Talk:Flashforward 2006 Seattle - 28 Feb 2006

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PLAY THE SAMPLE LEVEL

If you wish to play a mock-up of the sample level that The Brothers Chaps designed in the 2006 Flashforward converence, use the following code in a Stinkoman 20X6 level XML file. This Custom Levels Player (by Ed 'Lim' Smilde) will do that job for you with no download required.

<SO><y>100</y><x>173</x><d>0</d><cT>Ladder</cT><sT>1</sT></SO>
<SO><y>249</y><x>1</x><d>1</d><cT>Platform</cT><sT>4</sT></SO>
<SO><y>249</y><x>130</x><d>2</d><cT>Platform</cT><sT>4</sT></SO>
<SO><y>249</y><x>259</x><d>3</d><cT>Platform</cT><sT>4</sT></SO>
<SO><y>249</y><x>388</x><d>4</d><cT>Platform</cT><sT>4</sT></SO>
<SO><addProps><facingDir>left</facingDir></addProps><y>214</y><x>299</x><d>5</d><cT>Enemy</cT><sT>1</sT></SO>
<SO><addProps><facingDir>left</facingDir></addProps><y>249</y><x>425</x><d>6</d><cT>Enemy</cT><sT>2</sT></SO>
<SO><y>100</y><x>125</x><d>7</d><cT>Platform</cT><sT>7</sT></SO>
<levelProperties><bkgrdA>1</bkgrdA><playerStartY>206</playerStartY><playerStartX>54</playerStartX><ScrollLockY>false</ScrollLockY><ScrollLockX>false</ScrollLockX></levelProperties>

(Mock-up designed by Joshua with Thunderbird's description.)

Might Visit

Hey, now here's something I might try and work around. I'm actually already going to be in Seattle on that day. It does look kinda pricey, but I'll see what I can do. ⇔Thunderbird⇔ 00:52, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

When we transcribe that interview, should we leave it here or make a new page for it in the Interviews section of Interviews and Public Appearances? ⇔Thunderbird⇔ 22:03, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

New page, I think this page will be full enough without the interview. Grats, by the way. - Kookykman(t)(c)(r)

I agree. Heimstern Läufer 22:10, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Try to bring a camera! I'd pay a dollar, maybe even two to see that. — DBK! 15:58, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Yes! please do bring a camera, i cant be thwere that day cause i have a family reunion tyo go to. Yes, there coming to my city! — 71.35.172.216 (Talk | contribs) 21:19, February 23, 2006 (UTC) (left unsigned)

Lucky... Why can;t they come to freakin' Tampa? --אוקאלייליי (Ookelaylay)

A small taste

A little bit to whet your appetite:

MATT: That's another thing, is that when we're animating, um, we have another resource that we have absolutely nothing to do with, something that's totally fan driven, it's awesome, the Homestar Runner Wiki, uh, appeared, one day, and it's so exhaustive, it's wonderful. Mike and I, like we don't—we never figured out what the hell a shared library is or how to use it and so we will go, uh, "this one has Strong Bad sitting on a couch," so we have be like, "all right, which one has him on a couch," and we'd have to go back and figure it out, but now we have the Homestar Wiki and we just go on and write "couch" or "orange couch" and it brings up like five emails that have Strong Bad on the couch. {audience laughter} And so, it's pretty great. It's very, very, uh, it's extremly all inclusive and sometimes scary. There are pictures of friends that we had never seen on there and, {imitates wiki user voice} "Oh, this is their best friend!" {slight pause, now with a questioning tone} How, did you—are these people in our house taking pictures of our friends?

TBird, you are indeed cool. Thanks. -- Tom 04:40, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

(After the conference, as best I can remember)

MATT: You're from the wiki? {Looks at my press pass for www.hrwiki.org} oh awsome! Mike, this guy's from the wiki! Oh I'm glad we plugged it then. Oh, and you've got the polo shirt too!

That's not exactly how it went down, but something like that. Guess I don't have as good a memory as Tom.  ;) ⇔Thunderbird⇔ 04:44, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

You got a press pass for hrwiki.org?! That's fantastic! — InterruptorJones 04:53, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Yes I did. I asked if it would be possible to pay to attend just one speaking, and they replied by offering me a press pass, which I am eternally in debted to the Flashforward people for. ⇔Thunderbird⇔ 04:55, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

That's pretty awesome. Bonus points for them. You should take a photo of your press pass and post it.. somewhere. — InterruptorJones 05:04, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

I'll second that. Would totally love to see a scan of it in the article. =) —THE PAPER ^PREEEOW 05:28, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Tom, that ought to be "exhaustive," not "adoptive." :) — InterruptorJones 05:04, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Fixed, thanks. -- Tom 06:59, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

come on hurry up with making the article!

im not trying to rush you guys but can you predict when you think the flashforward page will be finished?

Well, let's see. The NYC talk was a year and a day ago, and the article about it is almost done, if that gives you an idea. Seriously, give TBird (and others) at least a few days, and keep your pants on, for real. — It's dot com 04:35, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, my life has suddenly taken a turn for the busier. Nice to know people are waiting for it though, I'll try to get on it. ;) ⇔Thunderbird⇔ 06:37, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

There, it's over 1/5th done. (The boring 1/5th). I'll work on it more a bit later. The annoying this is I can't figure out how to get images off of the camera for the time being. I'll work on it a bit later though, This article should have a total of 6 or 7 images by the time I'm finished with it, provided I can get three of them off of the camera. ⇔Thunderbird⇔ 09:23, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Waitaminnit

They had a conference in Seattle and I didn't know about it?! (Yeah, the significance of that just now hit me.) --Jay (Talk) 21:47, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

The page has been up for around a month... ⇔Thunderbird⇔ 21:49, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Yeah... well... the "Seattle" part of it was what just now hit me. --Jay (Talk) 21:50, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

(continued) The reason that's so significant to me is that I live within half an hour of Seattle - and that's in heavy traffic! I do have this tendency to overlook stupidly obvious things sitting right in front of my face, though. Next time TBC come to Seattle, someone tell me! :p --Jay (Talk) 22:09, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

(more continued) Although, looking at it, the day you said you'd be there (the second), I didn't live here yet (and was in the midst of getting here, actually, so I was seriously AFK.) Oh well. But next time... --Jay (Talk) 22:12, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

That's really sad. Sorry that happened. — Seriously ^(Talk) 22:13, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

It was my fault for overlooking the stupidly obvious - again - but oh well. --Jay (Talk)

Well don't feel like to missed too big of an oppourtunity, tickets were something like $200 (you had to buy a pass for the whole 3 days). The only reason I went was because I got the media pass, and I don't think they would have given two to the same site... ;) ⇔Thunderbird⇔ 03:52, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Well, if I'd seen it sooner, maybe it would've been me going and not you (I'm severely kidding, BTW.) --Jay (Talk) 04:54, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

FINISH UP THE ARTICLE, I DYING TO SEE THE REST OF IT!!!!!

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!

Okay okay, I'm writing some more right now. ⇔Thunderbird⇔ 01:37, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Verb tense

Once the text of the article is mostly complete, we need to standardize the verb tense, using either present or past. I think past tense makes the most sense. — It's dot com 07:00, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Playable Level

Here's the code for the level TBC made:

[Code omitted. See its showcase above.]

Do you think someone could get it set up online so people can just click a link and play it? (hosted on the wiki's server, preferably) - Joshua 05:12, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

I talked to the other guys about adding a link to "play the game", and the general decision is still no fanstuff on the Knowledge Base. But since this is sort of a special case, we decided on giving it a prominent display on the talk page, which you just did. If you want, feel free to move it to the top of the talk page, and add instructions and links to playing it. Thanks again for all your help, without the level editor I wouldn't have added the image of the level. ⇔Thunderbird⇔ 06:01, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Okay, I'll do that. (Although as it is a near-exact copy of something TBC made, I doubt the "fanstuff" label is accurate.) - Joshua 14:57, 9 March 2006 (UTC)