Cloudflash - I'll be here...

Hello, and welcome to Cloudflash. Typical activities include watching the clouds float by, sleeping, and exchanging the tokens of dairy products for things that may or may not amuse you.

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Urgent!

March 06, 2010 - So much for that
Danny Poloskei	Well, it's been over a month and I pretty much haven't touched that "to do" list from February at all. So far, I've fixed up El Cacto a little like I said I would and I just brought Cloudflash Mix out of hiatus (updates every Thursday now). As I mentioned once or twice in my Twitter, I was working on Copy Ninja vs. Copyright 2 for some time. Seems I didn't really give it a formal announcement, though I made some mention of it on the forum... Anyhow, I was working on it like mad, but then I suddenly lost interest and haven't touched it for weeks. I am going to finish it. It's a lot better than the first one... well, maybe not as clever, but I don't think people entirely appreciated the subtle jokes of the "forbidden jutsu" being those which are protected by copyright laws or that Kakashi was punished for such theft. Anyhow, much better art, better writing, better voice acting, more action planned, etc. I'll give my usual 90% value promise that I'll have it done before summer ends. Bringing up Silbird again, so far it has over 150 views on YouTube, 2 ratings, and no comments. I'm guessing it'll get enough views for my statement before, but probably only one or two comments max, so maybe I'll just drop that project unless I REALLY feel like remaking/fixing it sometime. I sometimes think about redesigning some stuff on Cloudflash, but those thoughts don't go too far... Adding/making new graphics, maybe killing the background image on the main site and going with a solid colour... I think about how swell it would be if Cloudflash had a good MySQL database; then there'd really be some opportunities to organize things better and such, and then the forum wouldn't have to be on a different host... By the way, Hostbidder, the site I used to get free domains from, seems to have merged with some other site and it seems like they don't offer the free domains anymore. It looks like I'll have to get a credit card, find a domain registrar with decent pricing, and start paying; cloudflash.net will last until July. And then I wonder if I should pay for hosting so Cloudflash could be better, but am I willing to shell out, like, $50 to $100 per year for little ol' Cloudflash? Actually, the forum's current host seems pretty decent. Distracted in the middle of writing this post, I was looking at some various hosting sites for about an hour. Most of them were vague on things I wanted to know and it was hard to find information on them, but the forum's current host was more clear... No file size limit, seems to include the features I want, around $60 per year, domain name included... I think I'll transfer all of Cloudflash to this host right now, actually. Maybe I can even still get away with free hosting for now, but I'll have to do something about that domain name.
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February 02, 2010 - To do
Danny Poloskei	I've always got so much stuff to do... I'll write some stuff here so you guys know what's going on, and it doubles as a reminder to myself! Well, first off, I did a couple of insignificant things. In the Miscellaneous section, I added two new pictures to my "Colors! gallery" page and I added some of my daily drawings (the better ones) to my "openCanvas gallery" page. I made another daily picture on January 31st in the form of a wallpaper... it's just some sort of forest. The bark on the trees doesn't really make sense, or at least I don't think I've seen trees like that before. I should've shaded the trees a bit better to show some depth... Anyhow, I stuck that in the Downloads section. I might edit it someday. Looking back on my old wallpapers, they're kinda embarrassing (aside from the Cloud City Ransom one, and the Blind Swordsman one is almost decent). I'll probably take them out of the Downloads section eventually, but still have links to them in Cloudflash's History section. Some of you may have noticed the new Scream face emoticons on the forum... I intend to replace all of the emoticons with Scream versions. I don't really like the original Scream faces I made (an edit of a phpBB3 emoticon), but the new ones don't really have the same charm. -What I've been doing- 1. If you didn't already know, I've been improving my art, and I think it's working. 2. Coming up with new Cloudflash Mix ideas! From sometime in December to now, I've come up with around 20 ideas. 3. Coming up with and developing some new stories... I've got over 10 story ideas written down. Unfortunately, they aren't short ones, and they're still trickling in. I won't be touching these until I can draw professional looking manga (anime style), though. -Other things I've been doing- 1. Watching anime and reading manga... 2. Translating manga from Japanese to English. 3. Making pixel art for something (not Cloudflash-related). -To do- 1. Make good Scream emoticons. 2. Take care of some of those yogurt requests. 3. Create graphics for the "previous" and "next" buttons on the comic pages... Y'know, like every other webcomic site does. 4. Fix up the mistakes in El Cacto like I said on December 30th's announcement in 2009... and remove the "score" part of the game/movie pages as mentioned there, too. 5. Create border graphics so I can put text on the site in its own little "box", if you will, rather than just having white text on the background. 6. This one's a very large project, but I want to create an entire city for the modern day world of Cloudflash. A city with multiple elementary schools and high schools, stores, malls, playgrounds, streets, thousands of houses... Really, an entire city. And I want every street and building to be named. I've got some stories involving magic, some set in the past, or whatever other things like that... Those stories won't use this city, but I intend to use this city for like... General Cloudflash Mix purposes or as the setting for my more realistic stories. 7. Perhaps create a specific section for my art and have the images neatly displayed as thumbnails. 8. Make a new set of update avatars (always with the update avatars)... 9. Organize my art tips better and go into better detail with the explanations, including example images. There's gotta be thousands of free art tutorials out there, but the ones I see seem to be pretty much useless (unless you just want to learn how to draw something in one specific pose without really being able to apply it to anything else). 10. Bring C-Mix out of hiatus... 11. Make new wallpapers. 12. Sleep. 13. Maybe make the Characters section more like Newgrounds' cool "The Staff" page. 14. Maybe just some general layout improvements to make the site sexier... 15. Update the logo to at least say 2010. 16. Make Final World Quest better as mentioned on November 30, 2009. And I'm gonna go put the unfinished "Silbird" movie on YouTube, explaining the situation and linking to Cloudflash in the comments. You're all thinking "Who cares about that cheaply animated thing? I bet no one's ever heard of this 'Hyadain' or 'Silbird' thing...", but you'll see! I bet 20 yogurt tokens it'll have at least 10 comments and a couple hundred views within the next three months! ... What? I don't sound too confident about it? Well, at least Cloudflash would reach people that little bit. In other news, I might heavily cut my Flash game projects. I'm not a good programmer... I should tell my stories through comics or animations instead. There are a couple of Flash games I really want to make, though, so I will eventually.
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January 02, 2010 - Corruption
Danny Poloskei	Silbird.fla has corrupted. I've tried everything. It was around 95% done. It is now impossible to open it. I was going to finish it today, but I guess not. I've tried decompilers, my friend tried opening it on his computer, I tried opening it in different ways... it's hopeless. I was working on it 7 or so hours straight the past couple of days... I made such good progress, it was looking good... now it's gone due to an unpredictable crash that destroyed the file. I'm pretty upset about it. I don't think I've got it in me to work on it that obsessively again after losing all that progress. I was able to salvage a little bit by taking screenshots of the latest .swf file, but it's not much... I'll have to redraw/trace a ton of stuff. I'm not only bad at tracing, but I also dislike it. 2010 is off to a good start.
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