At 9/15/09 01:47 PM, The-Super-Flash-Bros wrote:
Yaaaay, I just got my ticket confimation for this years Flash On The Beach. Any of the other UK regs going?
Tom-
I was thinking about going, but the tickets were as much as a festival, so yeah. Tickets were pretty limited too, amirite?
I guess I should start going to some of these things but as an "art guy" I dont know how much of it would actually be relevant/interesting to me. Id probably get more out of going to a meetup and making a load of contacts.
I think Newgrounds does have a slightly shit rep, but it is getting better. I went for a drink with Mike from 4t2 Media and he spoke very favorably of NG as a community, but from a business and industry standpoint its just not seen as "important" any more for some reason. This is as a real fucking shame considering it was so innovative early on, but I guess the corporate giants have overtaken it due to monies and other shit.
NG just doesnt seem to get the traffic compared to other sites, hitting a million views is so hard here unless youre having the shit featured out of your game. The market is so saturated now that nostalgia just doesnt stand up against lots of money and investment, which again is a real shame. Hopefully Po3/Behemoth will help bring it back to the top of the game :)
Fuck it, NG will always be my home <3
I dont know how much of what I just wrote made sense, very tired.