i reall don't think tetris attack deserves a freaking animated gif. that game is so simple, it could be coded in 2 hours.

It received POTM awards in two separate categories. Simple or not, its an addicting game. But since it could be coded in two hours, how about _YOU_ making something better within a day? I'll check the file archives tomorrow to see what you've posted.

well, right now i'm making a cgb game, but as soon as i'm done i'll code some game that has nothing to do with 4 and then arbitrarily add tetris into the title.

p.s. You know you could code it in 2 or 3 hours too kirk. admit it.

Please think of the movie 'Waterworld' for a moment - a billion dollars and countless hours to make; and yet the Hollywood flop of the century.

My point - (I know I had one..:o)

Ah yes; even if a game takes a long time to code, it could be very unpopular. And even if tetris attack took only two hours to code (which I doubt :P), it is indeed an addicting, popular game. If TI-Calc wants to give animated gifs to popular games, this one should get it.

-Kyro

"If you don't have anything nice to say..."

ticalc.org: would you consider possibly incorporating a special icon for animated screenshots? A file without screenshots has a white file icon next to it, a file with screenshots has a red file icon, so maybe a file containing animated screenshots could have something like a blue or green file icon, or maybe the icon could be that of a film reel. If you really wanted to be extravagant, you could even use an animated icon! Just an idea to consider...

We're looking into this. Thanks for the suggestion.

Chris

Are you guys trying to claim that you started animated screenshots? I have seen animated screen shots along time ago. Just because you finally joined the bandwagon dosn't mean you created them. I hope that all TI sites will be able to use animated screenshots on their site and not be afraid that ticalc.org will get mad that they are copying their idea. As long as people make their own animated screenshots it is prefectly legal to use aniamted screenshots on any site.

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Matt Peresie
matt@calc.org

Of course not. We are not saying that we invented animated GIFs. They're part of the GIF89a standard, from 1989. That's uh 10 years ago. No, we didn't invent them. We made a utility to take animated screenshots of TI calculator programs. It's really fast and easy, which means we can create a high volume of them. If other TI sites make animated screenshots, that's fine - they just won't have the quick and easy utility - unless they make one for themselves of course. Now if other TI sites actually post our screenshots on their site, well yeah then we might be mad.

That is what I tought thanks for clearing it up. What you could do is put the ticalc.org name somewhere in the animation maybe at the end before it loops back to be assured that nobody copies. Because if you have no proof it is just one author's word against another.

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Matt Peresie
matt@calc.org

Each GIF contains a copyright notice comment, and also our gif's have a black & white border around them, and they are in greyscale. I think that it would be pretty obvious if we saw any taken by our utility on another site.