Best of September 2016 & New Emotes

[TomFulp]

We just released an exclusive gift for supporters: Monster emotes by @deathink! If you'd like to become a supporter, it's just $2.99 per month and you get a lot of great perks. You also get to help Newgrounds achieve more while being less reliant on advertisers.

If this is getting you into the Halloween spirit, check out our Spooktacular! There are prizes for the best animation, game, art and music.

Best of September

Your votes are in and the Best of September have been determined!

Top Five Movies

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  Calloused Hands

  by Sexual-Lobster

  I can't find where to buy lotion for my calloused hands...

  Movie

  68,242 Views

  (Ages 13+)

• 

  One Punchmin

  by JoelOnToast

  A new species of Pikmin approaches

  Movie

  42,685 Views

  (Ages 13+)

• Unpublished Submission

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  Madness E Collab: 5

  by GabrielBarsch

  Madness Day 2016 Official Collab

  Movie

  74,623 Views

  (Ages 17+)

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  Broken : Savlonic Neon

  by TheWeebl

  Music video for Savlonic's Broken single from their new album.

  Movie

  20,455 Views

  (Everyone)

The top-ranked movie based on original material and winner of $250 is Calloused Hands. Congrats, @Sexual-Lobster!

Top Five Games

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  Alone in the Madness (pt.02)

  by Djjaner

  Alone in the Madness (pt.02)

  Game

  440,802 Views

  (Ages 17+)

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  Love at first bite

  by KoltonKennedy

  Short visual novel about a mysterious girl hiding a dark secret

  Game

  109,782 Views

  (Ages 13+)

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  105.2

  by Verzinsky

  A little game about a radio and a gas station.

  Game

  57,542 Views

  (Ages 17+)

• 

  When Goats Join Cults Demo

  by HershallCook

  Are you a goat wondering how to join a goat-eating cult? Play this platformer.

  Game

  83,470 Views

  (Ages 13+)

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  Astrocreep

  by TheMillz

  Guide the alien around the spacestation as you kill to evolve!

  Game

  93,269 Views

  (Ages 17+)

Runner-up Movies

6. Volkor X - This Means War ACT I (Official Video)
7. Trump Vs. Clinton: Total Annihilation
8. Assassinate:Madness
9. Perverted Toads
10. A Poetic Meal
11. Pokemon Go Make Friends
12. Madness Infiltration
13. Phony Phantom
14. Thrift Store Clothes : Foamy The Squirrel
15. Peck Goes to School
16. Galactic Kids Next Door Fan Animation
17. Madness Unleashed
18. Rick And Morty: Soylent LeafGreen
19. 'Well of Noise'
20. Madness Gladius

Runner-up Games

6. Dangerous Adventure 2
7. Madness Throne (Demo)
8. Bacteria
9. Chaos Eclipse
10. Hermine's Ghost Town Adventure
11. Blackstorm II
12. The Splitting: Chapter 2
13. The Legend of Zelda - The Hero of Rhyme
14. Dead Detention 2 After Story
15. A Sweet Typing Thrill
16. Free Afternoon
17. Make Me Laugh!
18. Colossal Cave (Unfinished)
19. Van Helsing vs Skeletons 2
20. Cat in Japan

The voter of the month and winner of honorary Supporter status is @EarlJHickey.

Congrats to the winners and thank you everyone who participated in September!

Site Progress

Last week we launched a new community hub and in doing so also ditched the dropdown boxes from the navbar. If you're missing a specific dropdown, let me know because I'm always curious about those things. We are looking at some ideas to further streamline the community hub and I would like to see the option for navbar customization, so users who want things a specific way can have them that way.

Next up is the Audio hub, which will introduce the play all feature we added to the Audio feed - simply click the thumbnail for a submission and it will play everything in the list!

Here's an upscaled sampling of the monster emotes by @deathink, now available for Supporters!

[squidly]

spoopy

Also, Tom, I can't seem to find the forum list in the community hub, there's just the "Jump to Forum" thing and tbh that's hard to find :\

[Blounty]

deathink emotes again...

[TomFulp]

At 10/10/16 03:01 PM, squidly wrote: spoopy

Also, Tom, I can't seem to find the forum list in the community hub, there's just the "Jump to Forum" thing and tbh that's hard to find :\

Do you see an "All Forums" button to the right of the "Jump To Forum" link?

[ZJ]

Totally rad!!! I love it! It's like a fever dream from 1989!

[TomFulp]

At 10/10/16 03:30 PM, ZJ wrote: Totally rad!!! I love it! It's like a fever dream from 1989!

Thank you ZJ for the positive reply.

[deathink]

At 10/10/16 03:30 PM, ZJ wrote: Totally rad!!! I love it! It's like a fever dream from 1989!

My LIFE is a fever dream from 1989!

[Listen2Reason]

At 10/10/16 02:29 PM, TomFulp wrote: Last week we launched a new community hub and in doing so also ditched the dropdown boxes from the navbar. If you're missing a specific dropdown, let me know because I'm always curious about those things. We are looking at some ideas to further streamline the community hub and I would like to see the option for navbar customization, so users who want things a specific way can have them that way.

Yeah, I like to go right to "Under Judgement Games" to see what's under judgement, but now I have to click to the Games page, then scroll down to find that Under Judgement link. And sometimes I go to "Popular Art", but again...

Here's an upscaled sampling of the monster emotes by @deathink, now available for Supporters!

...Hey, I know those "monsters"! I owned a few of them back on the day. ;)

[yetanotherjohn]

At 10/10/16 04:05 PM, Listen2Reason wrote: Yeah, I like to go right to "Under Judgement Games" to see what's under judgement, but now I have to click to the Games page, then scroll down to find that Under Judgement link. And sometimes I go to "Popular Art", but again...

There is a link to under judgement games and movies on the front page, but I assume you're talking about accessing them from every page.

[squidly]

At 10/10/16 03:08 PM, TomFulp wrote:

At 10/10/16 03:01 PM, squidly wrote: spoopy

Also, Tom, I can't seem to find the forum list in the community hub, there's just the "Jump to Forum" thing and tbh that's hard to find :\

Do you see an "All Forums" button to the right of the "Jump To Forum" link?

Oh I didn't notice that, you should make that button a bit more prominent imo.

[The-Great-One]

I like this. I can be okay with this.

[Pink-Ninja]

Congrats to the winners! Awesome emotes, love each and every one of them, thanks @deathink

[EarlJHickey]

At 10/10/16 02:29 PM, TomFulp wrote:
The voter of the month and winner of honorary Supporter status is @EarlJHickey.

Well damn I would have never thought.

[iscrulz]

Thanks for the supporter feature its neat. And Congartes to all the winners

[ninjamuffin99]

Congrats to all the winners! And nice emotes!

Calloused Hands was pretty good, I linked it to all my friends

[Decky]

At 10/10/16 03:44 PM, deathink wrote: My LIFE is a fever dream from 1989!

Same, mine's 1994 though. Basically, it's just Ace of Base on a loop and the sense that everybody around is in a new form of Hell from last nights uppers.

Cool new Emotes by the way.

[VicariousE]

Can't find anything in 'Community' or 'Your Feed', that shows which of our friends are on/offline, used to be a link in 'Your Feed' that went right to that page.

[deathink]

At 10/10/16 05:49 PM, Pink-Ninja wrote: Congrats to the winners! Awesome emotes, love each and every one of them, thanks @deathink

I'm glad you like 'em bro.

[Intrapath]

Loving the new emotes! Can't wait to see the streamlined Audio portal, too.

[AtomicAstro]

I'm glad Calloused Hands got first, I love Sexual Lobster. Those monster emotes look fucking sick btw.

[PsychedelicSamurai]

Props to deathink. Love the emotes.

[Wiesi]

Congrats to the winners! Beautiful emotes!

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[Sexual-Lobster]

Thank you newgrounds and everyone who voted for Calloused Hands!

[TomFulp]

At 10/11/16 03:00 AM, FGIJonC wrote: awesome as always tom.

Speaking of the audio portal, you know waht would be cool? Something I just thought about today. I stream a bit and want to play music sometimes, well, itd be awesome if we had a playlist feature, like I could add music to them, ala SoundCloud for example. It'd be cool to promote the NG artists in that regard I think.

We actually do have playlists, they're just a bit hidden. When you're on the song page, look for the three lines in the header above the audio player - to the left of the lightbulb and heart. We need to update the icon because it was made before the association with "hamburger menus" on mobile came about.

Click that icon and you can add to an existing playlist or start a new playlist. Your playlists are then listed on your userpage.

[TomFulp]

At 10/11/16 12:55 AM, Wkay wrote: The emotes inspire me NOT to get Supporter, honestly.
No offense, but I just don't see the use for them and they're very slightly ugly.

If only we had made the Madness emotes supporter only...

[TomFulp]

At 10/10/16 07:25 PM, VicariousE wrote: Can't find anything in 'Community' or 'Your Feed', that shows which of our friends are on/offline, used to be a link in 'Your Feed' that went right to that page.

The friends list is currently available from your account options page (the gear in the header), under "User Relations."

It will likely become more prominent if more utility comes out of it - for example seeing where your friends are on the site if they are in a communal space where you can interact. A summary of on-line friends on the community hub could be interesting, though.

[Whirlguy]

Thanks @Tom, thanks @Deathink <3

Damn it, I forgot to vote this month... Welp, congrats winners!

[SuperBastard]

Congrats to the winners!

I kind of miss the Submit Yours! option from the dropdown lists, but that's minor. The "Help Wanted" section in the community hub is a really slick addition, good thought on that.

Also, rad icons!

[Graeme]

At 10/10/16 02:29 PM, TomFulp wrote: 18. Rick And Morty: Soylent LeafGreen

7. Madness Throne (Demo)

Pretty cool to show up in the monthly best twice!
Thanks everyone :)

I'm really glad my short came out before Judge Morty, because that is like the gold standard for what a Rick and Morty fan animation should look like...

Here were my top picks for the month, and yes, I did throw myself a couple of votes

[Wegra]

I like this one the most