K-Team's First Project / Experiment (vote now)

[Marz]

Well... I figured since we needed some things to start us off on the right foot.. I figured I'd let you guys voteas to which two projects the K-Team will embark on first. The 2 most popular projects will be used.. And the team will be split accordingly to fill each one's needs for everything.

((( Project Prospect List Descriptions )))
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Flash Drawing Board (advanced)
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Create a drawing board for flash that allows you to save the drawings people make into text files... Which can then be loaded back up using a simple system... The drawer will also have colors.. And many different options to partake into...

Flash Music Looping Program
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Create a program in Flash that will let people add their own "loops" or use ones we make and then combine the loops and tweek them a little to make cool looped songs...

Flash MP3 Player
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Make a mp# player that laods up MP3's, has them in a playlist and then they can do many things like you find in winamp... Be able to save playlists... show the track time left.. Have the EQ bars.. And everything.

Kirupa Team Website and Design
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Set up some slogans.. banners and all around stuff that can gte the KIrupa Team going.. Marketing and everything... How the website will be created and how it is designed will be based upon this project.

Coloring Book
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A fun approach project... This will let you make a coloring book in which people can take the images you have from black and white.. (loaded in from .swf's) and you can then let them color it by either.. brush strokes or paint bucket...

Kirupa Chatroom
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CReat a small time chatroom in which people can come in and tlak to other people online.. THis will be probably the most difficult for the programmers as it would involve persistant connections through php and the usage of checks and dominances and fn stuff like that.. Challenging but cool at the end...

Smilie Maker
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Ahh Smilie Maker 2000 Let people put pixel by pixel on say a 20 x 20 field or 30 x 30 field.. With a list of colors.. It will then save the file in a text file format to be laoded in by that program... Prompt the user on how to use the smilie by using print screen for now.. Unless we cna figur out a way to create this into gif files or bmp?!

Well.. That's all the ideas I could come up with.. I made the poll multiple choice.. So please.. Vote for TWO!

[Jubba]

Something like this:

http://www.thomasglyn.net/vrchat/v2_room1.html

I want to do this because I have no idea how to go about it. I'm not saying an exact clone, but something that is as interactive as that...

[fester8542]

Jubba that is a pretty smooth diddy there...

I say you guys should create an mp3 player and share the wealth.

I have been trying to accomplish one like this for some tine mow without any luck..

www.hatebreed.com

[eyeinfinitude]

A mp3 player along with the equalizer bars would be nice, I'd like to see something like that. =)

[Jubba]

but you need another program for that. Don't you need Flash Amp or something?

[eyeinfinitude]

Marz is helping me try to make one that uses swiftmp3, so far it's still a work in progress. :smirk:

[upuaut]

Jubba. I'm with you on the chat idea... I have been thinking for some time now that we need a place to have a weekly open door chat forum. It could also help us to coordinate any other projects that we are doing as the Kteam.

I'm sure Kirupa would host it, but if we need a place to do testing, centerspin.com has plenty of room and bandwidth to play around with.

[Kitiara]

I think that all the ideas are worthy of attention, but I've chosen the website and the smilie maker to begin with.

The website has obvious reasons really, to get us started, get the whole project 'out there' wherever there is and give us something to focus on.

And I just really liked the idea of a smilie maker. :)

[pom]

I agree with Kit: The website should be the first chapter of our collaboration. And then I like the idea of the MP3 player. Could be pretty useful for a lot of people :)

[andr.in]

I voted for mp3 player and a smilie maker!

[Guig0]

but i really like to see a kirupa flash game. ;)

[ahmed]

Drawing Board... anybody? :P
well i liked the idea of the drawing board.. but there are just very few votes for it..

[Marz]

I figured I'd let the game programming for after our first couple initial set-ups... They can be confusing at times when developing in a team... And the leader of that team for games has a CRAPLOAD of stuff to do.. hehe...

ALlright guys.. I'll close this poll around Friday-SUnday..

[pom]

OK, since the chatroom seems to be quite popular, can anybody tell me how you think you will develop it? And please don't tell me PHP.

[senocular]

Originally posted by ilyaslamasse
OK, since the chatroom seems to be quite popular, can anybody tell me how you think you will develop it? And please don't tell me PHP.

JAVASCRIPT!



:crazy:

[Jubba]

why not PHP?

[ahmed]

yeah.. why not php?:bad: :P

[Jubba]

That is definately do-able with PHP and loadVars... we could do that. it doens't have to be as interactive as the one that was posted because that was intense, but we have a lot of really great minds here... we could put something together...

[pom]

If I'm not mistaken, you can't really chat with more than a very few people if you do it with PHP (problems with the server). I think I've read somewhere that the best way is to use XML-socket (requires a special host) or flashcom (very expensive).

Originally posted by senocular
JAVASCRIPT!



:crazy: That's the spirit, Johnny boy!

[senocular]

I personally dont see a need for a flash chat because 1) it would be expensive to have done right (server setup etc) and 2) we have the boards here which serve pretty much the same purpose and are re-referencable.

I voted for the website because... well same reason kit pointed out earlier. and yay its in the lead! (as of now)

[DDD]

a flash chatroom is piece of cake with flash communication server (the serer is expenive tho). That is what they used for that one. We made one at work that even uses a webcam so you can see the person. It was fairly easy. I vote chat. Even though I voted mp3 player. :o

[Jubba]

The thing with a website is we would need another server to host it, or at least pay for another host and a domain name... etc etc...

[thediablo]

lets go for Website for all the reasons mentioned..

and the smilie maker... since i see this is the smallest proyect... it would be a good start point, to see how well the Kteam work together...

[Marz]

Using the XML data sockets and receiving in information through that way.. Can be done.. but.....

You can also send it out to a php page on always connected as well.. Updating roughly 6 times per second..

As for the chat.. it was just an idea.. I'm glad to see the website is soaring though...

I can find a good reliable host to support the domain name off of.. Unlimited amount of space and bandwith usage...

[thediablo]

why dont ask (mt) for some free space?

i mean the website proyect has potential im sure they will see it also.

[mdipi]

or racknine...

[REEF·]

WHOA, SORRY TO BUG IN HERE.

Who's the k-team? Like MY k-team????

[McGiver]

It has to be a graphic chat. I imagine a little pixel people city with animated pixel people, and several rooms where you can walk in and talk with little balloons containing the messages popping up over the people that talk.
And I want the K-team to do it till... lets say 1. march :P
well everything exept the Kirupa Website and the Chat are easy, so... one of thoose two :D

@Pom: where did you read that? never read about anything in this direction :confused:
maybe if you store the data in a textfile instead of a real database.
flash communication server would be the best, but very very expensive.

[REEF·]

Someone answer me :)!

[senocular]

[BadMagick]

I only suggest that the MP3 Player idea is not embarked on because of copyrights.

I don't need the RIAA coming and shutting down Kirupa!! I love this place too much.

I think the chatroom would be awesome, and the smilie maker would be fun to fool around with. Those are my votes :thumb:

[senocular]

if you didnt notice, fyi, the poll's bent anyway. Cant trust the results ;)

[prstudio]

How are they finding this stuff?

[telekinesis]

Flash MP3 Player would be the coolest by far!

[.soulty]

didnt we already try the kteam audio player? lol.. think i was the only one to design any concepts for that.... oh sorry marz did as well. ;)

[cartoonfox]

aww man, come on people... a drawing board would kick ***! it could be like another i used to visit but it got closed down. there could be a chat system too, so we can all chat while we draw.
and mods could get rid of any insulting etc pictures.

it would be cooooooool. please vote for the drawing board :D

[Voetsjoeba]

Hey, I'm working on the MP3 player ! :scream:

:P j/k

I would like to see a looping program and a chatbox :)

[eilsoe]

chatbox? Why? We have the IRC... (which is dead anyway...)

drawing board would be nice... maybe make it so every member can load/save drawings done by other members.. of course you'd have to be a member of the boards the tag on it.

I know Ahmed has done something similar before :)

[ahmed]

why are you people still discussing this? did the k-team idea not die a long, long while ago?

@eilsoe, i've done something like what you describe:
[ clickity (http://24.141.60.208/scribble3.html) ] :P

[porpous2]

why dont you guys have a multiuser drawingboard in a multiuser chatroom??

[porpous2]

and about the irc thing, the irc thing is slow, ugly, and is just weird.... lol, a chatroom all you have to do is go to the webpage and not download the thing, which will probubly attract more users... am i right?

[fluid_tw0]

i'd like to see 3d chat room (have someone already said that before? oh, well...)

but it would test ALL of skills needed in flash:
- AS
- graphics
- "live connection"
- idea

i'm counting on Ya k-team, don't you even try to let me down!

[Scalabis]

I think a MP3 player would rock! :D

[fluid_tw0]

has already been made...
as a program (yes, flash)
can give you link ;)

[Scalabis]

Really???

Would u gimme the link please?

Can I call u "friend"? :P

[fluid_tw0]

noo, ya con't

[fluid_tw0]

http://www.screenweaver.com/downloads/showcase/vanillacoke.exe

[Scalabis]

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Anyway, thank u! ;)

But, dont u think a K-Team´s MP3 would be awesome (ya, I love this word!)?

[Scalabis]

Ayah, that Coke mp3 player has a lack of lot features... It is pretty cool, but u cant randomize your files, or do and save a playlist, and so on....

:love: But thanks anyway! :thumb:


Scalabis