Is this insulting?

I'm writing a synopsis for an RPG I'd like to make in the future. It's getting pretty indepth with a pea-soup thickness to the plot. But I'm wondering if it's insulting to most flash artists and ASers for me to ask for their services. I'm capable in flash, but my art style isn't serious enough and I'm shit for AS. Just wondering what you guys think? Am I simply asking them to do all the work, or is my own work enough?

And yes, money for sponsorship would be divided amongst the workers. I'm probably going to need people for non-battle sprites, character designs, backgrounds, battle animators, ect.

Hey Guys I finally started making some flash again, here is my newest one... Tell me what you all think

At 3/6/08 06:40 PM, edit-undo wrote: Macs
Does anyone know what the keycode is for the mouse button ON MACS? Apparently my mouse-based games don't work on them and I think the reason is that it's a different keycode.

Your have to interpolate a mouse press using the onMouse functions in flash to detect mouseclicks on macs:

this.onMouseDown=function()
{
this.mdown=true;
}

this.onMouseUp=function()
{
this.mdown=false;
}

if (this.mdown)
{
trace("mouse click!");
}

At 3/6/08 08:36 PM, DarkMana wrote: "A Scanner Darkly

Just finished watching it, the entire movie is rotoscoped. Looks pretty awesome in motion. The novel it's based on (of the same name) was written by Philip K. Dick, author of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, about his own drug experiences and those of people close to him.

I didnt know A Scanner Darkly was based around that book... Isnt Blade Runner also based around the novel?

At 3/6/08 07:54 PM, HandsomeJake wrote: And yes, money for sponsorship would be divided amongst the workers. I'm probably going to need people for non-battle sprites, character designs, backgrounds, battle animators, ect.

Its a touchy issue. I think a big problem with these kind of relationships is that the "idea man" comes up with a basic plan of what he wants, hands it off to the developers, and never does flesh anything out. Simply saying "its a shooting game where you kill things" is not enough work on your part to justify handing it off to other people. You have to do just as much work as them, so writting diologue, back story, gameplay, environments, enemys, anything and everything. If its your project, theres no reason they have to figure it all out themselves.

Also, its better to have all this done before you start looking for artist and scripters, because it will be easier to get someone on board whem they see all the work you done, and it will allow a constant workload for them, so they dont sit waiting for you and get bored with the project.

Girly Drinks
Anyone a fan of girly drinks? I am a sucker for an appletini (<3 sour) and hard cider. Lava flows too... but those are one of those drinks you can get away with if you are out in some tropical place.

At 3/7/08 12:10 AM, jmtb02 wrote: Girly Drinks
Anyone a fan of girly drinks? I am a sucker for an appletini (<3 sour) and hard cider. Lava flows too... but those are one of those drinks you can get away with if you are out in some tropical place.

RE: Girly Drinks

I happen to like taking shots of Apple Pie...but the fact that i took my first and only body shot with apply pie might be clouding my judement...oh well, tasted good.

At 3/7/08 12:10 AM, jmtb02 wrote: Girly Drinks
Anyone a fan of girly drinks? I am a sucker for an appletini (<3 sour) and hard cider. Lava flows too... but those are one of those drinks you can get away with if you are out in some tropical place.

S'a guilty pleasure of mine, I'll be the first to admit. Many nights I'm content to the old beer or clear liquor, but it gets boring, so a fancy drink is nice sometimes. Speaking of which, Luis, you gotta teach me how to make those chocolate cake shooters. I wanna do that for my birthday. You can walk me through it in Montreal.

At 3/7/08 01:04 AM, Swirling-Venom wrote: You guys gonna paint each others nails too afterwards haha

lolol, dudes, I'm so manly. I fix trucks with my dicks and beat up bears with sticks of beef jerky pleasethinkI'mcoolpleaseplease

Heh, there might be one or two people afoot who remember that one.

At 3/7/08 01:15 AM, Swirling-Venom wrote: a true man (just for ol timey sake) :

hahahahahahah

Modship for a day.

If you had the opportunity to be a Mod for a day, what would you do? Like, would you take advantage of the opportunity and abuse your powers or would you do whichever is needed. Locked specific topics and banned some users.

I think I would just go by the rules. I think Wade should do that if he can't decide a new Mod one day. Just like, pick a few selected users -- throw them in a room and give them the ability to lock and ban things -- And as their days flow, and he's moderating them -- he picks the best moderator and moves on with his life...

Eh. Probably a bad idea. :P

New GroundSpace

I finally took it upon myself and redid my GroundSpace. Finally. It's kinda silly but whatever. I wanted to bring back the Newgrounds feel to my page.

Feedback would be excellent.

At 3/7/08 01:32 AM, Rudy wrote: Modship for a day.

If you had the opportunity to be a Mod for a day, what would you do?

Probably make some extra time to hang 'round the forums longer. All to just stare at that sexy green name. Then... I don't know... ban my bro probably just so I can have a lil' fun and abuse it once. After that, guess I'd just mod like a regular person. :P

I think I'm probably going to miss the 1,000 page mark. I'm going to New York all day Friday and Saturday and then SPRINGBREAK08SEX.

Enjoy it guys.

I hope he goes all Michael Jordan on us and comes back out of retirement, just a bit less awkwardly than MJ.

in the sense we will next see him playing for the chicago bulls, closely followed by reitrement and another spell in the washington qizards or what?

At 3/6/08 07:54 PM, HandsomeJake wrote: I'm writing a synopsis for an RPG I'd like to make in the future. It's getting pretty indepth with a pea-soup thickness to the plot. But I'm wondering if it's insulting to most flash artists and ASers for me to ask for their services. I'm capable in flash, but my art style isn't serious enough and I'm shit for AS. Just wondering what you guys think? Am I simply asking them to do all the work, or is my own work enough?

Story writer is a bit of a weak position to stand on. And as 23450 stated, ideas guy is a position people shoot down faster than founder if it gets in thier site. Designer - now that almost has merit. Being able to write out a lengthy game design specification, and then a game design document and bible to share between your developers detailing EVERY part of your design, that is meritable. Especially if you can rustle up a prototype.

In essence, you'll be looking at something about as lengthy as the guides TFurguson made at gamefaqs for Final Fantasy VII for the battle programming alone (I link to them every few days to someone trying to design an RPG. They shut up pretty quickly...) to show people you're serious. And then a hollywood format script meeting a Fighting Fantasy Choose Your Own Adventure book for the plot and dialogue and a few hundred pages of setting information to get the artists on board.

The more work YOU do to show your serious side, the more work they'll do, and the more people can lay the smack down on morons who tell you that your work means shit. Also, when the project does get off the ground, most of your work is already done, and you can move into a management role, getting everyone's schedule in order (obviously, schedule is a loose word for a pet project - what you really need to concentrate on is getting people to do the work in the right order...), and deal with the eventual problems leading a team will deal.

Ideas Man is a vital part of a team provided that the Ideas Men become Lead Designers and actually write more than fifty words.

At 3/7/08 01:32 AM, Rudy wrote: Modship for a day.

If you had the opportunity to be a Mod for a day, what would you do?

Set up word filters that auto ban people who put certain words into topic titles.
Pretty much all words associated with videogame consoles, the kitty krew, rape, furries, and any other redundant bbs buzzwords that have been beaten like the dead horses they are.

And then I'd shoot lobsters out of my pisshole.

At 3/7/08 05:36 AM, BritishMoose wrote:

At 3/7/08 04:41 AM, ZekeySpaceyLizard wrote: And then I'd shoot lobsters out of my pisshole.

But they have pincers!?

Another typical day on our homemade general forum i see.

Good morning all.

At 3/7/08 12:10 AM, jmtb02 wrote: appletini

I thought Scrubs made that up.. oh well, IF J.D. LOVES THE APPLETINI THEN SO DO I.

Menu Design...

So, I was doing some d&d on a menu system yesterday so I didn't get a chance to post this sooner but I had a questions: I'm working on a menu system with redundant access. I know in console games redundant access is usually a good thing, but with flash games, where the scale is usually a fraction of a console game, is redundancy good or should you just force a system on a player; or just default with the easiest solution?

For example I have a menu that drops when you scroll the mouse, then you scroll the mouse to highlight a selection and you click the mouse button to select it. Some computers don't have a mouse wheel and i heard macs don't function with flash's mousewheel functions. So what I did as an alternative is I numbered the selections as wheel. So for item three you flick the mouse wheel and then flick it twice to get to the third option, then you click. Or you could press the number 3 and it'll switch.

Is this a good method in the context of an action shooter?

At 3/7/08 09:10 AM, Deathcon7 wrote: Menu Design...
Is this a good method in the context of an action shooter?

The best (and only way in my opinon) to fine tune a menu is to have someone play with it. One of the issues in designing menu systems and navigation is overthinking it. Sometimes its good to just have your little brother/mother/significant other/ close online friend/ just interact with it. Dont give them a whole low down on what you want to do.. just be like hey here look what i made, and just sort of observe and analyze how natural the menu is to them.. well thats my suggestion.

In regards to the mouse wheel.. its not a natural form of interaction for everyone.. i have co workers who have a mouse wheel but its just not in their intuition to use them.

At 3/7/08 09:19 AM, Luis wrote:

Thanks Lu. I guess I'll just have to get more of the engine done to have someone test it in play :3

1000 Pages
Can't wait. Although I can for the multi-lined text for the page numbers...kind of pisses off my OCD side. So does anyone have a great idea for a stupid, yet in the moment type of thing that we could all do. One cool thing I think we could do for Senti would be keep deleting posts so he can feel as if he saw the 1,000 page mark. But that would be a bad idea.

At 3/7/08 09:41 AM, El-Presidente wrote: 1000 Pages

As mature as it would be to just ignore it and post as usual, it would be pretty cool to make some collaborative series of posts like the epic threads of old.

We'd better decide fast, though, otherwise page 1000 is just going to consist of people discussing what to do on page 1000.

30 cat pictures. It'll be a page dedicated to our favorite feline friends.

aliteration ftw

At 3/7/08 10:39 AM, Deathcon7 wrote: 30 cat pictures. It'll be a page dedicated to our favorite feline friends.

aliteration ftw

YAY CATS!!!

Prehistoric 2
Is here! Check it out and vote 5 :)
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/42 8832

Page 1000

For page 1000 only photos/drawings of cats will be allowed. Once we reach page 1001 all will return to normal.

I'm going to see if tom can post a photo of sherbert when the time comes.

At 3/7/08 10:43 AM, TrueDarkness wrote: Prehistoric 2
Is here! Check it out and vote 5 :)
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/42 8832

I saw that doing my daily deposit :P It's the mental equivalent of eating a big bowl of sugar - see my review.

At 3/7/08 10:48 AM, Luis wrote: For page 1000 only photos/drawings of cats will be allowed. Once we reach page 1001 all will return to normal.

Darn, I'm probably gonna miss it. Ah wells. Maybe 2,000 I guess.