Animations and other site news

Posted:: 18 Dec 2004 at 23:42

As you may have noticed there’s a christmas animation on the frontpage now. Here’s hoping it makes the site look a bit more joyful during the days around Christmas. If you dislike seeing an animated image every time you visit J2O, just click on the image to make it disappear.

We have the image thanks to Pyromanus, who gave us all the Jazz Jackrabbit 2 enemy animations in animated gif form as a present. You can admire them in our Characters section, on the Bad Guys and End Bosses pages (formerly the images there were static, now they move). Thank you, Pyromanus.

For wizkids who would like to retrieve the latest Jazz2Online news posts in their favourite newsreader or possibly their e-mail client, the news of this site is now available in RSS form. You can find the RSS feed here. The code for it was made by Nebula, and the bugs were fixed thanks to the help of Flash.

A huge majority of people agreed with eachother that the new version of J2O was great or awesome. Thanks! Of course there’s still much to improve. Some things weren’t completed when releasing this site, and there are still bugs here and there. We also would like to add more news and content. But we’re working on it. An example of progress is that we now have a new newsposter: Labratkid.
He is going to feature a level on the frontpage each month.

Here are the poll results:

What do you think of the new version of Jazz2online?

It’s really awesome – 48 Votes (39%)

It’s great – 56 Votes (46%)

It’s ok – 12 Votes (10%)

I think it’s not better than the old version – 5 Votes (4%)

I think Jazz2online is a really bad site. What am I doing here? – 2 Votes (2%)

Total votes: 123

The new poll is about what ages this site’s visitors are.

- Fquist

Comments

Nimrod on 19 Dec 2004 at 00:20

Congrats LRK!!!! :)

Lark on 19 Dec 2004 at 02:59

Spiffy. Great job, Pyro, and everyone else. :)

PHT on 19 Dec 2004 at 16:50

Congrats from me too. Also, I like the christmas design. ;-D

Dusk on 19 Dec 2004 at 22:16

The animations don’t have an interframe delay. This isn’t a problem on Windows, because the minimum delay is 1/10th of a second there, but on a Mac, the minimum is 1/100th of a second. In short, I’m seeing the animations 10 times too fast, and it’s driving me crazy. I’ve uploaded the same GIFs with delays set to 1/10th of a second here: http://www.geocities.com/dusk_the_great/gifs.html. Could you PLEASE you use those? Thanks.

Violet CLM on 20 Dec 2004 at 03:00

You could just turn the animations off…

White Rabbit on 20 Dec 2004 at 14:39

Why is there no animated Xmas Floating Lizard on the J2o mainpage?

FQuist on 20 Dec 2004 at 18:14

There is a flying Lizard in the random sequence.

White Rabbit on 21 Dec 2004 at 08:44

Oh yeah! It’s not random enough, IMO, though. ;-P

FQuist on 22 Dec 2004 at 12:45

It can hardly be more random than completely random, which it is AFAIK.

Dusk: your url gives a 404.

Dusk on 22 Dec 2004 at 23:45

Sorry, it should be http://www.geocities.com/dusk_the_great/gifs.html without the extra .

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