| Ralph Damiano |
| Role |
Developer of Stick Nodes |
| Location |
Connecticut, USA |
| Birthday |
February 3, 1991 |
| Twitter |
FTLRalph |
| Youtube |
FTLRalph |
| Other Websites |
My portfolio, My dev-blog |
| Favorite color |
What am I, a child? |
| Favorite number |
2147483647 |
| Favorite animated show |
Dragon Ball series for sure, but the Avatar series (ATLA and Korra) round out the top 3. |
| Favorite non-animated show |
Probably Game of Thrones, Modern Family is really great too. House gets an honorable mention. |
| Favorite movie |
Not much of a movie person, idk. |
| Favorite video game |
Probably Battlefield 4 since that’s all I play, but in terms of nostalgia there’s Tomba 1 and 2, Spyro, Ratchet and Clank, Jak and Daxter among others. |
| Favorite food |
I don’t know, tacos? They’re good. Mini hotdogs are pretty good too. Oh, and sign me up for boneless buffalo wings any day. |
| Ralph started making Stick Nodes one day because he was bored. He grew up practically addicted to a stickfigure-animation program called Pivot which sparked his interest in both animation and game development.
Eventually he got into Flash animation and Flash game development. He released quite a few games into the Flash gaming community, check out his portfolio for links.
Once mobile devices started taking over, he moved over to attempt Android games. After a few failed attempts, he released Plunder Peril – a quick 2-3 week project that was meant as Android-development practice.
After Plunder Peril, Ralph began work on Stick Nodes and in August 2014, Stick Nodes was released on Android with the iOS version following in November. Stick Nodes is built in Java with the LibGDX framework and uses RoboVM to port to iOS. |
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| Sean Byrnes |
| Role |
Site administrator, comedic relief |
| Location |
NSW, Australia |
| Birthday |
January 26, 1992 |
| Twitter |
S_Byrnes |
| Youtube |
Sean Byrnes |
| Other Websites |
AnimationAlpha, My blog |
| Favorite color |
Yellow. |
| Favorite number |
42 |
| Favorite animated show |
Family Guy, American Dad and, like Ralph, Dragon Ball. |
| Favorite non-animated show |
The Big Bang Theory, Limitless, Criminal Minds & The Flash. |
| Favorite movie |
The Bucket List, Zombie Land & The Matrix. |
| Favorite video game |
The latest Call of Duty, Project Cars, Battlefield & Assassins Creed. |
| Favorite food |
Pancakes, KFC & Marinated Slow Cooked Roast Beef. |
| Sean is the site administrator and creator of the stickfigure submission system as well as a majority of the DBZ stickfigures. He also has a funny accent.
At around age 12 he discovered Pivot, ended up on Droidz.org looking for stickfigures to use in his animations, got fairly good after about 2 years.
He decided to make a website to host his animations on after having been on the forums for a long time. That’s what got him into webdesign since the first iteration of his website was a terrible looking flash-based thing that at the time he thought was the best thing out.
After a while he realized how stupid it looked and behaved. So he looked into HTML and CSS, got it looking slightly better but it wasn’t until he found WordPress that it started looking decent.
After that he went off the grid for a bit, got his Cert IV in IT and Webdesign, cemented his understanding of the internet protocols.
Lately he’s been helping out around the Stick Nodes community and has been managing Animation Alpha. He’s also been looking into game development and has begun a project that he hopes to finish one day soon, he can’t really reveal anything about it but it’s for mobile devices and will be a 2D sidescroller. |
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I haven’t seen anyone actually swear without censoring it.
Mainly because I have filters in place to catch comments with certain words.
Only reason is because I’m sure people visit the site from places with filters/blocks (school for example) where a certain word might block a page from being accessed.
and here i was thinking it was because spidoh man
My school doesn’t let me go onto the site because it’s labeled as “blog”.
Days random thing
(Dmlan must watch)
https://youtu.be/NRhneU4vOr8
DONT CLICK THE LINK YOU OR ILL COME ROUND YA HOUSE AND HIDE YOUR STUFF ON THE TOP OF YOUR FRIDGE
Aw come on man, that’s evil…
Already watched a long time ago.
Lol.
Wot
Mini Onehighjump Stories: T-Th-I can’t…Look no title alright?
So..I was browsing the internet for some memes and quality we are number one memes and I saw this…”We are number one but every time it says one Jontron reacts to anime.” Seems harmless right? No. So until like the second or third “One” I…For the least was…Something…Some emotion… Look I’ll just quote it. “BIG BROTHER I WANT YOU TO GIVE ME YOUR BIG JUICY *Bleep* and Fu***** DRENCH ME WITH YOUR HOT STICKY C** ‘TILL I’M GASPING FOR AIR!”
It was as painful writing it as reading it.
If you want I will send a link to the video.
I’m sorry.
Bye…Just f*** off.
Too bloody
I know
Oh god no, that’s why I don’t watch animes.
Then I’m sitting here, with a comment from Ralph on my face reveal saying “yo bb”.
I have a feeling you should be the last speaking
Getting shipped with your cousin
Days random things
https://youtu.be/DHVUSVEg-n0
Wait, why there is no Spidöh-Man language.
I shouldn’t have enjoyed that as much as I did.
Days random thing.
I love it.
How sensitive is that joystick though? Can it be used to slowly progress only one degree at a time?
What were you just waiting for me to make this comment or something…
Right now I have it snapping to every 2 degrees so it’s easier to precisely stop on even numbers. But now I realize that’s stupid because 45 degrees is very important.
While snapping to every 1 degree might not even cause an issue with a small device (I think it’s manageable without hassle), wondering if I should just make it snap to every 5 degrees for extreme ease and convenience instead.
Decisions. Probably will do 1.
Yes, I’m psychic and was expecting you. You should be very worried.
Yes 45 is an important degree.
Good, do 1’s, don’t be a p***y.
But even if you did do 5’s it wouldn’t be too bad, they could just edit the text, but that would take more time out of their animating.
I love this!!!
10/10 HUD of the year
10/10 IGN
Just too good
Days random things.
When French are pissed because they want the app to be translated or have opacity.
http://i.imgur.com/HqLUFeh.png
Lmao. Good to see there’s actually people that want the app translated because this is a LOT OF NONSENSE WORK TO GET THIS APP INTERNALIZED AND READY FOR LOCALIZATION.
Give files to translate to Berke and I as soon as possible so when you’ll be done with localisation stuff it’ll be ready to update.
Sticknodes 1.9, the language update
Now 2 languages available!
– Turkish
– French
… that’s pretty much nothing but still!
Oh by the way,my portuguese friend is okay with translating, it will make him “pass time”, as he says.
That’s good, that will take care of Portuguese which is a big one. I haven’t looked into it yet, but I wonder what the top regions are that use Stick Nodes that can use a translation are.
I know Portuguese is a big one, especially for South America.
The only big one left off the top of my head is Spanish.
Anyway, I’m wondering how words like “FPS”, “tweening”, and maybe others will be translated. What are the French versions of those?
FPS is obviously an abbreviation of “frames per second”. Tweening is technically just slang for inbetweening that was popularized by Flash.
Well ‘frames’ in french is ‘cadres’, but enter “frames per second” in a translator and you get “images par seconde” so maybe IPS?
“Between”, “inbetweening” and “inbetween” are all translated to “entre” but I’m sure DmLan will have the correct answer.
Well I’m not sure if “FPS” is just a standard across languages, do French animators use it?
WE WILL SOON FIND OUT.
Stop using google translate.
Fps is indeed ips, but that doesn’t mean that frame is only cadre, it’s also image.
Let me do my work, don’t worry about that.
But Google Translate makes me look multilingual and cool. ?
@Ralph, we mostly use FPS but back in the day we used IPS, and there still are games that says IPS (League if Legends, Half life).
League if Legends
(Lenny face)
Lol @ Sean and Google Translate.
Alright, so if other games use IPS that seems like that would be the best to use. I’m not sure what you’ll do about “tweening” though lol.
Anyway, hopefully I’ll things ready for translation soon. Still working on getting the new UI in place (basically redid it all from scratch even though it’s going to look somewhat the same).
I think you accidentally a word.
Tween will mostly be translated as “fluide” which means smooth, i can’t really tell how to translate this, but i’ll stay with fluide. Tweening stands for fluidité, that’s probably the closest french words I know for tweening/tween. Even Google translate can’t help me for this one.
http://i.imgur.com/CDSJ8vo.png
Okay, that’s probably okay since “smooth” or “smoothing” is technically what tweening does.
I was trying to find out if Flash comes in multiple languages, I’d like to see what their translation of “tween” is, will look into it.
You understand it, that’s why French translation won’t be a problem. But I need to have something to tell someone if, for example, I hire someone to do the Spanish translation or something. Just want everything to be consistent across the languages.
Just tell them to consider tweening as smoothing, they’ll understand, I guess.
I own an old french version of flash, I checked if there was an accurate translation for tween, and they use fluide too, there’s no french for that word unfortunately, but as long as it means the same thing, that’s fine I guess.
Okay good, that’s fine, no big deal. I looked into the Flash thing too and couldn’t find any screenshots of different-language versions lol. Surprised you had a version.
10/10 preparedness
I used to make animations with Flash when I was too lazy to animate with Pivot back in the day, I didn’t updated Flash since 2008. I could feel it was old as hell because it took about 15 minutes to start up.
poop a doop.
That makes sense
This is the new name of Stick Nodes.
I “like” the new “like” system.
Hah!
Hah..
hah.
I can feel a large distorted screaming in my soul.
You hear it too!?
Days random things
What are these blue hands
They are annoying.
Sean did it.
(No really.)
Technically Ralph did because when I made it they were dark grey.
You should add a,
BİG. BRİGHT. RED. DİSLİKE BUTTON!
İ liked my comment
Ralph, you should fix that.
(He cant, because there is no account system)
And diamond trophy.
Well, you can like your own posts on other sites like Youtube and Facebook too. :O
Yeah, it’s like giving yourself phellasio.
🙁
Don’t be sad.
Is he sad because his spine gets in the way of liking his own post?
Wait, i found a bug.
İ can like these comments more than once.
Yeah, if you’re on a different device or your IP address changes somehow you can like it multiple times.
No, i mean with the same İP address.
That’s not a bug it’s a feature.
Thats a cool feature.
This comment will get a like
No, MINE won’t