Spongy now online

Jack Masters · Post by **Jack Masters** » Fri Aug 17, 2001 11:01 pm

Hmm, this raises more questions about their economic structure and food chain then I had first realized.

I think I'll have something fall from the sky.

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buzzard · Post by **buzzard** » Sat Aug 18, 2001 12:06 am

more character suggestions for the future...

a very long snake which twists and turns through a lot of the maze, which is depressed because everyone forgot its birthday

a guy in an alien suit, on a secret mission he can't reveal

a used car salesperson

a historian time-traveller from the future who's doing some in-person research for his paper on the maze... hmm, maybe combine this with the guy in the alien suit

an anthropomorphized car whose wheelbase is wide enough that it straddles two walls of the maze (although if you think about this, it would have a lot of trouble at a T in the maze, but best not to think about it)... or anyway I think there should be SOMETHING which runs around on the tops of the walls of the maze, instead of inside the maze (the tops form a maze of their own, anyway)

Jack Masters · Post by **Jack Masters** » Sat Aug 18, 2001 12:47 am

Nice suggestions! I've moved toward a policy of not accepting two from one person, but that could change depending on how things turn out. I might combine one of those with your original suggestion though. And some sort of vehical that travels on the walls sounds neat.

buzzard · Post by **buzzard** » Sat Aug 18, 2001 2:04 am

Hey, it wasn't my original suggestion, it was Greg's...

but anyway, that's ok, I'm just tossing tons of ideas out so you can pick one you like the best...

Jack Masters · Post by **Jack Masters** » Sat Aug 18, 2001 5:37 am

Need...sleep...

Tim Mallos · Post by **Tim Mallos** » Mon Aug 20, 2001 9:50 am

Food Dropping from the sky?

Manna, perhaps.
Red Cross Rations?
Maize?

Pre-cooked chickens? (Still flapping with featherless wings).
Cocktail weenies?
Pop Rocks and Coke?

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Jack Masters · Post by **Jack Masters** » Wed Aug 22, 2001 7:04 pm

<a href="http://castlezzt.net/spongy/index.cfm?S ... =40">First use of animation</a>

Tim Mallos · Post by **Tim Mallos** » Thu Aug 23, 2001 9:25 am

Jack, your strip for today is presenting the active "previous" button and link, which is causing Cold Fusion to throw an error looking for strip "-1" . I think you want that to be the disabled graphic....

Cool glowing orb!

T

buzzard · Post by **buzzard** » Thu Aug 23, 2001 10:00 am

That animated comic shouldn't need to be 237K... you should find a gif-making program that does it the right way. (I'm not sure how 'right' works, maybe transparent pixels where things don't change? All I know is most gifs in which only a little bit changes are much smaller.)

Jack Masters · Post by **Jack Masters** » Thu Aug 23, 2001 1:49 pm

If anyone knows a program that can condense animated gifs, please let me know. I quite agree that 237k takes up too much space.

megazone27 · Post by **megazone27** » Thu Aug 23, 2001 11:56 pm

I ran it through "animation shop" that came with my Paint Shop Pro 7, and with just optimizing the animation it dropped it to 28k in size. you can pick it up at http://www.hightechpredictions.com/SPONGY_2001_040.gif if you want it.

On 2001-08-23 13:49, Jack Masters wrote:
If anyone knows a program that can condense animated gifs, please let me know. I quite agree that 237k takes up too much space.

Jack Masters · Post by **Jack Masters** » Fri Aug 24, 2001 3:33 pm

Thanks!

buzzard · Post by **buzzard** » Fri Aug 24, 2001 3:52 pm

Yay! Go team!

megazone27 · Post by **megazone27** » Sat Aug 25, 2001 3:25 pm

If you want any others done, feel free to email me that they are up, and I'll do the same.

Jack Masters · Post by **Jack Masters** » Tue Sep 04, 2001 9:32 pm

Thursday approaches, and I need some character suggestions. If you havn't suggested a character for Spongy yet, please do so! The strip cannot survive without you.

Sean Frost · Post by **Sean Frost** » Wed Sep 05, 2001 7:13 am

Clearly, you need a romantic zombie.

Jack Masters · Post by **Jack Masters** » Wed Sep 19, 2001 9:08 pm

I need another character suggestion again! All the ones I've gotten so far came out very well, and I hope to weave the less frequent characters back in soon.

The comic itself though, seems to get harder to write with every strip. Instead of having a pile of past strips to support me, I have a bunch of future strips I have to support.

I hope I'll reach a plateau or something...

buzzard · Post by **buzzard** » Thu Sep 20, 2001 12:53 pm

I think a new character a week is actually an awful lot to try to support in the first place. With two characters appearing in each comic and five comics a week, that means that each character appears on average in only ten comics.

buzzard · Post by **buzzard** » Thu Sep 20, 2001 12:54 pm

And I think you're averaging well under 2 characters/comic... only one is pretty common, which means only an average of five comics for each.

Jack Masters · Post by **Jack Masters** » Thu Sep 20, 2001 1:12 pm

I did the math for character and character interaction frequency early on. I'll have to do something pretty soon, or things will get out of hand. I should probably put a poll on the spongy page to ask what.