The winners of the Industrial sounds Audio Contest have been announced! Here's a quick look at 1st - 3rd:

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  -Out of order-

  by Waterflame

  My submission for the july nac '12.

  Song

  Techno

  22,185 Views

  PLAY
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  JunkBot

  by DuttonsaysHi

  Beware of the scrap yard guardian.. The JunkBot!

  Song

  Dubstep

  4,165 Views

  PLAY
• Unpublished Submission

The August contest is Voice Acting Ravers.

Entries for the Master Round of the Newgrounds Annual Tournament of Animation are coming in today and winners will be announced next week.

The Stencyl Jam has also come to a close so expect winners to be announced next week as well! A ton of great games participated in this competition. If you've been curious to try out Stencyl (game development that doesn't require a programming background), these games will help demonstrate what's possible. Also see the main Stencyl collection.

Sorry for the downtime yesterday but our database servers are happier as a result.

It's been a rough couple months but here is where things stand now:

liljim is rewriting some legacy cron scripts (nightly site maintenance) to improve performance.

PsychoGoldfish is back from vacation (and a game-dev break) and is working on project unpublishing.

Rob is all settled in at his new place in San Fran and is refactoring the store to resolve some issues.

We've basically lost two months of "exciting" development progress but things are getting back on track and happiness should be on the way.

Other updates:

1) Still aware of the Treasure Hunt.
2) Still aware of the Annual Awards. Can't afford to forge new trophies and it puts me in a funk. This will be resolved this year.

Check your account page to see if you're on the panel to pick the Best of July!

At 8/2/12 12:40 PM, TomFulp wrote: PsychoGoldfish is back from vacation (and a game-dev break) and is working on project unpublishing.

Does this include deleting songs? Because the amount of threads on the Audio Forum about being unable to do that is killing meh! D:

Good to see the audio contest results for the industrial music! Waterflame tends to win a bunch of these contests he's in, he really is a very talented composer. And I'm a little confused as to what's meant by project unpublishing but Liquid seems to have answered my question a bit.

Always Industrial, always Techno, always Dubstep, never Classic. Well Shiii...

At 8/2/12 01:19 PM, doodle-bread14 wrote: Always Industrial, always Techno, always Dubstep, never Classic. Well Shiii...

Search harder!! it was the first one this year.

Great! I'll have to give 'em a listen.

At 8/2/12 12:50 PM, LiquidOoze wrote: Does this include deleting songs? Because the amount of threads on the Audio Forum about being unable to do that is killing meh! D:

YES

At 8/2/12 01:04 PM, MikeyS9607 wrote: I'm not sure if this would make a difference, but what about clearing inactive accounts with no contribution to the site whatsoever?

We have done that at times over the years, although not recently. Worth considering at some point to clean house a bit.

Happy birthday Tom!

At 8/2/12 01:46 PM, TomFulp wrote:

At 8/2/12 12:50 PM, LiquidOoze wrote: Does this include deleting songs? Because the amount of threads on the Audio Forum about being unable to do that is killing meh! D:

YES

Thomas my boy,are you gonna bring back the "flag" feature on the movie portal cause that seemed to have been dropped.
But the art portal has flag though?

At 8/2/12 01:47 PM, TomFulp wrote:

At 8/2/12 01:04 PM, MikeyS9607 wrote: I'm not sure if this would make a difference, but what about clearing inactive accounts with no contribution to the site whatsoever?

We have done that at times over the years, although not recently. Worth considering at some point to clean house a bit.

How about deleting any submission that gets down to a score of 1.00 or less? If the blam score while Under Judgement is 1.50, then why is it fair to have such low scoring items on here just cuz they managed to pass judgement before they tanked? It would also improve the quality of the material on this site. I really concerns me to see what has passed and what's is floating around this site. Examples? :D Hell yeah:
Movies:

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  Sort of Lazy, Very moody!

  by HereWiiGoAgain

  Lazy moody hair waving extravaganza!

  Movie

  932 Views

  (Everyone)

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  by <deleted>

  Under Judgment

  (Ages 13+)

• Unsuitable Submission

  This submission contains age-rated material and requires an account to view.

Oh wait. It gets better...

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  by <deleted>

  Under Judgment

  (Ages 13+)

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  by <deleted>

  Under Judgment

  (Ages 13+)

• 

  by <deleted>

  Under Judgment

  (Ages 13+)

And the king:

• Unpublished Submission

Game fails? Hell yeah!
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/599176 (Just press right arrow)

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  Bamboo Balls

  by TheEighthWonder

  Just a test I might work on.

  Game

  3,688 Views

  (Everyone)

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  SystemOne Flowchart

  by carlovirtucio

  Flowchart for UPLB SystemOne

  Game

  3,763 Views

  (Everyone)

And the king: (cuz I don't want to make this post too long)

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  New Super Mario Bros Demo

  by Alvc57

  This is only a Demo of New Super Mario Bros Flash by me.

  Game

  36,372 Views

  (Everyone)

And some of those STILL have a score above 1.00! How is that fair to those who put work into their art? Like these:

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  Paraphernalia

  by arythusa

  Story of the anemic shut-in and the derpy adventurer

  Movie

  42,181 Views

  (Everyone)

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  --Orange--

  by RubberNinja

  It's not easy being Orange.

  Movie

  123,269 Views

  (Everyone)

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  Green riding hood

  by gusana

  Green riding hood is stalked by a hungry wolf ;)

  Movie

  142,016 Views

  (Everyone)

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  Hillside Settlement

  by CircusFreakFlash

  Settlers turn a grassy plain into a hillside village.

  Movie

  99,839 Views

  (Everyone)

(And games)

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  Abobo's Big Adventure

  by Abobo

  The Ultimate Tribute to the NES! Play as the angriest 8-bit character in the universe!

  Game

  2,139,237 Views

  (Ages 13+)

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  Stealing the Diamond

  by PuffballsUnited

  Henry's out of prison, but it doesn't seem like he learned his lesson.

  Game

  2,672,030 Views

  (Everyone)

At 8/2/12 12:40 PM, TomFulp wrote: Check your account page to see if you're on the panel to pick the Best of July!

I still can't vote in IE8. :'(

At 8/2/12 02:43 PM, Exedor wrote:

At 8/2/12 12:40 PM, TomFulp wrote: Check your account page to see if you're on the panel to pick the Best of July!

I still can't vote in IE8. :'(

psst,you should use google chrome its simple and neato!

I'm still not on the Stencyl Jam collection page Tom. Even though the link shows up on the game page.

THAT. MUSIC. WAS. AMAZING. Oh yea happy birthday Tom!

At 8/2/12 02:15 PM, Screwit wrote: Thomas my boy,are you gonna bring back the "flag" feature on the movie portal cause that seemed to have been dropped.
But the art portal has flag though?

The Art Portal system is gonna be adapted for movies, games and audio. It's just been held up in the queue.

At 8/2/12 02:57 PM, NoLanLabs wrote: I'm still not on the Stencyl Jam collection page Tom. Even though the link shows up on the game page.

You don't see it there? It's currently first on the page! Maybe you're looking at the regular Stencyl page?

At 8/2/12 03:16 PM, TomFulp wrote:

At 8/2/12 02:57 PM, NoLanLabs wrote: I'm still not on the Stencyl Jam collection page Tom. Even though the link shows up on the game page.

You don't see it there? It's currently first on the page! Maybe you're looking at the regular Stencyl page?

I don't see it anywhere on this page - maybe my Internet is just broken.

How about deleting any submission that gets down to a score of 1.00 or less? If the blam score while Under Judgement is 1.50, then why is it fair to have such low scoring items on here just cuz they managed to pass judgement before they tanked? It would also improve the quality of the material on this site. I really concerns me to see what has passed and what's is floating around this site. Examples? :D Hell yeah:
Movies:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/598847
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/592870
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/598721
Oh wait. It gets better...
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/545435
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/596521
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/596305
And the king:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/595003
Game fails? Hell yeah!
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/599176 (Just press right arrow)
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/599362
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/596371
And the king: (cuz I don't want to make this post too long)
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/597991
And some of those STILL have a score above 1.00! How is that fair to those who put work into their art? Like these:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/597861
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/575120
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/574860
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/502684
(And games)
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/587787
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/574241

Also, stolen content

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  by <deleted>

  Under Judgment

  (Ages 13+)

: doesn't even say the authors name in the credits.

At 8/2/12 02:50 PM, Screwit wrote:

At 8/2/12 02:43 PM, Exedor wrote: I still can't vote in IE8. :'(

psst,you should use google chrome its simple and neato!

Nope. Don't want. I've got too much on here already. But it's more than that. If I'm having troubles with it (and have been since redesign), other users, including new users, would be having the same problems. I've been around here long enough to know when something's really broken, or just being quirky. But someone who just found the site might think it's all broken and not hang around. New users are vital to site growth, image, and reputation, so it's important that it work right for everyone.

Also, I've also seen reviews where the reviewer says they only get a black screen and it doesn't work, and they reate a 0. The preloaders haven't been working since the redesign, either. they put up a black page until the flash is loaded. I understand that, but that reviewer didn't, and the flash was rated unfairly because of it.

This is what they see while it loads, then it's ready to play, with no loader bar as it loads:

At 8/2/12 02:43 PM, Exedor wrote:

At 8/2/12 12:40 PM, TomFulp wrote: Check your account page to see if you're on the panel to pick the Best of July!

I still can't vote in IE8. :'(

Same. Really annoying. I was on the panel last month, too. Also, I still can't submit to the dump or change my profile pic. Really interfering with this collab i'm in.

At 8/2/12 01:04 PM, MikeyS9607 wrote: I'm not sure if this would make a difference, but what about clearing inactive accounts with no contribution to the site whatsoever?

It wouldn't make a difference.

At 8/2/12 01:46 PM, TomFulp wrote:

At 8/2/12 12:50 PM, LiquidOoze wrote: Does this include deleting songs? Because the amount of threads on the Audio Forum about being unable to do that is killing meh! D:

YES

Oh thank god. I can't wait for that feature.

At 8/2/12 03:34 PM, Exedor wrote:

At 8/2/12 02:50 PM, Screwit wrote:

At 8/2/12 02:43 PM, Exedor wrote: I still can't vote in IE8. :'(

psst,you should use google chrome its simple and neato!

I've been around here long enough to know when something's really broken, or just being quirky.

AHAHAHAHA.
Have you considered that it's fucking IE8 that's broken.
Holy balls.

At 8/2/12 12:40 PM, TomFulp wrote:

Rob is all settled in at his new place in San Fran and is refactoring the store to resolve some issues.

Whoa. So does this mean that NG now has "offices" in Glenside, Perkasie, Denver, England, and San Francisco?

It's like a huge corporation...

At 8/2/12 05:59 PM, NightBreaker wrote:

At 8/2/12 03:34 PM, Exedor wrote:

At 8/2/12 02:50 PM, Screwit wrote:

At 8/2/12 02:43 PM, Exedor wrote: I still can't vote in IE8. :'(

psst,you should use google chrome its simple and neato!

I've been around here long enough to know when something's really broken, or just being quirky.

AHAHAHAHA.
Have you considered that it's fucking IE8 that's broken.
Holy balls.

That's most probably IE8 jerking up, at least upgrade to 9. IE8 and lower is a pain on the dev side, most of the time you have to add specific instructions for IE to make it work.

At 8/2/12 03:21 PM, majormelthesackboy wrote:

How about deleting any submission that gets down to a score of 1.00 or less? If the blam score while Under Judgement is 1.50, then why is it fair to have such low scoring items on here just cuz they managed to pass judgement before they tanked? It would also improve the quality of the material on this site. I really concerns me to see what has passed and what's is floating around this site. Examples? :D Hell yeah:

Well, you do have to consider games that were okay-ish (around 2 or more) and then over the course of time before the redesign, they were downvoted such that they had a score below 1.00. What about that? How do you "judge" it in that case?

At 8/2/12 07:41 PM, TheZaaL wrote:

At 8/2/12 05:59 PM, NightBreaker wrote:
AHAHAHAHA.
Have you considered that it's fucking IE8 that's broken.
Holy balls.

That's most probably IE8 jerking up, at least upgrade to 9. IE8 and lower is a pain on the dev side, most of the time you have to add specific instructions for IE to make it work.

Everything worked in IE8 before the redesign. I looked into IE9 and it's for Vista and higher.

At 8/2/12 08:27 PM, Gimmick wrote:

At 8/2/12 03:21 PM, majormelthesackboy wrote:

How about deleting any submission that gets down to a score of 1.00 or less? If the blam score while Under Judgement is 1.50, then why is it fair to have such low scoring items on here just cuz they managed to pass judgement before they tanked? It would also improve the quality of the material on this site. I really concerns me to see what has passed and what's is floating around this site. Examples? :D Hell yeah:

Well, you do have to consider games that were okay-ish (around 2 or more) and then over the course of time before the redesign, they were downvoted such that they had a score below 1.00. What about that? How do you "judge" it in that case?

Easy. Good games don't get down voted. If something is being down voted, then the game is either offensive in some way, or it's not good enough to be voted up. After all, if people vote high because a submission deserves it, then no amount of down voting is going to affect it, right? And remember, we're talking about a score of 1.00, not 3.50. GOOD things DON'T get to a score of 1.00, right? Just cuz something works does not mean it's entertaining, good, or guaranteed to be on the site forever.

At 8/2/12 03:18 PM, NoLanLabs wrote:

At 8/2/12 03:16 PM, TomFulp wrote:

At 8/2/12 02:57 PM, NoLanLabs wrote: I'm still not on the Stencyl Jam collection page Tom. Even though the link shows up on the game page.

You don't see it there? It's currently first on the page! Maybe you're looking at the regular Stencyl page?

I don't see it anywhere on this page - maybe my Internet is just broken.

I should say that it's working fine for me now, I can see it there. Must have just been lagging or something.