ForTheLoss.org Site

Oh joy, the About Me page. I always hate writing in these things mostly because I never know where or how to start. I mean, I could tell you my whole life story how I got myself in this whole situation with Flash and all this nonsense but I know alot of you guys really dont care about that. Hmm, alright. Lets break it down into two different parts,... shall we? Ill write two sections one will be a somewhat detailed story about my escapades with the internets and the other will be a tl;dr summary. I gotta say, its kinda weird to think about, but I firmly believe that had I not seen a certain commercial one night back when I was, oh, 9 or so years old, my entire life would be different. It was a commercial advertising a website full of kiddie games called MaMaMedia.com . Upon visiting this site a few times, I stumbled across a certain game . Well, I use the term game loosely. Anyway, it was a small game where you could animate a stick figure in 5 frames. It sounds kind of dull but when youre 9 and youve never seen anything like this before, its loads of fun. This is what sparked my interest in animation and led me to Google around for a stick figure animation program, I was able to find an application called Pivot . It was a very simple (but still powerful if used creatively) program that allowed you to easily create gif animations of stick figures. I also found and joined a great forum community focused on Pivot and animation in general. It was inevitable that I would soon learn of Flash and when I did, boy did my world change. nt a good few years of my life doing nothing else other than playing with Flash, making small animations, watching Flash animations online, and contributing in Flash/animation-based forums. Eventually I began wanting to create games with Flash (because I knew it was possible). Sadly though, I knew it was too complicated for me at the time. Once again Google came to the rescue and I discovered another great program called Game Maker . I had loads of fun using Flash to make sprites to use in ...Read More