iOS update, writing contest, voting

[TomFulp]

If you have an iPhone or iPad, try loading up NG and clicking a movie on the front page. You should notice two things:

1) One click now takes you directly to the content, instead of first showing you the rollover info.

2) The video will actually play! This won't be 100% perfect every day; it is based on having a video alternative for the movie. The goal is to always have one.

I forgot to mention that it is FEBRUARY and that means MONTHLY VOTING TIME! Check your account page to see if you are in the pool to select the Best of January.

If you didn't read any front page news this past week, you have a lot to catch up on:

Mike launched Swivel for best ever SWF to video conversion.

Jim launched the Collabinator for talent match-making.

Rob launched feeds for blog and review replies.

It was a good week and more excitement is planned for this week too!

There is a new Writing Contest! the theme is Exploratory Genre Writing.

Also check out Appsro's Kickstarter for Doraleous and Associates! It's a big project and is already blazing towards the goal.

[ZJ]

At 2/4/13 12:08 PM, TomFulp wrote:

It was a good week and more excitement is planned for this week too!

Your game is finally coming out this week, right Tom? I really don't think my heart could take another Pico 2.

[Squidbit]

Is this writing contest foreshadowing a new aqua colored portal?

[Viper]

Out of all the things mentioned I think I like the feed stuff the most.
It makes it a hell of a lot easier to know when people review your stuff, when people reply to comments on their news posts, and so on and so forth.

Really looking forward to any and all new features you add onto the site and whatnot.

Also everyone vote! o:

[Tony-DarkGrave]

I was selected for January voting and I did it Tom. if you want to get more people to vote monthly submissions maybe give a incentive like 50 EXP for their level or something, and only make it available to highly active members.

[Cyberdevil]

Unpossed by iPhones or iPads as I am, I guess I won't notice any differences. It is good the news though.

[Art3misZer0]

At 2/4/13 12:08 PM, TomFulp wrote: It was a good week and more excitement is planned for this week too!

Uh, that sounds good.

[Saminat]

At 2/4/13 12:26 PM, Tony-DarkGrave wrote: I was selected for January voting and I did it Tom. if you want to get more people to vote monthly submissions maybe give a incentive like 50 EXP for their level or something, and only make it available to highly active members.

Dang, that would be totally wizard!

Anywho, I voted already!

[keepwalking]

I can see newgrounds content on my ipod touch....what kind of socerry is this Tom!?

[DrSpengler]

Just tried some videos on my iphone, it works great!

[MSGhero]

I remember Luis saying he was (planning on) working on a mobile version of NG, but that it would be more forum and blog-focused. Now it can have video too :D

[Intrapath]

At 2/4/13 12:21 PM, Squidbit wrote: Is this writing contest foreshadowing a new aqua colored portal?

Damn, that would be nice. I'm still expecting it to come out maybe later this year or 2014 though; we've gotten so many new features lately! A new Portal is a TON of work! And can't wait to see your game, Tom!

[StickmanMarkinson]

Well this is awesome for that feature and it's great!

[Mabelma]

At 2/4/13 12:08 PM, TomFulp wrote: If you have an iPhone or iPad, try loading up NG and clicking a movie on the front page. You should notice two things:

2013 has been a great year for Newgrounds so far and I truly can't wait to see how amazing this year will be for all of us the members of Newgrounds.

[OrgasmSquid]

This is great! But I got one question Tom: are we gonna be able to watch the older flash animations on our ios devices soon? (Examples: Tankmen .5, metal gear awesome)

[Ragnarokia]

Interesting idea for a contest, it spikes my interest, would enjoy giving it a shot.

[TomFulp]

At 2/4/13 03:40 PM, OrgasmSquid wrote: This is great! But I got one question Tom: are we gonna be able to watch the older flash animations on our ios devices soon? (Examples: Tankmen .5, metal gear awesome)

We're chipping away at the older stuff so the best of it should be covered at least!

[labsto]

Should be worth noting that this works on Android phones too (Chrome doesn't support Flash). It works like magic on my Galaxy S3

[Elephly]

voted

[WritingThot]

Ive been trying to vote, but i keep having problems.

[KyleRoberts]

Is the goal really to covert the thousands of movies on NG to mobile-ready video? That sounds like a lot of work.

[ExtraLife]

2013 is going to be a strong year for ng

[thumbsupguy]

Whoa, all these features coming out are great! It truly has been a good week. I can't believe I'm watching featured videos on my iPhone without it telling me "You don't have Flash Player installed".

[TomFulp]

At 2/5/13 12:45 AM, NewShape wrote: Is actionscript going to be totally stamped out for future submissions?
I doubt you can change the already existing games to HTML5, although there is no reason why Adobe couldn't build something like that.

There aren't any plans to drop support for SWF uploads, down the road we could convert the best animations to 4K resolution thanks to the vector source art. I would like to see people upload MP4 versions of their stuff, though, so that it can be available on all platforms. People may also want to default to the video version since it streams, has a scrubber and can run better on computers that don't process SWF well. I think more people will want to default to a video version as we add more options, such as pre-roll videos and promo links at the end of the videos.

[SonicJ]

Newgrounds doesn't stop moving forward with cool ideas and genuine innovation, and these last two months were a very critical example. Although don't own an apple device, I must say I'm glad for the motto "the problem of the future, today!" Well, at least the future part. Keep moving forward, Ng!

[MysticSkillz]

Thanks guys, this helps a lot for future projects.

[TB1ZZL3]

I'm psyched that you guys are further developing the mobile site.

[Cyberdevil]

At 2/5/13 09:49 PM, Ma1achi wrote: nice

indeed

[Timmy]

I just watched a flash movie on my iphone - this is awesome!!

Is there a reason it played twice, back-to-back?

[jonthomson]

At 2/4/13 12:08 PM, TomFulp wrote: If you have an iPhone or iPad, try loading up NG and clicking a movie on the front page. You should notice two things:

1) One click now takes you directly to the content, instead of first showing you the rollover info.

2) The video will actually play! This won't be 100% perfect every day; it is based on having a video alternative for the movie. The goal is to always have one.

is this what's causing movies to autoplay on chrome, despite having every single autoplay option turned off?