At 10/4/06 11:12 PM, TrueDarkness wrote:

At 10/4/06 10:51 PM, Neashir wrote:

At 10/4/06 10:48 PM, Blaze wrote: BTW what ever HAPPENED to your site? :(

More money D:
Apparently I violated some compyright thingy by hosting an Mp3 on there, and now I've gotta pay a 20 buck fee to get it back up.

That crap is ridiculous. If people want their songs protected, they should put a little thing on the mp3 that when tried to be uploaded somewhere, recieves an error that says "This is a copyright mp3, hosting it is illegal and protected by it's respectful owner(s)" or something. That way, if people get around it, then they can sue. Or, if you're giving permission. Not what I want, but if the authors want it so bad, they should protect their crap.

You can't expect people to be forward thinking enough to take all of these measures, especially if they don't expect anyone to take it. Saying that someone's in the wrong for being naive about stuff like that is just a lame attampt at shifting the blame from yourself. If you want something on your site which doesn't say it's free, then just e-mail the author about it. It's not hard, and people can be pretty cool about stuff like that.

Remeber those ai battles? Someone start those up again.

At 10/5/06 02:53 PM, Jesus wrote: Remeber those ai battles? Someone start those up again.

Those were alright, I didn't grasp the concept too well so I didn't do them.

At 10/5/06 03:17 PM, TrueDarkness wrote:

At 10/5/06 02:53 PM, Jesus wrote: Remeber those ai battles? Someone start those up again.

Those were alright, I didn't grasp the concept too well so I didn't do them.

Me neither. I'd take part if they cropped up again, though.

I rember those AI battles.
I used to be a reg back then :(
But they never really took of like they were meant to...

You still are a reg now, man :P Hell, I recognise you.

At 10/5/06 02:53 PM, Jesus wrote: Remeber those ai battles? Someone start those up again.

At 10/5/06 03:17 PM, TrueDarkness wrote: Those were alright, I didn't grasp the concept too well so I didn't do them.

At 10/5/06 03:22 PM, Paranoia wrote: Me neither. I'd take part if they cropped up again, though.

The problem was that there were too many workarounds. FAR too many work arounds. People's robots could win exceptionally easily, simply because they had access to the same functions everyone else's bots had.

What needs to be invented for that kind of thing is an entirely new language to work at the level above AS - the players of the game need to code thier language in a script or a fashion that Flash can then be taught to interpret. For instance, you could end up coding a creature or bot that's instruction set was (in some strange example code)

10 TURN LEFT 1 DEGREE
20 SHOOT
30 GOTO 10

And Flash would iterate through the instruction set in order under a set interval for each robot. In this case, it would (on the first iteration) change the robot's _rotation value by -1, then (on second iteration) perform the shoot command, then (on the third iteration) go back to changing it's _rotation by -1. Predefined functions, variables, flags and constants such as "SCAN", "COOLDOWN", "AMIBROKEN?" and "PI" should be defined, and an instruction manual written out for players...

Games like Core War and AT Robots have been living off this kind of thing for years now. If the games want to continue in that kind of fashion, then that'd be the best way about it.

Or even better. I have recollections of a very old and probably very unpopular PS1 game that's main mechanic was you created robots by building what was effectively a cross between thier circuit board and a fancy flowchart. Taking advantage of Flash's graphical user interface, why doesn't someone make a game where you have to code your AI using this kind of interface?

Sounds like a fairly decent game concept actually... Might use that one for a single player game...

At 10/5/06 03:57 PM, KaynSlamdyke wrote: The problem was that there were too many workarounds. FAR too many work arounds. People's robots could win exceptionally easily, simply because they had access to the same functions everyone else's bots had.

I think it worked fine. All we need to do is lay down some ground ules and then check eveyones scripts to make sure they dont break the rules.

hah, I saw that one picture before it was deleted
Well anywaysssss

At 10/5/06 01:10 PM, KaynSlamdyke wrote:

At 10/5/06 08:34 AM, Claytron wrote: Isnt a dyke also a vent or something inside a volcano? Or is that dike?

Dictionary.com to the rescue!

At 10/5/06 12:43 PM, Rudy wrote: Here's my plan.
I'll go to college for Graphic Designing and illustration.
Than I'll do Animation on the side as a side job just for fun since I don't want to work for a company. Since working for someone takes the fun out of it; like you don't have your own ideas anymore. So the animations would be my little thing like a hobby.

Rudy is a mild mannered mailroom minimum wage slave by day, but whenever there's an animation to be done or a nation to save, he leaps into the nearest phonebox and becomes... Flashman! Defender of the Portal! Man of Actionscript! Can blam tall filesizes with a single vote!

Somehow I don't see it. Work really cuts into a demanding hobby like Flash, and if your mind's not into it after spending two hours commuting and eight hours at a desk then you'll really fall apart. Naturally some people pull it off, but they seem to be in creative jobs or at least jobs they've got some calling in. Denying that just so you can keep your business and personal life so seperate just sounds like too much to take on.

Yeah, I know but I really like drawing as well as animation. I would really like to major in illustration and graphic designing. It seems fine to me or so I believe.

I think I'll be able to do it. I'm gonna be independent in the flash department. Not working for the MAN!
I know a few friends that work on client projects and a real job plus Flash on the side. It would just take time and I'm willing to do that.

At 10/5/06 03:57 PM, KaynSlamdyke wrote: What needs to be invented for that kind of thing is an entirely new language to work at the level above AS - the players of the game need to code thier language in a script or a fashion that Flash can then be taught to interpret. For instance, you could end up coding a creature or bot that's instruction set was (in some strange example code)

10 TURN LEFT 1 DEGREE
20 SHOOT
30 GOTO 10

The way you guys are headed, you might as well just fiddle with Robocode

At 10/5/06 05:51 PM, NegativeONE wrote: The way you guys are headed, you might as well just fiddle with Robocode

There must be a way of making games like those work within Flash, whilst giving it a reason to be within Flash in the first place...

At 10/5/06 03:57 PM, KaynSlamdyke wrote: What needs to be invented for that kind of thing is an entirely new language to work at the level above AS - the players of the game need to code thier language in a script or a fashion that Flash can then be taught to interpret. For instance, you could end up coding a creature or bot that's instruction set was (in some strange example code)

10 TURN LEFT 1 DEGREE
20 SHOOT
30 GOTO 10

thats what i did, when i was in charge of an AS war. no one seemed to like it.

i made a bunch of functions for them and everything else was read only

At 10/5/06 03:57 PM, KaynSlamdyke wrote: 10 TURN LEFT 1 DEGREE
20 SHOOT
30 GOTO 10

Yeah, but where's the fun in that? The whole point of the game was to practice coding AI against other people. Which was very fun (even though I didn't finish my bot)

At 10/5/06 06:04 PM, Vengeance wrote:

At 10/5/06 03:57 PM, KaynSlamdyke wrote: 10 TURN LEFT 1 DEGREE
20 SHOOT
30 GOTO 10

Yeah, but where's the fun in that? The whole point of the game was to practice coding AI against other people. Which was very fun (even though I didn't finish my bot)

well in mine, you would still have to figure out how to detect where the other bots were. find the closest, the angle between you and it and the distance to know how to make move turn and attack.

i made a really cool bot
http://denvish.net/u..1160086250_MyBot.php

At 10/5/06 01:40 AM, DingoEatingFuzz wrote: Now your turn, where did you get your 'name' from?

I randomly came out with it after thinking of firestorms. Then i started to use it to play unreal tournament, rest is history.

But then again, i became MORE fond of it because i found out Iron Maiden's new (and suckiest) singer's named Blaze. <3 the name.

where'd you get a name like luis, luis.

At 10/5/06 07:44 PM, Blaze wrote:

But then again, i became MORE fond of it because i found out Iron Maiden's new (and suckiest) singer's named Blaze. <3 the name.

When did they get him? I thought they still had Bruce, after leaving and returning about a dozen times. The vocals in their new album, A Matter of Life and Death, sounds just like Brucey boy Dickinson.

At 10/5/06 07:53 PM, DingoEatingFuzz wrote: When did they get him? I thought they still had Bruce, after leaving and returning about a dozen times. The vocals in their new album, A Matter of Life and Death, sounds just like Brucey boy Dickinson.

Im not sure in what album he debuts, but the one i have is the "Virtual XI" and Blaze is its singer. Thing is, he honestly sucks compared to Bruce.

At 10/5/06 05:40 PM, Rudy wrote: hah, I saw that one picture before it was deleted

PLEASE DO NOT QUOTE A WHOLE 3 PAGE REPLY! ITS ANNOYING. Youre allowed to cut it down you know.

At 10/5/06 07:59 PM, Luis wrote: PLEASE DO NOT QUOTE A WHOLE 3 PAGE REPLY! ITS ANNOYING. Youre allowed to cut it down you know.

Sorry Luis. Please forgive me.

At 10/5/06 07:45 PM, ImpotentBoy2 wrote:

where'd you get a name like luis, luis.

The Alien Spaceship from Jupiter of course ;]

At 10/5/06 07:45 PM, ImpotentBoy2 wrote:

where'd you get a name like luis, luis.

The Alien Spaceship from Jupiter of course ;]

right on

At 10/5/06 08:23 PM, Reedo11 wrote:

woo first post in the flash regs, if I wasn't banned I would have posted sooner >:(

You've nobody to blame but yourself :)

At 10/6/06 10:45 AM, Paranoia wrote:

At 10/5/06 08:23 PM, Reedo11 wrote:

woo first post in the flash regs, if I wasn't banned I would have posted sooner >:(

You've nobody to blame but yourself :)

And also kirk. Now he's "gone", we can shift all our blames on him.

At 10/6/06 11:56 AM, Jesus wrote:

At 10/6/06 10:45 AM, Paranoia wrote: You've nobody to blame but yourself :)

And also kirk. Now he's "gone", we can shift all our blames on him.

We did that when he was here anyway.

We did that when he was here anyway.

Lol good ol kirk. Is he a mod i never found out. If not he should be/have been.

At 10/6/06 11:56 AM, Jesus wrote:

At 10/6/06 10:45 AM, Paranoia wrote:

At 10/5/06 08:23 PM, Reedo11 wrote:

woo first post in the flash regs, if I wasn't banned I would have posted sooner >:(

You've nobody to blame but yourself :)

And also kirk. Now he's "gone", we can shift all our blames on him.

Kirk is still around, hes a drama queen. Sometimes your life gets busyer and so you spend less time here.. but we are like a case of herpes we'll be with you till the end..

At 10/6/06 02:13 PM, Luis wrote: Kirk is still around, hes a drama queen. Sometimes your life gets busyer and so you spend less time here.. but we are like a case of herpes we'll be with you till the end..

Yeah, but he used to post like 40 times a day, going down to once or twice a day is like leaving for him.

Kirk is still around, hes a drama queen. Sometimes your life gets busyer and so you spend less time here.. but we are like a case of herpes we'll be with you till the end..

Or siphilis LOL. No wait....is that til the end too?

At 10/5/06 02:53 PM, Jesus wrote: Remeber those ai battles? Someone start those up again.

It's funny, I was looking for those threads the other day, would be good to see those up again, they looked seriously fun :P.

Everyone knows why Kirk left right? It isn't some Uni crap, he has AIDS, that is all.

That means the better portion of you all have it too, sleeping around and buttsecksing all the other regs, you sluts.