Comic-Con Pro Night

[TomFulp]

Tonight was "pro-night" at Comic-Con here in San Diego. It is a preview night before the official launch of Comic-Con Thursday morning. Access is limited to exhibitors and visitors who have purchased a full five day pass.

So far things are off to a great start! The Behemoth booth is all set up with a 50" HDTV, where we will be unveiling our new game on Thursday (technically today since it is 12:52AM as I type this). We will be giving away antennas as well as a large variety of really neat buttons that you can pin on your shirt! We are also selling stickers, AH figurines, t-shirts and skateboard decks.

Broken Saints and College University have both set up booths this year, making for a strong NG community presence! ROG from I-Mockery.com is also in town and will be roaming the convention center in his pickle hat and goggles.

One user asked that I give him a shout out on the front page but not mention his username... So to that cool kid who came by tonight, here's your shout out!

After tonight I had to prepare some new signs for tomorrow. One sign is to notify people of our "ONE BUTTON PER VISITOR" policy. While we would love for people to help themselves to our variety of buttons, there are a lot of people who come and take too many, so we need to strictly enforce the policy. John and the Behemoth team here in San Diego worked hard making buttons by hand (we have a button press here in the office), so supplies are limited.

I made another sign to notify people of HOW BUGGY OUR NEW GAME DEMO IS. While no one has seen it yet, I'm already bracing myself for the bugs we will be hearing about tomorrow. We crunched hard and fixed a ton of issues these past few days, but there is ONE NASTY BUG that remains, and it kills gameplay when it inevitably happens. The demo still rocks, though; it runs in total hyper mode with four players and a ton of enemies on the screen, until something goes wrong and we have to reset the devkit.

It's exciting because NO ONE has seen this game yet, so it is a true WORLD PREMIER at Comic-Con and the bugs come with the territory. Most other companies would never show a game to the general public this early in development. I can't wait to see the response!

[Flak]

Good luck with Comic-Con, wish I could go.

[Gooch]

Four players. eh? Sounds interesting right from that.

What type of bug in the game would actually cause the demo to kill its gameplay, though? Sounds like a nasty one, that's for sure.

[poxpower]

Wait did you press buttons instead of working out bugs?
:o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o

You crazy kids and you merch.
anyways
<3 you guys, keep up the work
oh and
<3 Rog

and
<3 that kid who went to see you but wouldn't let us know his username. Its a good thing, because I would definately have banned him out of jealousy.

[HairydragonballZ]

button button I want a button!

[Dark-Phire]

Pretty Interesting stuff.

[BananaBreadMuffin]

The important question is, will it be on GameCube in Europe?

[MuyBurrito]

At 7/14/05 04:08 AM, TomFulp wrote: we will be unveiling our new game on Thursday

The one thing I truly cannot WAIT to see. Alien Hominid had me addicted for a while... this ought to be good.

We are also selling stickers, AH figurines, t-shirts and skateboard decks.

No blow-up dolls or Tank-shaped pillows? CHEAP!

[DrMoxley]

geart Tom.U ever reply to posts in the mist of all thos chaos? Or just throw it in the NG pit and let us suck it up alike a bunch of Fiendish Beasts

[Jack-the-Ripp3r]

Awesome Tom. Wish i could Go but hey im stuck in My town. Anyway good Luck gettin the bug Out and i Cant wait to play the Game when it comes to Systems. Unless its on GC Then i gotta buy one to Play it but ill Definitely do that if its As good as u say it Is. Long LIve NG

[KupaMan]

I hope it lives up to its hype its been getting here on NG. I wish I was down there. When's an expected release date? Mid 2006 hopefully. I bet it's going to be like late 06 or early 2007 (unless you guys are using the AH engine which should probably save a ton of time). Ican't wait to hear what the game is. I only have to wait a few hours (like 12) to know what it is, that is if someone says what it is on NG as soon as they find out. Anyway, good luck even though you're not on and will probably never read this.

[HairydragonballZ]

Hey Tom, thanks for the shout out. You were awesome!

[Michelangelo]

At 7/14/05 04:08 AM, TomFulp wrote: It's exciting because NO ONE has seen this game yet, so it is a true WORLD PREMIER at Comic-Con

it would be like the ark
from indiana jones, they open
it up and people melt in its
basking glow, especially
the nazis :P

[Michelangelo]

At 7/14/05 04:28 AM, HairydragonballZ wrote: Hey Tom, thanks for the shout out. You were awesome!

imposter, why didnt you say
that in your first post? ¬_¬

[VeryProudofYa]

Tom, I do believe I am attracted to you.

Take me now

[lostbrane]

Whats the booth #?

[darx]

i wish i could go to comic con... *sigh*

[carmelhadinosaur]

The game really sounds awesome, will it be submitted to NG (the demo)?

[KupaMan]

At 7/14/05 05:12 AM, carmelhadinosaur wrote: The game really sounds awesome, will it be submitted to NG (the demo)?

Probably not since it's not in flash. Plus the script is totally different so even if they felt the need to make a flash version, they'd have to rewrite all of the code into and Actionscript version.

[JackRabbitStudios]

Good luck Tom, if this game is truly as good as you say it is than it should dominate Comic Con. And on a 50 inch HD T.V, MY GOD!

[tommathias]

If you really are the creator of newgrounds then put on the front page created by tomfulp

[KupaMan]

At 7/14/05 05:57 AM, tommathias wrote: If you really are the creator of newgrounds then put on the front page created by tomfulp

Shut up, retard. It's obvious enough that Tom Fulp is the creator. Look anywhere. If you need more proof, hit the "Contact Us!" link at the bottom of the page and see who's name comes first. Don't start your NG account off with an idiotic post like this.

[BitchezAintShit]

when will the game be released like around the holidays?

[KupaMan]

At 7/14/05 06:14 AM, A_Miracal wrote: when will the game be released like around the holidays?

I doubt it, but I hope so. That'd be their best time anyway, since next year is when PS3 and Revolution comes out and no one will be buying PS2 and Xbox and Gamecube games anymore.

[JimmyMcRees]

Damn it Tom, stop keeping us in suspense! Surely you could let NG have a little sneak preview :)

Anyway, good luck with the whole Comic-Con thing.

[Faille]

after reading ure text tom the grey got even darker!
cant wait till i can see what the game is... sounds good!

[Frank]

I can't wait to play it on Saturday.

:)

[CW-Clayt]

WOW cool, will you be posting a demo on Front Page?

[OldFool]

At 7/14/05 04:19 AM, HairydragonballZ wrote: button button I want a button!

aw I wanna button too...

[alpha-ranga]

sounds fun. but im a bit far from it. go Australia