A Long Long Week
Wow. Between A new release of MeTrivia, A Rithum PR blitz and FFR development, we have had an incredibly busy week.
I am putting the finishing touches on the scroll rate feature for FFR but since it has been such an undertaking, I have migrated the source code from Flash 6 to Flash 9. Flash 9 will allow us greater security among many many other performance enhancements. Starting tomorrow morning I am going to release the Flash 9 version for a day of testing by the subscribers / beta testers. If everything goes relatively well and all bugs are squashed, we will release this update over the weekend to the public.
We also wanted to thank everyone for their support of Rithum yesterday. We actually made the front page of Digg.com and remained on the top of the list for Gaming Industry News nearly all day. In the end we had nearly 500 diggs and enough unique visitors to create a small city. It was really a great boost for Rithum.com and we appreciate all your help.
Our MeTrivia team has also been hard at work trying to get the new Beta 2 ready for release. The new beta will allow anyone to create their own trivia kits and we have ranking for nearly every aspect of the game. The interface has been completely reworked and backend rewritten from the ground up. There are many more features and we are JUST starting to wire up Beta 2. The graphics and milestone should be complete within the next week.
Thanks again to everyone for their support. It’s not easy but we are doing everything we can to expand. I will keep you guys posted on the scroll rate stuff and further progress. The sooner we can get these scroll rate changes working, the better.
Subscribers, Beta Testers and Staff, keep an eye tomorrow morning in the subscriber forum for the link to the beta. I should have it ready by about 8am Central time to start testing. Btw.. we now have given out around 130 @flashflashrevolution.com email addresses to subscribers. The list keeps growing every day.
Cheers,
Synthlight & the rest of the crazy staff at FFR
Halo 3 Multiplayer Status on Rithum.com (Please DIGG them!)
Rithum is currently #2 on the digg list for industry news. This may be the rare opp we have to get on the front page of digg. If you can, please.. please go digg the news story on Rithum.com. This would help us and Rithum tremendously.
Ok, well we know this is not FFR related but we are trying to gather traffic and support for our effort this morning over at Rithum Gaming News
We are providing up to the second beta status for the crackdown version of Halo 3 multiplayer and will be reporting it the second it goes live. Rithum has 4 people checking every 3-5 seconds and I know they would really appreciate any Diggs or support you could get them. To Rithum, it is about helping the user base with useful info and giving that up to the minute style of reporting with a wonderful community feel.
Cheers,
Synthlight (thanks!)
Special Weekday Song Release
Sudden release of a For Guru’s Only classical song.. why? just because Tass felt like it.
Song is by Oster Project, known for Dazzling series on FFR. Steps are by hi19hi19.
Imagine furiously burning fire, and furious demon, they are the image of this song.
It has a lot of jumpstreams and minijacks, 12 2-framers, 48 3-framers, 12 4-framers
(1 frame = 1/30 second apart). And at the fastest place, BPM is up to 201.
So difficulty is For Guru’s Only as I said, of course the hardest rating.
Difficulty is between Runny Morning and Molto Vivace IMO, really hard to combo.
It’s located upper left of classical for the time being.
have fun,
JX
100 News Stories for Rithum.com
In just 1 week’s time Rithum.com has fulfilled it’s goal over delivering 100 news stories. This has happened because of the tireless hours and mornings that Mr. Nestlekwik has devoted to this budding site. Our uniques visitors are rising each day and the forum is really starting to take shape.
If you are interested in what people like us enjoy reading when we are not working our butts off on FFR related projects, head on over to Rithum.com and take a look. Stop by the forums and go congratulate Nestlekwik if you get the chance. I am sure he would love to hear some feedback. I know Rithum is actively starting to search for people to moderate the site now that it is out of the initial startup phase. Keep your eyes open.
Cheers,
Synthlight
2nd Official FFR Tournament is over!
Around a week ago, the 2nd official FFR tournament ended. With a massive 1,000 signups, the competition was certainly fierce, but in the end, one player from each division managed to beat the competition and claim victory. There were many close matches throughout, but none could compare to the ridiculously close final round of Expert, where Jimerax beat Bill_clinton by a measly 3,000 points on Grand Gallop Chromatique, which amounts to something like 3 combo points out of around 1,900 combo for each player. Anyway, the winners are:
Expert:
1st ($60): jimerax
2nd ($30): bill_clinton
3rd ($15): dAnceguy117
Other high placers: Bahamut-X, Loyal2Death, Exag0n, Sprite-, tman139
Advanced:
1st ($40): drummerlsu
2nd ($20): Schrammbledeggs
3rd ($10): Doug31
Other high placers: Hammymcsquirrel, lxdestinyxl, dawg4321, Kit- (staff), BLAZZE, talisman
Intermediate:
1st ($30): A2_Sauce
2nd ($15): Loot You
3rd ($7): Zeron
Other high placers: Goldenwind, xXTranceXx, Alucard4_6, lacrossegod23, mymrpeas
Beginner:
1st ($20): jugglinguy
2nd ($10): brothaice
3rd ($5): DrawingJunkie
Other high placers: jigglyboy, mxpx9546, slickskater29, gothicmonkey, Grafx5
The top 3 in each division will receive however much money is next to their username, and all high placers (1st to 8th) who aren’t on staff will receive the yet-to-be revealed mystery prize (which will be edited into this post), and have already received the tournament prize-exclusive 18th token, which unlocks the April Fools Day joke song “Vertex Beta vrofl”.
If you’re in the top 3 of your division, PM Synthlight with your paypal address and street address to get your prize. If you’re one of the other high placers, just PM him your street address.
Congratulations to the top placers, and thanks to everyone who participated!
Until next tourney time, happy FFR’ing!
You@FlashFlashRevolution.com
Are you part of the FFR Beta / Subscriber team that contributes to FFR? If not, we have thought of another way to bring even more value to you in return for your support. We have made the leap and decided to give out @flashflashrevolution.com email addresses to all Beta team / subscribers, Admins, Moderators, FFR Stepfile Artists, Musicians. Are we crazy? Yes but for other reasons.
Now for some quick questions about these email addresses.
Q: If I subscribe and then cancel in a few months, can I keep my email address?
A: Yes, as far as we are concerned, you have contributed and deserve the email address
Q: How will I access my email?
A: You can access it through pop3 or special gmail link. We are working with google services to bring this email to you. The email interface will be through a standard looking Gmail type web interface. Which is of course pretty damn sweet.
Q: How large is my inbox?
A: It starts at 2 Gigabytes and grows larger each day
Q: I am already a subscriber or I just subscribed. How do I request my @flashflashrevolution.com email address?
A: Use the contactus link at the very bottom of this page and send us an email with the subject ‘email’. Make sure you include the password that you want to use. Your FFR passwords are encrypted and we cannot see them so make sure that you give us a password.
Q: How long will it take for my email address to be activated?
A: Initially we will be swamped because they are manually entered. Some of you will get them tonight, others will have to wait anywhere from 1 minute to a couple of days depending on where you are in the list. After we get through the first bulk, email requests will go through very quickly.
Q: Will you be giving out email addresses for the mirrors?
A: Yes, when we get that setup. We will let you know.
If have subscribed in the past and cancelled, you will need to subscribe again to get the email address but from that point on it will be yours to keep.
So hit that contact us at the bottom of this page or subscribe so that you can get your @flashflashrevolution.com email address activated. We are sending them out starting now and taking them in the order we receive the requests.
Synthlight, JasonKey & the rest of the dedicated and tireless staff at FFR.
*Edit* Once you have submitted your information. You can check http://partnerpage.google.com/flashflashrevolution.com to see if you have been activated.
Token Token 17, Where are YoouuuUU?
I will keep this message short because I cannot say much. What I can tell you is that at 5:55pm tomorrow the 17th token will be available on this Token 17 Page. Happy hunting, see you at 5:55pm.
Cheers,
*EDIT* and now the guesses begin on which timezone I meant and if it is indeed already out but not found yet.
Good Morning Rithum.com
Many of you have asked at what time the new gaming news comes in each day for Rithum.com. I should have mentioned in the last article about Rithum that starting at about 6-7am central time each day, the news starts flowing in and Nestle is right there to pick it up and start writing. If you watch this morning (and every morning) you will definitely see that news flow in.
News will pop into Rithum at other times of the day as well. It’s just that it is usually concentrated into the morning. We don’t believe in holding onto the news and pacing the release through the day. Why hold back? If there is news off the wire in the morning, we are going to report it!
Cheers,
Synthlight
Spontaneous Contest #342.23: Hawaii Five.. OHH! OHH! Here!
Many of you freaks are out enjoying your prom night tonight. That is all fine and dandy but will your prom date give you an FFR T-Shirt? NooOOOOo! I don’t think so. 
Will Synthlight give you an FFR T-Shirt? Yes he will.
So what are we doing tonight for the spontaneous contest?
You are going to watch a live feed of my stupid desk for 1 hour. During that 1 hour at random intervals, I will be showing you a sheet of paper. That paper will remind you of “Wheel of Fortune”.. Every once in awhile I will fill in a square with a letter.
The first person to correctly guess the word or phrase on the paper and send me the completed phrase, wins a T-Shirt of their choice from the FFR Store.
They also win: The first public @flashflashrevolution.com email address.
The contest starts now! FFR Spontaneous Contest Video Feed <--- Click this and you can watch for clues.
What a nice and relaxing way to earn a shirt tonight.
Cheers,
Synthlight
P.S. Tonight is the last night we are offering a free 3 month subscription if you buy any shirt. Starting tomorrow morning prices and deals go back to normal! Don’t forget!
8:35pm.. We have a winner! Whorlichan was able to guess it nearly 2 minutes before everyone else in the chat! Congratulations to Whorli. It’s good to see you finally win something besides Tass because we know that Tass is no prize!
Thanks to everyone for participating tonight. That was a really quick spontaneous contest. I had fun trying to man the controls, watch for answers and respond to questions like “Synth, are you really there?”.
Don’t forget to check out (yeah, have to plug it) Rithum.com this weekend. We just launched that sucker today.
Cheers,
Synthlight
