| 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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Just waiting for the stick figure I submitted to pop up… any.. minute…. now…..
Wtf, Teodorninja already has 13 comments… dude make your own Stick Figures ffs..
Well i could but one problem i cant make them more cool then dmlan he is making THESE STICKFIGURES more cool then me
Doesn’t matter about how cool it is, use your imagination to the extreme!
I cant it takes too much time so dmlan is the best at making the stickfigures in that vereion
Lol, it also takes DmLan so much time… You really should try to make some of your own every now and then.
Can I wait with you?
He is the best at making them i did one and it was looking like a bunch of random segments
“A bunch of random segments”, boi dat’s all that stickfigures are.
Lol.
Ummm… dude it’s a thing called layering… and bro u don’t need a guy to do work for you, unless ur paying him, which you can’t, plus, creating stickfigures are ez, I created a FanMade DBZ Character named Zeko, and once you see him by the next batch of uploads, you’re gonna be amazed 🙂
Hey. I have to study too.
Just kiddng i made them and they look cool
Just kiddng i made them and they look cool i used the spd ranger to make them
So Ralph when u gonna upload Zeko?!
“Sign me up for boneless Buffalo wings any day.” ~ Ralph 2016
Lmao.
I’m going to do a random chemistry joke now.
Hm.. Nevermind. I was gonna make a joke about Hydrogen and Sodium, but NaH.
7/10
I have been accepted.
Time for another chemistry joke. c:<
What did the scientist say when he found two isotopes of helium?
HeHe
I laughed and I don’t know why.
Got ya.
c:<
All jokes aside, sometimes I have this glitch where a sound cuts off in the app, but in the MP4 preview, it plays the full sound..
Also, I have a glitch where sometimes after I go out of playing an animation, I press stop, and the side settings are still greyed out, but I can still move the nodes of a stickfigure.. No idea why either happens.
Okay, so, can you go into more detail about the sound thing. What happens exactly?
And that second thing, what do you mean “go out of playing an animation”? More details again please.
Two interesting bugs I never heard about. The other day someone has somehow made the main square node static while in Creation Mode and I have no idea how they did that either, lol.
Lel, well, about the sound thing, I’d play an animation, for example, when I did my Soundline Challenge, the sound cuts off in the app, but if I were to export it to MP4, the sound plays perfectly and fully when I preview it in YouTube, it plays the whole sound previewing, but cuts it off in the app.
About the side settings thing, I’d play an animation, so, maybe if I wanted to fix something, I press stop. Well, the side settings, like where all the save and stickfigure/frame settings are, are greyed out like the Animation were to be playing, but I can still move the stickfigure’s nodes. The sound thing always happens with the Soundline Challenge sound, I’m guessing because it’s too long. But I don’t know why the sound plays all the way, uncut during a preview. I have no idea, like I said, why the side thing happens. But about the sound, maybe, but previewing, I dunno that part..
Did that help a bit more? I can be quite vague at times, XD
So long…( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°).
Long, it is. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡ °)
No that helps, thanks.
Yeah the sound thing may be because the animation is long. I can’t do much about it because the sound stuff is all handled by the underlying code library that I use. It may be running out of memory or something and it handles it by just not playing the sound rather than crashing the app or something.
But when you say “cuts off”, do you mean the sound starts playing but doesn’t finish, or it doesn’t play at all? And what happens if you were to, say, open the project again, do the sounds fix themselves?
I guess as long as it exports properly it’s okay, since that part I coded myself, it will always read the complete sound.
As for the grayed out stuff, no idea what that’s about. Is there anything noticeably different you do when this happens, because I can’t reproduce this issue myself so I’m not sure what’s up.
Well, no, the sounds never fix themselves, it’s all the same place it cuts off. And yeah, the sound plays but never finishes in the Animation, but finishes in the preview.
I also forgot to mention that the greying out part rarely happens anymore, the last time it happened, it wasn’t greyed out but I still couldn’t move it. I think I’ve got that one kinda controlled. But like I said, I don’t know, it hasn’t happened again yet so only time can tell. Thanks Ralph!
Stop making bugs and glitches, thanks.
But I break everything…
I like messing with stuff..
I also messed with a Lenny and made Asian Lenny. ( ͡ °͜ʖ ͡° )
Did it work?…
It worked on YouTube… ;c
Maybe a little bit.
Ralph how can i submit a stickfigures pack?
What do you mean? Just send a ZIP file with NODES files inside.
But i dont have a STICK NODES pc Version
You can’t have what doesn’t exist.
Now i did i send a star Wars pack
Hope all of stick NODES users will like my Star WARs pack
They will prefer mine.
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Jk i didn’t made them yet, I am still working on some angry birds and the penguins of madagascar.
Ok why did you changed your profile picture?
Cuz Bowser’s sprites are cool. Especially the BIS ones.
Ok but can You pleeeeeaaase show me an imgur or a noelshack picture link of the angry birds and penguins of Madagascar and star WARs STICKFIGURES you made i wanna see how it worked
EGG-xactly.Heh….heh…..heh….heh…heh.But seriously Bis bowser sprites are pretty cool.I have the game too.Im stuck on the freaking final boss.That lofel guy.(I think that’s his name or how you spell it idk)He keeps on jumping out of bowsers mouth.And that god dang star on that black blobs head!Oh my god!But it’s a really good game. 🙂
Umm…okay.
Lol, you can’t beat Dark Bowser? That’s so easy.
SPOILERS!!!!!!1!11!
First you need to get all the cats so Broque Monsieur (that name sucks lmao) give you his dog, once you got it, just spam it until Dark Bowser die. Then he will go back to life as a giant, hit his torso and he will split out Dark star, then you vaccum Dark star(spam X and Y) and Mario and Luigi will take action. First of all YOU MUST break his glasses first (or else he will avoid the attacks you’ll use on its legs)then the legs. Then he’ll die, Fawful’s head is “melting” and Dark Star is killable, just use the strongest attack you got until he dies.
Thats it
damn Wiggler’s eating game.
DMLAN LEAVE A NOELSHACK OR AN IMGURE PICTURE LINK OF THE STAR WARS ANGRY BIRDS AND PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR STICKFIGURES YOU MADE RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!YOU ARE WAISITING MY TIME
Okey, seems like you can’t really understand, I’ll make a video tonight about what is happening to me right now (its important for my future), if I talk about it in the comments it’s going to be extremely long.
My turn.
*Wasting
c:
DmLan about to make a video what.
Yup, about to make a video (that i didn’t made yesterday, I had homework), I’ll make it today.
Voice reveal!1!1!
I bet you sound French. I bet so much money you sound French.
…well that’s obvious, I am french.
8)
Sorry i screamed 🙁
Ok i am really sorry i screamed ???????????????????? but i reeeeeeeeaaaally wanna see how your star Wars angry birds and penguins of Madagascar stickfigures look like
Y’know you could just stop screaming instead of repetitively saying sorry that you screamed.
I will SUBSCRIBE to your channel as an apologize
*Apology
I can beat dark bowser like cake.Its the freaking dark star with fawfuls head melted.I know how to beat Fawful.I can’t kill the that dang dark star within that freaking time limit.You have to beat the dark star while using your strongest attacks,but…….I can’t.
Here I am not knowing what a dark Bowser is.
That guy : http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/sm64-dopplegangers/images/2/2a/Dark_Bowser.png/revision/latest?cb=20140618025214
Also Crisis, use the star attack i forgot its name (the one where M and L throw small stars to a big one), go find it if you don’t have it, it’s around Peach’s castle.
If you have patience, level up M and L and upgrade their luck (mustache) so it deals more damage.
weueuiei
Upgrade their mustache, lmao…
I know, it doesn’t make sense.
Oh and angry birds too
Guys please be nice with me ok? I sended a star Wars Pack for all of you
Everryone (except dmlan) tell me what are you favourite star Wars characters
I’ve never watched Star Wars lol.