At 5/4/08 12:42 PM, SweetSkater wrote: I'm also curious about www.swfup.com , that was like really popular. I know they tried to sell it but i dont know what happened.

Good point, weren't they growing really big? It's pretty odd that they disappear altogether..

At 5/4/08 12:50 PM, ReNaeNae wrote: Please Make Me A Logo!
Dreamworx, what have you started! LOL!!

I'm sorry, there is no way I could have seen this coming :(

The problem is that they are not being flamed enough.. How about every single reg post in those topics and flame them until they wont ever dare to go near a computer again >:D

Please don't ban me Luis, I'm just kidding! ^_^

At 5/4/08 12:27 PM, El-Presidente wrote:

At 5/4/08 12:22 PM, MrMacro wrote: Like this? It's just a shape tween.

Nope, I kind of wanted it so I could have like falling objects and hten it could change the flow, but I guess I'll just take a few days and figure out some physics so I can do it somehow else. Still, if anyone knows any good tutorials on this kind of water or physics, it'd be nice.

That sparked my interest.. here's what I got so far (It's all actionscript):
http://spamtheweb.com/ul/upload/040508/4 3634_Water.php
This ought to be fun :p

Please Make Me A Logo/Intro!

Damn, I had only seen like, two, of these threads before, but after my last post I immediately noticed that there are way more than that..

Please make me a logo/intro!

It's weird that these people wanting to be animators can't get the skills to animate their own logo. It's reasonable for programmers but for anybody animating it makes no sense.

At 5/4/08 01:21 PM, yhar wrote: NGUP and SWFUP both went down for the same reasons.

Sites like that just aren't feasible.

I guess that if you want to earn some kind of profit on an uploading-site you would either have to make it about so much more the uploader, and/or put ads all over..

How is the future looking for STW, SweetSkater? :P

At 5/3/08 06:47 PM, TheCriminalDuder wrote: Powerful.
Opinions?

I think that an arrogant animator just went at a barrel of fish with a shotgun. I find it so annoying when animators don't even have the know-how to stitch a touching message underneath a story, and instead just smear it all over the screen like we had no other way to see it. This guy loves his mother and now hes's dead awwww this one had a wife awwww a religion awww look at the blood awww.

Sorry, I don't intend to undermine your choice, Duder. It had some things going for it, I just found it really pretentious.

At 5/4/08 01:43 PM, NegativeONE wrote:

At 5/3/08 06:47 PM, TheCriminalDuder wrote: Powerful.
Opinions?

I think that an arrogant animator just went at a barrel of fish with a shotgun. I find it so annoying when animators don't even have the know-how to stitch a touching message underneath a story, and instead just smear it all over the screen like we had no other way to see it. This guy loves his mother and now hes's dead awwww this one had a wife awwww a religion awww look at the blood awww.

Yeah, I have to agree with you there :P It's annoying when people don't know how to use subtlety or irony.

That said, my opinion is kind of biased since the bastard knocked me a place back in the daily awards :(

Powerful

I couldn't even finish watching that. It's skillfully animated, with some nice effects here and there, but it's simply too much, too bittersweet-let's-change-the-world-toget her. And then there's the soundtrack, a bunch of millionaires trying to make a difference by singing a song together, whoop-tee-doo. That really made the entire thing even more of a pain too watch.

At 5/4/08 02:33 PM, Paranoia wrote: Yeah, I have to agree with you there :P It's annoying when people don't know how to use subtlety or irony.

Like those movies or videos where you sit there and all of a sudden feel a chill going down your back. This was about as far from that as I've gotten. Agreed on the music to an extent. I think there could have been a better choice, but the million-aire thing doesn't but me while I'm watching the video itself.

At 5/4/08 02:52 PM, El-Presidente wrote:

At 5/4/08 02:33 PM, Paranoia wrote: Yeah, I have to agree with you there :P It's annoying when people don't know how to use subtlety or irony.

Like those movies or videos where you sit there and all of a sudden feel a chill going down your back. This was about as far from that as I've gotten.

Yeah, that chill thing is when you know you're watching something truly amazing. It's not something you can put into words. Like the standoff at the end of The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, or when you're getting your memory back in FFVII, or the escape from the coffin in Kill Bill, or the weird bit at the end of MGS2.

I'm sure everyone has their own, but that is what true brilliance is - stuff with qualities beyond the obvious. Things which try to achieve that by rubbing a load of crap in your face just epitomise faliure.

Show fellow regs your ink!
It's been too long since we hit this topic.

Location: Left shoulder.
Design: From golden eagle pendate of father.
Meanings:
-Eagle as a symbol of freedom of mind and spirit.
-Grey shaded showing things aren't black & white, but have many different possibilities.
-Blue eyes like father symbolizing father watching over.

And I'm sure once I go to jail it'll have a jailbird meaning. :P

Also, Luis I know the perfect tat for you. Just a lovely lil' you draw in Pico style with a shotgun looking badass. It would symbolize how your like young forever and in everyones with a "Whatevar, I DO WHAT I WANT!" look on life. Plus in the future you can look at it and remember all the great things you did on NG, poeple you met, experinces, etc.

But that's just my idea. I still think my friend should get a $20 bill tat on his dick so he can watch his money grow. :3

At 5/4/08 02:58 PM, Paranoia wrote: Yeah, that chill thing is when you know you're watching something truly amazing. It's not something you can put into words. Like... etc

I get that for songs way more often than games or movies

Classic/Old Games

Who else loves 'em?
I'm currently downloading MGS1 and GTA2 (Legally of course). I'm not sure exactly what site you can get MGS1 from as I got redirected through loads of sites but you can get GTA2 from the Rockstars website. By the time I click 'Post it! >' my download of MGS1 will be done, and the fun will commence until family guy at 10 o'clock.

At 5/4/08 03:38 PM, UnknownFury wrote: Classic/Old Games

Don't even get me started about retro games.

At 5/4/08 03:43 PM, jmtb02 wrote:

At 5/4/08 03:38 PM, UnknownFury wrote: Classic/Old Games

I like joust. You have to drive your ostrich (or emu, i'm not sure) around killing the other player or birds. It was actually pretty fun but I havn't played it in a while.

At 5/4/08 03:43 PM, jmtb02 wrote:

At 5/4/08 03:38 PM, UnknownFury wrote: Classic/Old Games

Don't even get me started about retro games.

Aren't they just the best. I gave up on MGS as I couldn't do it ;P
But I'm loving GTA2 as much as I used to. It was always my favorite, even since SA etc. simply 'cause of how much I loved it when it first came out.

Nostalgia's a great thing. Can't help but roll my eyes when people spew about pop nostalgia like Mario and Sonic, but a good old gem is something to be revered. Every year or so, I play through one of my old PSX-era games and love the shit out of it. Front Mission 3, Breath of Fire 3, Einhander, Rollcage Stage 2. Was the golden age of games, I say. Late enough not to be tired and simple, but not so late that everything's about specular light mapping and frames per second.

Hehe, I've got all the FF games you can play on a Playstation :) The ones before they hopped over to PS2 are the best. Plus RPGs are great if you suffer from insomnia - they're pretty relaxing.

It's funny you mention it - I'm mid-way through MGS1 right now. Just beaten Psycho Mantis :)

At 5/4/08 04:37 PM, NegativeONE wrote: Stoff

Agreed. Another game I used to quite like is twisted metal world tour or whatever. I used to love the fuck out of that game. I probably still have an old copy, not the original, of it somewhere. Rollcage Stage II is a game I quite liked. I should dig out the old PS and look for games or go buy some. Maybe dig out the ol' Super Nintendo while I'm at it. I bought about 20 game cartridges for it of some pretty decent games a year or so ago. They were 50p each or something.

Current Projects

What have you guys got in the works at the moment? Anything thats going to have us on edge waiting for the release? Websites? Movies? Games?

Recurring topic, I know. But its always nice to see whats going on.

I've spent the day building on about 5, yes 5, separate engines. I've decided to completely scrap 2 of them and never work on it again and another I am considering scrapping. 1 of them I'm going to build on a bit more and see if it'd work out. One is a remake of an old engine and I'm just going to plug the old level designs into it and away we go. Then the fifth one I haven't actually started work on but I came up with the concept about an hour ago and I've been going over it in my head. I'm going to stop working on anything else and try and put it together over the next couple of days. I believe it is quite simple so the engine might be done as soon as midday tomorrow. The levels however will take quite a while to do as its a puzzle game.

What would you guys say is the best way to come up with levels for a puzzle game that are challenging?

RETRO GAMES

I've actually this weekend only played old SNES games. I found my old SNES and some games and have played them all weekend. Mostly Street Fighter and Super Soccer, both are so awesome.

At 5/4/08 04:55 PM, UnknownFury wrote: What would you guys say is the best way to come up with levels for a puzzle game that are challenging?

Try to avoid having it start off easy and then get gradually harder and harder. A player might develop fatigue where they've done like 3 hard puzzles in a row and just stop playing. So while you're making sure the challenges get harder, make sure to throw an easy one in every so often.

Also, I recently finished playin through the Orange Box. It comes with Developer Commentary that's like a lesson in level design. It's mint.

Current Projects:
An homage to ol school beat-em-ups. There's a demo on my user page, i-smel.newgrounds.com

Game Nostalgia

Nostalgic games is where its at man... I had a blast making cctb and pico blast... and those are all based on old games like contra and simple hack and slashers. I have been going back and playing games that i loved as a kid and trying to find their essence and sprinkling em into my work. I want to make a bionic comando type of game and a river city ransom one also.

btw did anyone see the trailer for the new bionic commando? It stays pretty faithful to the original i thought it was one of the more appropriate facelifts I've seen in a long time. Usually they butcher em with stupid 3d graphics and overly complex particle effects.

At 5/4/08 06:07 PM, Luis wrote: btw did anyone see the trailer for the new bionic commando?

I can't believe I haven't ever seen the original. THAT GAME LOOKS SO AWESOME!
Both the old and revamped version. I gotta go buy that game somewhere. Was it for the SNES right?

Current Project
I'm making another game with Nate. I'm going to try and involve some crazy physics into a game kind of like city jumper combined with those escape in time games. Just wait and see! And yes, that's why I needed the physics tutorial especially on water. I got a bit into it, but not really great looking.

At 5/4/08 06:41 PM, El-Presidente wrote: Current Project
I'm making another game with Nate.

That sounds like a front-paging kind of game. Hopefully it will be better than your Pico day one.

Which was good

At 5/4/08 06:28 PM, GuyWithHisComp wrote:

At 5/4/08 06:07 PM, Luis wrote: btw did anyone see the trailer for the new bionic commando?

I can't believe I haven't ever seen the original. THAT GAME LOOKS SO AWESOME!

I too agree that that game looks freaking FUN!

At 5/4/08 06:52 PM, SpamBurger wrote: I am sad that not even one person has said "awesome" or "can't wait to play" after I mentioned I'm working on a multiplayer game :(

I think it sounds awesome! I can't wait to play it either.

At 5/4/08 06:52 PM, SpamBurger wrote: I am sad that not even one person has said "awesome" or "can't wait to play" after I mentioned I'm working on a multiplayer game :(

I didn't see the post =(

Good luck =) I'm 100% sure though most of the engine you have no is useless for large amounts of people on it at once, cuz at that point, everything starts going loopy.

At 5/4/08 06:28 PM, GuyWithHisComp wrote:

At 5/4/08 06:07 PM, Luis wrote: btw did anyone see the trailer for the new bionic commando?

I can't believe I haven't ever seen the original. THAT GAME LOOKS SO AWESOME!
Both the old and revamped version. I gotta go buy that game somewhere. Was it for the SNES right?

It was for regular Nintendo. You can probably pick it up in ROM form if you have a nintendo emulator. There was a version available in the arcades / MAME emulator but it doesnt compare to Nintendo's version.

At 5/4/08 07:23 PM, Luis wrote: It was for regular Nintendo. You can probably pick it up in ROM form if you have a nintendo emulator. There was a version available in the arcades / MAME emulator but it doesnt compare to Nintendo's version.

Play now, thank me later :)

If this is the shittier version that you talked about, then nvm my self-righteous tone ;)