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First of all, my adobe account is having issues accessing the official forums. Also you guys are smart. Hence me posting this here.

Basically, for my final project in a Digital Media class I'm using Adobe Edge to create a simple point and click adventure game. Unfortunately, Edge is a very new program and documentation for more advanced applications in really lacking. I'm got the basic framework of the game mapped out and everything seems to be doable, however I've hit a (rather large) roadblock. I can't seem to create global functions that are recognized properly in my timeline and element events.

My understanding is, if you open the full code you can add your javascript functions to the top you should be able to call them from within your event code. Very simple example, the player is always centered in the screen, movement is achieved by simply hiding all but the appropriate sprite and moving his surroundings around him:

function playerWalkR() // hides all player sprites except walk-right animation
{
sym.$("manStandR").hide();
sym.$("manWalkR").show();
sym.$("manStandL").hide();
sym.$("manWalkL").hide();
}
Clearly, this function is so simple that it should obviously do what it's supposed to do. If I add the function directly into the event code it works swimmingly, within that particular event. But the function has to be re-added to every event that uses it. However if I add it to the beginning of the full code I can't call it anywhere, nor can I call functions from one event into another.

Does anybody have ANY experience scripting in Adobe Edge, or enough general Javascript knowledge to pinpoint my error? I'm not all that experienced in Javascript nor am I a natural coder, I know there's got to be some parent-child structure or something Edge uses I'm not addressing, but I can't for the life of me get it to work. One tutorial suggested adding the prefix "Stage_" to any elements your global functions call (as they are all children of the stage element), but that didn't help. It looks like the functions aren't even getting called properly. What do.

Basically, what the title says. I can't find one. I need to load an AVI, split it into clips, and slow down or speed up certain clips.

Everything else I need I can do with Virtualdub, but I can't speed up or slow down certain parts of a video without desynching the audio - and even then it's a needlessly difficult endeavor. The only free software I've been able to find with this function is, surprise surprise, iMovie. I don't have a Mac. It seems like a pretty damn fundamental thing, and there's a ton of free video editors available. You'd think one of them could do it. I'm even willing to pay CASH MONEY for this functionality, if it's reasonably priced. I don't need Final Cut Pro or anything, I really just need a program that can do this one thing.

Anybody know? I'd appreciate it.

The idea is simple. One person draws a comic. Someone else writes dialogue for the comic. Another person, without access to the original comic, draws a comic to match the dialogue. The cycle repeats. This game is essentially a reboot of the Telephone Comics thread of ages past, which was essentially a variation on the EPYC forum games of ages even more past. Because they were goddamn hilarious, I'm reviving the idea.


Look at the older telephone comics thread for an idea of how it all works if there's any confusion. Both good and bad art are encouraged, it works best with a healthy mix of both. The comics don't need to be funny on their own, the funny tends to arise organically. The only real additional rule is do not post any spoilers about the current round in the thread, as the whole point is that each participant is going in mostly blind. Ideally, people doing words should make their submissions dialogue only, optionally naming characters, including sound effects, and very minor stage direction. If you want to sign up, specify Art Preferred, Dialogue Preferred, or No Preference so I can do my best to accommodate, and

Please only sign up if you are going to be available to participate.

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Round 14 Signups:
Dariush (Arts)
lawastooshort (Words)
Guardian G.I. (Art)
Kashyyk (No Pref)
NoahTopHats (End?)
xelada (No Pref?)


Dat Permalist:
USEC_OFFICER (Alternating)
Armok (Words)
zombie urist (Art)
Spinal_Taper (Words)
lawastooshort (Words)

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Round 1 : Hat Party

Round 2: "Sometimes you gotta slay the dragon..."
Round 3: The Round That Took Forever
Round 4: The Fourth Round
Round 5: Revenge of the Broken Scanners

Round 6: Because Robots Make Everything Better.

Round 7: Leaves Fall, Everyone...

Round 8: Surrender is shorthand for France

Round 9: Curiously Bifurcated

Round 10: Metal Convention

Round 11: Hallowe'en Episode

Round 12: The One Zombie Urist Did

Rouch 13 - Yup.

NOTE: Winners have been drawn.
Cthulhu/BoD x2: Din182, debvon.
Delve Deeper: Xeron
Dredmor: SirAaronIII
IAS-FS: Myroc
World of Goo: webadict

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Kinseti: Attempt Rare and Highly Dangerous 5x Indie Game Giveaway Combo.

Guess what. I am not doing a giveaway. I am doing FIVE.

Fact: That is MATHEMATICALLY SUPERIOR to FOUR WHOLE GIVEAWAYS.

Items on the Table:
Cthulhu Saves the World + Breath of Death VII (TWO copies)
Delve Deeper + Treasures and Tunnels DLC
Dungeons of Dredmor
Inside a Star-Filled Sky
World of Goo

Some of these games are perhaps of interest to you! If that is the case, maybe you are inclined to provide me with your Steam username, and inform me of which games you would like to be entered for. That would seem advisable.

As always, I trust you will all be bros and only enter if you actually want the game, rather than just for hey free stuff. Winning a game will render you ineligible for the other draws. Escaped Lunatics need not apply*. I reserve the right to modify these rules as I see fit. Exact draw time and method not yet determined.

*THIS INCLUDES PEOPLE WHO OBVIOUSLY JUST MADE A BUNCH OF BULLSHIT POSTS TO BYPASS ESCAPED LUNATIC STATUS.

One article. And another.

So, as many of you are probably completely unaware, the Vancouver Canucks lost a hockey game last night. In a completely unsurprising turn of events, the city went completely apeshit. Brawling, looting, burning police cruisers, the whole shebang. This is not the first time, but was apparently worse. My sister watched the game on one of the big-screens set up downtown, had to walk around burning cop cars and bear-effigies to get home.

Just thought I'd start a topic, since this is pretty close to home for me, and some of the pictures are absolutely priceless. Example:


I think that is a mannequin leg covered in blood.

Personally, I find it embarrassing not only that this is all it takes to instigate a riot, but that it's completely unsurprising when it happens. I'm a Canucks fan, sure, I watched the game and it was terrible, but what the hell is the point of rioting? Is it sending a message? Or, more accurately, is it sending one you want to send? Seems like, for most people, it was just an excuse to stir some shit up. Thoughts on sports riots?

You meet in a tavern.



This WRETCHED HIVE of SCUM AND VILLAINY is where your MERRY BAND OF AVENTURERS plans their BIG ADVENTURES. Like the time you cleared those GIANT RATS out of old man Sauls cellar, or when you solved the NEFARIOUS THEFT of Grandma Macie's THIMBLEBERRY PIES.

The tavern is mostly empty, the night is young, so the barmaid is quick in bringing your MILK. This meeting has been called to come up with a COOL NAME for your adventuring crew, and share any ADVENTURE HOOKS that may have turned up on THE STREETS.

But before all that, you have to take ROLL CALL.

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