| 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 |
#0096FF |
| Favorite number |
√2 |
| Favorite animated show |
Insert Jojo reference here. Also the Dragon Ball series for sure because that's what started it all. My Hero Academia, Attack on Titan, Dr. Stone too. Non-anime (kinda) however, the Avatar series (ATLA and Korra) too. |
| Favorite non-animated show |
Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Game of Thrones. House gets an honorable mention. |
| Favorite movie |
Not much of a movie person, idk. I did force myself to watch the Marvel movies and they weren't bad to be honest so, yeah, Endgame I guess. |
| Favorite video game |
I don't play much of anything so in terms of nostalgia there's Tomba 1 and 2, Spyro, Ratchet and Clank, Jak and Daxter among others. The original Genesis Sonic games are up there too. |
| Favorite food |
Orange chicken but, like, not the authentic kind. More like the sugar-chicken version where it just rots your teeth away as you eat it. |
| 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.
Fast forward to March 2020 when he was revising this page and he honestly can't believe Stick Nodes is still going so strong. Onward to world domination...
Fast forward again to August 2023 and really, I haven't been cancelled yet? |
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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 |
None lol |
| 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’m BAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK! So, tell me, what’s gone down while I was gone, and why is me, DmLan, Anonymous, and a few others’ names outlined?
Cuz we have website/YouTube channel link in our name.
I su smert
:O
:OOOOOOOOOOOOO
LOL i thought it was some kind of mini-admin or something.
Lol, glad someone figured it out. I didn’t mean it as some secret meaning or something, lol.
OH MY GOD THERE ARE GUNSHOTS NEAR MY VILLAGE HELP
İ think you need to go under a table, and close your eyes and ears.
I’m going to assume everything is actually okay though, right?
It stopped a moment ago, I’ve never been that scared
Yeah, I would imagine. So was it actually gunshots or something else?
They were gunshots, apparently, nobody is injured or dead, the cops came quickly and arrested the guy.
Isn’t it like midnight or something over there? What even.
Yeh its midnight.
French people get crazy at midnight.
French people also like armpit hair…
Idk why.
Oo, signatures.
I like dis.
Yeah, you’re welcome, now you don’t need to say that at the end of every one of your comments lol.
i was wondering how long did it take to make this app?
I had to go look this up.
I started work on it in March 2014. The Android version came out in September 2014 and the iOS version came out in November 2014.
So from start to the first release of the Android version, it took six months. I never really stopped working on it, so if you want to count until today, it’s been 28 months lol.
Hello I am interested in buying this project program but I want to ask you questions that I cannot find an answer to. Will it be possible to import an animated video file or an animated sequins dad will show each frame as you go along so you can trace a fighter on the Internet for example. I know was some file formats you can do more than one friend such as GIF and PNG also video break up of friends would be useful so it would make everything more realistic. Please let me know if this is possible and if it is I will definitely purchase the product. Thank you
First, he won’t make the animations into PNG files, the GIF are available. Second, who the hell do you think you are? A business man? Ralph would never sell his creation.
I think he meant buy the app to use not buy the actual rights to the app lmao.
You can try the Free version of the app and see if it’s what you need before buying the Pro version. I’m not completely sure what you’re asking so trying it out for yourself would be best.
“Buying the project”
…
You know what this mean, right?
Oh, lol. Okay, I can see where you’re coming from. But I believe he either used a translator or doesn’t know English well, maybe he meant “product” but I don’t think he was implying he wants to buy the actual project from me.
Or maybe he does in which case what’s your offer? 🙂
If I were you, I wouldn’t sell stick nodes for anything.
Ralph deserves de raitsss.
Wut
Please dont sell sticknodes, its going to be just like Minecraft : Microsoft bought it messed up.
Not going to lie if he says $500,000 I’m going to sell it sorry guys lol money.
You are just like the others…
MUNY.
i like how no one noticed i was gone for 2 days
*I
*Two
*.
It’s been quiet here the past day.
But why.
We will never know, but what we can know, is will it blend?
*Puts onhighjump in a blender*
1.We all have things to tender to.
2.DONT BE SEL FRIED FISH!
3.Ralph ,is my sisters stickfigure in the next batch of cooki-I mean stickfigures yet?Shes already mad.And she’s taking her anger by making an animation of her killing me for some weird reason.HELP ME!!
Almost some of your comment made sense.
It was submitted on July 12th, the ones I just uploaded were from around July 4th, soon either the next or one after (both will probably be this week).
I want to see that animation though.
OH ok.
Anyway,the iOS update is coming tomorrow right?I already have an animation planned.I can finally make a good animation of me getting revenge on my sister after seeing that part of the animation where she brutally injured me with a bowling ball! ?
Link to her video then yours
What Onehighjump said.
I played the N64 for the first time of my life, I never felt that weird, it was actually really cool, but I prefer the Dreamcast.
8)
I never played either of those.
Nuuu Ralph are you serious? 🙁
Very 🙁
Well you really missed something.
I seem to miss a lot of game-related things.
Lol.
Ralph’s reached the 500 comment mark. I think you need to raise the trophie thing. You should never have more than 2 people with a gold trophie…you have about 6
And “No” that does not mean make the gold trophie have to be 500.
Wuyey I also want a 500 comments trophy
Like a Diamond trophy or a platinum trophy
Why are you changing your profile picture everrytime
Why do you ask?
I am just asking.
Because Bowser.
Oh ok so you know you can search on your bowser more about bowser! Get it bowser from browser Buna hahahahahahahah LOL ????????????????
Sooo, ehh, am I the only one who don’t get it?
……Wat…… B(
That was something.
Wait what
who would win a fight saitama or goku
I think saitama
Wrong and banned.
think about it
You’re right.
Perma-banned is better.
Never say that when Ralph is somewhere âround here.
Your French “a” is bothering me.
À â æ
: )
I decided to come back and RALPH WTF IS THAT TROPHY
The evil trophy. Also what do you mean come back?
I like how the evil trophy and the golden trophy is shining.
Yeah I like how that turned out. I was going to animate the silver and bronze ones too but decided they’re not special enough.
Lol at everyone with silver or bronze.
You made them sad.