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Post by Fraggle on Nov 11, 2013 11:46:07 GMT -5
OTM: Update Mania Obstacle Course Even though we have just finished a major game event, many forum members are already preparing for the next big event. To taunt celebrate those who are always anticipating the big thing, we have decided to create an OTM that focuses on the “motion of the ocean, not the size of the boat.” With all the new content released for Halloween, it’s probably time to start thinking about redesign. Here’s some motivation. The goal of this project is to show off your Springfield and share your TSTO memories. 1) Create an obstacle course featuring six buildings and structures released during major TSTO updates. Then show the Simpsons family (Homer, Marge, Lisa, and Bart) navigating that course. 2) Share your TSTO memories. Give us a brief write-up of why you chose the buildings you did and your funny memories of that update OR if you are a newer player (or an older player experiencing memory loss) - create a story behind why the Simpsons family is going on this adventure. Be creative in your explanation…please. Your entry needs to be animated. Since we all can’t be neighbors with each other it’s the best way to share the time you spent. If you don’t see yourself as a computer whiz, or you don’t have the technology to create your own animations Mitzy, Chrisp530, Spider Pig, and A Bad Example have agreed to help others animate. If you have skills and are willing to help forum members I’ll be happy to add your name to the OP. We just ask that you know that your course works before having someone record it. You will not be judged on the quality of your recording – remember this is for fun and to challenge us to try new things with our towns – creativity is more important than slick production skills. Structures that count towards the contest. Although many of these buildings can still be purchased, they were first released during major TSTO events. Buildings that were featured during level updates that occurred during an event or were released to correspond to US-based holidays will not be included toward your total. Feel free to include any other accessories, buildings, or structures that you feel ads to your story, but know that if these items will also not be counted towards your total. Halloween 2012Cemetery Pet Cemetery Bad Dream House Crashed Space Ship or Ray Gun House of Evil Springfield Supercollider Christmas 2012Santa’s Village Try N’ Save Bowl O’Rama Mapple Store Valentine’s 2013Sir Putt’s A Lot Phineas Q. Butterfat’s Howard’s Flowers Whacking Day 2013Ft. Sensible Sleep Easy Motel Duff Stadium Springfield Coliseum Halloween 2013Pumpkin House Gingerbread House Fortune Teller Shop Ultrahouse 2 Freak Show Tent Ancient Burial Ground Victorian Space Ship Burns Coffin First Church of Lard Lad Any submission that does not meet the basic criteria listed above will be disqualified. Please submit entries to PnR Submissions. Contest will be open from November 11,2013 to November 25, 2013, midnight CST. Any entries submitted after this time will not be considered. One submission per person, group entries will not be considered. PnR is working on new guidelines for judging contests, more details later. Judging for this contest may be delayed due to Thanksgiving holidays in the United States. Don't know how to animate your course? A Bad Example's guide to making a simple animations and a list of members willing to help others with the final phase of animation will be available by the end of the day.
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Post by brettolmsted on Nov 11, 2013 15:58:34 GMT -5
Fraggle - Thank you for another contest. You, and your fellow helpers, have created a great forum and this is definitely a unique contest. I am excited to get started and have a pretty good idea of what I want to do and these buildings will make this very creative in storytelling I see that you mention animation. Does it need to be animated? Would not having it animated hurt my chances? Will will get any examples just to understand what you are looking for?
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Post by Fraggle on Nov 11, 2013 16:14:57 GMT -5
Fraggle - Thank you for another contest. You, and your fellow helpers, have created a great forum and this is definitely a unique contest. I am excited to get started and have a pretty good idea of what I want to do and these buildings will make this very creative in storytelling I see that you mention animation. Does it need to be animated? Would not having it animated hurt my chances? Will will get any examples just to understand what you are looking for? Yes it needs to be animated. We want to see the characters walking the course (they don't have to all do it at the same time). We'll be posting some how to animate guides shortly and there are some folks who are playing with it now so they can help those who are a little intimidated by the animation part or do t have the equipment to do it themselves. |
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Post by Snarkmork on Nov 11, 2013 17:00:11 GMT -5
Fraggle, could you please change the rules to reflect that entries have to be animated? Currently it's not mentioned in the guidelines at all and not everybody will read the comments to find this out.
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Post by Duff Dawg on Nov 11, 2013 17:21:54 GMT -5
I'll be sitting this out, well OTM has always been a little out of my league
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Post by G0THAMGIRL on Nov 11, 2013 17:48:42 GMT -5
This forum keeps me so busy in my SF. I think I have an SF just play the games on this forum.  I believe I have seen an animation tool in my Photoshop program. I have yet to play with it though. Looks like this challenge may give me a reason to learn about that tool.  |
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Post by Fraggle on Nov 11, 2013 19:46:24 GMT -5
This forum keeps me so busy in my SF. I think I have an SF just play the games on this forum. I believe I have seen an animation tool in my Photoshop program. I have yet to play with it though. Looks like this challenge may give me a reason to learn about that tool. When A Bad Example gets home from work he'll post the gif stuff he's been working on. I wanted him to post it so he got credit for it, not me. He did the work. I think it might be one of the programs that people used for the Maggie Shake. You don't have to use it, but it may be user friendly for people like me who don't know how to use it. |
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Post by G0THAMGIRL on Nov 11, 2013 19:51:28 GMT -5
This forum keeps me so busy in my SF. I think I have an SF just play the games on this forum. I believe I have seen an animation tool in my Photoshop program. I have yet to play with it though. Looks like this challenge may give me a reason to learn about that tool. When A Bad Example gets home from work he'll post the gif stuff he's been working on. I wanted him to post it so he got credit for it, not me. He did the work. I think it might be one of the programs that people used for the Maggie Shake. You don't have to use it, but it may be user friendly for people like me who don't know how to use it. I did use a different program for the Homer Shake, actually it was an app I loaded on my iPad. But, I like learning new things and am up for the challenge of figuring out something new.  |
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Post by A Bad Example on Nov 11, 2013 22:14:01 GMT -5
OTM: Update Mania Obstacle CourseEven though we have just finished a major game event, many forum members are already preparing for the next big event. To taunt celebrate those who are always anticipating the big thing, we have decided to create an OTM that focuses on the “motion of the ocean, not the size of the boat.” With all the new content released for Halloween, it’s probably time to start thinking about redesign. Here’s some motivation. The goal of this project is to show off your Springfield and share your TSTO memories. 1) Create an obstacle course featuring six buildings and structures released during major TSTO updates. Then show the Simpsons family (Homer, Marge, Lisa, and Bart) navigating that course. 2) Share your TSTO memories. Give us a brief write-up of why you chose the buildings you did and your funny memories of that update OR if you are a newer player (or an older player experiencing memory loss) - create a story behind why the Simpsons family is going on this adventure. Be creative in your explanation…please. Your entry needs to be animated. Since we all can’t be neighbors with each other it’s the best way to share the time you spent. If you don’t see yourself as a computer whiz, or you don’t have the technology to create your own animations Mitzy, Chrisp530, Spider Pig, and A Bad Example have agreed to help others animate. If you have skills and are willing to help forum members I’ll be happy to add your name to the OP. We just ask that you know that your course works before having someone record it. You will not be judged on the quality of your recording – remember this is for fun and to challenge us to try new things with our towns – creativity is more important than slick production skills. Structures that count towards the contest. Although many of these buildings can still be purchased, they were first released during major TSTO events. Buildings that were featured during level updates that occurred during an event or were released to correspond to US-based holidays will not be included toward your total. Feel free to include any other accessories, buildings, or structures that you feel ads to your story, but know that if these items will also not be counted towards your total. Halloween 2012Cemetery Pet Cemetery Bad Dream House Crashed Space Ship or Ray Gun House of Evil Springfield Supercollider Christmas 2012Santa’s Village Try N’ Save Bowl O’Rama Mapple Store Valentine’s 2013Sir Putt’s A Lot Phineas Q. Butterfat’s Howard’s Flowers Whacking Day 2013Ft. Sensible Sleep Easy Motel Duff Stadium Springfield Coliseum Halloween 2013Pumpkin House Gingerbread House Fortune Teller Shop Ultrahouse 2 Freak Show Tent Ancient Burial Ground Victorian Space Ship Burns Coffin First Church of Lard Lad Any submission that does not meet the basic criteria listed above will be disqualified. Please submit entries to PnR Submissions. Contest will be open from November 11,2013 to November 25, 2013, midnight CST. Any entries submitted after this time will not be considered. One submission per person, group entries will not be considered. PnR is working on new guidelines for judging contests, more details later. Judging for this contest may be delayed due to Thanksgiving holidays in the United States. Don't know how to animate your course? A Bad Example's guide to making a simple animations and a list of members willing to help others with the final phase of animation will be available by the end of the day. I have also posted this in the game guide section. - Zoom out as far as you can.
- Frame the area where your characters will be on your screen.
- Wait for the buttons to time off your screen.
- Take several screen shots as they move. The more, the better.
- Load the images onto your PC.
- Review your images; and make sure you know what order they should be in.
- Go to a site that create animated gifs. The easiest site for this I have found is picasion.com; and all instructions will be for this site.
- On the Create an Animated GIF tool, add your images in the order you desire. Picasion allows up to 10 images to be added.
- Select the size and speed of your animation. Picasion's default settings work well.
- Click the Create Animation button.
- Click the Save this animation link to save the animated gif to your computer.
- Upload your gif to your favorite image sharing site. You can then link to it the same way you would any other image.
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Post by A Bad Example on Nov 11, 2013 22:21:02 GMT -5
How to create a video of TSTO.
If your IOS operating system is 6.0 or later, you have Airplay installed.
You can install a program called Reflector on your computer. This will talk to your IOS device. Once you start the program, you will see Airplay activate on your device.
You will then see your device screen on your computer monitor.
Use your favorite screen capture program, such s Camtasia, to record this.
This does not require a jailbreak. Reflector costs about $15; but it also has a limited free trial period.
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Post by lisastown on Nov 12, 2013 14:37:37 GMT -5
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Post by Fraggle on Nov 12, 2013 20:06:10 GMT -5
Shhh don't tell anyone... |
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Post by A Bad Example on Nov 13, 2013 11:26:54 GMT -5
But I was helping an evil muppet. Surely that counts. |
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Post by Chrisp530 on Nov 16, 2013 23:14:10 GMT -5
So, I made a practice course tonight to test this out and these lazy S.O.B.'s won't move off the starting point   |
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Post by A Bad Example on Nov 16, 2013 23:59:37 GMT -5
So, I made a practice course tonight to test this out and these lazy S.O.B.'s won't move off the starting point Do you have something for them to walk towards? Bright light, doughnuts, road square? |
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Post by Duff Dawg on Nov 17, 2013 0:14:59 GMT -5
Isn't this more photo challengy I thought otm was about building structures out of things
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Post by Chrisp530 on Nov 17, 2013 0:20:47 GMT -5
So, I made a practice course tonight to test this out and these lazy S.O.B.'s won't move off the starting point Do you have something for them to walk towards? Bright light, doughnuts, road square?  Yes, that would solve the problem. Thank you. I'm amazed they're actually staying on the path, other than a couple going sideways here and there, they really stick to the route. |
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Post by A Bad Example on Nov 17, 2013 0:28:44 GMT -5
Do you have something for them to walk towards? Bright light, doughnuts, road square? Yes, that would solve the problem. Thank you. I'm amazed they're actually staying on the path, other than a couple going sideways here and there, they really stick to the route. Play with it enough, you can create mazes they will walk. Even in Squidport. |
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Post by Duff Dawg on Nov 17, 2013 0:30:06 GMT -5
Everyone hurry up an finish I'm dieing to see these
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Post by A Bad Example on Nov 17, 2013 0:46:31 GMT -5
Everyone hurry up an finish I'm dieing to see these Wait, aren't you one my neighbors? |
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Post by Duff Dawg on Nov 17, 2013 0:49:57 GMT -5
Everyone hurry up an finish I'm dieing to see these Wait, aren't you one my neighbors? Yes one of ur towns |
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Post by Duff Dawg on Nov 17, 2013 0:51:08 GMT -5
And Chris an pharrahs and bretts
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Post by A Bad Example on Nov 17, 2013 0:51:47 GMT -5
Wait, aren't you one my neighbors? Yes one of ur towns go forth and watch an obstacle course. |
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Post by Chrisp530 on Nov 19, 2013 19:29:54 GMT -5
Finally finished. That was a lot of work. And, I hope the phrase "brief write up" can be interpreted liberally |
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Post by Fraggle on Nov 19, 2013 19:37:51 GMT -5
Finally finished. That was a lot of work. And, I hope the phrase "brief write up" can be interpreted liberally Only if your brief write-up is full of carefully crafted expletives detailing your trials with the experience. |
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