Howdy everypeoples!

If you live in the Chicago area you should come out and meet and greet with other game developers in the area at this meetup! We are just starting out but we have quite a few quality people signed up and the more the merrier!

So sign up and come out to see us on the 27th at the Starbucks in Streets of Woodfield!

This will be an ongoing group of developers that you can use as a resource for getting questions answered and critiquing work in a private setting and not on a forum so try it... you might like it.

Chicago Suburbs Indie Game Development Meetup

So... I got an email today about thing thing called the Addicting Games Showdown... I thought "oh... Addicting games is having a contest on thier site and I was nominated for some little award or something for Build a Robot 3".

I was wrong... Turns out this is Addicting Games AND Nickelodeon TV together and I have a good shot at winning my category! Best preformance by a robot.

PLEASE go to this page and vote for me! This version of the game might not have any links to newgrounds in it but when it is taken it will have a site lock on it that points people to the version that does so the more popular we can get the game on this contest the more help Newgrounds gets too!

Here is a link to the page that has my game in it:
http://www.addictinggames.com/showdown /game.php?poll=6&item=1&game=Build%20a %20Robot%203

Also if you go there please grab the badge and post it places for others to see. I really want to have a shot at this.

I am looking for a team for Power of 3. I have a musician lined up tenitively but I really need the other designer/programmer more. There is no saying that we have to have an artist a programmer and a musician in the rules. I would love to have a couple of artists that could match styles well and a solid programmer or any mix of people capable of being an animator and programmer.

I am not looking for anyone who is not high caliber, if you don't have anything in the portal with a score of at least 3.50 I more than likely won't get back to you unless you have samples that blow me out of the water.

I have the ability to code well in AS2 and I can animate and draw quite well with flash. I make websites for a living and I am the flash guru at the company I work for so I know my stuff.

I am willing to join a quality team of people or have quality people join me so let me know if you are interested.

I already have a pretty good idea fleshed out a little bit but I don't want to go to in depth with fleshing out an idea until I get a team and can gadge what we would be capable of.

Here are some work samples but be sure to check out my profile here on newgrounds for more...

This is a sample page I made for the MochiAds batman the brave and the bold contest. From start to finish I made this in about 2 days of work from idea conception to turning in the samples. The animations are kinda half assed but they serve the purpose and were just stand-ins. I did all the coding except for the actionscript camera which is the normal AS camera available online.
http://jacksmack.com/samples/batman/

You can also check some of my work out on Altered Reality. It was a collab that I was in a long time ago. http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/
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Mine is the one where this happens.
http://jacksmack.com/samples/general-s amples/building2.gif

Here are some more samples of my character style...
http://jacksmack.com/samples/general-s amples/Marco_and_Bridge_Goblin.jpg

http://jacksmack.com/samples/general-s amples/Polo_on_the_Road.jpg

http://jacksmack.com/samples/general-s amples/BBQHERO_multigames.jpg

This is a character study for a cartoon I have been working on.

I have been playing around with Build a Robot 3 now that it is done and I personally can actually have fun with it.

It can do some CRAZY stuff... Take a look at the Venom I drew with it below. It's like an etch a sketch on steroids.

I don't think I will be using it to make robots I'm just going to make drawings with it whenever I can.

If you want to take a stab at making something that isn't a robot with Build a Robot 3 I have started an art thread about making unique pieces of art using only buld a robot 3, so if you want to you can post them there, or you can reply to this post with a link to your "robot art" in the robot gallery.

Remember if you post in the art thread to make a unique piece of art and not just a robot or you will get fussed at.

Here check out Venom made entirely with Build a Robot 3...

Howdy everypeoples!

I have just about finished my new game Build a Robot 3, but I need a little help from the masses before I can release it into the wild.

This flash game is more of a gadget really, if you have played Build a Robot 2 then you will know that it's not a simple dress up game... HOWEVER this version is taken to an extreme of customization.

Over 300 parts to choose from and you can change the colors of the parts to one of 70 colors! You can also use the free transform tool to shape your parts as you like.

Click on a part to select it THEN click and drag that part around the screen.

Hold Ctrl up and down to move parts forwards and backwards in depth.
Arrow keys nudge parts.
Delete key deletes the selected part.

Here is a link to the game. Give it a shot and see if you find any issues. If you do I really want to know about them. ESPECIALLY TYPOS!

At the moment there is an issue with saving robots that I am addressing, some kind of conflict between my site and the game. This will be resolved soon.

Build a Robot 3

Howdy everypeoples.

So I am still working toward making Jacksmack.com into a gaming company.
I have been working for a web design company for a little while now and I have learned alot of stuff to expand my toolkit for the types of games I can make.

Look for Build a Robot 3 here soon. The gallery system is pretty good and when you see it you might be surprised.

I have a few more games in development other than this one but this will hopefully be popular with most people who want to kill a few minutes with a mindless creative outlet.

I have been working toward making my flash games into a gaming company eventually and as of right now I am working to make more games and sponor more games in my own special way.

I have been working full time at a web design house and am going to be leading the game development team there in the near future.

I am still working on my games as well and am working to redesign Jacksmack.com yet again to make it more user friendly.

So far over the past 2 months I have made 4000 dollars from my site and my games. I am having to work constantly for that and since I have taken a full time job I am not putting as much time into it as I would like.

I don't think that 4000 is average for a few months due to the fact that I won a contest for 1000 dollars to push me up that high.

Anyway things are going well but I have responsibilities I must meet and I have been in talks with some people to be partners in the venture.

More info in the near future.

Howdy Everypeoples!

I just got done with my new game and I was wondering if anyone would be willing to head over to my website and test it out for me?

http://www.jacksmack.com/index.php?act ion=playgame&gameid=1087

I'm not quite ready to put it on Newgrounds and let it off into the wild yet. I want to make sure there are no major bugs that I haven't found yet.

From what feedback I have gotten so far this is an extremely addicting game that I have made so please take some time and tell me what you like about it and what you hate about it.

ALSO IF YOU FIND A BUG OR SOMETHING YOU THINK IS A BUG TELL ME FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY TELL ME! I want this thing to be fun for anyone.

It will lag a bit on slower computers just a heads up on that. I have optimized it as much as I can at the moment. I will have to rip appart the code to optimize it more but I tested it on the slowest computer I could and it was still playable so... Might stay this way we will see.

Anyway please enjoy my new game and tell me what you think.

(To MindChamber: This isn't the epic project that I am working on that one is still coming.)

Ok so I was looking on Alexa.com and this is the biggest mover right now.

Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along-Blog

OMG this it great! Funny as hell and who knew Neil Patrick Harris and Nathan Fillion could sing so well?

SERIOUSLY WATCH THIS! Its funny as hell. The music isn't even that bad!

On a side note I just hit the 50 lbs mark in how much weight I have lost! I'm feeling great and I'm working hard. Just thought I would share this link with you and see what you all thought of it.

Ok so just in case you didn't read my last post I got FIRED on friday. Personally I took it as a layoff because we didn't have much work going on.

So over the weekend I worked on my games and planned on starting my own web design business.

Monday rolls around and I make some cold calls. My first line of attack is to call up all the web design houses around the area and ask if they need any outside contactors to do work for them.

Apparently that was pretty ballzy of a move because most of the people I talked to said no one had ever done that to them.

I went on an interview with one of the companies that I talked to today and they made me an offer I can't really refuse. So... I guess getting fired was an awesome thing because this company had just started looking last week. And I fit the bill for everything they were looking for.

SO... Crisis averted. I was unemployed for a total of 2 business days. Makes me think I should have quit that job sooner cause I'm getting a much better deal at this place.

Anyway i will hopefully get Build a Robot 3 nearly completed this week. Though I might need some more time for the gallery system. It depends what the sponsor wants to do with it. I guess I will have to bug them a bit and ask.

Anywho... Good news and I won't be living on the streets! Oh he joy!