MrMeep

"Daring Do is sold out?!"

Haha fair enough! That sounds cool ... or warm.

Hey there! Welcome to the forum I might be moving to Minnesota for 6 months in a year or two xD Is it any nice? :3 Enjoy your stay!

Welcome to the forum ^^ Do you have any games to showcase?

I agree with the above two posts, game development is hard work, and isn't as simple as just deciding to create a game. It takes years of practice to make anything half decent, and requires you (in most cases) to learn in great detail the workings of one or more computer languages, as well as an understand of the infrastructure and processes which run software programs on computers. Flash is arguably the best option, it's not as easy as the dedicated game builders, but it will give you a lot more flexibility. You could also try the Unreal Development Kit, which is completely free. It's the builder for the game engine used by Gears of War, Bioshock, Unreal Tournament, Mass Effect and other popular games. Their pricing is very fair, I believe it's something along the lines of "a 10% profit share after you earn $5,000" (not those statistics though), so if you planned on selling the game then this could be useful. Unity is another game engine, which comes with a development kit. It's fairly easy to use, and can be ported to a lot of devices. Although you have to pay for licenses to publish your games up front, which can range from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars.

I agree that this situation can be quite annoying :/ But I think slowly but surely, this is becoming lesser the case. 10 years ago, the internet wasn't nearly as popular as it is now, obviously. We all watched mainstream media, and that was our only form of public media consumption. We read newspapers, watched TV a lot more and bought magazines etc. Who controls the content for these mediums? Large media corporations of course, and their objective is to make money. It was the job of executives at media companies to choose what media should portray as cool and not cool, to choose what hobbies and interests they should portray to the masses as interesting. The media had control of the social norms of interests in their hands, so obviously they were going to choose interests which would reap the largest profits. A good example of this is reality TV shows. A large number of people think of them as total rubbish, but to media companies.. they're cheap to produce and thus they will do all they can to market it as cool, and there will always be people who buy into it. After the introduction of the internet however, the consumer was able to create/publish and discuss media without the influence of the large corporations. For the first time, on a global level, you were allowed to show any, perhaps more specialist hobbies you may have (Bronies as an example). I mean we can network with one another, and create our own series of media to enjoy. People can critique media, and provide/debate on what they would prefer to see. I see how although the situation is mostly the same, more and more now you see people with less mainstream hobbies, and for one I hope this continues. I hopefully begin studying Media Production this year, which entails learning how to produce TV shows. I am doing this because I hope for the next generation of media to have a much larger focus on what the user wants, and I hope that we can change the model of mainstream media to accommodate more of the open and sharing based natures of the internet. I've always wanted to produce a show which indulges in the smaller hobbies/interests out there. Not in a patronising way like most do, or in a fashion of "LOOK HOW WEIRD THIS IS" as most media tends to aim to do. But more of an indulgence in things which are different, in an environment which offers the viewers a chance of participation, or at least an insight into the interests behind the people focused. TLDR: Hopefully in the future, we have more of a say in the interests at the heart of mainstream media, opposed to being drip fed what is supposed to conform to social norms.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPfMb50dsOk This

I wanna go snuggle Kaze but I'd have to move stuff off the bed D:

A lucky guess :3

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Ohio?

Welcome! <3

I use Audacity too D: Go on their website and download the LAME MP3 Encoder, then you can export to MP3

OH haha, sorry, so you did! I have ADD so tend to skip over words at times XD ~

She doesn't use Flash ^^ She uses Photoshop We're still toying around with Flash ~