| 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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Days random things
There’s *for the first time* in my recommended videos a Sonic Heroes video.
It’s a video about 2 dudes playing 2p mode and trying to figure out how to play the game, while mashing every button.
Is Sonic Heroes that hard to get used to?
Im just commenting this to make you notice I read it
sorry that was me and Sean
Didn’t knew you were so bad at Sonic Heroes.
Also why are you playing with your arch nemesis.
Ralph, why not a dinosaurs section? There are many of them so why not?
I know. I want to make an “Animals” section but then, you know, I have to go through thousands of submissions and manually re-categorize a bunch of them >_> Might do it soon, after I get the website slowness/downtime fixed.
Days random thing.
I’m maybe going to be migrating the website to a new host today/tomorrow. If there’s downtime it means I broke something and everything is on fire. Sorry.
Update? Website update? :0 😀
But hopefully nothing breaks and gets caught on fire.
Well, not an “update”, I’m switching it to a new host because this one can’t handle the traffic anymore (downtime and slowness).
The website is actually already up and running on the new host, there’s just an issue with the email system that has to be worked out before I can point the domain over to it.
Maybe today, only way you should notice anything different is if the website is faster 🙂
Ohhhh.. So does that mean posting comments will be a lot faster? Cuz it takes forever to load for me
Yeah there’s no problem, I understand why you’re changing host.
I like how old friends are still there for you.
Yeah they’re good people, even though I didn’t really ever know them before lol. They’re helping me out a lot but allowing me to move into their server though, just hoping it actually improves the website’s speed.
Days random things
I’m just litterally discovering new things about my favorite game everyday.
There was a trailer to Sonic Heroes, how didn’t I knew this.
https://youtu.be/FmWwg-diUWs
i actually remember the trailer. there’s no hype in it
Yeah, I was expecting something better coming from Sonic Heroes.
Yeah.When Harpia watched it,she said wtf kinda name is team dark?
I’m so hyped for the update.
My expectations in the update (most likely won’t be in the update xD):
Transparency
Higher node count (500 :D)
Higher text capacity thingy
Fix for flashing while rotating glitch when using pinch rotate and with tweening on
Fix for flashing glitch when sticks are joined together
Slow-mo with frame duration when using tween
And don’t forget text rotation
Also Vcan rotation
Oh wow are you about to be HUGELY disappointed.
I can already tell that those features may not make it
MAY NOT MAKE IT
Awh, I knew it :c
Some features are just way too good to be true ( ´Д`)y━･~~
Days random thing
Why no one has an Evil Trophy?
Because Sonic Heroes.
In 2015 a Turkish boy named berke used his toaster to make toast
İ still use the same toaster to make toasts lol.
İ will just comment this again.
Because i cant see the old one.
Neither can I.
Weird, huh?
Hello?
Website is gray for me now.
Thats good
I dun like de update <n<
WHAT, AFTER ALL THE TIME I SPENT IN TRANSLATING IT, YOU DARE TO SAY ITS BAD? WHAT ABOUT RALPH, HE WORKED A LOT TOO.
XKXKQKFKEKFKFKD
No one cares about the damn update if their isn’t an opacity feature.
Nah nobody actually wants opacity.
Not only Nobody, i want it too.
come at me
I bet nobody does want opacity.
I want opacity >:0
Off topic:
My pic is fab
I laughed. Why did this creepypasta or whatever it is get so popular who started it?
I’m making a video on it. Get ready for another herd of kids spamming you 😀