When stick figures fought

King-Aaron

I was knee-deep in the flash animation scene through the late 90s early 00s, and I don't remember anyone calling anyone 'Flashers'. China-only I suppose.

I did think Stick Death came out before Xiao Xiao?

QuantumNomad_

There was a group on deviantArt called flashers. I wasn’t a member myself, but some of their members made some neat stuff I remember.

The group hasn’t been active for many years now it looks like, but the group page still exists.

https://www.deviantart.com/flashers

Group founded 2004.

There’s not much in the group gallery now, so probably I was looking in the individual galleries of some of the members and I think some of the time some member would make something and post it to Albino Blacksheep and sites like that and maybe post a journal entry about it to their own individual journal on their own profile.

deviantArt also had IRC-like group chats. Flashers had a chat room. There’s a link to it still in the about section of the group, but that link doesn’t work any more. Even if a group didn’t have much posted into its gallery they could have a lot of member activity in those chat rooms. And from what I remember, I think I visited the flashers chat room a few times and that it was pretty active.

I think some chat rooms were private, and some were open even to people who were not in any particular group.

King-Aaron

Yeah, I miss DeviantArt.

amarant

Ah man, these are some awesome memories! Hot damn I liked these when I was a kid! I was first introduced to them on a LAN party. We would pass these kinds of things to eachother between CS 1.5 matches (VLC can play any file format!)

I remember towards the end of my lan party going days, these sick fights were finally outdone by the much more advanced Killer Bean.

Just a bean, trying to get some sleep.

Those were the days

me_vinayakakv

I remembered Alan Becker (https://youtube.com/@alanbecker) who creates stories with an array of his stick figure characters.

Sometimes, they interact with real world too!

robmerki

SFDT was the first online community I was a part of. It was a special time on the early internet. I feel so lucky to have been a very small part of it.

swyx

i was OBSSESSSED with this growing up. i had no idea about the origin or real name or that it was chinese origin. incredible. thanks to whoever found and submitted this

vpribish

I added ELIZA to shittalk for a statistical ML model to play bouts on 'stickfight' PVP game around 2000. :)

dlhavema

I loved the xiao xiao series. They were amazing.

gtramont

Xiao Xiao and Ninjai *chef's kiss*

andrewrn

Woah, this brought back memories. Like that one flash game where you played a stickman hitman.

charcircuit

Youtube used Flash.

taneq

That's spooky, we were literally just talking about stickdeath in the office and then this shows up.

nkrisc

And most people weren’t talking about it, but it’s inevitable that some were, and I guess that’s you. Surely you’re not surprised about all the times when you’re not talking about something that then shows up on HN?

You talk about stuff everyday, and stuff shows up on HN everyday, eventually they’ll coincide.

uvaursi

Yep. StickDeath was the shit.