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Kingston 💚
2022-01-06 03:30:34 UTC @ralph so ik this is wierd but can you tell stuff about you, like your whole story about when you first used pivot and were inspired to make sn and how long it took to make it and how hard it was and how you made the site I’m just so curious about how you’ve done it. SN is my life, i really want to know everything that led up to it
Stick Nodes®
A stickfigure animation app created for mobile devices!
Create your own stickman animations on your Android or iOS device!
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i was gonna say what SAZ said but i realize i didn’t go into great detail
not like it’s anything special
i’ll write it up later bc no time right now, will be good to just have it so i can link ppl to this post when i get asked this lol
aight here’s the tl;dr
back in the 90s there was a commercial for a site called mamamedia.com
(only recently went offline maybe 2 years ago and they never changed anything about it lmao)
it was 90s af, so i took my little snot nosed kid ass to the family dial up computer and checked it out
they had a game called Flipstix which was where they gave you 5 frames to pose a stickfigure then click play – and it would tween the movement
so not much, but i really liked it for some reason
between then and 2005, I found Game Maker and used it to make stupid little games (really got into gamedev here)
fast forward to 2005, i searched for “stickfigure animator” to find similar games like Flipstix
found Pivot
soon after, found the (now defunct) darkdemon.org forums, which was basically a Pivot forum
(really got into animation here)
I lived there for a few years, this was my high school years now
i never really animated a *lot* but I did stuff
became a mod there, was then banned by Adam eventually because I sarcastically insulted him or some shit idfk dude was butthurt so that was when I left that community
my time there was spent messing with Pivot, Flash, and getting into website design
I did freelance WordPress theme design for a bit, also messed with trying to make small niche article-based websites and flip them for a profit
(really got into webdev/design here)
then went back to Flash to make games
I made web-based Flash games through the rest of high school into college and would get them sponsored by ArmorGames or w/e, sites like that, for a few $100s to $2000 or so
at this point I was decently experienced with animation, gamedev, and website/Wordpress stuff, so with those powers combined I said “let me make a Pivot, but with blackjack and hookers (aka tweening)”
so I did
plan was to put it on my resume and then go get a “real” job
but SN started gaining traction, and I just had a real passion for it because, like, animation
so I kept working on it, so since 2014 onward
now im here
[< === to be continued]
amazing
and 2 things: 1 besides anything SN related, do you have any other jobs?
2 if you do the community about us stuff u should have occupation as an option
i have never actually had a real job funny enough
never had an interview, a boss, etc
always just did online freelance/my own stuff
SN earns me enough to live off of, though I am still toying with the idea of getting a “real” job to supplement the income plus just to like, you know, see what real life is like lol
cool
thanks kanye
Loser
Why are you going through Ralph favorite tab again 🤨
He’s stalking his crush
gey
W Story
became a mod there, was then banned by Adam eventually because I sarcastically insulted him or some shit idfk dude was butthurt so that was when I left that community
You’ve become Adam
Your so old
Everything and everyone in your backstory is dying or has already died
what brought you to this post today i need to know
Your Mom
Why were you going through Ralphs favorites tab 🤨
Want to see which minors he’s targeting now