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Saturday was Talk Like a Pirate Day and we had a small contest centered around it. Here are the winners!
1st Place - $150 split between voice actor and animator:
2nd Place - $100 split between voice actor and animator:
3rd Place - $50 split between voice actor and animator:
For the element of surprise, the prizes have been extended:
First Runner up - $50 split between voice actor and animator:
Second Runner up - $50 split between voice actor and animator:
Thank you to everyone who participated and congrats to the winners! Be sure to fill out your address form to receive payment, as well as future revshare from your pages on NG!
Tomorrow (September 22) is MADNESS DAY!!!!!!! Here are some entries from previous years to whet your appetite:
Today is the International Talk Like a Pirate Day! Allow me to show you this wikipedia article explaining it.
As a crazy spur of the moment experiment, we organized a contest where voice actors submitted pirate skits to the Audio Portal and artists animated their favorites. The outcome is in progress but here are some thus far:
While the Power of Three game festival is just getting off the ground, it's a great example of the quality you can achieve when artists, programmers and musicians team up. The latest, Time Kcuf, landed Edmund and company on MTV, Destructoid and a bunch of other gaming sites!
Pirate Day is just a hint of what happens when voice actors team up with artists. There are plenty of other great examples across the site, such as Egoraptor and TomaMoto teaming up on the Girlchan series.
I hope these events encourage more people to collaborate on NG. It's a great way to enhance your teamwork skills and forge relationships that can last a lifetime.
On the calendar you'll see a Cuboy game is coming on Wednesday, September 30th. "Cuboy: Back to the Cubeture" makes extensive use of voice acting and may inspire more developers to have voice work in their games. ;)
In terms of general community collaboration, we need 12 great pieces of art for the Newgrounds 2010 calendar! The deadline for submissions is tonight at midnight so HUSSLE HUSSLE if you want to make an attempt.
Check out Austin Breed's new website, O! Lush
OK back to work on this game for Madness Day...
I think Cave of Wonders is 7 Diggs away from being featured on the "Gaming" page... Can anyone help make that final push?
http://digg.com/playable_web_games/Cave_
of_Wonders_Epic_Boss_Battle
As you can see from this graph, our Digg referrals go up a lot when one of our submissions is featured on the Gaming section. People didn't come through for Another Small Favor; look at how sad that part of the graph looks. :(
Go Digg Cave of Wonders - we've managed to land the front page of the Gaming section twice in the past month!
Artists: Don't miss your chance to be part of the 2010 NEWGROUNDS CALENDAR!
If you want to participate in Pirate Day (September 19th), Coop83 has assembled a list of all the voice entries!
Writers: Check out the Monthly Writing Contest!
This past weekend was the Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) in Seattle. We had a combined Behemoth / Newgrounds booth and it was our biggest year yet!
NG attendees included Glaiel-Gamer, Starogre, Goshadole, MoriChax, monkokio, Mexifry, Fawx, fluffkomix, doondeka, rawnewdlz, farfenwaffle, Nathan, Derek Yu, angryglacier and others.
MoriChax brought some Castle Crashers plushies to the booth but I somehow missed her appearance; I think I was hanging out with Glaiel and Starogre, who were across the aisle demoing the console version of Closure. Original Flash version:
Starogre (Jon) posted news and pictures from PAX and Glaiel posted tidbits as well. All three of us ended up with the flu, apparently there was a swine flu outbreak in Seattle so I might get checked out today.
Here are the Best of August! Each of these winners gets $30 store credit and an award certificate. The top submission in each category will also be in the running MOVIE and GAME of the year!
TOP FIVE MOVIES
TOP FIVE GAMES
Runner-up Movies
6. Castle Repercussions - D1
7. [ClockDay09] Running NG
8. Weebl & Bob : Peripherals
9. AnusboyII
10. DARE
11. Dick Neck: Origins
12. Life in the Portal: Clock
13. LoL: Oh Yes And Spiders
14. Life with Navi
15. Castle Repercussions - D2
16. : Creative Cremation :
17. Tomorrow's Nobodies Ep. 6
18. Facebook Reality
19. Zelda: UO Epis:8
20. Cat Face ep.14
Runner-up Games
6. You Only Live Once
7. Enigmata
8. Viva Caligula
9. Knightfall 2
10. Turn Based Battle!
11. More Zombies
12. Leaving
13. Chicks`N`Dicks 2
14. GOBTRON
15. Frantic_2
16. Demolition City
17. Cube Colossus
18. Pixel Grower
19. Multitask
20. Guardian Rock
The August voter of the month and winner of $100 is Sispri!
I also forgot the voter of the month for July. That $100 goes to Kisuke!
Cave of Wonders has kicked off our Power of Three games hub, with ads benefiting Penny Arcade's Child's Play Charity. More Po3 games will be added to this list in the coming weeks.
Madness Day is September 22nd! Prizes are listed here.
Everyone: Please digg Dadgame if you would like to see us finally hit the Digg front page with a jacked up tank logo icon.
Animators: Check out the voice acting entries for the Talk Like a Pirate Day contest! Find one you like (hopefully there is at least ONE), whip up a cartoon and submit it on September 19th, Talk Like a Pirate Day. Read the original announcement for CASH prize info!
Voice Actors: Tomorrow is your last chance to talk like a pirate, but there is an ongoing voice acting competition.
New in the store today: Anachronic, by Mihai Sorohan
You may know him better as sorohanro in the Audio Portal. Check out his songs and buy the CD to support him!
Time to vote for the Best of August. If you are part of the voting pool, you will see a big link on your account options page, under the header, "Monthly Voting Time!"
If you are a contributing member of the site, don't forget to activate revenue sharing on your account options page. You can get a cut of the ad revenue generated by your page, games, music, audio and art. If you make Flash specifically, be sure to try our Flash Ads system; it's been getting great results for games in particular.
We're in the final days of the Combat Arms front page campaign and I would like to thank everyone who tried the game, as well as Combat Arms for letting us attempt a re-skin! The results of this campaign made it possible to sponsor our ongoing weekly line-up of games. This has been a tough year for everyone but I think we all come out stronger for it.
September 22nd is Madness Day, go grab the loading screen wallpaper featuring Jebus! This works like last year, where you can use whatever preloader you want or the Flash Ads preloader, with this as the backdrop.
For an example of what your loading screen will feel like, here is a self-serving example from last year:
Madness Day prizes are subject to improve based on results, but the minimum prizes will be:
1st: $1,000
2nd: $750
3rd: $500
4th: $250
5th-10th: $100
Next up after Madness Day is our annual Halloween contest! Submit your Halloween Flash during the month of October and include the Halloween Preloader to be part of the competition.
At 8/28/09 06:18 PM, HighWayStar365 wrote: Does NG have a hq, Tom? Serious Answers.
Yes! This is all old stuff, but here's some history:
http://www.newgrounds.com/lit/office_hun t.html
http://www.newgrounds.com/lit/office.htm l
http://www.newgrounds.com/lit/dare/index .html
The office has evolved quite a bit since then but you can check out this Office Adventure game:
New in the store: Kingbastard's CD for just $10!
Also new today: Scroll down past the featured movies, games and music to find featured art right here on the front page!
Don't miss the Talk Like a Pirate Contest. Voice actors have until September 3rd to submit skits and artists have until the 19th to prepare their animations! All submissions should be made ON the 19th, which is Talk Like a Pirate Day. Click that link for more info.
I hope everyone has been enjoying the weekly game releases! Check out the schedule to see what's coming in the next month. It's really appreciated when people make use of the DIGG and Facebook sharing links. Our goal is for every featured game to open with 100,000 plays on day one and ultimately one million plays in one week. We can't do it without your help!
If you haven't watched Tarboy, it will be a contender for movie of the year:
Marc M never disappoints either:
Some less celebrated stuff you may not have seen this week:
Oh yeah and this game...
Now SevenSeize can win an award and be famous!
Over in Behemothville we're having a Party Hat contest to celebrate the one year birthday of Castle Crashers!
The best party hat photo gets a Pink Knight figurine, go read about it.
