| 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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WHY I DONT SEE THE RECENT COMMENTS!?!!!?!
*Breaks Berke’s new metal chair*
They’re there in the sidebar, as well as the link to the page too.
Why are you LYING.
Cache isn’t refreshing sometimes
How do you even know it’s not updating though? (Seriously asking, how do you know you’re not seeing something you should be seeing?)
When I’m on the Recent comment page, I see old comments that aren’t supposed to be here.
Me too.
Hmm, okay. Haven’t thought of that. The Recent Comments page is set to never be cached so it’s always up-to-date, while other pages are delayed.
I’ve lowered the timeout of cached pages to 5 minutes before they need to be updated again. Not sure if it will help. I will keep lowering this number slowly until maybe it’s at 1 minute. As long as the site stays stable (no lovely 500 errors) then that should help.
That happens me too.
Actually, i didnt bought a new chair.
İ am still using that broken chair.
I hope that one day, you’ll fall off this broken chair.
Berke please have a webcam recording yourself all day to catch this event when it happens.
That happend a Turkish youtuber on live stream lol.
So, i wanna send that video, but i will probably get banned.
So, you dont need to clean your MİGHTY BAN HAMMER when you see me.
There’s no better streamer than the mighty Vargskelethor, uncle Joel, the man who triggered the GRAND DAAAAD meme.
Flintstones?!
I’ll allow it if you can actually find said video.
I’m almost certain DmLan just made up a streamer.
Also MightEtt makes no sense anymore.
Why doesn’t anybody make sense anymore.
Not making this up, look
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF-xdiL7Nr0
MightyEtt’s comment now makes a little more sense.
However “making more sense” is entirely relative in this case.
Bootlegland is such a beautiful place, I want to live in and be friends with 7Grand dad.
:/
Grand dad and Senic Adventure 8.
Do you know where Thane went? >~> I feel sad now that one of my favorite animators in history has disappeared. ;-; Not even telling us where and why he went there to do whatever it is he needed/wanted to do.
D: I don’t UNDERSTAND WHYYYYYYY HE DID THAT!
Also question, do you plan on adding another person to the About Us section.
He’s gonna add me. He hasn’t told me, but I know it
Thane is like 80 years old I think he has things to do.
Actually more like early 20s I think but still.
Days random things.
I got the results of my exams.
I got 87/100
So I was so happy that I got myself some ps2 games. Crash 4, Spyro a Hero’s tail, God of war and Shadow the hedgehog.
Boy I’m going to have some fun
Wow, thats like my English exams.
Except that it doesn’t helps yo having a job.
http://i1.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/007/666/_57c8a1a431a592af806925e57258202f.png
Yee, i will have an exam like that in april.
Actually, its not for job, its for high school.
But it will effect my future pretty heavily.
No pressure.
Your entire life depends on this exam.
NO PRESSURE.
Actually, it is.
Why would I have pressure? I’m just going to study until I have the bac (I have no idea how you call that, baccalaureate maybe?) to get my job.
Jobby DmLan
I was saying Berke is under pressure. He’s taking the Turkey Test in April.
Yee, its important.
Very. Very. İmportant.
Days random thing.
They see them ROLLIN!
What
I hope you appreciate I specifically go out of my way to not use Imgur all because of you.
YOU.
Uhh, good thing is, i can see the picture.
Stick Nodes – Walkcycle tutorial.
Walky
Days random thing
Okay, here is a question
What is the most OP hero of all time.
(Spoiler: İ am doing stickfigure version of him)
(Spoiler 2: Not İron-Man)
Spidöh-man? Spider-Man? Mmmm… A dead water pool?
A strange magician doctor?
IROH RALPH
Bowser, obviously.
http://cdn.smosh.com/sites/default/files/ftpuploads/bloguploads/laughing-gifs-foolish-human.gif
No, it’s semen surfer.
No, no…
Ihön man.
Uhh, nuu
(Spoiler 3: its not a marvel thing)
Goku
…who would easily beat the most OP character, Superman.
Days random thing Sean gifted me a Goku for Christmas and it only arrived a century late.
Nuu, i know a guy that actually lot more OP than Goku.
Nicowsky132?
Uhh, so close.
What?! Well thank you
Ralph please add more sounds to the app like undertale sounds if you add undertale sounds than I will be amazed by that so please add undertale sounds
Maybe in a future update, but in case you don’t know you can freely add sounds to your Stick Nodes app on your own, as long as their MP3 files and less than 256kb in size.
Guys, I know, it’s Yasuo from League of legends. He told me on skype.
You mean hanzo?:
http://ddragon.leagueoflegends.com/cdn/img/champion/splash/Yasuo_0.jpg
Yee
Hanzo… Why hanzo and not Genji?
This means Im a Dragon Brother
Nuu, Yasuo
Yaso
Best LoL character and skin so far. Yasuo is for noobs.
I have one too!, but it’s articulable
We all know the correct answer is The Legend27.
Guys,your all incredibly wrong.Its Shrek!
No, Donkey.
No, it’s Johnson scarce
Shhh, Ralph, what’s going to be featured in the next update? 7u7
A Spidöh-Man button
Mainly a UI update. I haven’t gotten to work on it yet though, been trying to get some work done on another project.
Can the next update be about little things. I feel your focusing too much on adding major features when we need A HIGHER NODE LIMIT.
Well a higher node limit is just changing1 number, lol. Thing is I’m not sure about it. Look at the people that already yell at me daily about crashes when saving/exporting, mainly due to too much memory usage, which is mainly due to too many frames with stickfigures with nodes.
I know sometimes it’s necessary, but being limited also forces you to be more creative 😀
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
Days random thing.
Going through stickfigures. User “The_Burned_Man” submitted this.
I’m not uploading it but it made me laugh.
I need it.
This and the t-rex lol.
LoL
Send me it now
That stickfigure makes you look slimmer and more muscular than you actually are.
Let’s go right now.
I’m already there!