Hey, as long as Mr. Fulp is still in charge, I'm happy.

makes me wanna clone a whole bunch of them and make a big bloated (windows users like that right) GUI tool that converts and downloads a whole bunch of different things, and make it open source

This is a very rare sight to behold...

Usually there's at least some third party gathering data from somewhere (facebook, google, etc) but Newgrounds literally has nothing that Brave considers worth blocking

Newgrounds is a good fuckin' site and I hope you guys continue doing what you do

How do you want people to use your code? Assume you have an MIT license on your code. Would you be happy if someone took your code, changed the bare minimum and then made money from it?

Personally I'm unemployed, so I need people to see how I work. Without open source I'd be kind of boned. But it does concern me a little bit if I use an open-source license, that someone might just take what I've written, sell it, and give me nothing in return.

But I also believe in open source. People should be allowed to do what they want with software, they have a right to know what's going on under the hood, even if they don't know how to write code, they should still be able to ask someone who does "hey, can you have a look at this source code and let me know if anything spooky is going on behind the scenes?"

I figure it's an interesting conversation topic and might spark some replies.

mobile wallpapers? sure, why not

post your wallpapers!

not a screenshot of your desktop, post your wallpapers. 1080p jpegs or whatever file format you've saved them as.

yeah, crying in the corner of my apartment out of overwhelming loneliness is fine.

just kidding. I live with my mom, I don't have an apartment.

Stamper, because I've kinda sorta met the guy and he seems okay and like he won't kill me

I don't think he'd appreciate being trapped in an elevator with me though

@DoctorStrongbad

you can't tell me what to do

oh shit what happened here

I do not have a god complex, but I am Jesus Christ reincarnate.

If you're having trouble with the Newgrounds API as I see a lot of people are, you can have a look at this EXAMPLE PROJECT I set up.

This project starts off on one scene, makes sure you're logged in and then switches to a new scene with a button that just unlocks a medal. I've tested it to make sure it works. Download the source code and project files from the link in the project description! any questions, post them here or send me a DM.

(and if you think this could be better, feel free to submit a pull request!)

Hey everyone, check it out I made this.

https://www.newgrounds.com/projects/games/1750467/preview/filetype/2

Open source too, so if I've done something all shit-like, as I do, feel free to make a pull request

get this homie, I don't know you either. Nice to meet you.

"Darth Bane kills the Sith Lords"

those are just the vegans you remember, if someone is a vegan and not an asshole, they're not likely to tell you because they have nothing to prove to you

I wanna help you but I don't know what your project looks like. Could you upload it somewhere?

You say it works in the editor but not when it's exported... try making a preview on Newgrounds and see if it's just a local server issue?

I added a new type of NPC class, but haven't actually got any sound assets for them yet. When the NPC class tried to play the death sounds for that NPC, the game crashed. As a temporary solution until every possible sound exists, I made it check for null, then skip over the sound.play stuff by just making the function die and return.

Oh yeah, I forgot I wrote that. I think it used to be a constant, and I was using it for some logic somewhere else, and then i added functionality to pick up new weapons, the logic that depended on MAX_WEAPONS broke, so it just made it not a constant, but didn't bother to make it lowercase... then added a weird comment like I do

Thanks for all your pointers! I can see where you're coming from, I'm gonna be going over it for a while

I don't remember exactly how I got EAT CIRCLES to work, but the source code is HERE if you wanna look at it

This is terrible advice

People generally don't wanna shoot strangers they've never met in the back of the head. It sounds like you're having social anxiety issues or something. If it's impacting your life negatively you should seek some mental help. You should feel like you can walk into a store without having your brains splattered all over the sidewalk if you ask me.

Religions can help people. Gives people a purpose. Gives them reason to keep living, get out of bed, keep a routine. Religions have been a force for evil in the world before yes but they can also be a power for good.

I'm agnostic because I don't like to take sides or say outright that I know for certain what's out there. Atheism is a man-made assumption that the universe was not an intelligent and or deliberate creation. Yknow maybe we're a mistake in an otherwise carefully crafted painting that is the milky way? Like you're drawing something but you accidentally spill a little grease on the page so you try to wipe it off but it just kinda smears and gets worse. That's us. We're a grease stain.

What was the question?

I'm on my phone, I'm in bed. Shut up, I'm trying to sleep.

I'm waiting for some nerd to read the code for a game I'm developing over on the programming forum so they can tell me why it sucks so I can make it not suck.

I like to keep secret stuff in my root folder, then I feel like Mr. Robot whenever I push code

Show us?

Oh god, ew, I necroposted I'm so sorry, I DIDN'T SEE THE YEAR

more like a blam-trap

My general rule of thumb is that it's better to post something that you KNOW is going to pass judgement and have maybe 2 or 3 things on your profile, than have a bunch of different little games that scrape by and a mountain of submissions that get blammed

that being said, it's easier to pass judgement on newgrounds these days than it used to be. Just make stuff you're proud of. you shouldn't be trying to impress us really, you should be looking to be proud of what you make

I think the problem we're facing is that it's become impossible to convince people to care about the environment, covid, things that matter, things that really should not be politicized have become talking points - and this has caused people to become irritable. It's a dragon, a big monster that you have little to no control over and we as humans are capable of defeating said dragon - if we work together. Unfortunately there is a right and a wrong way of defeating the dragon, and people are going to argue about how it should be defeated while the dragon burns down villagers' homes and eats people...

these are actually really good ideas and I may steal some

it's worth talking about. Game developers so often are presented with people coming at them and asking them to make games because someone's had an idea.

Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network movie said this when he was in a court meeting with the guys who tried to sue him for stealing the idea: "If they were the inventors of Facebook, they would have invented Facebook."

They approached him with the idea and offered funding, he didn't want the funding then went off to make what is basically the same project on his own (and with funding from somebody else). When it started to blow up and start earning money, the Winklevoss twins were (understandably) annoyed - but the reality is, they did not put any of the work into the project, they did not put in any money towards it. They approached nobody else with the idea. They had an idea and they wanted someone else to make it for them because they had money

sometimes, money is enough. There are people (myself included) who will take on a project as such if you provide them with funding. However if someone is financially stable, they're going to want to work on their own ideas rather than yours. Because the fact is - ideas are easy to come up with.

If it sounds harsh or brutally honest, that's because it is. I don't like telling people this, but it just happens so often that it is inescapable and it makes me uncomfortable when someone I respect and don't want to offend approaches me and says "you should make my idea for a game"

as @lajebel said, if you really want to see that idea come to life, the most respectful thing you can do, for others and for yourself is to pursue the knowledge to start working on that project yourself. It's not going to come out anywhere near the same as you pictured it in your head, because you're going to be bad. Everyone is. Look at my games, they're not even my first, but you certainly wouldn't call EAT CIRCLES a triple-A award winning title, but making that first step is necessary to go on and make something actually good.