Shoot em' Up Contest ($9500)

I was sent an email today from flashrage.com, telling me about a contest he had been contacted about. Basically, you have to make shooting themed game, and it has to be based around the upcoming movie 'Shoot Em Up'.

Anyway, thought some people might want to give it a go. The grand prize is $5000, so theres definatley some incentive :P.

Linky.

At 7/25/07 06:14 AM, Depredation wrote: Shoot em' Up Contest ($9500)

Thats addictinggames, not flashrage...

Thanks for the link though :D

At 7/25/07 06:16 AM, crushy wrote: Thanks for the link though :D

It was relayed to me through flashrage, i kind of muddled that up :P.

Logo

Looks good, although i agree with shirty, needs some more colour :). I like the design though, i've always been a fan of the drippy effect :D.

Why does this thread, contain over 600 pages, and not have a popular thread sign? Meh...

At 7/25/07 06:37 AM, crushy wrote: Why does this thread, contain over 600 pages, and not have a popular thread sign? Meh...

Dunno. The reg's lounge seems to have alot of problems like that. Probably because its so big.

I watched Donnie Darko ages ago, I was too young to understand it and just found it disturbing...

I should probably watch it again sometime...

Beta Testing

Anyone got some spare time and wanna test out my game quickly, it would be good if you had msn. Pm me if your interested, the game should be submitted very soon.

Epic Song

I like this song so much I might make a flash for it...

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/6 7315

Current Score
4.80 / 5.00

Is that a good score for the audio portal because things generally don't get viewed as much so it might just be based on a few votes.

Before I voted earlyer it was 4.20 so we've done well ;)

Shoot em' Up Contest
One thing that gets to me when I see contests like this, additionally some information before anyone goes ahead and wastes their time:

The "User Generated Content Shoot 'Em Up Movie Game Contest" (the " Contest ") is intended for participation only in the United States and the District of Columbia

At 7/25/07 07:59 AM, Fion wrote: Shoot em' Up Contest

Their loss.

At 7/25/07 06:39 AM, VictoryGin wrote: RE: Shoot em' Up Contest ($9500)

Read the fine print. Games submitted as a collaborative measure will be subject for disqualification.

LOL

At 7/25/07 08:56 AM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote:

At 7/25/07 06:39 AM, VictoryGin wrote: RE: Shoot em' Up Contest ($9500)

Read the fine print. Games submitted as a collaborative measure will be subject for disqualification.

LOL

Thats abit stupid. Why do they have that rule?

At 7/25/07 08:56 AM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: Read the fine print. Games submitted as a collaborative measure will be subject for disqualification.

That ought to cancel about 1/2 the entries, including mine :P.

At 7/25/07 07:11 AM, ArthurGhostly wrote: Isn't donnie darko the film with mad world as the soundtrack?
I've never actually seen the film, but I like that version of the song
Much better than tears for fears' version...

Yeah, the Gary Jules cover is better than the original, one of the few songs where it is. I've never seen the movie either, but they also played it in a Gears of War ad, which actually fit really well.

At 7/25/07 09:10 AM, UnknownFury wrote:

At 7/25/07 08:56 AM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote:

At 7/25/07 06:39 AM, VictoryGin wrote: RE: Shoot em' Up Contest ($9500)

Read the fine print. Games submitted as a collaborative measure will be subject for disqualification.

LOL

Thats abit stupid. Why do they have that rule?

Obviously they don't want alot of submissions.

Logo is okies, making it shinier would make it secksay though.

Flash CS3 is wierd

So this is a fun story. I am working on this project right now, and when I export it in the actual program, it works fine. However, running it in the browser, it freaks out. In fact, it will randomly perform tasks it was not asked to do. For example, I will remove all the code from everything in the flash file. Then, I'll say "gotoAndStop(15);". The flash will then randomly choose elements from frame 6 and frame 15 and throw them on the screen in a heap. It's great refreshing the browser over and over again, to see the different randomly generated outcomes (no code, remember, except for the gotoAndStop).

Also, any bitmaps after frame 10 won't show up unless I link them for actionscript use.

Flash CS3 is FUN!

At 7/25/07 10:14 AM, jmtb02 wrote: Flash CS3 is wierd

So this is a fun story. I am working on this project right now, and when I export it in the actual program, it works fine. However, running it in the browser, it freaks out. In fact, it will randomly perform tasks it was not asked to do. For example, I will remove all the code from everything in the flash file. Then, I'll say "gotoAndStop(15);". The flash will then randomly choose elements from frame 6 and frame 15 and throw them on the screen in a heap. It's great refreshing the browser over and over again, to see the different randomly generated outcomes (no code, remember, except for the gotoAndStop).

Also, any bitmaps after frame 10 won't show up unless I link them for actionscript use.

Flash CS3 is FUN!

Wow odd...

With flash 8 I had a glitch that would occur sometimes where flash would only export the first frame of various movieclips. It got annoying. In 8 AND cs3 there's issues where it makes the sound screechy sometimes.

Anyway my biggest beef with the CS3 is the autoformat button. I used it all the time in flash 8 cause my code is messy. However in flash 9, it screws up so much!

EXAMPLE 1:

Before Autoformat:

return (a+b*c)/3+(c+d*(a+b))/4;

after autoformat:

return a + b * c / 3 + c + d * a + b / 4;

Example 2:

Before autoformat:

for(){
stuff;
}

After autoformat:

for(){
}
stuff;
};

After 2nd autoformat:

ERROR expecting { before }

Seriously wtf?

It also doesn't remove line breaks which is a pain.

I've seen it untab an entire enterframe block (as2). Looks ugly, autoformat again, it tabs it but puts a line break every other line.

RE: Flash CS3 is weird

Thats why i haven't bothered upgrading yet. It sounds like quite a laugh to wrok with though. Just seeing what comes up.

At 7/25/07 08:56 AM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote:

At 7/25/07 06:39 AM, VictoryGin wrote: RE: Shoot em' Up Contest ($9500)

Read the fine print. Games submitted as a collaborative measure will be subject for disqualification.

Don't be silly, just have one person submit it and then split the money.

At 7/25/07 10:14 AM, jmtb02 wrote: Flash CS3 is FUN!

Wow, I knew Adobe would screw up Flash. :-P

Just kidding.

Bloody foot

Stooped in a large, sharp bit of glass this mornin, my foot was seriously bloody (might show some pics later). Hurts like fuck whenever I walk. But I went to the Minor Injuries thing and they fixed it up good n proper - now got a big ass bandage on it that I cant get wet, so no more showers - only baths with my foot outside the tub. And now, ironicly enough, I'm watching an episode of the simpsons where Barts in a cast from breaking his leg, and being pissed off about it.

Well anyways, I've now gotta stay relaxed for the next 10 days with my feet up!

I also finished off Harry Potter today. T'was pretty decent.

Flash CS3
Likewise, I can't have too much beef with the program. It FINALLY fixed that wierd flashing movieclip/non-script error, and cleaned up a lot of issues from Flash 8.

The only other issue I am having is with unprovoked fills. For example, see image below.

At 7/25/07 01:30 PM, jmtb02 wrote: The only other issue I am having is with unprovoked fills. For example, see image below.

CS3 n' stuff

Ball Revamped 5, eh? Sometimes weird things happen to me in Flash 6. Like drawing on a line would cause parts of the line to disappear and other stuff like that.

At 7/25/07 10:14 AM, jmtb02 wrote: Flash CS3 is wierd
Flash CS3 is FUN!

The worst thing for me is the text bugs. Now, Flash 8 did it a little, but only when you had stuff like a ridiculously long block of text like some credits which could easilly be broken up. Flash CS3 seems to do it every other time I have a block of text with a glow filter (white text on a black glow is my standard way of making it show up on any background, and it never caused me trouble before). It acts for some reason line the text is in some mask box, and only shows a small area of it. In my last submission it meant I had to do without subtitles; in the current one I've worked out a way around it by putting ever block of text in a movie clip, but it's still damn annoying.

Also, glow or no, dynamic text will never show if it's selected as bold.

..::good conduct::..

Right now I'm feeling very impressed by this forum. I hang out/mod the art forum as well, and there's always a lot of crap to clean up. Now in here once in awhile we'll get some newbies who haven't read the sticky or someones alt account that thinks they can be Jamrock. But there really isn't a lot to mod with you guys. So, yeah, keep on being awesome. =]

At 7/25/07 03:31 PM, BlackmarketKraig wrote: ..::good conduct::..

Right now I'm feeling very impressed by this forum. I hang out/mod the art forum as well, and there's always a lot of crap to clean up. Now in here once in awhile we'll get some newbies who haven't read the sticky or someones alt account that thinks they can be Jamrock. But there really isn't a lot to mod with you guys. So, yeah, keep on being awesome. =]

The only real thing i've noticed is people who post realyl pointless posts like "I really don't know".

At 7/25/07 03:31 PM, BlackmarketKraig wrote: ..::good conduct::..

Right now I'm feeling very impressed by this forum.

I know its probably cuz i;m here. :P

:So, yeah, keep on being awesome. =]

Oh .... i will. :D

At 7/25/07 03:31 PM, BlackmarketKraig wrote: Right now I'm feeling very impressed by this forum. I hang out/mod the art forum as well, and there's always a lot of crap to clean up. Now in here once in awhile we'll get some newbies who haven't read the sticky or someones alt account that thinks they can be Jamrock. But there really isn't a lot to mod with you guys. So, yeah, keep on being awesome. =]

It's pretty surprising seeing as it's now summer :P.

CS3

I haven't got anything against it, but i thought (seeing as adobe is a larger company) it could have been improved/changed more from flash 8.

bloody foot
that's like when i was little, i was jumping around on a carpeted floor, Just having fun when i did a spin and got a shard of glass in my foot. I quickly hoped to my parents where they couldn't see the glass because it was too deep in, so they bandaged it up. The next day it still hurt so we went to the hospital where I had an X-ray but glass is see through and it was touching the bone so it was practically invisible. About a month wen t by and every so often the shard of glass would scrape across my foot bone and cause severe pain. Until one day i hit the limit, i went to my dad and asked for his knife (this glass was coming out one way or another). At that point my dad knew i wasn't overexagerating the pain and we once again went to the hospital, Euricca the glass was spotted. In came the neadle to releive me of pain (ya right). Having 3-5 stitches to close my foot up again i finally no longer feel pain in my foot. The scar was pretty big but got smaller and smaller and now it's less then a CM long (every so often like once or twice a month were i feel something rip and it hurts for like 5 minutes but i've gotten used to it0 :P

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