I've been crunching on a game with JohnnyUtah but meanwhile tons of amazing people have been posting stuff on NG so another Follow Friday is in order!

To follow someone, click the pink heart in the top right of their user page. You can click their names here in this post to check out their pages.

Movies

Go watch Breadheads and then follow codywalzel if you like it, so he knows you like it and will be watching for more!

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  Breadheads

  by codywalzel

  A wartime regiment deals with an epidemic turning fellow soldiers into bread people.

  Movie

  55,305 Views

  (Ages 13+)

SafePlagiarism made an emotional piece about a tree and stuff. He also announced that he might not bother with YouTube anymore, so having followers on NG is gonna be that much more important!

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  Pine

  by dylan

  Here's a short about a tree.

  Movie

  32,841 Views

  (Everyone)

DaveBruno, winner of TOFA 2011 (before Adam, the organizer, changed the name to NATA), has introduced a new series! Go show your support and follow him for future episodes!

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  Scaredy Dave: Episode 1

  by ScaredyDave

  Dave moves into a new apartment, his neighbor is a real cut above the rest!

  Movie

  17,561 Views

  (Everyone)

AliensOnToast is also launching a series! It's hard to break through with an original series so every follower counts.

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  Ginja Ninja | Ep#1

  by AliensOnToast

  Bromance

  Movie

  9,542 Views

  (Everyone)

Professor Soap published Far Away and Spacetime Fabric Softener this week. Both are really pretty and he makes all the music too!

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  Far Away

  by ProfessorSoap

  A wizard mixes up some magic

  Movie

  25,612 Views

  (Everyone)

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  Spacetime Fabric Softener

  by ProfessorSoap

  A cosmonaut investigates a wormhole in deep space.

  Movie

  35,182 Views

  (Everyone)

threebrain is a total OG and he is back with a Christmas Countdown! Follow him if you don't want to miss any!

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  Weird Xmas Countdown 19th

  by threebrain

  Tree has a secret gift for us!

  Movie

  1,407 Views

  (Everyone)

MightyManfish shared his sophomore animation project, Exterminated. I'm sure some followers would encourage him to keep sharing his school projects!

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  Exterminated

  by MightyManfish

  Sophomore semester animation project

  Movie

  16,527 Views

  (Everyone)

Spenturion has a webcomic called Dungeon Crawlers and he made a movie based on it. Show him a warm NG welcome!

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  Animated Dungeon Crawlers

  by Spenturion

  "You Are What you Defeat"

  Movie

  31,188 Views

  (Everyone)

MortalPoet won Animation Showcase 3 on Draw With Jazza!

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  Timmy's Tumor

  by jessejayjones

  Timmy shares a bright, sunny day with his best friend!

  Movie

  15,797 Views

  (Everyone)

Games

Man I don't even know where to start with games. Ludum Dare 28 was last weekend so we had an influx of cool, small games this week. Game jams are a great opportunity to experiment, share and sometimes just get yourself out of a game dev rut.

I'll first make note of patrickgh3 because Spirit Cave is an interesting game that wasn't getting a lot of response on the front page, although the reviewers like it. Probably another case of the thumbnail not catching eyeballs as well as others on the page.

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  Spirit Cave

  by patrickgh3

  The story of a human and a fairy.

  Game

  18,064 Views

  (Everyone)

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  Clockwork Cat

  by patrickgh3

  The adventures of a cat, a wrench, and a clock.

  Game

  95,891 Views

  (Everyone)

Aaants also has an entry that people are enjoying but wasn't getting a lot of front page response. Doesn't anyone want to play as a red box?

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  The Trials of Chad

  by Aaants

  Dash, jump, grapple and bounce your way through the trials.

  Game

  18,502 Views

  (Everyone)

We also saw our first submission from pLaw, a Unity game no less! I'm his only NG fan right now, anyone care to join me?

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  GRAIL

  by pLaw

  Find the holy grail... using only one button.

  Game

  30,084 Views

  (Ages 13+)

AlanZucconi has the highest scoring Ludum Dare entry on NG so far, with 0rbitalis.

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  0RBITALIS

  by AlanZucconi

  0RBITALIS is a game about defying gravity. With just one click.

  Game

  92,532 Views

  (Everyone)

AdventureIslands was featured in another Follow Friday last month, but he's earned a second shout:

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  Shine

  by AdventureIslands

  Help tiny wizard Lucia and her orb of light to survive their journey through the darkness.

  Game

  81,815 Views

  (Everyone)

I'm assuming I've plugged Zanzlanz before too, but just in case:

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  Str1ngle

  by Zanzlanz

  An abstract and exciting game!

  Game

  89,366 Views

  (Everyone)

kor415 made front page with "Captain Robert in Ludum Dare 27, and he's back again with Place! Want to eat worms and chirp? This is your game!

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  Place.

  by koe415

  About a bird's struggle to maintain family.

  Game

  20,347 Views

  (Everyone)

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  Captain Robert

  by koe415

  Control Captain Robert as he tries to figure out what happened to his ship and crew.

  Game

  43,182 Views

  (Ages 13+)

I'm out of time to keep listing stuff right now but hopefully you have time to check out some of what is here and follow your favorite artists and developers!

Ok need one more? Why not check out all the comics by ChazDude? He posts them on his blog, but if you follow him that will show up in your expanded feed.

I expect to post before Christmas but just in case, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

ChazDude does excellent works!

Holy shit! thanks Tom!

At 12/20/13 03:05 PM, TomFulp wrote: SafePlagiarism made an emotional piece about a tree and stuff. He also announced that he might not bother with YouTube anymore, so having followers on NG is gonna be that much more important!

Way to go! Such honorable initiative must be rewarded with eternal subscription! :D

Just noticed btw that you can no longer un-favorite/follow a user/submission by toggling that hearty icon, you are instead redirected to your 'favorites' pages which for my part contains hundreds of entries and takes much longer to load, there with the task to again find said user/submission. Why this change? At least I don't think this was how it worked before? :/

I expect to post before Christmas but just in case, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

Merry Christmas!!!

At 12/20/13 03:15 PM, sanford1002 wrote: ChazDude does excellent works!

Agreed, been following those for a while. Great to see him mentioned!

Aw, thanks so much Tom! I didn't know you put my name in there before!

Orbitalis and Shine are beautiful games! And I just had to become a fan of pLaw for GRAIL being such an awesome LD entry. Whoo!

Yeah, there was a lot of cool stuff this month too. AdventureIslands dude rocks it!

At 12/20/13 03:05 PM, TomFulp wrote: I've been crunching on a game with JohnnyUtah but meanwhile tons of amazing people have been posting stuff on NG so another Follow Friday is in order!

Sounds like fun.

SafePlagiarism made an emotional piece about a tree and stuff. He also announced that he might not bother with YouTube anymore, so having followers on NG is gonna be that much more important!

Huh. I could have sworn I was already following him.....whatever. I'm following him now.

Professor Soap published Far Away and Spacetime Fabric Softener this week. Both are really pretty and he makes all the music too!

I loved those! They were even some of the first submissions I can honestly remember giving a 5 to for the longest time.

I expect to post before Christmas but just in case, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

Merry (early) Christmas.
And Happy Saturnalia.

Shoutout to Mortalpoet. Congrats man!

Whoa thanks for the shoutout, Tom!

I think ProfessorSoap has to be one of my favorite new artists here since Blown Minded came out back in August. It's also always great to see short films that do well in the festival circuit, like Breadheads, make their way to Newgrounds.

@codywalzel one of the best toons I have ever seen my man, I can't wait to see more!
@TomFulp Man, I can't wait to see what you and Jeff have done so far... rich blog? :P

It has to be Pico 2

Hey what would happen if 2014?

Do more music!

*Unts unts unts unts*

man everyone knows how to make a good animation

My choice for best game that came out the most recently is this. Seriously, I couldn't get enough of it.

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  Catchy Orbit

  by GameBalance

  Great chain reaction in space!

  Game

  146,303 Views

  (Everyone)

At 12/20/13 03:05 PM, TomFulp wrote: SafePlagiarism made an emotional piece about a tree and stuff. He also announced that he might not bother with YouTube anymore, so having followers on NG is gonna be that much more important!
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/630045

I gragree with this

Thats the best audio ever. lol

At 12/20/13 03:05 PM, TomFulp wrote: I've been crunching on a game with JohnnyUtah

Awesome. would buy it just for Jeff's's artwork. any dev pics or info page?

Apart from being my favorite most recent flash, I think this may in fact be the longest flash that is used on the new mp4 format. Congrats to you, MacaroniPenguin!

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  Ducktalez 7

  by Macaroni-Penguin

  Scrooge and Vegeta return for a guys' night out in their next big adventure!

  Movie

  48,690 Views

  (Ages 13+)

Hey, it's Christmas ? Why did no one tell me about it ?

Shine is an awesome game, AdventureIslands is a great guy !
I ragequitted Grail after 2 minutes...

I'm surprised you haven't mentioned "Boss 101" ? I WAS A FOOL TO TRUST YOU, TOM ! (just kiddin i love u bro)

At 12/21/13 07:23 AM, PirateCrab wrote: Do more music!

*Unts unts unts unts*

IRK? We got 4 categories of stuff, best to hit each one at least once. Ah well, it's a new tradition.

At 12/20/13 05:16 PM, mandog wrote: Still no Christmas theme?

It's creepy the seasonal ions haven't popped up yet. That's atypical :|

For Christmas i wish that the old main page song would play again for that one day

At 12/22/13 02:55 PM, Doncom wrote: I'm surprised you haven't mentioned "Boss 101" ? I WAS A FOOL TO TRUST YOU, TOM ! (just kiddin i love u bro)

Actually very good point, I definitely gotta plug DarqTimmy in the next one! I just started following him, too.

do you think you could give Supporters the option to turn Ads ON and OFF so we could further support the site?

NEW PRESENT

At 12/23/13 10:48 AM, Tony-DarkGrave wrote: do you think you could give Supporters the option to turn Ads ON and OFF so we could further support the site?

It's been low priority compared to other features, but keeping it in mind!

At 12/23/13 01:35 PM, TomFulp wrote:

At 12/23/13 10:48 AM, Tony-DarkGrave wrote: do you think you could give Supporters the option to turn Ads ON and OFF so we could further support the site?

It's been low priority compared to other features, but keeping it in mind!

Yeah I used to log out when I wanted to "turn ads on" but since I have to log in to vote, this has gotten a bit tedious.

Also shameless plug is shameless:

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  Newgrounds Holiday Worm

  by TurkeyOnAStick

  Cor blimey, a bunch of XMas pics linked together!

  Game

  55,988 Views

  (Ages 13+)

At 12/20/13 03:23 PM, ChazDude wrote: Holy shit! thanks Tom!

Thanks indeed i'll check some more out when i have the tine

At 12/23/13 02:59 AM, VicariousE wrote:

At 12/21/13 07:23 AM, PirateCrab wrote: Do more music!

*Unts unts unts unts*

IRK? We got 4 categories of stuff, best to hit each one at least once. Ah well, it's a new tradition.

At 12/20/13 05:16 PM, mandog wrote: Still no Christmas theme?

It's creepy the seasonal ions haven't popped up yet. That's atypical :|

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At 12/23/13 03:20 AM, this310 wrote: For Christmas i wish that the old main page song would play again for that one day

That would probably work better as an April Fool's Day prank. Of course, the second Martin Taunts was made around Christmas time.