> What's the best way to compete in a Newgrounds game jam without buying a copy of multi-hundred-dollar Flash CS software?
Use the Flex SDK. It's free and open source, and runs on any OS. You can program your code, and include graphics, even SVG's, and compile it to an SWF. The only thing you don't have is the graphcial way of creating your flash, you need to create your graphics with other tools instead (gimp, inkscape,...) and then programatically use them in your game.
No, it does not. I have never had a browser HANG due to Flash. I play games on Newgrounds very often. Some extremely complex things are possible in Flash.
Though the most recent firefox, with java, on Linux, can hang on some old websites which use a Java applet to demonstrate something. Maybe simply because it's trying to load a file that doesn't exist anymore, but that makes the entire UI of firefox hang??? In Flash, instead, there's a loading bar, but you can continue to use the browser.
Just make sure the Java plugin doesn't hang browsers anymore or make them sluggish!
I hate it when visiting a academical website that has the well-meant intention to show some mathematical principle using a Java applet, but instead Firefox hangs while loading it... I'm not sure if it's the fault of Firefox or the Java plugin, but no matter what, it doesn't help Java.
The difference between Flash and Java applets imho is the following:
A webpage with a Flash game on it, loads immediately, and doesn't block the browser.
A webpage with a Java applet on it, has a chance to hang your entire browser while it loads, sometimes forever forcing you to kill it.
I really hate it when I look up something mathematical, open a webpage that seemed promising, but it loads an embedded Java applet with the very good intention of showing the math in action interactively, but in reality it hangs your browser...
Flash feels smooth, Java applets feel sluggish, in browsers.
Is this the fault of the developers of the Java plugin, or the browser makers?
There are often articles about batteries getting so much better on./.
I'm sceptical though, since batteries just aren't getting any better in real life, I don't know what it is, but despite everyone's more and more dependence on handheld devices, batteries just keep underperforming.
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> Diederik Stapel's latest paper claimed that eating meat made people anto-social and selfish.
And eating shellfish makes you ...
Compared to a real copter, for sure!
I wonder how fast it can go (how far you can get in that one hour). Cheaper or more expensive than a car?
I love the craft, by the way, it looks so amazingly simple!
> What's the best way to compete in a Newgrounds game jam without buying a copy of multi-hundred-dollar Flash CS software?
Use the Flex SDK. It's free and open source, and runs on any OS. You can program your code, and include graphics, even SVG's, and compile it to an SWF. The only thing you don't have is the graphcial way of creating your flash, you need to create your graphics with other tools instead (gimp, inkscape, ...) and then programatically use them in your game.
I play games on Newgrounds sometimes. They often have game jams where games are created within so many hours. These games often go to the frontpage.
My experience with this: Usually these games are of lower quality. Often it is a good and original idea, but the implementation is lacking.
I prefer games made by someone with love and with all the time needed to polish it properly :)
Cool project! Nice that they have such smoothly scrolling images and text this way!
I really wonder. 2.5K RAM would allow max around 2500 letters, or a single 256-color picture of 50x50 pixels.
It may have been that it was a few hundred kilometers close. Or it may not. Depends on how good the re-analysis of this old data was.
So the record will be broken over and over and over again...
Really cool man!
No, it does not. I have never had a browser HANG due to Flash. I play games on Newgrounds very often. Some extremely complex things are possible in Flash.
Though the most recent firefox, with java, on Linux, can hang on some old websites which use a Java applet to demonstrate something. Maybe simply because it's trying to load a file that doesn't exist anymore, but that makes the entire UI of firefox hang??? In Flash, instead, there's a loading bar, but you can continue to use the browser.
Just make sure the Java plugin doesn't hang browsers anymore or make them sluggish!
I hate it when visiting a academical website that has the well-meant intention to show some mathematical principle using a Java applet, but instead Firefox hangs while loading it... I'm not sure if it's the fault of Firefox or the Java plugin, but no matter what, it doesn't help Java.
Flash can do it, why not Java?
The joke is too fast for you.
Congratulations, you made me laugh! I wish I had mod points.
Nethack is not an FPS, and it has shooting (arrows, ...). So its relevance to this article is almost none.
So it is shooting! Shooting pictures and films :)
Seems like common sense...
The difference between Flash and Java applets imho is the following:
A webpage with a Flash game on it, loads immediately, and doesn't block the browser.
A webpage with a Java applet on it, has a chance to hang your entire browser while it loads, sometimes forever forcing you to kill it.
I really hate it when I look up something mathematical, open a webpage that seemed promising, but it loads an embedded Java applet with the very good intention of showing the math in action interactively, but in reality it hangs your browser...
Flash feels smooth, Java applets feel sluggish, in browsers.
Is this the fault of the developers of the Java plugin, or the browser makers?
Did you know Flash can do more than just playing video?
So it won't be possible to play NewGrounds games with that browser?
Boring...
Yes I have. And I've had to recharge them often too.
There are often articles about batteries getting so much better on ./.
I'm sceptical though, since batteries just aren't getting any better in real life, I don't know what it is, but despite everyone's more and more dependence on handheld devices, batteries just keep underperforming.
Proper beer comes in bottles, or barrels, you insensitive clods!
What do you find more efficient than the keyboard then? Handwriting? Speech recognition? Touch screen keyboards? Brain scanning?
If they're going to do nuclear testing there, you could always hide in a fridge and be safe.
I thought we were past that age and now in the social network and smartphone age!