Happy Pico Day!
Today is a celebration of all things Newgrounds, with fan art, animation, games and music inspired by all the original works that can be found here.
Browse entries via the PicoDay2022 tag!
Thanks to the support of the community, we’ll be awarding over $4k in prizes to the best entries in each category. More information is available in the Pico Day Announcement Post.
This year's site skin and promo banners were created by the brilliant @Potatoman!
Since last year’s Pico Day, we’ve hosted events like the Summer Jams, Art Inspired Music Contest, Audio Deathmatch, NG Summer Fest, Isometric Collab, Egg Game Jam, Underdog Audio Contest, Fancy Pants Art Contest, Toodee and Topdee Art Contest, Clock Day, Bike Slide Collab, Robot Day, List Game Jam, Pod-chan Art Contest, Summer Writing Contest, Cloud Bashers Art Contest, Twoside Audio Jam, Video Game Music Challenge, Madness Day, Dead Estate Art Contest, Spooky Jam, Ultimate Showdown Collab, NG Writing Anthology 2, Halloween Spooktacular, Prince of Landis Art Contest, Secret Santa, Tankmas ADVENTure, Streamers Animation War, Pete the Ant Day, BBS Awards, Rumble Reveal Art Contest, Abobo’s Big Adventure Art Contest, Ballfrog Art Contest, Super Raft Boat Art Contest, Voice Acting Contest 14, Audio Tag Team, Evangelion Collab, Art Inspired Music (again), Flash Forward Jam, and two Piconjo Days.
We added 2FA to accounts, updated the games API, integrated music ID in the Audio Portal (not always perfect but took a huge load off audio moderation), overhauled Medals, introduced custom profile picture shapes, updated user pages and added ratings filters to both blog posts and the Collabinator, as well as every part of user pages.
We gave away 29 drawing tablets.
We continued to sponsor Ruffle development, which expanded support for a bunch more Flash content, including Flash files with video in them. Newgrounds hosts over 20 years of Flash content.
NG continued to get optimized for better performance while trying to keep the hosting budget from getting too out of control. Even now we’re in the midst of a big ongoing software update.
It’s been quite a year! If you enjoy having Newgrounds around, one of the best Pico Day gifts is to become a Supporter! We’re always in need of more support and a lot of our long-term plans depend on it. Newgrounds doesn’t sell or share your personal data and is completely ad-free on E-M content. Our goal is to be 100% Supporter funded, with a surplus to distribute to the community. If all that sounds cool to you, consider chipping in $3-5 a month or $25 for the year.
Thank you and have a happy Pico Day!
My profile picture today was a gift from @REVENGEBAGEL.
