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I'm sure many of you know who Ken Banks is. Many of you have probably seen this or read this already as it is from about 2002. Some of you may have read it and forgotten about it, others progbably still remember it. Regardless, it is still something to keep in the back of your mind when you read all of these other articles about the topic of game design.

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In the words of Shake "Good luck with the casual sex. No really, because you ain't gonna get any."

I like! Cant think of anything to crit atm. Keep it up, that looks really nice.

best comeback ever. props lookin sexy! nice job.

posty and fetter hit the nail on the head.

true that its no big deal. I just love the irony in it.

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ill check it out, but mozilla couldn't get me off ie. I'd be surprised if this one did.

yes, klein, i realize that. No disrepect to you or anything. All I'm trying to point out is that you shouldn't say that flash are a turn off. Maybe for you. Maybe for the HR people you know. Not everyone likes flash sites, but not everyone hates them. This is a game design community with some of the greatest talent I have ever seen, so it shouldn't be too hard for anyone that frequents this board to learn a thing or two about flash and use their pre-existing knowledge about good design to churn out a flash site that would make you change your mind.

there's a point if you use your portfolio to not just break into the game industry, but other multimedia industries as well, ala web development. Flash is a growing market and the user stats are rising, and Lurker's estimate was not far off. I get more and more clients wanting to switch from html to flash. And these are wholesaler and end user distribution clients, not game companies or movies. After flash 6 and actionscript 2 were released, flash has the ability to directally connect with databases and server side scripting, making it just as functional as any html/php/asp/cgi/etc site (still need the asp or php though, cuz we use that to pass information to and from the db), but the ability to add animation and life to the site. Before long, flash will be integrated automatically in every browser. whats wrong with a healthy hybrid of both? 100% true. Any decent browser will prompt you to install flash when it detects you dont have it. There is also a very easy script you can write in javascript that auto detects if flash in installed (although no one uses these anymore due to the aformentioned browser prompt). All you have to do is click "Yes, I want to install" and you're done. It boggles my mind how so many people can have trouble installing flash when the browser does everything for you. Divx has no auto detect, as it is played through the wmp plugin. I can understand the frustration of divx, but you simply cannot compair flash with divx. true. When I first started out doing web development, it was a rare occasion that a client wanted a site with the littlest bit of flash. That was four years ago. Today, a current client of mine, midwest copier exchange is the largest wholesaler of copiers in the US (quite possibly the world). Their original site, designed by my brother who is a db programmer and not a flash programmer/artist had no flash in it at all. Now I'm being paid to turn everything into flash. Why is that? Why on earth would a copier wholesaler whose primary viewer on that page would be a business owner who probably still uses ie and dell machines? Answer: Its where the market is heading. More and more people are getting a kick out of flash sites because they are different. Flash can either make or break your site. If you have a carefully designed site that makes logical sense and is not confusing for a user, you will get people that see it to say "Wow, that was a cool site. Hey, Jimmy, did you see this?". If you have a poorly designed flash site (est 80% of flash sites out there, maybe and most definitly more. If this weren't the case, I would not be getting paid large quantities of cash to make flash site), you repulse people to stay away from your site. Dont condem flash. Flash is an interesting entity. As I just stated, it can either make or break your site. If a site is designed well enough, it will do far more than any html site could ever do for you.

already pre-ordered my xbox 2pi. cant really do that for any of the other ones, so no point for me to discuss it.

boobs?

sit down, you're rockin the boat.

used max, hated it. used maya loved it. for me this is the same situation as adobe buying macromedia. Just kinda wanna see what the two teams can put together.

good stuff on zymotic. me wants to play.

The serious effects of global warming will not be felt during your lifetime. So the answer is obvious: Dont have kids. problem solved.

http://www.transbuddha.com/mediaHolder.php?id=732 Might be old, but I just saw it. Badass.

giggity giggity giggity!

that picture is horrifying. wtf?

gg on the rmf. I wish more people did that.

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Gonna hafta agree with Mazy on this one.

word. As for the porn mapping, I bet the guys around the aebn office love garry's mod. welcome.

Gonna have to take all this with a grain of salt. Two sides to every story. Right now we're hearding from Adrian that id was evil to him. Remember what happened when Romero left? There was the Romero story (anti-id), and then the id story (which, according to masters of doom was the correct story). Two stories, none of us were there. I'd hate to think of myself as an id fanboy, but I probably am, so there has to be a good reason for id doing this. Just gonna hafta wait and see. Hope this doesnt put a damper on their next project. I cant wait to see what John Carmack has up his sleeve.