Don’t miss the Christmas roundup, there’s a lot of great stuff in there.
Drawing Tablet Giveaway
Today’s recipient in our Annual Drawing Tablet Giveaway is @MZtheArtist!
MZtheArtist has been working with an old, broken tablet. What better way to kick off 2022 than with a new, working tablet?
2021 Highlight
@ARAMort made a cool EP for Pico Day called World Wide Web. It really captures something magical about the early web and NG in particular.
ARAMort took 1st in the Pico Day music category so I thought this would be a good time to summarize the music event winners from 2021!
The winner for Pixel Day music was @DavidOrr.
The winner for best Halloween music was @Waterflame.
The winner for best Madness Day music was @MonoCronic.
The winner of the Orchestral Composition Contest was @VocalOutburst.
The winner of the Art Inspired Music Contest was @LD-W.
The winner of the NG Audio Deathmatch was also @LD-W!
The winner of the Newgrounds Underdog Audio Contest was @Michael-Flaherty.
The top Robot Day song was by @Quarl.
The winner of the Twoside Audio Jam was @PartyBalloof.
The Video Game Music Challenge I and Challenge II were for-fun events, check out the entries!
I wonder if The Funkin’ Crew has a favorite FNF remix / mod song of 2021…
Have I missed any event winners here? I’ve been working on the 2021 NG history page and these are the music-related events I’ve documented so far. Help me fill in any gaps! The full history will be released later this week.
If you have some favorite songs from 2021, share them in this thread!
One of our roadmap goals is to bring voting and reviews directly to the in-page audio player, so you can engage with entries while listening to a list of songs. Features like this may be desktop only, to avoid mobile getting unwieldy.
Other News
Pixel Day will be on January 23rd, 2022! Total prize pool will be over $1k when announced. Thank you @olskoo and @LilSpook for already donating $100 each towards the event!
@Bill launched an NG Rumble Character Reveal Art Contest. The prize pool includes the money from sales of the Picollage Poster plus extra, with $1,600 total in prizes.
@VoicesByCorey is organizing the Newgrounds Voice Acting Collaboration 2022!
BadTwinZ is organizing a Resident Evil 2 Collab, to follow up 2020’s Resident Evil Collab.
Winners of the Streamers Universe Animation War were announced.
The NG Winter Festival will be January 28-30th!
@Philljc, the creator of the Ray games, has been working on a new game for the past five years and launched a Kickstarter to finish it!
Sunday was Peter the Ant Day! Go smash some ants, or get smashed.
DoctorGrambo has announced a MessyPaints challenge for 2022. At the start of each month, he will host a poll to determine the subject for the month. Participants will then have the rest of the month to paint the subject (digital or traditional) and share it with the #MessyPaints2022 tag. The goal will be to have fun and see how much your painting improves over the course of the year! We’ll be announcing themes here throughout 2022 but you should also follow that thread if you want to keep up.
Double XP December
We’re awarding double XP for the rest of December, be sure to vote on at least ten items per day to log the max daily XP!
Tablet Giveaway Sponsors
@olskoo - $300
@ScarecrowArts - $300
@SaucySaucepan - $200
@squidly - $100
@Zachary - $100
@VariantSeven - $100
@Arzonaut - $70
@arkoirisangel - $60
@NamelessNathan - $60
@MSGhero - $60
@53xy83457 - $25
@pixelturkey, @Xorberax and @jeffz4000 - $10
@nek0ai, @Wegra, @Wizardism, @kaeojay - $5
Previous 2021 Tablet Recipients
