At 11/25/07 02:27 PM, trig1 wrote: For those that don't know what AIR is, it is a new program platform that creates .exes out of .swfs, .htmls, .xmls and JS. Its incredibly great and easy to use, and you have so much more power than in regular flash.

Sounds cool.
I may give it a download tomorrow.

At 11/25/07 03:03 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: I would stray away from dreamworx to be honest, considering that dreamworks is a huge animation company, it doesn't feel original enough. However, I can't really suggest an alternative. What's your last name? It's always a safe bet to turn that into a domain name, maybe add something to the end to create alliteration or rhyme.

I definitely see your point, and I am regretting more and more that I chose this alias as it doesn't feel like it's my own in any way. Despite this I don't really think that choosing a completely different name for my domain is an option really, as it is by this alias I have earned the recognition I have.. I don't think that anybody have a clue about my real name without having to look it up, and I have actually intentionally tried to earn recognition mainly as my alias simply because my name has no good ring to it whatsoever (Erik Johansson :3).

I have many times thought about coming up with a new artist name, but the lockdown of the user names earlier this year prevents me from doing so as that would mean that I would have to create a brand new account and lose what I've built up in my time here.

With this said, I think that I will go with DreamworXFlash.com.. I have a hard time seeing that anything else is an option :S

At 11/25/07 04:07 PM, DreamworX wrote: I definitely see your point, and I am regretting more and more that I chose this alias as it doesn't feel like it's my own in any way. Despite this I don't really think that choosing a completely different name for my domain is an option really, as it is by this alias I have earned the recognition I have.. I don't think that anybody have a clue about my real name without having to look it up, and I have actually intentionally tried to earn recognition mainly as my alias simply because my name has no good ring to it whatsoever (Erik Johansson :3).

I have many times thought about coming up with a new artist name, but the lockdown of the user names earlier this year prevents me from doing so as that would mean that I would have to create a brand new account and lose what I've built up in my time here.

With this said, I think that I will go with DreamworXFlash.com.. I have a hard time seeing that anything else is an option :S

Keep your alias, but if you're making a site, it's ok to not have your site match with your alias. For me my alias came after my site, so they kinda go along. But if you get known as an alias that's a reference to some other company or character, it's not a good idea to base your site off of it.

You could work something clever out of your name. Try your initials. Or what's your middle name even?

Do you have a notable character? Or a general theme for your games? Or a favorite intelligent theme?

Maybe you could just modify your alias. Keep the "dream" part but change the "worx" part.

DreamJohansson.com lol

or

flashdream.com
flashdreamer.com

you just need to think a little more, if you're showing regret to picking your username, then it's probably not a good idea to stick with it, because once to make a site it will be a lot harder down the road to change it than to change a username.

At 11/25/07 04:20 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: you just need to think a little more, if you're showing regret to picking your username, then it's probably not a good idea to stick with it, because once to make a site it will be a lot harder down the road to change it than to change a username.

I guess that I might be too focused on having my alias in the name, I actually haven't even considered using something that don't.. I doubt that my real name could give any good inspiration in any way though, mostly because it's doesn't sound very English/American (my middle names are Per and Mikael, they are even worse XD).

I will think about it a bit more and see what's available, I can't claim that I have any good ones in mind though..If I don't find anything I guess that dreamworxflash.com isn't all bad at least :P

At 11/25/07 05:01 PM, DreamworX wrote: I will think about it a bit more and see what's available, I can't claim that I have any good ones in mind though..If I don't find anything I guess that dreamworxflash.com isn't all bad at least :P

EJo.com? That sounds cool. :P
Others: erikflash, flashdreams, eflash, ejoflash, dreamflash...

Eh, thats all I got.

Just got CS3...

Where the FUCK is the gradient tool?! I know that seems ridiculous but i seriously cant see it anywhere! I can apply a gradient no problem but I cant for the life oof me see the tool which changes its radius, size etc.

Little help?!

At 11/25/07 05:01 PM, DreamworX wrote: I will think about it a bit more and see what's available

www.ejworx.com

...makes sense for a portfolio site, has your initials, part of your username... and it's short! :D

scrap that found it!

wasnt too hard really... im just a bloody (tired) idiot.

quit it with the flash domain names - they all sound like porno sites.

Hi peeps.

Just thought I'd say hi.

Bye.

P.S. Anyone who haz PS3 add me "notliam" kk? <3 CoD4/GH3/R:FoM.

(¬¬)

At 11/25/07 06:48 PM, liaaaam wrote: shit

what, am i too boring to just talk to me on MSN you have to go on NG too XO

<3

At 11/25/07 06:25 PM, ReNaeNae wrote: www.ejworx.com
...makes sense for a portfolio site, has your initials, part of your username... and it's short! :D

Pretty nice, but not fully great.. :/

At 11/25/07 06:05 PM, Masterswordman wrote: EJo.com? That sounds cool. :P
Others: erikflash, flashdreams, eflash, ejoflash, dreamflash...

Some of them were actually pretty good, those I liked wasn't available with .com though :/

After seeing that last suggestion of yours I came up with something that might work; dreamyflash (I added the y XP).. What do you think? I like it and it's available as a .com :)

At 11/25/07 06:50 PM, dELtaluca wrote: what, am i too boring to just talk to me on MSN you have to go on NG too XO

<3

Talking about hitting nails on the head :X

<3

Christmas Collabs
So does no one in the Armor Games Challenge going for the Christmas part have absolutely no chance in winning. Well, only one game does at least. Just look:
http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/8084 32
-X-Mas Game Collab
http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/8129 43
-12 Games of Christmas Collab
I mean, this is just like saying massive down voting from like thirty people, plus at least three of their friends each, I'd bet their are at LEAST ninety people down voting the other flashes and up voting theirs. This will be really stupid I bet, unless you submit like three weeks early. Well, lets hope that I still have a chance...

Christmas Collab

Armor games should set the limit to people who work on a game in that contest to like... 3. It might suck for some people, but it'll weed out mass portal spamming and huge, crummy collabs.

At 11/25/07 11:24 PM, hashbrown wrote: reg collab
so did you guys ever come up with something for the reg collab?

For the reg collab I think Bezman's split-sentence idea is a good choice. I'm quite fund of it. :3

*tries to sgtart topic here*
Animating syle which si better?
Frame by Frame or Tweens?
for me.. frame by frame

Re: I leave for a day and...
Hmm. Two drunken posts. One I actually take an interest in, one that I felt tried too hard to capture the "lol I'm drunk so watch me type random shite" angle.

Muppets with poison. I don't know...

First Flash Toon You Saw
What was the first piece of Flash animation or game you saw on the net, that would inevitably drag you here? How long ago was that? And does that make you feel old inside? :p

I'm pretty sure mine's one of the original Stickdeath Superbeast. It was either that or Pico's School or Frog in a Blender. Which makes me feel pretty damn old because those were cutting edge at the time.

This post inspired by the Rob Zombie album I'm listening to at work...

First toon you saw
First toon I remember seeing on Newgrounds was the perfect murder by Lu. I can't remember the first game, but I remember getting really into neopets.

- First Flash You Saw -

Haha, yeah the first flash I ever saw was the Pico's School game.

And I never wondered or knew that just any kid could create something like that. I never knew about this godly program called 'Flash'.
A few years later one of my friends was like..."I'm gonna download Flash and we should make something awesome." And i was like.. :O
My life changed since then.

RE: First Flash I saw

I dont remember if the first flash i saw was the club a seal flash banner ad or if that counts but the first movie i saw on this site was Brian Beaton's Scrotum the Puppy. I remember saying to myself hey i want to be gross and violent too... and thus Perverto was born.

It's kind of cool to be so new to flash and have that innocense and drive that you have when you just start.. its sort of adorable. any one agree on that?

At 11/26/07 09:05 AM, Luis wrote: It's kind of cool to be so new to flash and have that innocence and drive that you have when you just start.. its sort of adorable. any one agree on that?

Meh, I still wish I'd kept all the old crap I made and never uploaded anywhere. It was so awesome being able to make stuff and having no conception of how crap it was :P I wanna be fourteen again.

At 11/26/07 05:33 AM, Vengeance wrote: First toon you saw
First toon I remember seeing on Newgrounds was the perfect murder by Lu. I can't remember the first game, but I remember getting really into neopets.

The first flash i saw on NG was all your base are belong to us. I remember checking it out in high school IT class with some friends and thinking it was pretty awesome. We also checked out the Dragon Ball Z parodies.
At one point, a few years later, i decided to make my own and i started visiting NG every now and then. I think i really wanted to make my own flash after seeing till death do us part by Luis and Return of Ganondorf by Legendary Frog

First Flash I saw
Frog in the blender was the first game/interactive flash I saw.
After that it was LegendaryFrogs "All You Pie", ahh... To be 12 agian.

At 11/26/07 09:19 AM, Paranoia wrote:

At 11/26/07 09:05 AM, Luis wrote: It's kind of cool to be so new to flash and have that innocence and drive that you have when you just start.. its sort of adorable. any one agree on that?

Meh, I still wish I'd kept all the old crap I made and never uploaded anywhere. It was so awesome being able to make stuff and having no conception of how crap it was :P I wanna be fourteen again.

Being 14 is the best. : )

When did you start?

Not how, or why, but when. I got flash 5 when I was 8 (2002), but properly got into it when I was about 9/10, when I got into flash game/movies. Oddly, I had the program to make them before I started playing flash games :P (mainly because it was before even the earliest flash games where out).

Flash origins

I started at the tail end of Flash 4, I was already fairly familiar with the idea of frames, i had used Disney Animation Studio in the past and it was a crude version of flash (16 colors, no tweening of course, no layers but it did have onion-skinning)

Why bother with flash after all these years?

You'd think you'd eventually tire from portal shananigans and the labor intensiveness qualities of flash but what keeps you going?

I think for me the thrill of the portal is still there, even 8 or so years later I still have the portal jitters, where you submit something and you are still not totally sure how everyone will recieve it... theres that excitment of hoping your peers accept it.. even after being a well known animator and all that shit.. its still exciting its still dangerous its still worthwhile...

First Flash

http://512kb.net/num1000remix-hi.swf

Origins
Kid-pix started me in computer art, progressed to animated gif programs, finally to Flash.

Origins

picked up a version of flash 5 about 6 years ago because i wanted to start animating as a result of newgrounds, gave up.

came back a while later with MX and started again, and then decided i wasn't very good and started learning AS, and so on and so on. My first game was an MSN butterfly moving around on screen on a motion path and you had to click on it before it got to the end of its path :P

Origins
Started on the ass end of flash 5. There was one point where i stopped doing flash for like 6 months or something, then got right back into it. Cant remember when though.
Why bother with flash after all these years?
I would agree with the whole portal jidders thing. But, for someone like me, i believe i have the potential for some great things, i just havn't done any of it yet. So i keep going in the hopes that i'll at least make a small dent in the portal some day. Might happen, might not, but i'll try damnit! : P

The first flash I saw was one of joe cartoon's things if I remember correctly.

I actually started using flash with a copy of flash 4, although I can't remember if it was when flash 5 was out or not, as I ended up skipping flash 5 altogether and going right to flash 6.

In flash 7 when they removed baby-mode scripting I started to learn how to actually code things.