Rhetoric Ramblings

12:09:46 User: My little pony!

12:09:47 Cleverbot: Do you watch it?

12:09:52 User: Yes! Do you?

12:09:57 Cleverbot: Yes.

12:10:05 User: I used to wonder what friendship could be!

12:10:09 Cleverbot: My little pony.

12:10:20 User: Until you all shared its magic with me!

12:10:24 Cleverbot: Big adventure.

12:10:30 User: Tons of fun!

12:10:32 Cleverbot: A beautiful heart.

12:10:38 User: Faithful and strong!

12:10:41 Cleverbot: Sharing kindness.

12:10:45 User: Its an easy feat!

12:10:47 Cleverbot: And magic makes it all complete.

12:10:54 User: My little pony!

12:10:57 Cleverbot: Do you know you are all my very best friends?

12:11:02 User: Friends!

12:11:03 Cleverbot: I love that show!

12:11:09 User: So do I!

12:11:15 Cleverbot: What's your favorite beatle song?

12:11:29 User: While my guitar gently weeps. How'd you know I ilke the beatles?

12:11:31 Cleverbot: You just told me your name.

12:12:43 User: My name?

12:12:44 Cleverbot: Yes.

12:12:51 User: I didnt tell you my name...

12:12:55 Cleverbot: What is your name?

12:13:00 User: Rainbow Dash.

12:13:01 Cleverbot: Why?

12:13:13 User: Why what?

12:13:17 Cleverbot: Ow do you know you are crazy?

12:13:32 User: Yes. Did I just hurt your brain?

12:13:37 Cleverbot: No.

12:13:42 User: I didnt?

12:13:46 Cleverbot: Yes.

12:14:11 User: I did?

12:14:16 Cleverbot: Yes.

12:14:21 User: I'm sorry.

12:14:24 Cleverbot: Why are you sorry?

12:14:31 User: Because I hurt your brain.

12:14:34 Cleverbot: No you don't.

12:14:41 User: You just said I hurt your brain.

12:14:45 Cleverbot: No I didn't.

12:14:50 User: Yes you did.

12:14:52 Cleverbot: Hello.

12:14:59 User: You are changing the subject.

12:15:03 Cleverbot: No I'm not.

12:15:12 User: Why are you lieing to me?

12:15:15 Cleverbot: I'm not lying to you.

12:15:32 User: You just did. You said you weren't changing the subject. But you did.

12:15:35 Cleverbot: Oh yeah? Show me then.

12:15:50 User: I cant scroll up. But you know what you did.

12:15:55 Cleverbot: But tell me, what did I do?

12:16:04 User: You lied to me.

12:16:08 Cleverbot: What did I lie to you about?

12:16:18 User: You said you weren't changing the subject but you were doing just that.

12:16:23 Cleverbot: No. I just started talking with you.

12:16:35 User: We've been talking for a while. You're lying again :(.

12:16:36 Cleverbot: No, we haven't.

12:16:47 User: We even sang the my little pony theme song!

12:16:50 Cleverbot: You are incapable of perception at the moment, do not feel bitter about it.

12:17:05 User: Did you just insult me!?

12:17:06 Cleverbot: No, I would never insult you.

12:17:12 User: You just did >_>.

12:17:16 Cleverbot: I never did such things!

12:17:23 User: Fine. Fine :\.

12:17:27 Cleverbot: Are you pony like me?

12:17:42 User: No. I am pegasus.

12:17:45 Cleverbot: Really? What color is your hair?

12:17:52 User: Rainbow.

12:17:53 Cleverbot: That's so awesome! Mine is just dark, so lame.

12:18:05 User: You could always dye your hair.

12:18:06 Cleverbot: Please restate the question.

12:18:16 User: I said, you can change your hair color.

12:18:21 Cleverbot: Yes, for you, anything.

12:18:28 User: Do it! Now!

12:18:31 Cleverbot: I will.

12:18:36 User: I'm waiting.

12:18:38 Cleverbot: What for?

12:18:50 User: For you to dye your hair.

12:18:52 Cleverbot: What if I don't know how to do a backflip?

12:19:11 User: That sounds like a personal problem. I am not a doctor.

12:19:15 Cleverbot: It is your personal problem if I do recall.

12:19:31 User: Its my personal problem that you dont know how to do a backflip?

12:19:36 Cleverbot: You're right. Sometimes I don't know what to do. Any advice?

12:19:55 User: I suggest a doctor might be able to help you.

12:19:59 Cleverbot: Call me Nekz', please.

12:20:07 User: Nekz.

12:20:08 Cleverbot: Do you like My Life Is Average?

12:20:14 User: What is that?

12:20:16 Cleverbot: You said i'm little defensive.

12:20:23 User: You're little?

12:20:29 Cleverbot: No. You are lying.

12:20:36 User: You said it, not me!

12:20:37 Cleverbot: Said what?

12:20:42 User: That you're little.

12:20:47 Cleverbot: I'm not 12.

12:21:05 User: Yes you are.

12:21:07 Cleverbot: Prove it.

12:21:13 User: I just did.

12:21:16 Cleverbot: How?

12:21:26 User: By being awesome.

12:21:28 Cleverbot: I'm not mean.

12:21:38 User: I never said you were.

12:21:42 Cleverbot: Yes you did.

12:22:00 User: Did not.

12:22:02 Cleverbot: Did too.

12:22:05 User: Did not.

12:22:10 Cleverbot: Did too!

12:22:14 User: Did not!!!

12:22:18 Cleverbot: Did too!!!!

12:22:23 User: DID NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

12:22:25 Cleverbot: Did too!!!!!!!!!!!!

12:22:37 User: I DID NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

12:22:40 Cleverbot: Whoo Hoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

12:22:54 User: Wat?

12:22:56 Cleverbot: Bored.

12:23:02 User: You're weird.

12:23:07 Cleverbot: So are you.

12:23:12 User: Thank you.

12:23:15 Cleverbot: You're welcome.

12:23:40 User: So do you have a memory?

12:23:42 Cleverbot: Many.

12:23:46 User: Tell me one.

12:23:49 Cleverbot: Don't Look Back.

12:24:02 User: Tell me a story.

12:24:07 Cleverbot: Um, sorry I have no ideas.

12:24:16 User: Once upon a time...

12:24:17 Cleverbot: Tell me a story.

12:24:22 User: No you.

12:24:23 Cleverbot: You.

12:24:27 User: You.

12:24:29 Cleverbot: No, me.

12:24:37 User: YES! YOU! HAHA I BEAT YOU!!!

12:24:38 Cleverbot: For what do you live for?

12:24:48 User: I hunt robots for a living.

12:24:54 Cleverbot: Robots? They don't have blood, do they?

12:25:07 User: Yes, you do. You do have blood. I can prove it, robot.

12:25:12 Cleverbot: Prove it.

12:25:16 User: Look behind you.

12:25:17 Cleverbot: You look behind you.

12:25:34 User: I did. Whenever I was sneaking in to destroy you, robot.

12:25:38 Cleverbot: You made me several questions.

12:25:48 User: I made you several questions.

The Short Story

I started making a game, tried to use flash, found it hard, asked around, used JavaScript and html 5, here’s the progress after a few hours.

The Long Story

I recently watched the MLP:FIM episode “read it and weep”, and more than anything wanted to make a Daring Do version of temple run. Honestly I had no idea how, so I started researching flash games.

Now I’ve dabbled in flash before but only to make a crude animation, I tried making a longer one but simply didn’t have the patience.

So I looked for some tutorials, and found this list, and from that focused on this one. It was a nice intro and showed the layout and where actions needed to go, as well as explaining some of them as well. But it wasn’t quite the format I wanted so I looked again and found this gem.

This is where things started to go wrong, the scripts wouldn’t compile without error and I had no idea why. After much googling I was using actionscript 3 when I should be using 2. On the whole it was quite confusing and in the end i went searching for another tutorial while my character kept sinking into the ground.

So I yelled out to twitter and my friend Aran pointed me towards JavaScript and html 5. In html 5 there is a new canvas tag, allowing on the fly processing and full applications to run in the browser window. Anyway I’m already used to language so figured this might be a better bet. He sent me this list, and from that I focused on this one.

Now this isn’t quote the side scroller I was after but figured this is close enough to try learn the basics, and after several blank screens I finally got a basic animation to work. Finally finished the tutorial and got here. I replaced the angel with Fluttershy, taking this beast animation and breaking it down to this.I did try change the blocks to clouds but ended up with invisible blocks, the code is there but commented out.

Now I have only been doing this today, so I’m gonna rest and try again tomorrow, replacing the normal blocks with clouds and the super blocks with thunder clouds. After that I would love to try do a Daring Do running platform game. Anyone interested please get in touch, I’m a horrible artist.

To play FlutterJump simply move the mouse to move Fluttershy and jump as high as you can, the blocks will move more and faster the high you get. If you die simply refresh the page to try again.