrounds city ransom



although that style of game has been done so much, if you manage to put it somehting new and never before seen intot he game then it'll be awsome :D!

like a make your own levels thing :D

Well every genre of game has been done, some more then others. You just need a little gimmick or some point of originality to it to surprise people, a new style of gameplay or something that is really fun and new will do better then a fighting game with awsome character graphics. Maybe one level you could be in a car and have to run over people.

At 1/3/07 11:20 AM, Shmelo wrote: Maybe one level you could be in a car and have to run over people.

kinda like the remvoed levels from streets of rage 3 :D!

NewGrounds City Ransom

I have a question now. Will there be voice acting, and if so, how much? Will there be cinematic or cut-scene sequences? Will you have elaborate puns in dialogue that no one will ever understand?!?! THESE ARE THINGS I NEED TO KNOW!

patu1
I dont think that you being from israel and having bad english is your problem.. you seem to understan dpretty well what we post and I think that if you had bad english what would appear wrog would be the grammar ... but the actual words would still be read correctly.. I always tought your mayor problem was that you maybe type to fast.. i'll also advise you to use comas or something that indicates a pause.. eveytime i see a post from you it gives me the impression you are talking fast .. and i have never seen a post that says something actually useful

I didnt want to say this to avoid being a bitch.. but since you gave me a no0bish impression since i first saw you in the forums.. i guess i should be honest now..

RE: River City Ransom

At 1/3/07 10:30 AM, Luis wrote: Anyway i dont care if its been done to death.. it hasnt been done with my style and i still plan on doing it with or without peoples support.

-L

No need to get emo, Luie :P With you involved, it can only be gold. You have my full support!

RE: River City Ransom

I would appreciate it if someone at least acknowledged my ideas. I try to suggest something, but its getting lost in the argument about Patu1.

Its buried halfway through the last page.

I would like to ask you guys a question. How often do you guys use graphic symbol's in your animations?

I use them a lot, but I'm wondering who else uses them. I usually animate certain scenes, but instead of putting them into scenes I just pop them into graphic symbols and onto my main timeline. Another thing I love about graphic symbol's is the option to start the graphic at any particular frame inside that graphic.

RE: Graphics

At 1/3/07 01:53 PM, iAnimate wrote: I would like to ask you guys a question. How often do you guys use graphic symbol's in your animations?

I still occasionally use big graphics for panning when I animate instead of having a V-Cam (I've got a big thing against the V-Cam; don't ask why because I don't know. It just irritates me!)

They're a lot better than MCs for loops and things, because they tie in with the main timeline. Graphics are really underrated :(

RE: Graphics

I didn't realize why graphics were so special until recently. Now, I mainly use MC's for single frame objects and graphics for multi-frame objects. Also, I think you can only attach code to MCs.

RE: Graphics

At 1/3/07 02:10 PM, Paranoia wrote: I still occasionally use big graphics for panning when I animate instead of having a V-Cam (I've got a big thing against the V-Cam; don't ask why because I don't know. It just irritates me!)

Same here, I have never really felt comfortable with the V-cam, I guess I'm kinda conservative when it comes to stuff like that, lol.

But, yes. I do use graphics a lot, since it's much easier for previewing purpose and stuff too.

Flash Question

How would you find, from an array of movie clips(i can't access each ones name) , which is within the closest proximity to a center movie clip? I've attached a pic to show what i mean :P.
Anyway, any help would be great :). How would i say, tell the main mc that blue's is the closest to it?

Sorry for the shitty MSPaint job :(.

It would help if i posted the shitty MSPaint job eh?

Ever use the pen tool?

I've noticed the pen tool in flash is pretty pathetic compared to other notible programs. Does anyone actually use the pen tool to draw anything for their flash animations/games?

At 1/3/07 02:50 PM, Depredation wrote: It would help if i posted the shitty MSPaint job eh?

Use a different color besides yellow on white. I can't read that at all.

At 1/3/07 03:03 PM, Masterswordman wrote: Use a different color besides yellow on white. I can't read that at all.

It just says 'Main MC'. Its the one i am trying to tell which one is closest to it, again, sorry for the paint job :(.

At 1/3/07 02:49 PM, Depredation wrote: Flash Question

How would you find, from an array of movie clips(i can't access each ones name) , which is within the closest proximity to a center movie clip? I've attached a pic to show what i mean :P.
Anyway, any help would be great :). How would i say, tell the main mc that blue's is the closest to it?

Just use a loop to go through the array, and use basic distance formula to determine if something's closest:

var clips:Array = [mc1, mc3, mcyellow, b];
var dist:Number = 0;
var closest:MovieClip;
var i:Number;
for(i = 0; i < clips.length; i++)
if(dist < (_x - clips[i]._x) * (_x - clips[i]._x) + (_y - clips[i]._y) * (_y - clips[i]._y) && dist != 0){
dist = (_x - clips[i]._x) * (_x - clips[i]._x) + (_y - clips[i]._y) * (_y - clips[i]._y);
closest = clips[i];
}
trace(closest)

V-Cam
I find the V-cam useful.. but it had happened to me that if i use the V-cam once i need to use it in the whole thing-- because the parts without V-cam... like.. dont match the stage when i export it.. and also you cant rotate it :(

At 1/3/07 03:16 PM, PinkSkull wrote: V-Cam
I find the V-cam useful.. but it had happened to me that if i use the V-cam once i need to use it in the whole thing-- because the parts without V-cam... like.. dont match the stage when i export it..

I don't know much about the V-Cam, but have you tried putting _x = _y = 0; on the main timeline?

RE: How often do you guys use graphic symbol's in your animations?

I love using graphic symbols. Usually movie clips i reserve for games and web design. Im not much of a filter user so ill rarely use em for that. Youre cool if you use graphic symbols.

At 1/3/07 12:41 PM, PinkSkull wrote: patu1
I dont think that you being from israel and having bad english is your problem.. you seem to understan dpretty well what we post and I think that if you had bad english what would appear wrog would be the grammar ... but the actual words would still be read correctly.. I always tought your mayor problem was that you maybe type to fast.. i'll also advise you to use comas or something that indicates a pause.. eveytime i see a post from you it gives me the impression you are talking fast .. and i have never seen a post that says something actually useful

I didnt want to say this to avoid being a bitch.. but since you gave me a no0bish impression since i first saw you in the forums.. i guess i should be honest now..

well i don't tipe fast in english i dont use comas beacose i never remember even in hebrew
oh and actuely my english in the reading and the understanding level is preaty good
i am better hen most peapole in israel that are bigger that are about 2 yaers biger
then me i even red hary poter 6 in english i 3 dayes which is realy good in israel but
spelling is just so hard for me i dont know why...

Superiority

jimbot wins the prize for first awesome lock of the year.

Sorry Louis, looks like you have competition :P

re: Question

At 1/3/07 03:07 PM, Paranoia wrote: Just use a loop to go through the array, and use basic distance formula to determine if something's closest:

I can't get it to work, but i'll have a fiddle around with it. Thanks paranoia :D.

Trust

At 1/3/07 07:55 AM, Luis wrote: thats no reason to not trust me... hmph.

I can't tell if you're joking or not. I was refering to trusting a mod in sense that I used a Emulator to play River City Ransom. Either way I "lol"ed.

Patu1

Its not noticeable that you don't know English considering I've known people who type nearly as bad and have been taught English their entire lives. What I didn't like is when you said not to criticize you because its not like we could learn Hebrew and write it that well. But the thing is, this is an English speaking website and you're expected to be able to read and write English. We don't go and write bad Hebrew on any Hebrew websites.
Anyway, for the record, I have no problem with you. I'm just making a point of saying that you need to expect to see criticism. Also, you're signature picture reminds me of sponge bob.
Also, as for why its hard to spell in English. We spell a lot of things inconsistently. And things are not spelled quite like they are said most of the time. We have a lot of words that come from Latin and French (and even some Scandinavian words) and it totally fucks up the whole language. I blame the British for letting themselves be invaded and occupied so damn often 1000 years ago.

Funny Words

I think its funny that terrific and terrible both come from the word terror and one is has a positive connotation and the other has a negative one. Yet, neither of those definition have much to do with terror itself.

RE: How often do you guys use graphic symbol's in your animations?
Whenever I'm animating (not too often), I always use graphics, for two reasons. They pause when the film pauses, and you can preview them in the workspace (or whatever).

At 1/2/07 05:55 PM, Luis wrote: they want to come in and keep shit informal.

Bold tags, restricted topics, tuxedos... yeah... real informal. =p

Kidding, kidding... don't go off on a fit now. Just causing problems as normal.

River City Ransom

Cool, I built an engine very, very similiar to that game for the AG Christmas contest. I just never released it because I was having art issues. Perhaps it could be modified for this new game.

RE: Funny Words
Terrific can mean both ways. Dictionary.com (gotta love built in dictionary in FF) says:

1. extraordinarily great or intense: terrific speed.
2. extremely good; wonderful: a terrific vacation.
3. causing terror; terrifying.

I'm not english-speaking, so don't go around flaming me please :)

Terrific
well.. when i was learning english i had trouble with that world. i remember my english teahcer putting a 'terrific' stamp on my work and i was like 'huh?..but it was well done'.. then i learned that terrific meant something positive.. and not 'terrorific'.. or terrible

WOOOHOO PATHS 2

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/357600

At 1/2/07 02:02 PM, Luis wrote: An idea I've been having

RE: RIVER CITY RANSOM NG GAME

I hate those games and would never make one of its ilk.

Srsly though, good idea, I would like to suggest that the fighting be 100% mouse based with character direction controlled by awsd. It's an idea I've been toying with where you make diff mouse gestures to perform super moves, otherwise just clicking would be your normal jab-like simple attacks. It would make it so you can just relax, move and click your mouse furiously and see all sorts of cool stuff happen.

I'll help with whatever if you need help.

At 1/3/07 05:39 PM, BoMToons wrote: Srsly though, good idea, I would like to suggest that the fighting be 100% mouse based with character direction controlled by awsd. It's an idea I've been toying with where you make diff mouse gestures to perform super moves, otherwise just clicking would be your normal jab-like simple attacks. It would make it so you can just relax, move and click your mouse furiously and see all sorts of cool stuff happen.

RE: NG City Ransom

Thats a neat idea. But what if you could use the scroll wheel as well? Like maybe for uppercuts or something.

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