| 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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Hey Ralph, are you aware about the bad quality gradients when animations are exported?
The gradients look alright in MP4s don’t they? At least for me. In GIFs they’re bad, yeah, but that’s just the nature of GIF files, they’re limited to 256 colors and as a result gradients do not play nice.
Awh. Sad 3:
Also Idk about mp4s cuz I don’t have pro >~>
Get it
I don’t have money
Same.
I’m making a borderlands pack
Here’s what I got so far https://imgur.com/gallery/t5rbZ
What other things from borderlands should I make
Handsome Jack.
Handsome Jack.
And Handsome Jack.
A bullymong slinger? Ok
Is that a wheelbarrow.
No, he’s a cl4p tp Stewart bot but his friends call him clap trap. Well they would if they were still alive or existed in the first place
…I’m going to just call it a wheelbarrow.
It looks nothing like a wheel barrow
I’d like a new caption please.
“I like Sonic Heroes”
Yeah sounds about right.
No, “I love sonic boom” is what he meant
Do it
No.
Yes
Your caption doesn’t even make sense anymore 😐
Yee
“like”
Because “I deeply love” is better?
Yee
Make it “I love sonic boom”
Yee
I’m gonna eat your soul.
Same thing to you Ralph.
Lol’d.
I was attacked by a huge wave of 500 internal error screens.
Yes sorry. This was planned maintenance from my webhost.
However it lasted a few hours beyond 6:00AM ET regrettably, seems to be back now.
I was sp00ked.
Can I have a new caption *Actuallly dosent know more than 1 language
No.
How do u get captions? Do I just ask u or smth >~>
Pretty much :O
Then… Can my caption be “Don’t eat me” 😀
But I kinda want to eat you, you sound tasty.
Pls no >~>
Lewd.
Lewd?
0~0; …
Thnx for the caption btw 😀
Felix’s year 2006 random things.
I had 2 best friends back in the day. One had a Gamecube and the other one had an Xbox (not the 360, the first one). And I obviously had my good old ps2.
So my friends were like “yeah Halo 2 is better than Mario/Mario is better than Halo” and stuff, and I just came and I simply said something like “Sonic Heroes. Try it. It’s good”.
They were confused. And I enjoyed it. Even though I should have said a Crash Bandicoot related thing, since Playstation’s mascot is Crash.
I was aware Sonic Heroes was available on both Gamecube and xbox somehow. I still wonder to this day if they’ve played it.
Now the real question is, why do I love Sonic Heroes so much? Why do I love the sixth generation of home consoles? I want answers. I feel like I’m endlessly in the years 2000-2006, and I can’t escape from it.
why do I remember all of this all of a sudden
Mario > Halo
Also Sonic > Mario
Lol. You’re permanently attached to nostalgia.
Also new games suck ass. From what I see, they seem like interactive movies rather than actual games with their quick time events and “mash X to hit the boss” and too much cinematic hand-holding rather than fun, challenging, rewarding gameplay.
On another note, been working on getting all of the text from SN into the translation files. This is everything except all of the dialogs, so like 20% lol https://pastebin.com/raw/FwpCTYw6
The only games that still keeps up the pace are the Elder Scroll games. Skyrim is great.
They’re not all “interactive games” as you say but they do alot of that kind of thing, I freakin hurt my thumb once, because there was too many button mashing sequences. That’s probably one of the main reasons why I play old games, because theres not that kind of thing. Even though old games are glitchy and stuff they still give a good challenge, unlike the new games.
Nostalgia beats everything. I don’t know what Sonic Heroes did to trigger my love for old video games but it sure worked.
Anyways, are you telling me that all of this is only 20% of the texts in the app? I’m going to have a lot of work once it’ll be at 100%. But I’m still glad that I’ll be able to help you soon.
I never played Skyrim games.
I should make a list of every game/movie/tv show I’ve never watched/played.
Actually it would be easier to just like the 3-4 I have watched/played…
Lol, yeah. That’s why I’m saying I intend on reimbursing you for your Frenchy services, as well as all other translators. Funny thing is I may have every language I need right now covered by SN users, so I may not have to go outside of the animation-world to get these translations, which will help because some terminology can be tricky unless you know wtf animation is.
I don’t want any reimbursement, thanks. You may have many SN users from around the world, but they still have to decide if they want to help, but I’m pretty sure they’re going to help you.
Okay well I did have this here golden, super-rare, limited edition Sonic Heroes game, still wrapped never opened. Was going to send it to you but that’s fine, nvm.
Lmao, as if it existed.
I want a golden ps2 though.
Days random things.
One of my friends was trying to get all the amiibos but he gave up. So he sold one part of the amiibos he acquired and he gave one to each of his friends.
There was a Bowser one to win, even though I already owned it, I wouldn’t mind to own it twice.
So I was hoping to get the Bowser one but no, I got Fox.
I’m triggered.
http://i.imgur.com/K4GG5Cdr.jpg
I have no idea what game this Fox is even from.
I’m triggered for you.
Nah, he’s pretty cool. I like Fox.
I just wished I had Bowser.
Or Sonic. Yeah, I could have a Sonic Amiibo.
OH PLEASE NOWHAT HAVE YOU DONE
is that super saiyan human sonic
Wait
Cloud is a human version of Sonic? Wait… does that means..
CLOUD HEROES? HELL NO
I work here now.
I want a raise.
>~>
dude, same