Best of February 2012

[TomFulp]

Got lots of items in this post so I'll jump right in with the BEST OF FEBRUARY.

Top Five Movies

The top ranked movie based on original characters and winner of $250 is Moisture Care!

Top Five Games

Runner-Up Movies

6. The turtle killed the sun

7. A Stormtrooper Story

8. Minecraft: TNA Part 7

9. Sophisticus

10. Hank's Rage: Megaupload

11. Fenada 001

12. Mario Meets Kirby

13. Did you see that bear?

14. Lazy Writing 4

15. Short and Sweet

16. FYI I'M A SPY

17. VO Home Studio : Space

18. Did You Hear That? vol 3

19. True Friendship

20. Fluttershy's lovely song

Runner-Up Games

6. Memohuntress

7. 10 Bullets

8. Zombies, Inc.

9. Duck Hunt Reloaded 4-in-1

10. Arzea

11. Gravity Duck 2

12. Crumpled

13. Super Samurai Sweeper

14. Rupert's Zombie Diary

15. SCGMD4

16. Ican'tAffordAwheelchair

17. Sift Heads - Street Wars

18. Dinosaurs and Meteors

19. Abducted (Platformer)

20. Arcane Arena

The voter of the month and winner of $100 is la-vitesse!

The winners of the Spread the Love Audio Contest have been announced!

Winners (1st-3rd):

Congrats to all the winners!

The March NAC has a St. Pattie's Day theme if you want to make a song to fit the festivities.

We moved some stuff around on the submission view page this week. Credits are now more condensed while putting better visibility on the "Favorite" button. We merged music credits into the main credits box since having its own header was a waste of vertical space. Same with additional info, which has been moved above "Related Stuff" and merged into the unified "Credits & Info" box. All that stuff should be easier to access and it saves a ton of space on submissions like Ace Pilot where 15 people are credited.

We also moved Artist News further up on the front page. My goal is to get it where the P-Bot picks are if we can manage to move daily winners into the content space on the right.

Josh from the Behemoth made that awesome LEGO Tank submission on the LEGO Cuusoo website. He's having even MORE success now with his EVE Online Rifter frigate - check it out and show some support!

The surprise is still coming and Pico Day is on April 28th!

[Mattster]

Hooray for more updates! :D

[camoshark]

March NAC BTW

[ModernPatriot]

Tom why don't you have a sig?

[Oakwood]

Gah, I've been waiting for that surprise for so long now...

[TomFulp]

At 10 minutes ago, camoshark wrote: March NAC BTW

Whoops fixed.

[JGL096]

Hey, Tom!

Why newgrounds was down yesterdary?

And i bet the my suprise is NG Chat or Pico 2.

[milksncookie1]

How did Abobo's Big Adventure win both January and February?

[Step]

At 12 minutes ago, TomFulp wrote: Whoops fixed.

No fair Tom, what makes you so special that you get an edit button?

[TomFulp]

At 12 minutes ago, JoaoGabriel wrote: Hey, Tom!

Why newgrounds was down yesterdary?

And i bet the my suprise is NG Chat or Pico 2.

Surprise is neither but it was part of why NG was down, some stuff borked while updates were being moved over from staging.

[TomFulp]

At 12 minutes ago, milksncookie1 wrote: How did Abobo's Big Adventure win both January and February?

ABOBO is so powerful he came back in February to show he could defeat NY Shark.

Thanks for catching that though... Abobo won an award in January and was featured in the large promo space, but he wasn't added to the traditional "Featured Games" space until February, which made him end up showing as a nominee for both months. I updated the post... NY Shark is now #1 and Ace Pilot managed to make top 5. Still sad Memohuntress just missed top 5, that game is AMAZING and deserves tons more recognition:

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[Asandir]

Memohuntress not even in the Top 5. True art never gets appreciated.
Wonder when the surprise will appear.

[Jay]

At 21 minutes ago, Travis wrote:

At 3 minutes ago, TomFulp wrote: Surprise is neither but it was part of why NG was down, some stuff borked while updates were being moved over from staging.

I'm gonna kidnap Luis and beat the surprise out of him.

But then I'll have to kidnap you, and I'm sure we can all see where this is going!

[Graeme]

At 1 hour ago, TomFulp wrote: 18. Did You Hear That? vol 3

Thanks for the votes everyone :)

merged into the unified "Credits & Info" box.

I noticed this all was condensed yesterday. I think it's a huge improvement!! Right on!

We also moved Artist News further up on the front page. My goal is to get it where the P-Bot picks are if we can manage to move daily winners into the content space on the right.

The content space on the right? Does that just mean the big main section where all the front paged items are?

Josh from the Behemoth made that awesome LEGO Tank submission on the LEGO Cuusoo website. He's having even MORE success now with his EVE Online Rifter frigate - check it out and show some support!

Damn, I really would love to have a LEGO tank like that chilling at my workspace.

The surprise is still coming and Pico Day is on April 28th!

You tease!! I love the little dancing gif. Really smooth! Who made that?

Last of all, here were my picks for top of the month. I realized this is the first time in close to a year I've felt like I had actually seen enough of the items in the voting pool to make a relatively informed decision. I only vote if I think I've seen a good chunk of what's available.

[Randomes]

oh awesome movies! but it's cool when have some madness movie enclude

[ZJ]

Congratulations to all the winners! Let's see if we can't make that Lego tank a reality! I've already asked my pals to vote for it! We can do this!

[Wegra]

Hey Hey looks like Newgrounds is almost fixed to perfection! Can't wait for Pico Day too and congrats to dem winners!

Hey btw anyone knows where those sprites are from :3

[DiroNomer]

Can't wait for the surprise.

[TheRainbowZilla]

The surprise sounds like it ripped off Egoraptor.

CAN'T WAIT ^_^

[TomFulp]

At 1 hour ago, Goat-Man wrote: The content space on the right? Does that just mean the big main section where all the front paged items are?

Yeah, I want all news / promos in the left column and all content on the right. I want to add more context to what you are seeing though... And still questioning whether this is even the best format. It gets the most content in the least vertical space but who knows, maybe a long list is what people would like best. Currently I picture daily winners as a single row in each section, so one row with the daily top 4 movies and one row with the daily top 4 games.

You tease!! I love the little dancing gif. Really smooth! Who made that?

Paul Robertson (Scott Pilgrim game) made them for the 2007 redesign, for an update to NG Mag that never materialized.

[Sevkat]

Meme City is fucking RETARDED

[Knuckstrike]

At 2 hours ago, TomFulp wrote: Still sad Memohuntress just missed top 5, that game is AMAZING and deserves tons more recognition:

www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/590255

I wish Newgrounds had a retweet-like button.

[Thedark]

yeahhhhh

[TheMajormel]

That .gif reminds me of paul robertsons stuff.
Anyways, I liked cubture and memohuntress, but that was all.

[deathink]

Abobo won the 1st place game of the month 2 months in a row XD
Abobo is Badass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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[ZagmenO]

Congrats to all the winners!

[Knoxius]

Is the surprise the store being fixed

[NoLanLabs]

The new credits look neat but are you going to bring back displaying people's real names along with their usernames?

[cacodayum]

Pretty great stuff went through here February!
I also wanna say, I never get tired of NG's...uh...I dunno it feels like a close-knit family on this site.
When you compare to like, Youtube or something. Even facebook fails to feel so family-like actually.

[LiquidFire]

That gif is so sexy. Gief more please.