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Madness Day is just 8 days away! Prize info and details have been announced on the Madness Day 2012 page. There are prizes for movies, games, music and art so check it out and GO GO GO if you haven't started!

There have been some big changes in the Audio Portal this week. Since its inception in 2003, the Audio Portal has depended on a handful of moderators to vet every incoming artist. They've done an amazing job for nearly a decade now but it was a huge burden for everyone. As of this week, the Audio Portal has adopted the Art Portal scouting system. If you haven't been scouted, your audio will still be available on your user page and registered users have browsing options for artists who haven't been scouted. Scouted musicians have the ability to scout other musicians, while any registered user can recommend someone for scouting, which puts them on the radar on a special listing used by scouted artists.

This dramatically increases the pool of people who can vet newcomers and it will HOPEFULLY WORK BETTER.

Want to work with an up-and-coming unknown voice actor? Just sort the Voice Acting category to show "Un-scouted Artists" instead of "Approved Artists." Or better yet, if you're an approved musician or voice actor, use that listing to give other guys a hand up.

Nutcasenightmare (of The Game and Gap Monsters fame) has set up a Kickstarter for an impressive new game site: CHECK THIS OUT NOW.

Round 4 of the Newgrounds Annual Tournament of Animators has come to a close. Coughing-Dog submitted an entry but it wasn't finished so it's not in the Portal yet. The final match-up will be announced next week!

Halloween is next month so get started on those SPOOKY Halloween submissions! We'll have contests around all that too.

Do you guys want to have an Animation Jam the weekend of September 28th?

At 9/14/12 09:49 AM, Tyler wrote:

Do you guys want to have an Animation Jam the weekend of September 28th?

I thought you'd never ask YES

I started 2012 with that ambitious schedule of alternating game and animation jams... Then totally failed. Want to get back on track.

At 9/14/12 10:11 AM, Gimmick wrote: Cool.

also not to be a grammar nazi Tom but it's "Since its inception in 2003", not "Since it's inception in 2003"

Whoops fixed!

At 9/14/12 10:13 AM, big-jonny-13 wrote: Also, Tom, yearly pumpkin contest gonna run again come that time?

Yeah, we'll do the pumpkins!

And man... We usually do the Treasure Hunt in October. I still never got through last year. The good news is we started making date cut-offs so this year would start where last year ended... Meaning we should still do it and I should get some people to help me parse through the shit-ton of suggestions.

At 9/14/12 10:14 AM, LiquidFire wrote: So are all previous approved audio artists still approved?

All previous audio artists are scouted by default.

At 9/14/12 10:20 AM, Spudzy wrote: 8 fuckin days to make all 4 bosses for my Madness Game!!!? DX

That's 2 days per boss, GO 4 IT!

At 9/14/12 11:03 AM, Viper50 wrote: I feel I should go look around in the audio portal and scout someone now....
Is the scouting system the same as the one for art? Or are there slight differences?

Scouting itself is about the same, there are some slight differences in browsing tools.

Heads up, I added the next MOVIE JAM -and- GAME JAM to the calendar!

At 9/14/12 02:08 PM, Buoy wrote: Since the audio portal is being reformed... has the time finally come to fix the name of the "classical rock" genre (to "classic rock") and the "accordian" typo in the credits options (to "accordion")?

lol I put them on the bug list. :)