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    Once upon a time, a new Knight rode into town with some nifty tools. He was the designers friend. The hero of creatives. His tools gave special powers to those that wanted to spend more time creating and less time fiddling with code. His name was Sir McMed.Soon all creatives wanted to be his friend. This did not please the Lord of the Manor, Sir McRow. Sir McMed was so adored by the craftsmen. They liked his tools, they were light, powerful and easy to use. Not like the tools of the Lord of the Manor, which were heavy and clunky. So they cast down the tools Sir McRow, the Lord of the Manor had given them in favour of the new ones Sir McMed had brought with him. Sir McMed was so popular that the Lord of the Manor, Sir McRow turned his attention instead to his other interests, and let Sir McMed go about it's own business.At first the tools of Sir McMed, were special and unique, and fitted perfectly the needs of the craftsmen and creatives. They didn't want to fiddle with silly details, but just enjoyed designing things. But slowly over time the tools Sir McMed gave them began to change. Slowly but surely they became heavier, and clunkier, and each time the craftsmen were told how much more useful their tools had become. Slowly, slowly they began to resemble the tools the Lord of the Manor, Sir McRow once gave them, until eventually they even had to start doing work that was not creative and fun, and had to fiddle with with silly details to use the tools fully.Some craftsmen were able to learn the new methods of using the changed tools, others though, just had to make do, knowing that the heaviness of their tools should let them do so much more, but weren't able to manage it themselves. Other creatives had to hire other people to use their tools for them, in order to make them do all they were meant to do.Then one day, a few of the craftsmen and creatives began to wonder what had happened to the light powerful tools they could use on their own. But when they went to look for Sir McMed they found that now another Manor house had been built, and there were two Lords of the Manor.The End, and now it's bedtime. >_>But seriously, I do wonder if Macromedia have left their original audience a bit.I don't have any complaints really about the developments. This has allowed them to capture much of the designer and web developer market. It has also meant improvements in technology that allow faster and more engaging content on the web. But with all this, I do think they have begun to leave the humble designer out in the cold.Designers (okay, I'm not a designer) like me have ideas, revel in creating, but dont have the time to learn programming, actionscript, and how to make what is essentially and animation interface accept programming. Nightmare. What I really want, and what I hope Macromedia will deliver, is the code-less creativity that was one of their champions in the beginning.There is software out there that lets me create computer games, without knowing or learning any programming. Such software as the old Klick n' Play, software like Game Maker, and even The 3d Game Maker.If this technology exists, my question is why don't Macromedia, (who own all the know-how of Shockwave 3d, Shockwave and Flash) produce similar software for creating interactive media, web games and the like. For games you can leave the timeline behind for much of the creation. You are interested in actions, reactions, gravity, if thens, keeping score. If the software I just mentioned can let you create games that have all of that, but without programming, then in my opinion Macromedia need to take the same steps to producing a code-less interface for web game creation. Keep the timeline for making your movie clips, but build onto it a new area, the Playing Field, where I can attach movements, interactions, choose outcomes of collisions and other events in the game. But all without me having to code a single line of actionscript. Some people can code flash animation by hand, but why bother. In the same vain, when the technology is there, why do we have to code interactions and the like, thousands of them could be prebuilt and parameters changed, just like the javascript events in DW.This is my vision for flash and director. Does Macromedia share it? There have to be 1000's of designers out there who could put that kind of technology to work. Lets see it.By so doing they will be back in touch with the designers like me who like to create without having to get into programming. When that happens, we have a verion of Flash or Director that's really worth upgrading for.Summary1. Is there a program that I can make Flash games with little knowledge of coding?2. If there is, what.3. If there is no program, what lanuage would be used to make a flash game?

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    What you stated is whats usually called /you not a subdomain, a subdomain would be http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/.

     

    Are sure you know how to code a forum from scratch, if so I cant wait to see it :(

     

    :P

     

    ~ Munchie ~

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    Yeah, I know how to, it might just take me while to do it!

     

    And thanks for the redirecting thing, I was looking for somthing similar and people kept telling my how to create more than one MySQL databases... :(

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    Alright, I have my site set up using the LUE2 source that I have edited. I cannot think of anything to do to make it 'original' so I want to use a different source. Is there a way I can have 'two' message boards? Would I just set a subdomain for it and call it something like http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ if I wanted to do a subdomain? I want to code a board from scratch, but I dont want to have to get rid of my current site to do it until I get it perfected. So it will have next to no members and take up no disc space. Is there a way I could do that?

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    My favorite book is "I am the Cheese." Probably people wont read this [great] book because of the weird title name. Its kinda sad at some parts, which I dont like in books, but this one is an expection. Since I first read it, I have probably re-read it say, 5-10 more times in a span of 5 years. Its a really good book, it doesnt have a very strong ending though. Well, yeah it does, its just hard to follow becuase all of a sudden, it spits out the big secret with no forwarning what so ever. I didn't understand it the first time through until I finished the book, then I got the book. Maybe I should have read the book backwards! :(

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    Anyone looking to make a game?  Well Gamers-Fusion is a widely used open source project hosted by https://sourceforge.net/ its got all the nesicary things to start the game, though it does have many flaws to start. But thats the fun part, as i started learning PHP as i started a game using this.

    The file you will want to download is the version 2.5, which is the most current version that works.  The beta v3 doesnt work.

    https://sourceforge.net/projects/gamers-fusion/files/ <---location of files.

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    Thanks. I think I am going to try it out. I was looking for someone to make a game for me that knew pretty good PHP (not me, lol) and I think I'll give this one a shot. Maybe I can just use the sorce that I make and make my own additions as I see fit.

     

    <_>

     

    NOT... ENOUGH... TIME... TO... MAKE... ONE... FROM.... SCRATCH....

     

    *asplodes*

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    If any of you go to OG, and have ever played Omega Legacy, thats the kind of game I want. Its like the army system, and you train by attacking other users, or training against computer opponets. I dont care what you do, but if you would like to help, AIM me at mutatedmonkeycat. If anyone knows where I can get a game such as the Army System or Omega Legacy for free for download, please tell me and I will give you a cookie... :(

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    I hate my ISP!Its AOL. Its bad isn't it? Now the case of AOLindra gets worse- ITS DIAL UP!I want to get DSL, but none are available. I would get RR or something if it wasnt so expensive. The only thing that comes out here is RR and some random cable company that is really expensive and the service sucks. I know two people who have it and they say that they would trade it for AOL dial up any day- so at least I get to somewhat brag! :(

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    I also hate Microsoft Word.I had to pay $100 for it in the first place and its not really that improved from Microsoft Works. I had a hard time saving in Microsoft Word until I figure that Microsoft Word can not save to half used floppies. I then had to hurry to Wal-Mart and pick up some floppies since my report was due the next day..

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    I dont know if it is Xisto or what, but I had people who used this code, the same exact one, and it works for them some are not with Xisto though. In mysql.sql, I have a problem with line 216 and 669. These are the codes:

    Line 669:

    break;  default:  empty($userstylem) ? $userstylem = 1 : '';  $theme_path = mysql_result(mysql_query("SELECT theme_path FROM themes WHERE theme_id = '$userstylem'"), 0);



    Line 216:

    if (isset($_COOKIE['zXi7g']))  die;$result = mysql_query('SELECT ip_addr FROM banned_ips');while ($row = mysql_fetch_row($result))


    This is the error message I get:

    http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

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    Thanks to everyone who helped! I got someone to rewrite some of my scipts, so pretty much all of them are rewritten. The thing is I forgot my password to my cpanel, since its suddenly gone from my hard drive, so I cant try it. Argoth, Mike, I'm sorry, but I cannot make both of you admins, I'm really sorry. Would any of you like to not take the position and give it to the other? As I said I'm sorry, but I dont want to have three admins and no members. If one is an admin maybe I can make one a mod....

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