@Xinxinix is releasing the Secret Santa 2021 Reveal at noon EST!
@DoctorGrambo announced the January MessyPaints Challenge: ELENA from Street Fighter Third Strike! Paint Elena in any painting style (digital paint is fine) and post your art with the MessyPaints2022 tag before February 1st to participate.
@Droid is encouraging musicians to participate in Jamuary! The goal of this event is to make a new song every day in January and tag it with Jamuary2022.
Drawing Tablet Giveaway
Today’s recipient in our Annual Drawing Tablet Giveaway is @Bhiribz!
Bhiribz is currently drawing with a mouse and used Paint.net with Adobe Premiere Pro to create their Funkin’ Jam entry. Looking forward to seeing how their work evolves with a tablet!
2021 Highlight
Today is the last day of 2021, making this the last highlight post of the year. I feel all sorts of pressure to make this one extra special but instead I just want to thank everyone for making this a special year on Newgrounds! NG is only as good as the people using it and we’ve got a phenomenal bunch of people here right now.
If you have the time, check out some of the top movies, games, art and audio of 2021!
I’ve also updated the Newgrounds History Page to include 2021.
We’ll soon be kicking off the new year with a formal Pixel Day announcement post, with over $1k in prizes and a fundraising effort to take it further. Thank you @olskoo and @LilSpook for already donating $100 each towards the event!
I’ll also be announcing fundraising for our second Flash Forward Jam. @Dungeonation has kicked in $50 to get started! Like last year, the theme of this jam will be to make new Flash games that play in browsers via Ruffle. This means they’ll need to be AS2 again, although AS3 support is making steady progress; we’ll have to save that for a future jam. Something else to look forward to!
We’ve got events like these as our traditions but much of 2022 is wide open and I’m so excited to see how it unfolds. Every day on NG is filled with cool people and things to discover, along with opportunities to get inspired, collaborate and share your own creations. I hope everyone else is enjoying it as much as I am!
2021 Recap Blog Posts
Here are some blog posts people have made, summarizing their past year:
Other News
@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.
Don’t miss the Christmas roundup, there’s a lot of great stuff in there.
@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.
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!
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
