News/Site!

I'm back at school right now... Got some cool classes mostly just pissed about not being able to sleep and mostly happy to have a reason to go outside and hang with friends. Anyway me and John have been tryin' to figure out the whole site thing. I'm getting a mastercard this friday. Once that happens I can manage my PayPal, Merchindise Profits, and pretty much all my money a lot easier. We figured we'd make the site completely in flash since it would be easier because we don't have the time but mostly don't feel like makin' HTML's and crap. So we decided with a flash site. Don't worry it won't be entirely flash. We'll have forums and maybe an uploader on it too. The site will be featuring the basics. It'll have lists with links to all 'toons, games, and music. Along with character and real life bios, contact info, online shops, FAQ, history, and regularly updated news posts.

Some poeple say makin' sites with flash is difficult and hard to update but I find it good and "shiney" lookin' and a nice break from the usual HTMLs. :)

Current Projects!

The Duders: Episode 1 was so close to bein' done... 'till my computer crashed and overall screwed up. I lost not only Duders EP 1 but some actual programs such as limewire and one of my anti-viruses. :( Thankfully I didn't lose any other projects. We figured since we're in need of cash it's time we start gettin' back to work on Duder games. So we got 3 Duder games in production right now along with a lil' puzzle game Braydon is whip'n up.

I wanted to hold onto this and make it a surprise but, am too excited!
The Duders: Jay's Trippin' Dash! A side scroller with simular ol'school platformer gameplay. You play as Jay and have to find your way through 3 levels to get out of a bad drug trip. The game will feature the following:
-Low filesize for fast loading. (May change if we decide to change certaint things but, still should be generally low. EST. Less then 5000KB.)
-Original music made by me (Darryl got lazy.)
-Ending cutscenes with bonus prize if you collect a certaint amount of an item.
-Simple controls
-Funny enemies that you should enjoy running from in fear.

I'm proud of myself for this game actually. Sure I tweened a bit and it features the new style of The Duders that I don't know poeple like or not yet but, the game engine I programmed I'm really proud of. I'm still fixing one glitch but being my first game, I'm really happy and impressed with myself. Though Braydon did help me out a bit with the synax errors and I got help from the Flash Forums too...

Anyway The Duder Episodes aren't on hold. They're just side projects right now that I'm putting a lil' work in from time to time. We're tryin' to get a few good games made, sponsored, and out. We need the publicity and the money!

Personal life!

So tired.... Been barely sleepin'.... Now their's school too.... and I'm liveing off of pickles 'till I get more money.

Also!

I've opened a few online shops. I add some more stuff every now and then. I'm in a good mood so I droped the prices of everything down about $0.50-$2.00 for most items. Sure some stuff is more then other flash authors stuff. Maybe by $1.00 but, hey... They're makin' money from sponsorship of their games and prize money of their toons. Plus they probably make a decent amount at they're low prices anyway so they can afford the low prices.

Duder Entertainment Store! (There you can buy all merchindise related to the Duder E. logos and... yeah.)

The Duders Store (There you can buy all merchindise related to The Duders! Some stuff has characters that aren't even in any 'toons yet!)

Making a site and selling merchindise? Don't poeple usually do that AFTER their series or 'toons become popular? Are you some kind of idiot Mr.Mullet-Man?

Yeah, I kind of am. Guess I'm takin' a big risk but hey I have a large amount of confidence in both myself and The Duders. lol I wonder if any famous authors read this or watch any of my stuff... Somehow I can really see them shaking their head at me thinkin' "Oh my...."

(Pic of mass amount of pickles!)(I have 5 whole boxes of 'em!!!)

News!

Woot! My first frontpage was today. It was for The NG Mullet King Fact Generator!
At first I was a lil' bummed out 'cause a lot of poeple weren't gettin' the jokes and sendin' me PMs like "WTF is your problem? How big is your f*ckin' ego?" and shit. Toke a while for poeple to get the joke and how the Mullet King is a character but, it's all good now and poeple have been PMing me with facts, some of which I find really amusing. My fav so far - "The NG Mullet King is so amazing, he can play air guitar in space! NASA is still tryin' to figure out how." I was amazed at how it got 'bout 6000 views the first day too. Then when I logged in this mornin' and saw it on the frontpage I nearly fell off my chair in shock. Even though the flash isn't the best scoring and didn't win me any awards. The fact that I got one of my flashes featured on the frontpage is a new step for me. This whole thing has really given' me the boost I needed. Today me and Darryl were workin' on The Duders Ep 2 while Ep 1 isn't even half way. The original Ep1 wasn't turning out so good. So it's been scraped and we're workin' on a new one that original was gonna be a short. How we figured the series will work is we'll just submit sometimes 3- 5 min short eps with random adventures and the odd 15 min one when we have the time.

Current Projects!
Me and Braydon have been workin' on our first game. Programmin', animating, fighting over coffee, etc. etc. It's all lookin' good minus bein' stuck on a few scripts but we're gettin' it all together. I'll be workin' on Duders Ep1 for the next few days, probably pull a few all-nighters to get it done before school starts.

Site!
Johnno and I are workin' on the site. Original I tried out by myself but I know shit about web design. So I get him up and asked him to help. I'm working on some special treats for the site and already sent him a zip folder full of pics and stuff to slap together. As for the custom domain name, we'll have to wait for a few more months for that. In the mean time... We're just gonna host it on tripod or somethin'. :P

Personal Life!
All my friends and members of Duder Entertainment are back. Seems everyones too busy to party now though. So the party at the end of this month was called off. I found out an ol' friend of my Justin is moving back down where I am, and only a block away! So I'm gonna be seein' him more and since he's so close I figured I'd ask him If he wanted to join DE. So of course he says yes and now he's the co-script writer, script editor, and storyliner. ("Storyliner" ...that's a word right?) So he's a big help since I'm not a big fan of writing shit out for an hour, perfecting it and all. So yeah... That's what's up! I would've posted the Weekly Update sooner but I wanted to see if we could get the site up.

Also!

I'm redoing the duder character moduls for the LAST time. I'm returning to the classic multiple layers style but with better art and a new style for the faces/eyes. It ain't all gonna be tweens either. I'm continueing with the FBF animation just I decided to go with the best of both worlds and use both.

And finally, if ya got a question, complaint. statement, or somethin' to do with me, my flashes, The Duders, or Duder Entertainment? Ask here or PM me then!

UPDATE!

I'm getting a MasterCard soon which means we'll be able to pay for our website domain Darryl got, have a paypal account to accept donations, and we opened our own online store!

Click here to visit our new online store! (This one is the Duder E. one, it has shirts and crap with the Duder E. logo.) (We'll add more soon.)
and
The Duders online store. (Featuring shirts and crap related to the duders series.

and their's a donate button on that ol' freewebs site. Figured I'd put some use to it.

Site!
Waiting for Darryl to come back on the 27th from training so we can get the domain all figured out.

Current Projects!
Workin' on my Madness Day entry a bit everyday, look forward to Madness Day (Sept 22nd) for it. Also am programming the first duders game, The Duders: Resistance, a parody of
Resistance: Fall Of Man I also got somethin' for The Flash 'Reg' Lounge's birthday.(August 28th). Duders episode is still on hold, I'm gonna be submitting another duders short sometime this month using a new art style with it along with the debute of a new duder character.

Personal Life!
School is startin' soon. Which means less time to do work on flash but, this is gonna be my last year so I'm gonna work hard. My classes so far are gonna be this...

-theater Performance 12: Directing & Script-Writing.
-Strength and Conditioning 12.
-Essentials Of mathematics 11.
-Writing 12 (may be changed to Com 12)
-ICP: Computer Programming 12.
-Studio Arts 11: Printmaking & Graphics Design.

So it looks like a good year for me. :) Anyway I still got a party at the end of the month planned where all the dudes at duder entertainment will hopefully be coming. I'm lookin' forward to that. My friend Braydon who I haven't seen nor talked to in over a year and a half has appeared agian. He was over the other day watching 300. To my luck he's been taking alot of programming courses so I am saved from programming. Plus a programmer is exactly what Duder Entertainment needed. Also Ricky is alive agian. Go harass him!

Questions To The Public!
So what does everyone think of the Duders anyway? The jokes, characters, etc. Anything in particular that you think would be good to change or to add?

Randomness: (Screenshot from my madness toon. ^^)

Site
The website is pretty much finished. All it's missing is 2 bios, the download section, and the home page posts. However we won't be able to launch it fo a while because Darryl won't be back till the 27th and he is the one with the web domain deal. We also still don't have that domain figured out completely as neither of us have a credit card but, don't worry we promise that by the end of this year we will have that site up and most likely with improvements. If you know a free publishing site though where we could host the site for a few months feel free to post the link in the comment section. John and me already tried tripod but we couldn't get things figured out and their were a few problems.

Current Projects
Expect a new release on the 14th. Nothing special really but it will be a lil' something unexpected. Our clockday submission is almost done so look forward to that also. I've been working on our first game also and have high hopes for it. I'm getting a friend to help with the programming as Action Scripting gives me a painful headach. Once the games done I'll most likely try to get sponsorship from Armor Games and me and my friend will be splitting the money in a reasonable way if we get sponsorship. As for Duders EP.1 production will start agian once the game and clockday submission are finished. I'm also whip'n a lil' somthin' up for NG Day. ^^

Personal Life
I'm actually getting sleep now! I've been going to bed earlier, around 7-9 PM and waking up around 5-8 AM. So I finally am getting sleep agian. Which means more energy to work on flash and stuff, yay! At the end of August or around it anyway, everyone should hopefully be around. Therefore at the end of the month we're all having a party to celibrate half a year of hard work and improvement and beer. Darryl, Ricky, Johnno, Jay, and Trevor will all hopefully be able to make it. We're just gonna set up the PS3 in the living room, pig out on a few snacks, crank some music, and etc.

On a side note summers already almost over but we plan to go out with a bang. My last year of high school is coming up also. I gotta catch up on failled classes for last year still. So I got a lot of work ahead of me but, hey if I fail high school maybe I can move to Philly and become the NG office janitor? That'd be sweet eh? lol

Also, I've almost beaten Resistance: Fall Of Man on it's hardest mode. :P

Note: The 28th is The Flash Reg. Lounge's birthday. ^^

The Duders Episode 1 has been put on hold for a while so I can focus or other projects. Such as The DuderClocks for Clockday & a special lil' something that should be ready by the 14th.

Darryl (MTCaptain) has gone off to soldier training. Read 'bout it in his latest blog entry.
Rick is out camping or something.
Jay is... I'm not sure. He's dead to the internet right now.
Trevor is working on a flash project of his own and is thinking about uploading some of his music in the audio portal finally.

Other then all that stuff all the other projects like the Woe Sage and porject "T.L.P." have been put on hold also. The big projects will most likely be put to the side for a while so I can finish up the side projects. Once all that junk is out of the way I can focus on Duders Ep. 1 and only Duders Ep. 1.

In other news I'm thinking about redoin' the character moduls for The Duders for the 7th time. The whole drawn with the line too and crap doesn't seem so nice anymore. Redrawing them with the paint brush and adding shading I think will make them look alot better and easier to FBF animate.

Also I was bored and started posting comics about the NG mods in the art forum. Check it out if ya want. I've gotten even fan-PMs from them for some odd reason...

Oh yeah, the site is looking even better however if I'm planning to redraw the Duders I might as well redraw some of the site content too right? However I may wait till Duders Ep. 1 is done before redrawing anything. Once the site HTMLs are done and I get it published it'll be nice to get ride of that acursed freewebs link.

Onto my personal life: I'm still pulling a few all nighters and lurking the forums for long periods of time. Don't get confused though I multitask when I lurk. I always have a flash or two I'm workin' on open so I can do some work while waiting for new topics. I've had a craving for FireBall lately... I think I'll give a friend of mine some money for some. I only got $10 right now and have about $50 more coming. Probably rent a game and relax sometime after I get the money. I'm startin' to study for my "L" agian. Hopefully I'll finally pass it this time and won't have to listen to anymore nagging about it.

Well that's the news/updates for this week guys. Till then enjoy the stupidty and here's a pic I original did for the Draw A Cartoon Pic Of Yourself thread in the Art Forums. Anyway this can give you an idea as to what The new Duder character moduls might look like. (Just better... Much better... Hopefully.)

Note: September 17th = NG Day.