Official Clockday 2010 Preloader Design Contest

[AC Slater]

Help Celebrate 9 Years of Excellence[/size]

It may be a couple of months before Clockday, but so what. I figure it's better to get this started as early as possible so we can get more possible entries and snazzier designs.

As many of you know, Clockday is soon approaching and it will be our 9 year anniversary of running Newgrounds. To celebrate such a day, hundreds upon hundreds of flash movies are submitted to the NG Portal out of love for Strawberry Clock and the Clock Crew. Within these movies, a special preloader is to be present that helps unify us as a whole and a family. Since this is our 9th year, let's try to design a preloader that is 9 times better than anything we've had in the past.

To enter, all you need to do is upload your custom designed preloader to the File Library and post either a screen shot or the actual preloader (within a .swf file) in this thread.

LET THE COMPETITION COMMENCE!

Previous Clockdays:[/u]

• Clockday 2005
  
• Clockday 2006
  
• Clockday 2007
  
• Clockday 2008
  
• Clockday 2009
  

THE OFFICIAL PRELOADER HAS BEEN CHOSEN[/b] (by default)!

[flash=http://files.myfrogbag.com/csdp60/heavy%20metal%20preloader3.swf] width=550 height=400[/flash]

(This is with 12 fps)

AS2 File: http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/download/27ea192b19aca1f8b7548e6bd4504a2e

[Clocktopus]

jesus christ clock day is coming up isn't it?

[clockradioclock]

i want to make something for this so bad but I'm not sure yet.

[AC Slater]

jesus christ clock day is coming up isn't it?

Yessir it is! So let's all get our asses in gear! Also, is there anyway we could sticky this or make it stand out more until Clock Day arrives?

[RobClock]

So I've got this from the NG frontpage banner thing from last year and if someone with actual knowledge of actionscript helped out i think it would make a nice preloader.
http://files.myfrogbag.com/gjft7iv6daztmn4/Preloader%20logo.fla
Ideally, the 0-100 loading animation would look something like this.

[BoltClock]

in b4 over 9000

[Thor]

http://files.myfrogbag.com/iws5jq/keep%20on%20loadin.swf
http://files.myfrogbag.com/iws5jq/keep%20on%20loadin.fla

[GodClock]

http://files.myfrogbag.com/iws5jq/keep%20on%20loadin.swf
http://files.myfrogbag.com/iws5jq/keep%20on%20loadin.fla

gonna use this one

[miracle fruit]

in b4 over 9000

nobodys going to say that

[WhiteSwordClock]

Can't wait too see what some people come up with

[AC Slater]

Bringing this up to everyone's attention again, just so it's not forgotten about.

[TelephoneClock]

I just remembered my idea! brb gonna go work on that.

[RomanClock]

If you have a complicated loading sequence or idea you're not sure how to program, I'll be around on AIM if you want help.

[Thor]

So I win by default right?

[AC Slater]

http://www.clockcrew.cc/clam/flash/calendarloader.swf

I feel as though this should look like a wall calendar that proceeds to make x's across each day until August 15th, where it then circles it and the play button appears. But that's just me.

[AmberArachnidClock]

I feel as though this should look like a wall calendar that proceeds to make x's across each day until August 15th, where it then circles it and the play button appears. But that's just me.

or maybe one of those daily calendars that has pages ripping off

[AC Slater]

or maybe one of those daily calendars that has pages ripping off

Even better.

[BootClock]

There could easily be animation based stuff in there. Just simply have certain %s trigger each animation bit, such as the page turning. So rather than have mc.gotoAndPlay(percentLoaded); have something like
if(percentLoaded>10) {
pageturn.play();
}
with an additional boolean to make sure it only animated once.

[BootClock]

what happens if the movie loads fast enough so that multiple page turns are happening at once?

even if you restrict the page turns to go one at a time, you're then forcing unnecessary waiting on the viewer.

It really depends how you want the page turn to work, but like say for example it's just a page falling off a wall calendar there's no reason the next page can't start falling whilst the previous one still is. I agree you wouldn't wanna force viewers into waiting longer than necessary to get to the actual movie/game. I'm just saying, depending on your approach you could definitely get something like that working.

[BootClock]

I'm not sure if I'm seeing this concept the same way as you. I just made this quick simulation to show what I'm thinking:
http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/42d2b9583072ef8651bb78ed6927a059
(Click the play button a few times as each time you press it the "download" speed increases, all the way up to them all coming off at the same time)

i can picture cases where every single page falls off at the exact same time (and in some very extreme random case, you might even trigger some fps lag by having too many objects!!). i mean, its definitely possible, but i dont think it would have the desired effect that they're imagining.

The way I've envisioned it (above) it still looks okay and it's just the same as your idea which would just straight to AUG 15 2010 on a quick load I assume?

edit: you'd also have to keep track of object depth, which is possibly the most frustrating thing that ill never understand about flash

Not too sure what you mean here, like I know what object Depth is but I don't know how this comes into play here.