WE FINALLY HAVE A WINNER!
We finally have a winner in our CLICK YOUR BRAINS OUT FOR ITG CONTEST!!!!
So let me tell you a little story 
This guy IM’s me right as the contest starts, asking me some questions, just random stuff about the contest (A lot of people were doing this 
). At 10:53, I get roughly 25 IM’s saying “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO”, and just as I thought, the contest was over.
I check the server logs, and everything is in order, I get the username, and I PM the guy. Most of the people I was talking to on AIM I knew their usernames, but the few I didn’t, I decided to ask them their usernames, and low and behold, one of them was cowboy_b_bop2787.
We both flipped out, I’m so glad we finally had a legit winner in our contest. After 1,177,919 entries into our contest, numerous autoclickers banned, hours spend analyzing server logs for autoclickers, cowboy_b_bop2787 won our contest, getting the random number of 64,118, and clicking 1,421 times.
Thanks to all that participated, we got a lot of great feedback of all the people who clicked their brains out for this prize, and we will be sure to do more contests like this in the future, funded by yours truely
He will be recieving his copy of In The Groove in a few days, congrats to him, and again, thanks for participating!
Cheers,
lightdarkness and Synthlight
We’re clicking our brains out again!
CONTEST TO WIN IN THE GROOVE FOR PLAYSTATION 2
Contest over!
DO NOT USE ANY PROGRAM THAT CLICKS FOR YOU, AKA AN AUTOCLICKER, IF YOU DO YOU WILL BE BANNED FROM THE CONTEST, NO PRIZE 4 U.
We will have a winner tonight, when you win, contact me on AIM: lightdarkness42
CHARDISH EDIT: Don’t forget about Week 3 of the art contest! To learn how you can see your art in 3rd Style, click here.
CONTEST UPDATE 9/27/05: We had a couple techincal problems (autoclickers) with the contest last night, and due to me unexpectivly falling asleep at my desk, we have to give this thing ONE MORE SHOT!Before I explain what we are doing tonight, LET ME MAKE A FEW THINGS CLEAR. You are NOT allowed to use a program to automaticly click (enter) for you. Our system informs us when you are doing so, and it’s just unfair to the other people trying to win legitly. If you are found to be using an autoclicker, you will be banned from the contest.
Now, as to what we are going to do tonight. We will be starting the contest tonight, SEPTEMBER 27TH at 9:00 PM EASTERN TIME. We will have the same odds, and we should have a winner within one to two hours, depending on the number of entries. When we get a winner (provided I havne’t passed out again 
) we will very quickly validate your entries, and we will finally have ourselves a winner!
DON’T WASTE OUR TIME VALIDATING IF YOU PLAN ON USING AN AUTOCLICKER. I don’t know how clear I can make myself. I’ve banned about 20 people for using autoclickers so far, don’t make me ban YOU
Thanks for participating thus far, and hopefully around 11pm tonight, I’ll have a winner to annouce to all of you!
Cheers,
LD
It doesn’t appear that our previous winner is going to contact us, so we are going to reopen the contest to get ourselves a new winner.
YOU NEED FLASH 8 TO ENTER
Just click the logo to enter. Every time you click, a new random number is generated for you, if your number matches the winning number on the server, YOU’RE A WINNER!
I can’t stress this next part enough, please pay attention to the message it gives you when you click. It will tell you whether you’ve won or lost.
If while clicking, it goes to the we have a winner screen, and you think you might have one, feel free to contact me on aim (lightdarkness42) to ask me if you’re a winner. I will also PM you and E-mail you, but we’d like to contact you as soon as possible.
With the current odds, we should have a winner in a few hours, so get to clicking!
Stop clicking your brains out!
IT’S OFFICIAL! We have ourselves a winner in our CLICK YOUR BRAINS OUT FOR ITG contest.
I am not going to annouce the winner until I get in contact with them, but I thought i’d put out this message to let everyone know that if you were clicking between 7:30 and 8:00pm Eastern time, you might want to Check your FFR PM’s or perhaps your email for instructions on contacting me.
Thanks so much to everyone for participating, i’ll post an entire contest writeup once the winner contacts me.
FFArt – Week 3
LD EDIT: Don’t forget our Click your brains out contest!, we WILL have a winner today.
It’s Sunday, everyone! And you know what that means…FFArt for another week! For those of you who don’t know, FFArt is a way that those of you out there with artistic talent can contribute to 3rd Style and see your name in the game credits.
Click here for more info on the contest, with instructions on how you can enter for this week.
We got a fair number of submissions this week, but it was far far far fewer than last week. I have the feeling a lot of people got dissapointed because they didn’t win, but really, there are so many good artists out there who can very easily win, but haven’t won yet. Keep up the good work, everyone!
Just please, please don’t be the guy who took the background for Sakura from DDR, wrote “The Return” on it in MS paint, and submitted it for The Return F Superdouble.
WINNARS
Computer Dreams: Trevor Moore
Song For The Nihonjins: Ilse Velázquez
The Return F Superdouble: Ilse Velázquez
Next week’s songs:
4F73R M3 (FFR edit)
Lovely Lovely Lovely
CIA Rave
Remember the rules involving other music games – do not reference DDR in your BG for 4F73R M3. You’ve got a week to make your submissions. Enjoy!
Cheers,
Chardish
Hope For the Best
So while I sit comfy in Chicago, our dedicated servers are located in.. Yup.. You guessed it, Houston. If for some reason FFR goes down in the next 24 hours, we have made an offsite backup of all files and databases.. All 20gb+ worth. Lets hope for the best, not just for us but for all the people affected by the hurricane.
CLICK YOUR BRAINS OUT!!! NOW!!
*EDIT SYNTHLIGHT* – We know everyone has been trying hard to win this contest. We have reduced the random number generator by another digit. This means that the odds are that someone in the next 100,000 clicks will win. This should take approximately 12 hours but that depends on the rate of the clicks.
*EDIT SYNTHLIGHT* – We have lowered the random number generator by quite a few digits in order to make the contest easier to win. If many people play, we can probably land on a winner within 24 hours. Good luck!
See first news post for contest entry.
So Mr. lightdarkness went and did something crazy again. Being the crazy bastard that he is, he is providing a copy of "In The Groove" for PS2 to anyone who wins our little contest.
Some questions you may ask yourself are "How difficult is it to enter this contest?", "Who’s hiscore will I have to beat in order to win?", "Do I need to know C++ to enter?" and "How many admins to I have to suck up to in order to win?". The answer is.. well.. JUST CLICK THE DAMN ITG LOGO TO ENTER!! The more you click, the more chances you have to win. Each time you click the logo, it generates a new number and if that number matches the winning number on the server, YOU WIN!
Simple? Yes. Time Consuming? That depends on how dedicated you are. Fun and interesting? Definately.
Please follow these simple rules when playing:
Try as many times as you wish.
You must be LOGGED IN in order to win.
You must not soil your pants in anticipation.
Hackers (autoclickers too) will be dealt a savage beating.
LD will mail you the copy of ITG after the system notifies us of the win. If someone doesn’t win after a week, the number of possible digits for the win number will reduce by 1 each week until we have a winner.
Good luck!
Cheers,
Synthlight & lightdarkness
*EDIT SYNTHLIGHT* – YOU MUST HAVE FLASH 8 PLAYER IN ORDER TO SEE THE NUMBERS!! If the numbers come up blank, you are using Flash Player 7.
FFArt – Week 2
Sorry for the delay on this one, guys. I’ve been in Wales since early Friday morning, just got back, and haven’t had internet access all weekend.
I’ve picked contest winners for last week’s art contest!
Below The Surface: Ilse Velázquez
Burnout: Alan Newhouse
Love You Anymore: Shastina Helmers
NOTE TO EVERYONE WHO ENTERED: I was really, really blown away at the huge number of very good entries we received for all three songs. I’d love to hand out “honorable mentions” but to be honest, there are so many quality submissions that if I listed all the names of the dozens of talented artists who submitted work you’d think I was just trying to make people feel good. It’s true though. If you didn’t win this time, try again!
NOTE TO WINNERS: Do not share your winning artwork with anyone else. We’re very secretive about what we’re working on, and we look forward to showcasing your art in 3rd Style once it’s finished. And feel free to keep entering! You can win as many times as your artwork merits.
This week’s songs you want to do art for are:
Computer Dreams
The Return F Superdouble
Note: Song for the Nihonjins is in the Shop if you don’t have it. If you do have it, it’s in the Purchased section.
Remember:
550×400
PNG
Original artwork only
Include your real name and FFR username
art@flashflashrevolution.com
Due: 11:59 PM on Friday, September 23rd
Cheers,
Chardish
Woah? Sims are back?
Hey everyone, Synth was supposed to make this nice long news post about how I worked my butt off on this new simfile section for FFR. Instead, he spent the night googling his name for funny pictures.
Therefore, this is the extent of the news post The Simfile section is up! You may now upload your original files that you’ve created for DWI, Stepmania, ect. Either click here or click FFR Simfiles on the top row.
Also, I will be looking for people to moderate the simfile section, so if you are interested, please PM me on the forums.
Cheers,
LD
*EDIT SYNTHLIGHT* hhahahaaha.. check this out everyone Yeah
Make Original Art For FFR!
Have you ever wanted to see your own work in a game played tens of thousands of times, every day?
Do you have no musical talent, but plenty of artistic talent?
FLASH FLASH REVOLUTION WANTS YOU!
Here’s how it works. We think it’s finally time that we stepped up and added backgrounds to all the songs that don’t have them for 3rd Style.
But we have over 100 songs in FFR, and we thought it would be only right to let other people in on the fun. Thus, We’re starting a new project called “FFArt” in search of people to design backgrounds for FFR!
This is how we roll:
-Every Sunday, I will post the name of the three songs we’re looking for backgrounds for this week for on our mainpage, right here.
-You have until Friday to let your creative juices run wild and come up with an awesome-looking background for the song. You can enter one song, two, or three! Take your pick! You can even enter multiple backgrounds for each song if you want – but please submit only your best work.
-Then, you email it to art@flashflashrevolution.com. In the subject line, you put the name of the song your art is for. You attach your image, and you give us your FFR username in the body of the message. You also give your real name. Any images submitted become our property, though we will give you full credit for the work.
-If a song has a current background (like Delirium, or Domani, or Pondering Stuff, or FF7 Battle) the current background is judged along with all the other backgrounds.
-On Saturday, we meet clandestinely in secret council under cover of night. After putting our hands on an ancient tome of unspeakable horror and swearing dark oaths never to reveal anything spoken there, under pain of slow torture, we decide what the coolest-looking image is to go in our fun flash game for each song.
-If we don’t like any of the images very much, we’ll put that song “on hold.” We’ll ask for images for that song again later on.
-If your image wins, hooray for you! You not only get your image put in 3rd Style, but also your username goes in the song loading screen as the graphic maker, and your real name goes in the game’s end credits!
Now, here are some requirements for the image itself.
-Do not use images from Google Images, please. You can use these sparingly, and as source images (if you later make them unrecognizable somehow), but your work should be 95% original.
-No copyrighted characters for no good reason. This means if you’re doing a background for Abtrusity, Naruto does not belong here, no matter how much you may like Naruto. EXCEPTION: Arcade songs may feature artwork/references to the games that they reference.
-We have a couple remixes that have been from other music games. Don’t reference those music games. They wouldn’t be happy.
-Backgrounds should contain the name of the song but not the artist.
-Try to keep a reasonably low level of contrast in your image to make reading the arrows easy.
-The feel of the background should mimic the feel of the song. Secret Zombie Room should not have a bright pink background with hearts and flowers.
-PNG format, 550×400. Keep in mind that the very top and very bottom of your image will be cut off by interface elements.
Very Important: If all you have is MS Paint, please do not enter. We are looking for professional-quality images, and MS Paint is not a program for professional quality. If you are looking for a free Photoshop-like program, try The GIMP. It can do about 2/3 of what Photoshop can do, and it’s free. Go to gimp.org to get it. It’s available for Linux, Windows, and Macs.
That said, since everyone’s new at this, we’ll get started already!
The first 3 images are due at 11:59 PM Eastern time on Friday, September 16th. And here’s what you’re making!
Love You Anymore
Below The Surface
Take your pick, or enter for all three!
Good luck, and have fun!
Remember that email is art@flashflashrevolution.com.
Cheers,
Chardish, Synthlight, and the rest of the 3rd Style team
