Please take a moment to fill out this store survey!

We were happy to see that people actually LIKED filling out the last survey, so we figured collecting some feedback / suggestions / data on the store would be really helpful.

Luis has posted Wizard World photos!

Monthly voting has started for Best of June! Check your account options page to see if you are part of the voting pool this month and if so, VOTE!

Be sure to check out the latest Reemus adventure, it launched today!

Journeys of Reemus: Chp 3, by Zeebarf Type: Game Rating: Ages 13+

At 6/26/09 03:55 PM, knuxrouge wrote: When you say "Pencil Sketches", are you including well done, seriously composed pencil art, or just menial doodles, I'm hoping it's the latter.

Pencil art such as this is fine:
http://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/artis tgamergal/self-portrait-fear

But a lot of the pencil art we've seen, even some decent stuff, still feels more suitable for the user pages and not the main listing.

The Real Silent Hill Meetup is happening today and tomorrow! If you live near Centralia, PA, you can come visit a town with an ever-burning mine fire and hang out with a bunch of local NG folks.

If you live in Boston, check out the Boston meetup thread.

We've been watching the Art Portal and making changes to fine-tune it. Please note that works in progress and pencil sketches should only be showcased on your user page and not included in the public Art Portal listing. You also now need at least four submissions before you are eligible for scouting and approved artists can only scout two users per day at the moment, so use those scouts wisely!

The Power of Three summer event is ongoing and there are some amazing games in the works! HappyHarry and Egoraptor have been at the office this past week working on art for their games. Afro-Ninja was here for a few days developing the engine for his game with Ego. The-Swain was here as well, fleshing out plans with PsychoGoldfish and Liljim, also visiting this week. I'll be emailing all the teams when we're ready to take the next big step forward. For now, keep plugging away so you have the potential for some good teaser screenshots!

Over 8,500 people filled out the survey!

Here are some glimpses of data from the people who answered:

Male: 95.9%
Female: 4.1%

Age

Under 16: 28.8%
16-17: 26.8%
18-24: 38.7%

Game Consoles

Xbox 360: 45.6%
PS3: 21.1%
Wii: 50.5%
DS: 60.5%
PSP: 32.2%

In other news, ThoseSneakyFrench has been putting together quite the NG computer case!

I paid $200 to use a REAL survey website, so please end our curiosity and FILL OUT THIS SURVEY.

Also my apologies to Rob for bumping his Art Portal announcement post. I wasn't going to, but everyone was giving me a hard time for not posting the following plug:

We have a booth at the Wizard World convention in Philadelphia this weekend! If you come by the Philly convention center today or tomorrow, you can meet Egoraptor, MindChamber, Luis, Stamper, JohnnyUtah, Swain, HappyHarry, Liljim, Afro-Ninja, Tomamoto, SardonicSamurai, Jonas, 36Holla, and all sorts of other fine NG folks!

Today our booth was visited by guys like Chakra-X and Absent! Many more NG regulars will be popping up tomorrow, we are booth 402, on the right as you enter.

Don't forget to FILL OUT THIS SURVEY.

The results everyone is seeing are their own results. I think they run the stats on a delay, because when I try to view the results, it says there are zero responses. My guess is real-time data would be too hard on their database, so every so often a script will run that updates the available results. I might be the only person who can see them, I'm not sure.

Sorry about it not being the best survey site... It's been hard to find a site for multi-question surveys. We used to have a poll system on NG but it has probably been broken for a loooong time now.

Every once in a while, we like to update our KNOWLEDGE about what the average Newgrounds visitor is like. We can use this information to get better and more relevant ad campaigns, but it's also fun for us to know just who is browsing NG. None of this info will point back to you - it's a survey I set up on a third party website.

EDIT... I have yanked the survey. I'm under the impression the survey site was not logging results from people who didn't have accounts there. So basically I just wasted my time creating a 23 question poll and some of you just wasted your time answering it. Sorry about that.

So instead of filling out a poll, go watch this:

Serial Environmentalist, by Matzerath Type: Movie Rating: Ages 17+

It's been a while since we've taken a poll of NG users and we're looking for some fresh DATA... Last time I found a website that offered multi-question poll construction and hosting, so everyone just went to a page on that site and filled out the poll.

Now I'm looking again and I can't find anyone who offers that service. I find lots of sites that let you host a free single question poll, but none that offer free multi-question poll hosting. Does anyone know of one?

There aren't supposed to be audio ads, I'm looking into it.

BTW THANK YOU EVERYONE WHO PARTICIPATED!!!

Ok I won't be considering any more banners for prizes!

I've decided to award the $30 store credit to BornToByte, because he sent in the first banner that got me to put together the rotation, had nice original visuals, and managed not to offend all the ad-blocker people.

I have been getting so many complaints from offended ad-blocker people, it's insane... There must be 1000s of people running it. I wish they could just take the silly ads with a grain of salt and not floor me with complaints about it... Shows how douchey and entitled they really are.

The third Voice Acting Contest has begun!

Your votes were cast and the winners for BEST OF MAY have been determined!

Top Five Movies:

Street Fighter Collab, by Stamper Type: Movie Rating: Adults Only

War, Snow and Fire, by Valerofond Type: Movie Rating: Everyone

It's a Nice Day Today, by scottmale24 Type: Movie Rating: Ages 17+

Awesome Cracks Down, by Egoraptor Type: Movie Rating: Ages 17+

Brawl Funnies [Dick 1], by CoolDrMoney Type: Movie Rating: Ages 17+

Because the SF Collab was a staff project, the prize is passed along to the first runner-up:

Nameless 6 Vol.3 Part 1/2, by LazyMuffin Type: Movie Rating: Ages 13+

Top Five Games:

Spewer, by Bluebaby Type: Game Rating: Ages 13+

Seed of Destruction, by BarfQuestion Type: Game Rating: Ages 13+

Epic Battle Fantasy, by matt-likes-swords Type: Game Rating: Everyone

A Small Favor, by Zeebarf Type: Game Rating: Ages 13+

SHIFT 4, by The-EXP Type: Game Rating: Everyone

Runner-up Movies:

7. Pico Epsilon
8. Sad Larry
9. Nameless 6 Vol.3 Part 2/2
10. One More Brawl Taunts
11. Pokemon Hunter
12. Trapped in an Escape Game
13. Gamer Tonight - Zombie
14. Yoyo vs FLLFFL
15. Meet the Krinkels
16. Saunich der Hejhaug
17. Hyperboy: Episode 5
18. How the Swine Flu Started
19. Advent of Sock
20. Pokemon: The Lost Ending

Runner-up Games:

6. Super Karoshi
7. The Arrow Of Time
8. Learn to Fly !
9. Crush the Castle
10. In Utero
11. Meet'N'Fuck Detective RPG
12. Endless Zombie Rampage 2
13. Amateur Surgeon
14. Medieval Rampage
15. Choose Your 2012
16. GemCraft 0
17. Gray
18. Tower of Greed
19. Cargo Bridge
20. Plumet

The voter of the month and winner of $100 is portrait!

Winners: Make sure you fill out the address form for prize-stuff. Filling out that form also enables rev-share on your account!

Power of three teams: If your team has any members yet to be determined, please scramble to find someone this week! Also, start thinking about what the name of your game will be. Soon we'll begin the steps of publicizing the games-in-progress, so the more you have to show, the better!

At 6/5/09 09:32 PM, Leidolfr wrote: so whats the deal, i thought someone else ran his account, and its never him

It is ALWAYS me. We don't have a magic pretend Tom.

Does this mean you aren't gonna buy anything?!?!?!!?!?!

At 6/5/09 08:17 PM, drakelord-nK wrote: We can always buy stuff instead of seeing ads? Just because I have adblock doesn't mean I am a douche out to destroy the site.

Keep in mind this is all tongue-in-cheek, we don't actually hate you, it's just fun to dick with you.

At 6/5/09 08:46 PM, Zyphonee wrote: For example:
"Dumping Newgrounds"

Dumping Grounds was one of the many features intended to launch with the 2007 redesign. It is still in partial progress and is still expected to arrive in the coming months. We have lots in the works but we don't discuss it because other sites with greater financial resources can turn the features out faster if we give them the ideas.

At 6/5/09 08:51 PM, MICHhimself wrote: .fla, .swf, .png, .gif, and .jpg.

So yet again, they don't give a flying shit about audio people?

Bah.

We don't want it to be used for illegal music sharing, sites that make that sort of thing easy get shut down by the RIA. So it's hard to give people easy .wav and .mp3 sharing.

BTW the changes to the ads are across the site, so any page that has just a top and bottom banner should load a lot faster now. Pages with additional ads need to be addressed individually still.

Goldfish has just launched the third series of updates to the new wide view page. Here's what has changed:

1) Ad-Blocker users no longer get a broken layout.
2) If you turn the lights off and on, your browser's back button will work as expected and not toggle page elements.
3) The page should now appear to load faster, as the ads don't start loading until the page itself has loaded!

So less lag, less bugs... An overall better experience!

In other news...

Adam Atomic has just released flixel! What is flixel? To quote Adam:

"flixel is a completely free collection of Actionscript 3 files that helps organize, automate, and optimize Flash games; an object-oriented framework that lets anyone create original and complex games with thousands of objects on screen in just a few hours, without using any of the Flash libraries."

There's a lot of potential for flixel to usher in a new universe of awesome Flash games, so we're offering a $250 prize to the best flixel-made game submitted to NG in the next month! If you make a flixel game and submit it before July 5th, PM me with a link!

Check out the Acapella Music Collab!

BTW some stuff accidentally got pushed from staging that implied the Art Portal might be going live tonight. Sorry, it isn't! More news on that later.

Can we digg this?

Sorry guys, Art Portal isn't launching tonight - that link accidentally got pushed live.

However, the next round of view page fixes / improvements should be launching soon! Hold tight, sorry about the bugs right now.

At 6/5/09 12:16 PM, therealanimator wrote: the so called art portal will be like devianart and..isnt that like copying?! HMMM?

Kinda like how we had Flash and Music Portals first? HMMM?

All of these Portals have been on the NG wish list for a very long time.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KRINKELS!

Roast beef for everyone!!!!!!!!

At 6/3/09 11:55 PM, Dalario wrote: Makes me want to download an ad blocked just to see these.

Shit, that's a scary point. Now I'm imagining even more people running ad block for the lulz.

At 6/3/09 07:54 PM, Osuka wrote: when is the due date??

I set up a random rotation so I'll just keep adding new ones, but the next few days would be best. :)

At 6/3/09 07:50 PM, thefogerty wrote:

At 6/3/09 02:49 PM, TomFulp wrote:
The Power of Three now has three pages of teams. Deadline for teams is June 5th and then things progress onward.

I've sent a PM a while back, but I haven't seen my team up on the list. Are there gonna be any more updates to the roster?

You should be on there! Might be page 2, I gotta check.

At 6/3/09 05:22 PM, ughanation wrote: Hey we block the ads for a reason. The just pop out of nowhere on every page of everything and they slow down your computer and some might even give you a virus. If we feel the ads should be blocked, don't pester us. Besides we still look at all your banners, we still see them before flashes, c'mon man give us a break.

You gotta understand, you are seeing this ad because we are FIXING the broken layout that all the ad block people complained about. Your ad blocker broke the layout, you complained, so we fixed the issue by making a workaround for ad block. You should be THANKING us for the effort!

At 6/3/09 03:24 PM, scottmale24 wrote:

At 6/3/09 03:20 PM, TomFulp wrote: Width: 728

Do you want us to link to our entries on photobucket or something similar?

OMFG SHOOT ME IN THE HEAD. I totally forgot we have a whole "size limit" here.

I guess if it's not too big a pain in the ass, you could post a shrunken version in this thread and we can request full versions from the winners. Sorry about that... :(

So Goldfish has come up with a way to offer a house ad to people running ad blocker.

Since only people with ad blocker will see this, we might as well call them out... Something like:

"If you're gonna block the ads, at least buy something from the store!"

The rest is up to you; some sort of fun and exciting visual that sums up the great stuff you can buy in the store. The best ad will be seen by thousands of bandwidth moochers, and if there are several good ones, we'll set up a random rotation!

Width: 728
Height: 90

The creator of the BEST ad will also get $30 store credit.

Thanks in advance to anyone who participates!!!! Good luck!

UPDATE BECAUSE I'M AN IDIOT:
If you can submit a 599 wide shrunken version in this thread, that would be great. We'll then ask for the file if you win. You can also use Photobucket or whatever to host the full image and link it here. The most perfect entry would be a 599 wide version for quick viewing, and a link to the full version. Sorry about that.

Like to draw? Make an ad that people with ad-blocker will see. Best ad wins $30 store credit.

New Monthly writing contest!

Don't miss the Zerobombcast.

Appsro has scored a regular series at The Escapist!

Help Taco-Man land a series on ScrewAttack.

David Firth is looking for voice talent!

Duchednier won a national animation competition.

The Power of Three now has three pages of teams. Deadline for teams is June 5th and then things progress onward.

Please read the original Power of Three post if you don't know what that is all about.

Now is the time for monthly voting for Best of May! You will see a link on your account page if you're part of the voting pool.

Things are BUZZING over here so more news to come soon.

On Tuesday we launched a wide view page!

On Wednesday PsychoGoldfish unveiled a Portal Preferences form that allows you to disable auto-play, or switch to a classic view entirely.

Today Goldfish has finished the second round of updates!

Authors can now disable the resizing option via the edit form on each of their individual submissions.

Goldfish has also added an "X" button, which allows you to turn the Flash off at any time if you want it to stop playing.

More to come!

At 5/28/09 03:15 PM, SeethingSwarm wrote: Nice update!
That play button is really ugly and bland, I wish somebody over at the NG office could pretty it up a bit... Other than that, I'm really impressed with where this wide thing is going and that there's an option to keep it classic as well. Thanks for being so awesome! Newgrounds just keeps gettting better and better :)

Stamper is saving the pretty for the redesign, so you get the "classic Tom" for now.