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( i, like many others, was bummed i couldn't contribute to Pico day so i really want to get something in for this holiday and show NGs some support! - and i was thinking, with a massive collaboration like this, it's even more fun to get more people involved!)

Once, for robot day, with the help of some INSANELY talented artists/Musician (1 haha), I was able to start up a pretty awesome movie collab >> RAGEOUS 7 << so I'm going to try another robot day collab..this one even bigger than the last

This is a very simple and BROAD concept i have come up with for robot day - sort of a fantasy steampunk/western robo platform style game ( a la megaman, contra - esk in gameplay style) This concept has a lot of developing still to happen so nothing is set in stone! (i just find to have an idea and jumping off point really moves things along to start) and I am hoping to assemble a MASSIVE team of people who are interested in making a really cool game for robot day. I know steampunk is done to death...but...i still think its cool and haven't come across many games with it. (i have a more expansive plot idea that i will share with the team when we start spit ballin' ideas)

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[ I'll be serving as sort of the producer/facilitator for the group & will be filling one of these rolls]
So without further adieu - Here are the positions that will be available for this game (open to ANYONE! )

-Programmer [ probably the most important part- -no programmer, no game! ]

-Level Designer [ you will decide what will make this game challenging - **no artistic ability required** just a great sense of what makes these kinds of games fun and interesting. (here is a link of what the level designer will need to be providing SHITTIEST LEVEL DSN EVER..it's just an example...) so things like layouts, traps, enemy placements - - all things that will need to be handled by you!

-Character sprites[ this will be a lot of work but you will be making basically every functioning character/enemy/boss ect...and probably the actual platforms and solid objects as well] (i'll either doing this or the UI depending on the interest and who fits best where)

-Background Artist [ though the artist above will create the ground - the distant backgrounds are what can really add atmosphere and beauty to games **no animation skills needed** (although animated backgrounds could be awesome too!)

-Menu's and UI [ health bars, level clearing screens, pause screens, intro menus, ect ect..]

-Cutscene Animator/artist [ This will be a lot of work - once we settle into what the REAL story is, it'll be your job to create cool cutscenes to help the game feel even bigger and tell the story ] this could also just be more of a "motion comic" kinda thing if someon is more from the art portal world and wants to join!

-Voice Actor/s[ games with voices are always cooler - -granted these will be more of humanoid voices but.. never the less voices will be needed! ** you should probably have the means to make your voice - - robo-ish** ] all together though, who knows where the voices will go.

-SFX [ whether you are great at scouring the internet for awesome sounds or create them yourself, we will need plenty! ]

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So there it is! - - I am very aware that it might only take a team of about three people to fill most of these rolls, but I'm more interested in this idea for the collaboration and how much i love working with other people - -So if you wanna join in the fun -we've got about two months, but i'm figuring that with the roles being a bit more spread around - it shouldn't be TOO much time off anyone's plate

so just throw a post in here if you are interested and what role/s you are interested in (or shoot me a pm) and I'll announce what the full team is gonna be this weekend!

Lets have some fun and make something awesome for Robot Day!

my friend and i got in an argument outside the theater after seeing avengers.

JLA - vs AVENGERS ( this argument mostly factoring out many of the..."weaker" heroes)

here's my perspective -

The combined brains of stark and banner would have superman rendered useless from the get go ( i mean look how easily he was fooled in justice league doom!!) Bruce wayne may be wise and cunning but ..not enough to outsmart those two i am afraid.

with superman out of the picture, no one remaining can even give the hulk pause.

Lets not forget stark's brilliance and thor's intergalactic knowledge likely bringing a swift end to lantern as well.

flash could be quite an issue for the avengers i'll give jla that....so ..yeah

i cant say i keep up new avengers comics but isnt wolverine in there now?....WHA?? add him to the mix and you have two of the hardest to kill characters in comics DC or marvel.(heroes)

anyways, i suppose it comes down to DC giving their characters weaknesses so they can feel a bit more grounded to the readers - which is a very good thing, hell i even prefer most dc characters to marvel....

i just don't think they would win. Marvel has made their U so over powered that it's kinda like a circus.

what do you think?

I'll post more information when i get my next front page post capability - so that should be in a few days

if you are interested though -comment or shoot me a pm!

i'm between logic and protools now that i have some money to actually get something better than garageband

i really want something that has strings that actually sound good and semi real (Again vs Garageband haha)

any thoughts, insights, two cents thrown in, would be MUCH appreciated

thanks all

used to be when we'd roll over the submissions we could glance at the icon, who made it, and the score? - -

maybe i am the only one who is still using the classic portal system - but i feel like that's the best way to navigate whats happening in the submissions world

but all in all, of course, the redesign kicks ass, i would just sure love those rollovers.

Whens the next one?? - -anybody know? i wanna FRACKIN jam

How Goes it GAIZ

So As i mentioned a bit Back - i was lucky enough to get a pretty cool job just a while ago - but just before that, I was working feverishly to find said job op. My main animated focus being Echo Force Zero, unfortunately could not thrive during the time while searching, because it isn't really a "Sit down for 30 minutes and hammer some out" kind of project for me. It really requires some large gaps of time to commit to it - - so i haven't been working on it too much in the recent past.

BUT

I did still want to quench my thirst for animation during this time - so i thought up a way to make some short animations which wouldn't commit too much of my time and would be fun and simple to create! The result is this!

During my month or so long job search i decided to try making a few Animated Television parodies ( because i am basically obsessed with tv)and interestingly enough its already gotten more subs in that month than my redharvest channel had all together!

I'll be submiting a large package/collection of these toons to NGs once i have a few more (due to the length of them)
EFZ will be back into full swing now that things are settled in at work.

So long story short - I have sort of fallen in love with this channel which started as just a little project - So i would love if you guys would pop over and check some of it out and even subscribe!

Visit Me HERE - LewToons

man...after seeing the list of who's attending Pico day this year at the office - i am especially bummed i cant go YET AGAIN.

it reads something like a who's who of every newgrounder i've ever seen

oh well - maybe next year?

What's up all - -

I feel like i've been a shitty Newgrounds citizen as of recent - there is a reason for that - -

For the past chunk of time I have been breaking my back trying to find a job after graduating, and I've lined something up! and its quite an awesome position doing some motion graphics and social media stuff , which I am extremely excited and lucky to have gotten! (partially thanks to an demo reel i assembled of my work at Newgrounds!)

Because I have been dedicating so much time to this job search I haven't had the time to be as involved as I'd like to be here - - but hopefully after this week of getting acclimated into my new office setting I can start getting back to my old tricks.

So i'll see you all soon - - and some of you for REALZ at comic-con

look forward to an actual real post later...

dont look forward to it