| 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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I still don’t get this stick nodes demon sh*t.
Why does this even exist.
On an off topic note, I opened a kinder eggs once and there was like, j*zz or some sh*t in it.
Cool
why did I laugh at this
It’s a Photoshop that somehow went viral in the Stick Nodes community. I’m flattered and intrigued at the same time.
I GOT THAT SAME EGG ONCE.
But then ate it.
🙂
YOU ATE THE TOY?
He’s on about the j*zz
Also, he’s lying. Kinder eggs are illegal in America for some reason
Well I have a good idea why they might be illegal……….
Also I was thinking of Cadburry eggs.
Cus words!*shoots* FATALITY!
Ok ..
Im calling the rock!
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡ °)
(° ͡͡ ͜ʖ ͡°)
Can’t do it anymore.
Eh?
Here let me help.
(° ͡͡ ͜ʖ ͡°)
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
lol I’d this your phone number Ralph?
2147483647?
Its not lol. It’s unfortunate that my favorite number is the same length as a phone number though so it gets underlined 🙁
It’s underlined because it’s special.
After all, it’s YOUR favorite number.
It’s not underlined to me =P
Days random things.
I can’t believe you guys are forgetting an important date..
July 23th, do you have any idea of what this means?
IT’S SONIC’S BIRTHDAY BOIS, HE’S 26 NOW.
SONIC HEROES
June* my bad.
🙁
way to blow it, better luck next year
Was looking around in SN’s files and actually found stuff for that stupid SN demon stuff archived.
“EastereggAtlas.txt”
“index: -1
face
rotate: false
xy: 326, 127
size: 44, 39
orig: 44, 39
offset: 0, 0
index: -1
smoke1
rotate: false
xy: 252, 186
size: 240, 131
orig: 240, 131”
There’s more but no.
Ralph had to have been the one who added it in.
Because logic.
That’s not in my files I think you’re mistaken.
I found it somewhere.
It’s something.
Stop lying to me, you’re triggering me.
Nah everyone is just re-posting some 1 guy’s Photoshop.
Day’s random thing:
I found this in my notes.
So-called “moral” behaviors, such as altruism and reciprocity, are not inherently human. In the natural world, they can be observed in a variety of animal species, especially social animals. Science shows that such behavior has an evolutionary benefit: creatures who learn to interact well with their kin will have a stronger likelihood of survival and passing on their genes.
All of this means that, from a scientific viewpoint, morality does not stem from God. Instead, it has its roots in brain chemicals and is supported by strong cultural conditioning. Parents pass their morals along to their children, and individuals take social cues regarding “right” and “wrong” behaviors from friends, family, media influence and more. Religious texts are just an attempt to codify acceptable behaviors into a set of laws. Unfortunately, these rules can quickly become outdated, irrelevant and even painfully arbitrary.
It’s fashionable for religious people to claim that atheists are immoral hedonists, but a quick survey of real people shows that to be false. By and large, atheists are no less moral than any other group of people.
I think you just won “days random thing”.
Also why did I read that whole thing.