Who is Who on Nonoba? (Lone)

Darcie brings us yet other great interview this time with nonoba admin Lone.

Lone's Background:

A graphic designer from Copenhagen, Denmark Lone also helped to design Nonoba and is one of the admins of the site. She's done graphics for games such as Minesweeper, Fruitbowl, and many more. She dilligently watches over the Nonoba users with a watchful eye and never hesitates to whip out the banhammer once or twice.

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Interview with Lone

Q: Question by Darcie

A: Answer by Lone

Q: How is life in Denmark, what is the best thing about living there?

A: Life in Denmark is nice at the moment. Spring is peaking it's head through our windows, and for all Danes the excitement envolved in venturing outside, without a jacket is thrilling and always feels like a whole new experience.
The very best thing about living here is a bit harder to answer.
If you ask the boys, I'm sure one of their answers will be, "hot girls", but as I am neither a hot girl, nor a lesbian, I will have go grasp at some other straws in trying to explain the awesomeness of this place.
I tried Googling the phrase, "Denmark is known for", and it gave me different options, from our extremly high taxes, to our well-functioning wellfare system, to H.C Andersen, Tivoli, Christiania, meatballs, beer, cycling, innovative design, eco-friendly attitude and open-mindedness towards gays and lesbians.
I guess I'll go with the meatballs, try to forget about the taxes and be grateful for everything else.

Q: Do you plan on making any more games in the future?

A: I do.
There are a couple of things in the pipeline right now, with both Chris, and various other programmers around the site, but I also have other projects, so I'm not sure when any of them will be finished.

Q: I loved fruitbowl, is there any chance you will make it so that the game keeps score and possibly add achievements?

A: Fruitbowl is an old game Chris made a long time ago, and he gave me the sourcefiles, so I could muck around with it. I just added some fruit, a few sounds and animation, but I really can't programm anything myself, so I'm kind of limited in that area. If Fruitbowl should have points and achievements it really would be Chris who'd have to do it. [and] I'm not sure how excited he is about working on something he coded that long ago. YaiEf and I are working on a functioning version of Fruitbowl, for one of my private sites, though. Maybe he can be talked into uploading it to Nonoba as well and add Achievements.

Q: What is your favorite thing about Nonoba?
A: Right now, I would have to say it's "Blockarelli" by Tonypa. For some reason, that game has caught my attention, and I play it so much and often, that I sometimes see those darn little blocks, when I close my eyes at night.

Q: What is your least favorite thing about Nonoba?
A: Blockarelli by Tonypa. The thing drives me nuts! I just cant seem to get that last, damn achievement!

Q: Shadowstalker wanted me to ask, whats going on with you and Chris?
A: He is so, totally jealous of my apparent awesomeness, but that is about it.

Q: Most common question you are asked?
A: It's most likely, "You want fries with that?", but on Nonoba it's, "Can you please unban my friend" or "How do you chat without playing a game".
And yes - I do want fries with that, and No - I will not unban your friend.

Now you know who is who on nonoba.

Next interview nonoba admin Chris.

Who is who on nonoba? (Robbit)

Darcie was able to get a interview with Robbit who made the game Continue which has left many of us nonobians banging there computer screen in frustation and for the rest of us it was a nice and clever game. Q: Question by Darcie A: Answer by Robbit Robbit's Background: He's not an admin, he's not a mod but he's still Robbit! A force to be reckoned with. Despite only being 14 Robbit has succesfully created one of the most unique games on Nonoba, really a whole bunch of minigames packed into one, Continue. Some of his likes are LOST, music, and making games. Some of his dislikes are carrots, rain, and the German language. Interview with Robbit Q: How long have you been making games? A:I think I started making games using Game Maker around 2 years ago. 3 months ago i started using flash because it is much easier to publish a game that way. Q: Do you plan on making any new games?? A: I sure do. I already started making sketches for a new game, wich will be a point-and-click adventure. The problem is that flash has a much harder programming language than Game maker, which I'm used too. Q: What is the most common question people ask you about Continue? A: Well, most of the time, they ask for help because they're stuck somewhere. It's a relief that NCYHN made a guide for continue, so there won't be 5 questions a day. Also there are some people asking if I'm going to expand continue even more, but I won't. Q: What do you find to be the most IRRITATING question people ask? A: There still are people asking me for help, while the link to the NCYHN guide is in the games description. (maybe I should put in the game itself too...). Besides that, there are people asking me random questions, like "How do I make a game??? pl0x help me!!!" Q: What is your favorite/least favorite thing about Nonoba? A: The thing that I like about nonoba is that you're completely free to upload your games, and gain feedback about them. (you can't post comments on kongregate ). It's a perfect place for beginning game makers to "grow up". Q: What would you like to see more of on Nonoba? A: I really miss control over your own game page. People can post every spoiler they want, and the only thing you can do is mark it as spam. There are people spoiling the way too the secret room, and the only thing i can do about it is remove the achievement or erase/change the spoiled way. I think you should be able to delete comments on your own profile and game pages. This was are first Who is Who where we will interview imporant and well known people on nonoba. More to come soon.

Nchyn Has a forum

That's right we got a forum! (woot) Click here to check it out and make a account.

Anyways this forum will allow you use a user of Nchyn to speak to us and give us comlements and you can report errors in are guides or help us a make a guide.

Also if you are a author of Nchyn please make account we will use these forums as kind of a headquater like thing. If you are a author please go here and message me on your nonoba account once you made a account on nchyn's forums so I can make you a mod and allow you access to the hidden forum just for Nchyn authors.

Race To The Bottom Tips

Race to the Bottom General Tips:

1)Never stop moving.
You must continously be moving as the centipede gradually accelerates so you need to get a good enough headstart to stay alive for a few more minutes.

2) Always go down.
If a beacon ends up right next to you don't spend the time trying to inch to it sideways keep going down even if you miss a few beacons because ultimately you get farther from the centipede and are able to collect more beacons than you miss.

3) Judge the worth of a beacon wisely.
If a beacon is a whole screen away from you just skip past it instead of taking the time to slowly inch across and get it. It's better off to keep falling down.

4) Turn correctly.
Never turn more than you have to, it's wise to keep your turns as short as possible in order to maximize speed down.

5) Need help?
This game can be played by up to 5 players so if you have the people at hand use them to distract the centipede while you cash the beacons. While this method is probably cheap and unfair the moral judgement is up to you.

6) Lag is your other friend.
LAG! If you can lag your computer and have the game slow enough to play easily yet fast enough to keep up with your presses, do it! Lag can make the game at least 1.5x easier.
Again it's your own personal moral judgement whether to use this method or not, your choice.

Good luck!

Nchyn expanding....

With less walkthroughable achievements we've decided to expand NCHYN a bit and move closer to a true fansite. As of now we're not sure ourselves exactly what this will mean but be certain that it's no longer just about games. Don't worry we'll still have game posts for the walkthroughable achievements but we will also have new additions. Look forward to new posts loyal NCHYNers!

The Dark Secrets Of Nonoba....

As you can see we're running out of achievements to do guides on >_<
So in place of that I'm posting a side post about all the dark secrets you may or may not know 0_O

1. The Filter.
This ubiquitous addition to chat constantly filters what you say, think, and even whisper.
It's deviously clever in that you never realize that your curse word was actually filtered. It never appears on your screen! DUN DUN DUN 0_O Only everyone else sees the original word replaced with a somewhat relevant but more friendly version. This results in a nonsensical sentence that will almost surely result in you being laughed out/humilated/yelled at. 'Hug you!!!' is all too common. Only The Filter knows. Only The Filter provides.

2. The Incredible Edible Word Shrinking Ray.
Ever said 'zzzzzzzzzzzzzz'?
Well thanks to Mad Science Inc. Nonoba has adopted a IEWSR to use on all letter repeated more than four times. The result is on your screen (thankfully) but it can still stop necessary emphasis from being emphasized.

3. Anti-capslock
In order to prevent a second Spam War Nonoba has a secret underground facility built in Montana that automatically lowercases any uppercase sentences greater than 4 letters.
The secret is well guarded in the Himalayas.

4. The Chat Guardian (or colloquially reffered to as 'The One')
After 5 years of intense research by the NIA or Nonoba Intelligence Agency, Nonoba was able to crack the secrets of successful spam blocking and artificial intelligence. 'The One' is programmed to check for so many possible spamming options, it's impossible to even talk! Every second you are plaqued by constant reminders, "Easy now, this hurts you more than it hurts us. " , "you wouldn't want the others to think you as a spammer now would you?", "we know your secret. Don't spam.". Infact, the guardian can even simulate conversation with the client, with such intelligent statements like "Why would you want to ignore yourself?", "Stop spamming", and who could forget "STOP SPAMMING NOWZ".

Now you know.... Good luck Nonoban. You'll need it. >_>

Just As Planned!

It's been found! Original post updated.