i don't exactly actively put effort into farming medals. i have a whole bunch of games bookmarked that i want to get around to playing eventually, but usually i just check what's new and stick to that.

in that sense, thanks to pixel day, there's been a lot of games to go through;

though i can't exactly say i've been enjoying my time with them much: aside from a few gems, most of the recent games with medals are either way too shitpost-y for my liking, or they're 3d games that require mouse movement (which i'm currently unable to play due to missing one atm).

even though i'm getting quite a few medals from them, i can't say i'm making any "meaningful" progress because i feel like i would have never bothered playing most of these otherwise.

when i make pseudo-guides for some medal games it's usually because i enjoyed them enough to bother putting in extra effort into them, while also helping others who like me enjoy collecting medals for no reason.

because i haven't seen anything in particular lately that quite grabbed my attention, i've been going back to previous games i left unfinished, though i haven't really worked on any of those either because i've been somewhat busy IRL.

so yeah, just wandering around here every now and then with no real objective;

which is when i was reminded of this thread and decided to check what's been going on lately

I reached 100,000 medal points recently, so I was wondering if I'm able to get on the list? I'm unsure how it all works, but I'd like to be a part of it. I've been grinding medals for the past few weeks

Seems currently the bar for entry (as per the last update) is 127,670 points, so you need just a bit more to qualify. ;)

Unfortunately updates have also been on pause here for a while now, issue with the script that fetches these stats, hopefully it's back on track soon. You can also see the top 200 on NG Logs here, though included users aren't exactly the same, maybe this'll be back and running when you're ready to be on it!

Refreshed again and I have now 1,118

FOR FUCK SAKE NEWGROUNDS IS GAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

I just went through the code to clear up some lines causing the error log to grow, and along the way I fixed the page that lists all the games with medals someone has achieved. It only lists 945 games, so it might be a glimpse into the past rather than something current, but at least it actually loads now rather than just stopping.

Very cool! I wonder if I'd seen this at all before... what happens if you try to jack in on the main page - is this somehow linked to NG? Or NG Logs? Back-end?

There is no direct integration with the NG website. The tool functions by scraping people's profiles, which is one of the reasons it takes so long to do its thing. I have requested API access, but it is extremely low on their list of priorities, so I wouldn't hold anyone's breath.

So then what does the password field do here exactly? If it scrapes public profiles it'd need no password would it? I'm hesitant to actually try logging in on an external source without encryption, though suppose it just may not work at all then...

Considering NG removed the official Stats page back in the day I've always wondered what the official stance is on things like this - I suppose the priority of API access very much balances on that. Yet we do have official Rankings, so maybe the stats stance is a conflicted one. Too much official encouragement for gains in all areas and there's potential for abuse, too little and you lose the sense of reward and gamification that's been such an integral part of NG all these years.

Hope you do get it eventually anyhow, seems it'd make this easier to maintain too, no issue if layout elements a crawler's coded for change overtime, faster and better in all ways.

It protects the program functions, don't want to have public access to buttons that can affect the database.

Ah it's an admin thing, gotcha.

Seemed akin to regular user login, NG Logs style.