| 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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Default stickfigure.. idk
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check this out, ralph didnt aprove it yet but soon…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9MKNc44HqY
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Days random thing.
The comment leaderboard is back, but only on the homepage.
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Days random thing 2.
It’s now on all pages again, but it’s cached. Meaning it doesn’t update in real time (to prevent it from querying the database on every single page load).
It is refreshed every 12 minutes.
Also hello.
Oh god no, why did you put the leaderboard back, Berke is going to spam.
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Much better, muuuccchhh beeetttteeeerrrr…
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*removes it*
Me right now
https://youtu.be/_7o7JKmHZO0
(İ want 10 hour version of this)
So you sound like Jontron, singing “AND IIIIIIII” and playing Banjo Kazooie Nuts & Bolts.
Yeah why not.
Damn I love Banjo Kazooie Nuts and bolts, even though it doesn’t looks like a Banjo kazooie game.
I never played a Banjo and Kazooie game.
Um… When is it gonna come out for pc, plus could you make it so if you bought pro version on mobile devices you don’t have to pay on pc Thanks 🙂
P.S. I love your idea I’m planning to do the same
These are the best questions that no one knows the answers to.
Well I am a man of business Thank you for responding and when ever you come up with an answer please let me know
I love this app ?
Thanks, glad you love it.
But yeah, the PC version hasn’t been worked on in a while, been busy primarily with the app version. That’s why I don’t have answers to these questions.