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Halloween, Christmas, Treasure Hunt

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We received hundreds of submissions for our Halloween contest, many of which you can see on our Halloween 2006 page. The winners closely reflect audience voting, but not exactly:

1. Portal of the Damned - $1,000
2. Retarded Animal Babies 17 - $1,000
3. -LSD- - $1,000
4. Blockhead: Episode 8 - $500
5. More Like Blue: Halloween - $500
6. Night Trap - $250
7. College University Halloween Special - $250

Adam Phillips deserves recognition for 3:33am, which faired very well with fans and is still a must-see. Egoraptor also deserves a nod for his excellent Awesome Halloween movie. We received tons of other great submissions and I'm sorry I don't have room to acknowledge them all here. :)

Our next big contest is for movies with a holiday theme such as Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa! We are giving out over $6,500 in cash prizes to the best movie submissions this season. Armor Games has a similar contest for games, which will also be featured in our Christmas 2006 collection, with winners determined by NG voters! Please see our Christmas 2006 page for more information concerning the contest.

We are also proud to announce that Newgrounds is a platinum sponsor for Penny Arcade's Child's Play charity. Child's Play provides toys and games for sick kids in Children's Hospitals around the nation!

Flash artists aren't the only ones winning prizes! We recently had a treasure hunt, where users were asked to point out funny movies on Newgrounds that never got the recognition they deserved. We've compiled a list of twenty of our favorites, which I'll be putting on the front page right after posting this news. The three rows on the bottom are the least safe for work but also some of the silliest. Our favorite submission was Break'n Into Your House, which gets props for making us laugh while being appropriate for all audiences. This submission was brought to our attention by Blaze, who will now receive $200 and a t-shirt for his discovery!

Finally, since I will be replacing all the current front page features, I want to bring attention to two recent games that truly raise the bar. Red Baron was created by MindChamber and FrostedMuffins, featuring enemy art by a large variety of artists who took part in MC's contest a few months ago. We'll be announcing another similar contest soon in the art forum!

Tri-Achnid is the latest offering from Edmund McMillen, of Gish fame. The programming is by Komix, who will now be recognized as one of the greatest Flash programmers on the planet. Tri-Achnid introduces some new concepts, so please give it a chance and learn the mechanics. Read the instructions. This game will totally amaze you the more you play it.

Also, I get mentioned in this fun article.


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Response to Halloween, Christmas, Treasure Hunt 2006-11-03 20:48:21


Portal of the damned? I dunno asbout that


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Response to Halloween, Christmas, Treasure Hunt 2006-11-03 20:49:21


Awesome. :D
I didn't even notice that Adam Phillips submitted a FLash, so thanks for that. ALso, can't wait to see the treasure hunt winners in a few seconds.

Also, CONGRATS TO ALL THE WINNERS!!!


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Response to Halloween, Christmas, Treasure Hunt 2006-11-03 20:49:43


Cool


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At 11/3/06 08:49 PM, MetalDart wrote: Awesome. :D
I didn't even notice that Adam Phillips submitted a FLash, so thanks for that.

Have fun watching it.


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Response to Halloween, Christmas, Treasure Hunt 2006-11-03 20:50:31


At 11/3/06 08:49 PM, Chumbawamba wrote:
At 11/3/06 08:49 PM, MetalDart wrote: Awesome. :D
I didn't even notice that Adam Phillips submitted a FLash, so thanks for that.
Have fun watching it.

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Response to Halloween, Christmas, Treasure Hunt 2006-11-03 20:51:21


4. Blockhead: Episode 8 - $500

I think blockhead deserved more money.

Response to Halloween, Christmas, Treasure Hunt 2006-11-03 20:54:01


Cool, can't wait to see the winners.

Response to Halloween, Christmas, Treasure Hunt 2006-11-03 20:54:12


Redesign updates! We need those!

Do you have a new deadline, Tom? We NG fans need a new date to mark on our calendar. I'm sure many users had to scribble off their November 15th mark ;)

Don't forget to post some new screen shots and teasers.

Congrats to the winners. Some great submissions this month!


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Response to Halloween, Christmas, Treasure Hunt 2006-11-03 20:54:35


Man, cool update Tom, nice to see all this halloween stuff.

But dammit Tom, money prizes on Xmas. :(

Response to Halloween, Christmas, Treasure Hunt 2006-11-03 20:55:56


At 11/3/06 08:47 PM, TomFulp wrote: We are also proud to announce that Newgrounds is a platinum sponsor for Penny Arcade's Child's Play charity. Child's Play provides toys and games for sick kids in Children's Hospitals around the nation!

That's cool. It's great to see Newgrounds becoming more socially responsible!

Also, congrats to all the winners!

And nice find Blaze :)

Response to Halloween, Christmas, Treasure Hunt 2006-11-03 20:58:53


OMG

I won :D Thanks to Tripping metal for making the awesome flash. And thanks mr fulp <3

Response to Halloween, Christmas, Treasure Hunt 2006-11-03 21:04:34


I'll note that I decided to stick closely what the users voted as the best, since it closely reflected by own feelings. The top three all get the same prize, so I didn't stress too much over which was best of the three. My one early regret is that I really did like the Blockhead Halloween special and wonder if I should have bumped it into the top three.


Working on Nightmare Cops!

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Response to Halloween, Christmas, Treasure Hunt 2006-11-03 21:05:12


good job to all... yeah portal of the damned is overrated i agree.

Response to Halloween, Christmas, Treasure Hunt 2006-11-03 21:05:55


At 11/3/06 09:03 PM, JoystickX wrote: On that note, Tom, I'm not sure if it is an accident, but the Christmas page doesn't list the prizes. They're lisetd as 00, 0, and 0.

Very odd... Looking into it now.


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Response to Halloween, Christmas, Treasure Hunt 2006-11-03 21:07:10


I can't recall a month like this October, so many games were submitted due to the contest is was cup runneth over. Some needed a lot more work unfortunatly.
Congratz to all the winners.

Response to Halloween, Christmas, Treasure Hunt 2006-11-03 21:09:16


portal of the damned? seriously..?
5th maybe.. ah well..
well done everyone, very enjoyable Halloween entries and some of the "treasures" aren't bad either.


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Response to Halloween, Christmas, Treasure Hunt 2006-11-03 21:10:01


Enjoy the money guys :P


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Response to Halloween, Christmas, Treasure Hunt 2006-11-03 21:10:02


At 11/3/06 08:47 PM, TomFulp wrote: 1. Portal of the Damned - $1,000
2. Retarded Animal Babies 17 - $1,000
3. -LSD- - $1,000
4. Blockhead: Episode 8 - $500
5. More Like Blue: Halloween - $500
6. Night Trap - $250
7. College University Halloween Special - $250

All of those were great.

Response to Halloween, Christmas, Treasure Hunt 2006-11-03 21:11:03


Cool! Congrats to the Treasure Hunt winner, and all of the Hallowe'en award winners!

Response to Halloween, Christmas, Treasure Hunt 2006-11-03 21:11:47


Yes, Adam Phillips recent series of short flashes have been a pleasure for us all to enjoy.

Response to Halloween, Christmas, Treasure Hunt 2006-11-03 21:12:01


thanks to Tom, NG, and all yall. I'm retiring from contests until pico day. Enjoy.

In other news do play Edmunds game, that game is so out of the ordinary.

<3 5000th post.


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Response to Halloween, Christmas, Treasure Hunt 2006-11-03 21:13:08


At 11/3/06 08:47 PM, TomFulp wrote: We are also proud to announce that Newgrounds is a platinum sponsor for Penny Arcade's Child's Play charity. Child's Play provides toys and games for sick kids in Children's Hospitals around the nation!

Awwwwwwww, thats really nice of you Mr. Fulp.


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Response to Halloween, Christmas, Treasure Hunt 2006-11-03 21:18:22


At 11/3/06 08:47 PM, TomFulp wrote:
3. -LSD- - $1,000

JUSTICE

5. More Like Blue: Halloween - $500

JUSTICE

A set of winners that doesn't disappoint for once.


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Response to Halloween, Christmas, Treasure Hunt 2006-11-03 21:19:10


At 11/3/06 08:58 PM, Blaze wrote: OMG

Good find with that one, pretty good. Nice ending to it as well.

Glad to see Terry Bogards's Day Out got a front page spot too.


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Response to Halloween, Christmas, Treasure Hunt 2006-11-03 21:22:30


I can't wait for the treasure hunt winners to be posted!


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Response to Halloween, Christmas, Treasure Hunt 2006-11-03 21:22:30


ok tom put down the bottle of tequila and restore the old front page back... WHAT HAPPEND ASDGFADSGASDG.

Response to Halloween, Christmas, Treasure Hunt 2006-11-03 21:23:09


At 11/3/06 09:05 PM, Jamrock wrote: good job to all... yeah portal of the damned is overrated i agree.

seconded, Lu- I mean Jamrock

Response to Halloween, Christmas, Treasure Hunt 2006-11-03 21:23:42


Congrats to the winners but break into your house was hardly even funny. I mean, come on, I even posted better.


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Response to Halloween, Christmas, Treasure Hunt 2006-11-03 21:25:16


At 11/3/06 09:22 PM, Redface wrote: I can't wait for the treasure hunt winners to be posted!

It's in this news post... :P