Psuda Preloader

When/if we make projects in Psuda's name, I find it most fitting for there to be an original preloader that represents us. The time to first use it will be in the upcoming battle between De8 and I that we will post on various Flash sites. I once made a preloader, but re-learning how and creating a great one would take me away from the battle.
I request that a Psudan create our preloader. The first guy that comes to mind for this is Malfunction.

Yes this sounds like an awesome idea!
The FA preloader is used a lot, so apparently, people like to have it available.
Malfunction seems like a good choice if he/ you got time but if other people know anything about coding, don't hesitate to step up to the plate!

Yeah you bring up a good concern, and we ought to whip a logo and preloader up, even if it's not the final version that we want to keep forever.

I can't really do it myself because of complications with my tablet pen right now, but I could totally draw the concept in tvpaint for someone else to flash-ify.

It needs coding though.. draw the concept in tv paint and publish it and send it to me.. I might be able to do a flash version of it.. we gotta think about the version of Flash we're gonna use though, because not everybody has AS 3.0

I, for one, never bothered to learn anything outside of the scant commands of ActionScript 2.0; as such, I've stayed at 2.0 for things such as preloaders and basic Title Menus that I could create.

making preloaders sounds confusing
how bout we pitch in designs first before all that coding hoot-N'-andy

I think that the coding comes first. Worst case scenario as far as the design is just that I slap our current banner onto the PreLoader. Let's focus on making it function first, then give it some skin.
Let's make it click-able - directing to this forum.

I shall make you a preloader!
I made this preloader for SupperBas: http://www.supperbas.com/forum/topic/190/
(you can click and drag) which seemed to be quite popular. So yeah, I can do something like that if you want.

Just throw out your ideas. I'm fairly adept at coding, so the only limitations may be that the preloader could potentially take longer than the animation itself to load, so keep that in mind :p

Haha mal that effect is neat.
I'm in favor of idea pitching. Please draw whatever you got in mind, anyone, and post it for us to consider.
Let's start brainstorming.

I think it's important to do something that doesn't resemble another preloader or anything done before.. it has to be unique, and have that "Psuda Flavor" to it.

I think the most obvious thing is that we're basically making our logo with this lol

Doesn't necessarily have to be the case. we could have some epic shiz with our mascotte or something.

Fair enough. Well guys,let's start loading up on concept sketches.

Here's my straight-forward one:

Sexay. I thought of the "Psuda-Play" exchange as well, but with the old logo, of all things.

...if it isn't made to garner clicks, then I s'pose I'll place Psuda in them there credits.

OH, I totally forgot about making a sleek way to click into psuda itself. Well that needs rethinking.
inb4 I'm the only one who's gonna be drawing these concepts lol

Maybeh. I'll be the one that just feeds ideas in the form of text.

Newest Idea: Separate the Pre-Loader from the actual button to take us to the site. De8 and I are two random people the likes of whom no one has heard of. They won't want to click the foreign site until after they've seen the movie and gotten a good impression. "Damn, that was awesome; what the fuck is this site?" We stick the button into 'em at the end, after the credits and during the "replay" part of the movie.

hmm... good point, mate. Very insightful.
That might prove to be the best lace to put a psuda link, but the preloader should have a psuda link for all intents and purposes.

....whose link stops being a link when the "Play" button comes into view.

"Lemme press play -- *clicks link* WHAT THE FUCK."

Well it's more like, whose link is clearly distinguishable from the play link. Kind of like the newgrounds preloader. That one is nicely packaged and you very clearly can tell you can click the above picture to hit newgrounds.

The same button's link changing is very confusing and isn't intuitive.

Maybe we need some sort of icon above the preloader, which is the link to the website.

We can't make the preloader too boring by the way.. any way to sex it up a bit? special effects or something?

While we want to separate them as much as possible, we still want to hybridize them in some way.

As for visuals, we don't want it to get too complex, although we still want something pretty. But anything too computer intensive and it's a failed preloader if you ask me!

No filters or anything, just some frame by framed stuff to make it stylish but easy on the processor.

Maybe, hehe
I really need some ideas though, I'm not sure how to blend and separate the psuda and play links at the same time, naw mean?

I was also thinking about a pre-loader but figured Id jst make a tiny one in the corner

Nah bro we're gonna make you legit pre-loaders