| 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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So lets talk about us you guys
I’m doing good how are you.
I’m fine,I’m making the first episode of my series,and it’s almost done!!
Excellent. It better be well-animated or you’re fired.
Oi (งಠ_ಠ)ง u wanna go m8
Days random thing
Why my picture is weird on recent comments.
(Not the page, you know, small one, its on the left side of the page, and its small, and its only shows few comments.)
I see purple dude in the recent comments for you.
İ dont, İ thing my phone is broken.
Comments and recent comments are broken ralph.
Fix your website now.
How are they broken? (Seriously they look good to me. It may be a side-effect of the caching going on but I need to know what’s wrong specifically.)
Okay its better but i’ll explain it.
Basically what happens is the recent comments show previous comments such as the newest comment will be on Teodorninja but i posted a comment on swordyl and the older comments will appear and not show the newest one.
Investigate
Proof: http://imgur.com/a/YwHD3
Okay, I see. Yeah, it’s delayed a little. I think because I’m logged in I’m not served the cached files, so it’s live for me.
As long as the delay isn’t too long (from what you said it doesn’t seem like it is?) that’s basically the cache at work to prevent having to load the CPU with a fresh site call per every visitor.
I may be able to play with this and tweak it as time goes on and I get a better handle on getting the site performance under control, right now it’s pretty good.
İ have the same problem too.
RALVO PLS FİX
How long until it updates? If you refresh the page now what is the top recent comment?
İ only remember the clock shows 2:57
On my side, it updates until I refresh the page.
I believe the delay is at most 5 minutes, depending on when you view the cached page.
I could be wrong but this is what I see for me at least.
Is it me or do i find maddox name…
Weird and disturbing
Mad Dox.
Is there something disturbing?
No his FULL username
“Shemxy Time (Maddox)”
I think my mind is in the gutter
Oh yeah that is weird.
İ like that name
Nah it’s a good name.
Days random thing.
This website is so responsive now. How can some thumbnails cause such bad performance.
“The website is so responsive now”
http://i.imgur.com/BgYjz8a.png
İ cant open your link Dm
……
How many times do you see that thought? I’ve been all over the website today and haven’t had it happen to me once vs every other page a few days ago.
It constantly happens every 5 pages.
And that’s kinda annoying.
Wow really? I haven’t seen one all day and my host even tells me that CPU usage is well below what it was.
Is anyone else seeing it that frequently? A few days ago even I couldn’t use the site, but like I said, it seems pretty good now.
Im good too raph, without 500 errors at day, but what is happening with the thumbnails? And where are the new submits?
I need to wait to hear from the developer of the plugin that I use for stickfigure submissions, but he isn’t getting back to me. Waiting a bit more before I have to resort to any other alternatives.
And, thats how StickNodes died.
500 ERRORS
Dude,ralph why do you erased my precious sticknodes on the page
What did I erase?
Days random thing.
This is why I can’t do transparency (without the need for extra steps).
Days random thing 2.
Wireframe mode would be cool.
Look how complex the drawing of this stickfigure is.
And you crazies want me to up the node limit…
What’s the point of adding wireframe.
I don’t like your attitude. We might have to throw down.
But is there anything useful in this wireframe mode? Because except from “inspect” the stickfigure I can’t find any use to it.
I’m not adding it or anything. It would just be something to look cool, the stickfigures would look like that when exported. It’s not for anything useful, just an effect.
Why i cant see these images
Does http://imgur.com load for you? You’ve said this before but I think everyone else can see them.
İ can open imgur,
But i cant open i.imgur
That’s weird. How come? Is it blocked or something?
Looks like you’re having fun programming stick nodes, i think you are taunting people with these screenshots.
Ooh that Twitch Gravatar
I always play Twitch on League of Legend.
I like related things.
Days random thing.
http://i.imgur.com/c7FfBWN.jpg
10/10
Ralph, C’mon man you can! FIX IT!!
When i open imgur from my tablet, i can see this picture.
So, whats is the problem about transparency, it looks normal.
Each segment is visible under segments in front of it. Rather than the entire stickfigure being drawn transparent as a whole, which is what people want when they think transparency. It’s tough to explain but you can see what I mean in the image.
Also why can you only see Imgur on your tablet?
Also Berke is R!CH because he has a tablet.
R.I.P. Filled circle
We loved you
Lol, I was always bothered by how I named that, because if anything the regular circle should have been called Filled Circle.
Wish the circle with the hole can be transparent.
(The hole isn’t filled)
Ye…