| 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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What…What…What Even…
http://imgur.com/5SUUYIM
I get that Ad too.
Then I have a comment on my YouTube video, in which you told me about an anime/manga p*rno.
(Kill me.)
*opens play store*
Good, good. Clickbait ads are the best ads.
Yee
I get ads on stick nodes about “hot Russian ladies in my area”
You guys are into interesting things.
İ see them when i open website with a phone.
İ use adblocker on PC.
No money for you, Ralph.
🙁
Good, at least someone is keeping his bank account from skyrocketing.
Show me your search history
Ads are based on your interests…
http://i.imgur.com/Fe1yDr2.jpg
Jesus why
We know what you’ve been searching about now DmLan, don’t even try denying it.
Guys.
I found teodorninja’s email by looking back at older messages.
RALPH’S EDIT: NO
Use this as you please.
I laughed at the possibilites.
But let’s not harrass a child.
Lmao, got the email before you could edit it.
But I’m not going to bully him, he suffered a bit too much.
Okie.
My question is: Who is teodoreninja again?
Teodorninja is legendary.
Basically it was a dude who loved power rangers and asked me to make a load of random stickfigures (Penguins of Madascar, angry birds..).
Then one day he decided to make a pack with stolen stickfigures. He assumed that the authors of the stolen stickfigures didn’t knew how to submit a stickfigure (They obviously knew since they were on the website) and unfortunately his pack has been shut down.
This poor guy is a meme of the website lmao.
Legend has it Teo has infected Stick Nodes with his presence and he lives there, waiting for you to make a Power Ranger stickfigure.
Who I sent teodoreninja again??
RUN IT BACK
I have no idea where that comment came from
OMFG! I used pivot today, and it sucks so bad, Stick Nodes is 1,000 times better.
Thank
Lol that’s nice to hear.
Little did he knows that Pivot is the origin of animated stickfigures.
RECORD-SCRATCH.
Long, long ago I saw a commercial for a website called MaMaMedia.com, had games and stuff. This was back in the 90s when the internet was relatively new and I was like 8 or something.
One of the games was FlipSticks. An online “game” where you had 5 frames to pose a single stickfigure, and then play the animation you created. It would tween through the movements.
https://www.google.com/search?q=mamamedia+flipsticks&num=20&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj-ksKAwefSAhVFSCYKHS5OBZAQ_AUICigD&biw=2017&bih=1264
I believe this predates Pivot. Did it inspire Pivot? Probably not, I doubt Peter Bone knew this existed.
However it’s what led me to looking into things, finding Pivot, then Flash, then Flash gamedev, website dev, etc, leading to where I am now.
Story over.
It was a classic old 90’s site and crazy enough, the website only relatively recently was just taken down, like a year or two ago, quite sad, never changed its look or contents.
So if flipsticks never existed, Ralph wouldn’t know of pivot and never get into animating and never create stick nodes? If this is true, when time machine are invented, I’ll just go ahead and make sure flipsticks is never created and boom. No more stick nodes! No more stupid rhgs with capes! No more nothing!
Mamamedia.. I swear I’ve already heard that name before.
But are you telling me that flipsticks is the origin of “stop motion” animations on computers? That’s interesting.
I’ve never saw any 90s ad of my entire life since I’m from 99, I just remember that back in 2006 or something there was a show that talked about the bit wars between Sega and Nintendo and they put a whole bunch of ads of the 90s. Blast processing lmao.
The website got shutdown eh? Well, time to hop in the wayback machine!
Probably not the origin, idk, might have been the first stickfigure animation “program”/web-applet but who knows.
You’re probably thinking of Macromedia lol.
Mamamedia looks so fishy, and I can’t manage to open flipsticks on wayback machine unfortunately, it could have been fun to try it.
This website doesn’t look kid friendly though, it’s quite spooky looking.
Mamamedia was an online website released in 1996 that originally regrouped 4 mini games and flipsticks was introduced in 1998, or even in early 1999. as far as i know, it became with time a forum where you could chat with people too. it wasn’t as fun as a good ol’ crash bandicoot, but when you were really bored it was quite fun. i remember this website, i have no idea how i knew it, maybe because of my brother, but at least it helped me to learn english, a lot actually.
Wow, I thought you were just copy-pasting some summary, but you actually know that much about the site?
But yeah, I remember all that, they had 4 sections. The site never changed, had that classic all-up-in-your-face colors-everywhere 90’s vibe.
Good times though.
Yeah those colors reminds me the 90s real hard. but yes, even myself have heard of mamamedia, somehow. it was really unknown in france, but who the f@ would go on a website that uses a langage you’ve never learned. it was also the website that introduced me to the internet. i still remember myself sitting and playing their games on my father’s windows 95 while my brother was playing spyro. i regret nothing because thanks to this website i know how to speak english.
Comment t’as connu Mamamedia Ethan?
C’était Lucas qui m’a montré mamamedia sur l’ordi de mon père, je sais pas d’où il sort ce site, faudrait vraiment que j’aille lui demander. jamais je ne lui ai été si reconnaissant, c’est grâce à lui que je suis à Atari, grâce à mamamedia aussi. t’as grandi avec gamevial toi, non? c’était pas très connu à l’époque, d’ailleurs je crois que gamevial est sorti en 2005. putain, je jouais à Warcraft 3 à cette époque, j’me sens vieux.
I’m going to speak english from now on because if anyone reads this they’re going to be confused.
Really? It was Lucas? I’m surprised. So that’s because of your english skills that you could join Atari. I was expecting you to join Sony back in the day, since you love Crash Bandicoot.
Yes, Gamevial.com was a pretty cool website back when it was popular, and I’m quite surprised it was out in 2005, it’s not really old.
By the way I think I’m the one who took your Warcraft 3 game because, well… it’s on my shelf, lol.
http://i.imgur.com/ncY2qca.jpg
Everybody STOP TALKING SPANISH.
This is not spanish. There’s no ñ.
Thats clearly Spanish.
Days random things.
This is what happens when your childhood wants to stab your heart.
https://youtu.be/OWUISvqqYX8
BAH!
GONE!
I feel bad for you.
:/
Days random thing.
This is how I download stickfigures. Good luck making sense of it.
I actually made a small program that uses the Gmail API to scan through the appropriate emails, downloads the stickfigures, renames the file as what the user wrote in the email. It ignores emails with the default stickfigures (Bench, etc).
I used to download them all manually back a year+ ago when I didn’t get many.
If I had to download these all manually still, stickfigure submissions would have ended a long time ago.
:O
Holly sh.. how can you do this? That’s awesome.
I think Ett can understand this language AND make a similar program like this.
Lol, this wasn’t too hard, mainly just understanding the way the Gmail API works, which is the code library and system they provide to interact with Gmail email accounts.
Naked guy.
It was just the default without the coloring for the shirt and pants.
Was disappointed.
🙁
Days random things.
Google knows me a little too much.
http://i.imgur.com/n3JiPuJ.png
That happens to me, I’ve been searching amazon for a headset now I’m getting ads for them everywhere
I get ads for Java.
🙁
DmLan stop changing your profile picture or I’ll give you an L.
DmLLan?
I didn’t even changed my profile picture, it changed on its own lmao.
Like TEO’S upperCASE PROBLEM
L.
Does this work?
Dis?
Oh…My…God…
I’m not sure I want to know what you’re going to do now.
Wtf Tom
Lmao. Well, you’re missing the blue line which you won’t be able to replicate so lol @ u.
Test.
Y RALPH’S EMAIL NO WORKIN
Test
Tes
Te
Days random thing
Ralph, why you are not in the “Top Commentators” list.
Because I kept winning too hard.
🙁
Best joke.