At 10/18/06 12:02 PM, Paranoia wrote:

At 10/18/06 11:53 AM, Cybex wrote: I would've thought a physics degree would be quite relative to programming. Perhaps you could find a job in the mechanics part of videogaming, and then work your way further into the industry from there.

Yeah, my physics stuff so far has been an unbelievable help to my ability to make games. A lot of real life Physics is spookily translatable to a game setting (especially stuff about vectors, and displacement, velocity and acceleration).

Lol, yeah its certainly been helpfull, and my grasp of the fundamental mechanics of the universe is certainly up there... but its not a degree that teaches you programming beyond basic physical simulation with C++

I know I can make games that work with no bugs in them. But I don't know how pretty or efficient my code is. I've got nearly 7 years of experience in Flash, but its not commercial experience

Tom~

I LOVE YOU LUIS!

I DONT LOVE YOU INGLOR but I'll secks you from the behind anyway

At 10/18/06 12:27 PM, The-Super-Flash-Bros wrote:

I LOVE YOU LUIS!

I DONT LOVE YOU INGLOR but I'll secks you from the behind anyway

Wow, that's a good one to keep in the ol' famous quotes file.

Why would anyone not love inglor? :'(

At 10/18/06 12:48 PM, orb wrote: Why would anyone not love inglor? :'(

I'm sure he does really, it's just the RSPCA will come after him if he loves pandas.

At 10/18/06 12:56 PM, Cybex wrote:

At 10/18/06 12:48 PM, orb wrote: Why would anyone not love inglor? :'(

I'm sure he does really, it's just the RSPCA will come after him if he loves pandas.

Cybex i just realised what your new logo reminds me of. The pub! Im not sure why maybe its the colours or the shaping.

At 10/18/06 10:53 AM, Mogly wrote: Does anyone know the answer to this:

Sure the rotation setting on all the frames is on Auto?

At 10/18/06 10:14 AM, Paranoia wrote: Moving away from the school topic, have we found why DFox's game's been whistled yet?

What game? Did DFox steal one?

It doesn't sound like him :O.

At 10/18/06 01:11 PM, RyanPridgeon wrote:

At 10/18/06 10:53 AM, Mogly wrote: Does anyone know the answer to this:

Sure the rotation setting on all the frames is on Auto?

I'll give that a look into in a minute. I don't know alot about tweening.

At 10/18/06 01:28 PM, Mogly wrote:

At 10/18/06 01:11 PM, RyanPridgeon wrote:

At 10/18/06 10:53 AM, Mogly wrote: Does anyone know the answer to this:

Sure the rotation setting on all the frames is on Auto?

I'll give that a look into in a minute. I don't know alot about tweening.

Thanks, that was it :)

At 10/17/06 05:35 PM, Mogly wrote: Paperboy isn't a good career, but above par for sure.

At 10/17/06 06:31 PM, Blaze wrote: Haha, Kayn got pwnd. :P

You'll both be finding shuriken-cutlasses in your backs very, very soon.

At 10/17/06 07:53 PM, jmtb02 wrote: Here's a question for ya'll. If you have a job, what are you doing at it?

I'm a temp. Seeing as the games industry doesn't want low polygon 3D modellers with grounding in Unreal and experienced use of 3D programs, I'm working 9-5 as a clerk whereever I get work for the day. Currently it's filing medical insurance papers. And literally just that. Hence the paper cuts.

At 10/17/06 10:53 PM, Blaze wrote: Most of us here are flash animators/programmers. Do you guys intend on having a job that actually involves Flash?

Hmm. Now that's a toughie. Do I want a job that could challenge me creatively and mentally, require me sitting at a computer using programs I enjoy, and being paid a competative salary whilst delivering steady work, or do I want to remain slightly above minimum wage doing work that busts my neck, never ceases to bore me, and submits my mind to the forces of entropy...?

Anyone under the assumption I'd want the latter job will also find shuriken-cutlasses in thier body. But in more painful areas of thier body, and in greater quantity.

I find at points when rotating an object the CW, CCW is very useful but doesn't work all the time. Usually when its apart of an object thats rotating and moving, thats when I use the free transform tool.

At 10/18/06 03:48 PM, Shmelo wrote: I find at points when rotating an object the CW, CCW is very useful but doesn't work all the time. Usually when its apart of an object thats rotating and moving, thats when I use the free transform tool.

Yeah I agree, it's a little dodgy to use in looping situations, for example on my bike I have the wheels rotating in a loop, but to make it an exact loop for a wheel it needs to drop the last frame, so it's a little useless in that situation.

I didn't explain that to well :)

geeze, there are so many topics going on here.

Having physics does help in making games alot, but it doesnt really help altogether. You do need to have experience with programming (which you may have in flash, but unfortunatly, companies want degrees anymore.

I'm working on revamping my tile engine, and physics is helping out nicely for non-square tiles. And it's really nice to have all that vector stuff finally explained to me. I had kind of glanced at it, didn't really understand it, and just implimented it as best as i could.

New Topic!

Allright, abit of a controversial topic here. Do you think that sites that take games and don't credit the athors until they are contacted are bad? Or do you think it's allright aslong as they credit if the author wishes?

Also, have you ever had one of your flashes stolen :O.

I have :(.

At 10/18/06 05:19 PM, Depredation wrote: New Topic!

Allright, abit of a controversial topic here. Do you think that sites that take games and don't credit the athors until they are contacted are bad? Or do you think it's allright aslong as they credit if the author wishes?

Also, have you ever had one of your flashes stolen :O.

I have :(.

I think its mainly good so long as you have a link to your website. More hits to your site. This gets you more ad clicks etc. So mainly good but if they decompile you flash and remove any credit then its bad D:

At 10/18/06 05:19 PM, Depredation wrote: New Topic!

Allright, abit of a controversial topic here. Do you think that sites that take games and don't credit the athors until they are contacted are bad? Or do you think it's allright aslong as they credit if the author wishes?

I think the idea of someone else making profit from your flash is horrible. I think there's too many sites like that, and i don't only disagree with the concept, but also with the way that loads of ameteur website designers choose to make these types of websites purely because it's a way of making money with potentially little effort.

However, having said that, i have had a flash stolen by a few people and it feels great.

Thats right, i'm, a walking, talking contradiction.

At 10/18/06 05:19 PM, Depredation wrote: Also, have you ever had one of your flashes stolen :O.

I have :(.

Pfft, who would want to steal one of your flashes :P

<3

And no, I haven't. Unless you count trying to get something sponsored and then the sponsor putting the version with all the links on his site and not paying you. But I didn't really care that much "Wow, my first ever game that happens to be considerably crappy was stolen by a sponsor. Whatever am I going to do!?"

Hey what do you guys think i should do?
Im making a haloween game with neashir but hes never online. Does anyone contact him? only he only comes online every 2/3 days and i want to get this done.

At 10/18/06 05:29 PM, fuzz wrote: Hey what do you guys think i should do?
Im making a haloween game with neashir but hes never online. Does anyone contact him? only he only comes online every 2/3 days and i want to get this done.

PM/email. Not a lot else you can do really.

hmm.. well he doesnt check his emails often either. Infact less than he's online. Neashir if you see this <3 you but please get online :D
If you see him post tell him to look at his inbox xD

At 10/18/06 05:21 PM, fuzz wrote:

Allright, abit of a controversial topic here. Do you think that sites that take games and don't credit the athors until they are contacted are bad? Or do you think it's allright aslong as they credit if the author wishes?

Ross kicked up a major fuss when a site stole TSAH and didn't credit us. Part of the reason I guess was because Ross hadn't included any methods of contacting the authors within the piece itself. The site owners also got fairly bitchy with him when he brought it up against them.

I also found a site that stole the Doom Project. But I didn't mind that too much. There were some positive comments, and I made sure we had links within that to our respective websites, dA and SheezyArt accounts just to make sure.

I don't like the idea of sites I have no control over showing my work. I know I can always remove work from NG and dA and SA and my website. Still, I'm writing patented bastard codes into my future pieces. URL checkers that only function on Tuesdays two weeks after the original NG upload date that refuse to work (giving a link to my website for the working versions) if it's not at my chosen set of URLs, and spam popups to something horridly NSFW if it matches certain companies*, games that cut out at level 3 if the URL's not right and that kind of thing.

:* If anyone sees any of my future works and notices a red angry face in the bottom left corner and it's on NG, PM me as fast as you can, as I'd have prolly fragged up the URL checking functions and will be using that as a warning light on days that aren't Tuesdays...

At 10/18/06 05:29 PM, fuzz wrote: Hey what do you guys think i should do?
Im making a haloween game with neashir but hes never online. Does anyone contact him? only he only comes online every 2/3 days and i want to get this done.

i was working on a game wame with SaintShun, but he like...disaperated. No computer anymore or something....anyway,if there is a contact issue, maybe e-mail??? or drop him. there is a timelimit, so if you cant get it done soon then you cant get it done at all.

At 10/18/06 05:26 PM, Nick wrote: Pfft, who would want to steal one of your flashes :P

*Cough*Tut Collab*Cough*

<3

<3 luff :D.

And no, I haven't. Unless you count trying to get something sponsored and then the sponsor putting the version with all the links on his site and not paying you. But I didn't really care that much "Wow, my first ever game that happens to be considerably crappy was stolen by a sponsor. Whatever am I going to do!?"

Yeah, it's not to bad. The first time you feel great, because somone cared enough to take it, but i suppose after a while, it'd get annoying. Anyway, any other comments on the subject?

At 10/18/06 05:41 PM, Depredation wrote: Anyway, any other comments on the subject?

Nope. Next discussion: How come orange juice is yellow, but people still reffer to it as orange coloured sometimes?

At 10/18/06 05:44 PM, Cybex wrote: Nope. Next discussion: How come orange juice is yellow, but people still reffer to it as orange coloured sometimes?

Because they're so close on the spectrum it's easy to get confused. If I were to look the hex value for yellow and orange, I'd bet good money they were very close.

Here's one for you:

Why is it that you can tune a piano but you can't tuna fish?

At 10/18/06 05:44 PM, Cybex wrote:

At 10/18/06 05:41 PM, Depredation wrote: Anyway, any other comments on the subject?

Nope. Next discussion: How come orange juice is yellow, but people still reffer to it as orange coloured sometimes?

Because it'd be too much of a hassle to rename it and have everyone start calling it something else. Just like if you changed your name when you're in say, your twenties. It'll be pretty awkward for people who already know you and they won't change. But new people who meet you will call you whatever you say your name is.

time for a REAL question.

What are some really popular series on the site that you really dont think deserve to be popular????

i for one dont like the Thing-thing series. Its insanely simple to script, very surface level gameplay (identical in all the games as well), and while the graphics do look nice, the Rayman characters just lower thing to the level of all those madness tributed we all know to well.

now with all seriousnes, what do you think is highly overrated?

At 10/18/06 06:11 PM, 23450 wrote: i for one dont like the Thing-thing series. Its insanely simple to script, very surface level gameplay (identical in all the games as well), and while the graphics do look nice, the Rayman characters just lower thing to the level of all those madness tributed we all know to well.

I could not agree more.

The most annoying thing is for a new version, it seems like the previous version with 1/2 a thing added...

At 10/18/06 06:11 PM, 23450 wrote: now with all seriousnes, what do you think is highly overrated?

Everything has it's merits on this portal if it's somehow stuck into your mind. Nothing without effort is without merit. I don't personally enjoy Blockhead or some of the stuff Weebl puts out (Weebl and Bob's awesome, but On the Moon? Meh...), but I do appreciate the style and effort. And sometimes Swain or Weebl manage to seriously impress and amuse me even then.

Having said that, I think a lot of work gets over-played or over-hyped until it starts to grate on everyone's nerves and cause backlash. It's happened to Illwill* and Frog and the Ultimate Showdown and Numa and AYB before, and it'll happen to anyone who gets uber popular and posted all over the net.

I think Overrating something is overated. So many haters out there when we should all just kick back, be amused by whatever amuses us, and enjoy it without getting to attached. As soon as you start saying "Oh I absolutely hate [insert alliterated group here] and [insert artist name here, after being turned into a crude double entendre] because [insert perfectly valid reason, but taken to an extreme here]" it's just all downhill from there really...

*Mind you, that's for a good reason a lot of the times... Not a big Neurotically Yours fan after his second "emergancy" Flash animation... Frog too's had his fair share of rubbish submitted on his bad days.

At 10/18/06 06:20 PM, KaynSlamdyke wrote: stuff

i was hesitant to ask the questions because yes, alot of it is based on opinion. but i figured in an environment with mature flash artist, AWAY FROM THE GENERAL FORUM, we could have healthy convorsation about it all.

At 10/18/06 06:24 PM, 23450 wrote: . but i figured in an environment with mature flash artist, AWAY FROM THE GENERAL FORUM, we could have healthy convorsation about it all.

That's why my response was in paragraphs and could actually be treated as a valuable opinion. It's a perfectly valid conversation topic really - everyone has the things they don't like, or have grown out of, or have warmed to, or whatever.

I mean, with what some people are doing with Flash nowadays, what we thought was the dog's bollocks years ago is trash now. And as people grow and mature, and as NG's audience starts to adjust and shift with the times, there'll end up being a wide variety of stuff on the Portal - and not all of it will be stuff we enjoy.

So may as well talk about it and offer your views on society in a safe environment with your peers than have yourself shot down in the General Forum for thinking with an IQ above sixty...