Another month and this elusive 1.6.0 update still isn’t out. What gives?

Great question!

No, but seriously, all the technical talk aside, it’s been difficult to get things working the way I want them working (in a cross-platform solution), but I believe I’m coming down the home-stretch. I’d estimate 1.6.0 will be available for Android users within a week or two. Not sure about the release time for the iOS update yet, as that has it’s own issues I’ve yet to look into, but I’ll have more information about that after I’m done with the Android update.

In the meantime, do you see these stats up there (website hits)? September was the biggest month for Stick Nodes yet. It’s insane how the userbase keeps growing month after month. A majority of it is due to you guys, I know many of you share Stick Nodes with your friends and even post your animations on Youtube, Twitter, and Facebook – and I very much appreciate it.

It’s getting harder and harder for me to select just a few stickfigures for the “best of” montages I do each month. I used to just be able to grab the entire month’s worth of submissions, but now the monthly submissions have risen by at least 5x since then – so that’s no longer viable.

Anyway, glad you guys are really enjoying the app, makes me want to continue to develop it to make it even better. Hopefully it won’t take another month for another news post, I plan on having this 1.6.0 update out by then (again, at least for Android users).

And just like that another month has gone by. Since summer is ending and a good 90% of you are under 20 years old, I’d suppose that means most of you have started school again, huh? Just be sure to tell everyone you know about Stick Nodes!

As you can see from the image above, August was a great month for stickfigure submissions – and those are just a fraction of the submissions I received this past month! Go check out the stickfigures page and get some of these new stickfigures to use in your animations. Or, better yet, submit some of your own from within the app!

What’s New?

Okay, so I’ve been working on the 1.6.0 update of Stick Nodes for the past month now. I’ve posted about it before on the official Stick Nodes Facebook and Google+ pages, but I’ll fill you guys in on the details, too.

While I won’t go into all of the details until things get finalized, I can tell you some of the changes you can expect when 1.6.0 is released (hopefully soon):

• New behind-the-scenes method of saving projects/stickfigures to prevent out-of-memory crashes some users experience with large files.
• Exporting GIFs and MP4s is a smoother process and doesn’t lock-up your device.
• Open/Import list of projects/stickfigures is alphabetized for easier navigation.
• More tweaks, fixes, and additions that I’ll go into later…

So that’s all I’ll say for now until I’m close to having the entire update finished. After that, I can get back to work on the desktop version!

Alright, so nothing terribly new to report on, but I just wanted to make a new post to keep you guys updated as to what’s actually going on.

First off, did you guys hear that Five Nights at Freddy’s 4 is out?

Of course you did. At this point I think everyone and their grandmother knows about FNAF. Celebrate the release by downloading some of the community-made FNAF stickfigures! (Stickfigures created by My Name is Giam and Inline.)

Stick Nodes (Desktop)

Stick Nodes Desktop is still being developed. Lots of cool stuff for you guys to look forward to. I’ll reveal more when there’s more to reveal, but for now, here you can see an image of the new color-picker that pops up. Amazing, huh? Yeah, I know…

Forum

So I’ve wanted to create a forum here for a while, but never felt like the time was “right.” For the time being, Sean over at AnimationAlpha.com has put together a forum and for the time-being, I thinks its a pretty good home for Stick Nodes users. Go check it out and show off your animations there, I’m active there as well so I’ll be checking out everything you guys submit.