Newgrounds.com — Everything, By Everyone.

At 9/24/07 10:16 PM, Meebs wrote:

At 9/24/07 09:59 PM, Xionico wrote: 6th place ;(?

Don't cry, Krinkels chose them himself I believe, so they really should be fair.
It IS after all madness day.

Yours was good, I liked it better than a few above yours, but you still won, so don't complain.

WHAT A MADNESS DAY!!

My opinion on the winners. I strongly had a hunch that it won't be reflected from audience voting. The audience are right in a way and they picked the stuff that they like most. But deciding winners isn't all aobut voting. I've seen a fair share of stuff that are good that sank to the bottom of the portal because of NG users who did not like/understand the concept or simply missed it. Anyways, I suspect the NG crew and Krinkels would pick winners based on other factors too, like how well a movie represents the original madness, audio usage, storyline... and maybe some other factors too, and well well was I right. Deus got first, Manufactory got second, you can not kill hank got third... (isn't it spelled as "cannot", not "can not"?)

But

Almost half of the Madness Day 2007 submissions were decent and made me laugh, even some crappy ones, like the one with a Gary Brolsma in it, so Madness Day rox!

yeah hooray for madnees day and madness winners

At 9/24/07 09:59 PM, Xionico wrote: 6th place ;(? oh well, it´s better than nothing

for the money Issue, should I contact Tom directly or Bob (since I´m supposed to contact him for the shirt thing)

Seriously, man, you should be grateful for that.
There were others that deserved it way more.

At 9/24/07 08:26 PM, TomFulp wrote: This is already on our list... Some day, after we finally get Audio Portal and monthly award trophies in place, we'll finally have a system where we can upload unique "event icons" and assign winners. We definitely need it...

Also, dont forget front page trophies... seems easy since you got all the frontpage flashes stored in the FP archive... right?

>_>U get off my back, I just meant that I was expecting higher (like eveyone else with their own submissions XD), not that im complaining o_O

but yeah, it seems it will get to top 50 >:) yayz

well I already sent Bob a pm, let´s see what happens ;o

Congrats to all the winners.
srsly.. Madness: Deus Ex Machina was effing epic.

No funny preloader award??
I'm a little disappointed.

At 9/24/07 11:05 PM, DABridges wrote: Congrats to all the winners.
srsly.. Madness: Deus Ex Machina was effing epic.

No funny preloader award??
I'm a little disappointed.

yeah O_o I saw some pretty funny preloaders out there, it seems it was a one time thing ;(

At 9/24/07 10:46 PM, Lalo wrote:

At 9/24/07 08:26 PM, TomFulp wrote: This is already on our list... Some day, after we finally get Audio Portal and monthly award trophies in place, we'll finally have a system where we can upload unique "event icons" and assign winners. We definitely need it...

Also, dont forget front page trophies... seems easy since you got all the frontpage flashes stored in the FP archive... right?

I like the other ideas, but a front page trophy seems a little much. Being on the front page itself is an award. Also, most people can tell if a submission has been on the front page by the number of views (if it's over fifteen thousand, it was probably on the front page- not always though- I have two submissions that have over 100,000 views but never got on the front page) and by the submission's quality (if it's really funny or really well made, it was probably on the front page).
This would just be more work for an already overloaded staff.

I really miss the view-landmark icons (purple, green, blue, silver, etc, when your submission reaches a viewing number landmark), but I can see why they got rid of it.

First off I'd like to congratulate all the winners and participants of madness day!

Now let me point out the following statement:
"While a lot of people may make standard-issue Madness clones, we are excited to see people break the mold."
Unfortunately, I think this statement might have been false.
There were easily a few movies that stood out as showing some time and effort and at least a glimmer of originality. My honest opinion is that "you can not kill hank" seemed to me as deserving the top spot just for it's originality and deviation of style from the "cloned" circle tween. Granted Deus ex was well made and very stylish, but somewhere around the middle I found myself wondering when it was going to be over.

In the top 10 there are some who easily deserved it, granted maybe not in the order I felt but obviously I wasn't a judge. There was also at least one which was submitted after madness day had finished, and though I don't believe it shouldn't be allowed to compete, it just should be put under more strict judgement than those who push to at least get it in on time.
My last comment is that cut the madness, in my opinion, got far more than it deserved. Under 40 seconds long, 5 seconds of actual animation and a cliche joke that's been done "cut, more feeling, I'm going to my trailer" does not seem like it should enjoy it's place among top 10. This is not a stab at any artist, I actually think Won Chop is actually rather good, just not deserving in this particular instance.

Many decent entries just didn't get a nice spot on front page where people felt they should throw 4's and 5's at them. I feel that's a touch unfair, but eih, what are you going to do right thats life but for some reason I felt the need to at least voice an opinion. :D

Oh and if anyone wants to flame me, or tell me you'd like to see me do better? Here's my madness day link, all be it short, it has a song I made from scratch specifically for madness day and an actual style that may have "broken the mold" just a little more than most of the tweened circles I watched float around all day: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/40 1838

Happy madness day and congrats again!! :P

please do something about 'M-Bot' he is very incapable of his job. countless countless countless times i got banned for posting something on a submission i had never veiwed..wtf?

Well, looks like that three months of hard work didn't pay off. I still had fun making my movie though...*cough* haha

wow i cant believe dues got first place i thought it was 1 of the worst ones

At 9/24/07 07:59 PM, TomFulp wrote: Madness Day was a huge success, with over 200 submissions! It's never easy picking winners, but the following list has been "Krinkels approved."

Congrats to all the winners.

I hope Krinkels didn't look over mine...

I got ninth place, what a dream come true! Madness Day was the most fun I have had in along while. I already can't wait till next year. Thanks Newgrounds!

At 9/24/07 08:02 PM, Rudy wrote:

At 9/24/07 08:01 PM, Gein wrote: Where the fuck am I?

In my pants.

wow more like in ur mothers pants lmao

Cut the Madness one something, lame.

Woot! I feel extremely lucky that Tom added an additional 3 prizes for 'Newgrounds' Madness movies. I saw the top 10, and was like "Ah, crap." Then I scrolled down and saw that I actually won $250!

I really thought I wouldn't be winning anything this time. =P

Congrats to all of the other winners! I wish Xion did better than 6th though. He worked extremely hard on his.

Very big thanks to Tom, Krinkels, Swain, and Chris Nosal! =D

At 9/25/07 12:13 AM, DeRosa wrote: I hope Krinkels didn't look over mine...

haha noone loves us DeRosa, the lost children of madness day 07' ^.^

At 9/24/07 11:05 PM, DABridges wrote: Congrats to all the winners.
srsly.. Madness: Deus Ex Machina was effing epic.

No funny preloader award??
I'm a little disappointed.

Same... there should be additional 100$ like with clock day for funniest preloader award...
Tom you forgot about it or u didnt want to make one this time?

Aside stuff... Happy Madness Day... everything was cool... just 10th could be better

first plase dudes your madness animations rocks

Madness: Deus Ex Machina deserved #1 ! I'm so glad it won Madness Day... I'm new here but that was alot of fun watching all those submissions

FUCK!

Anyone else notice it says "givig" and not "giving" on the Halloween page?

</grammar nazi>

kongratulations to da winners :]
ahahahahahahahah
oh yeah im a big naruto fan

Happy madness and a big thank you to Tom & co!
Can't wait for next year!

While I do not quite agree with some of the winners, then I still tottally agree with the 5 bonus prizes :D

Oh boy, that sure is swell. Thanks very much Tom and Krinkels! :3
Yeah that contest trophies thing does sound rather swell. Will that also account for stuff like the Armorgames and WiggiWorld contests (partly cos it's braggy, but it's also handy when showing pages to potential employers in the future.)

Go sqeezy!

congrats yall!

At 9/25/07 03:23 AM, Wonchop wrote: Oh boy, that sure is swell. Thanks very much Tom and Krinkels! :3
Yeah that contest trophies thing does sound rather swell. Will that also account for stuff like the Armorgames and WiggiWorld contests (partly cos it's braggy, but it's also handy when showing pages to potential employers in the future.)

But this is NG, not WiggiWorld or ArmorGames...