Best of September 2022!

[TomFulp]

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

Top Five Animation

The top-ranked animation based on original material and winner of $250 is Eddsworld. Congrats, @Eddsworld!

@JamesLee and @Piemations will each receive $100 for 2nd and 3rd based on original material.

If you would like to contribute to our animation prize fund, use the donation option on the Supporter page and PM me a heads up you donated towards animation prizes.

Thank you to our current sponsors @olskoo, @mattyburrito and @53xy83457.

Top Five Games

The top game based on original material and winner of $200 is Witchcraft Tower Defence, congrats @unikotoast!

The 2nd and 3rd place winners of $100 are @unikotoast with Buns: Bunny Survivor and @ElPichon with The Bunny Graveyard. Bunnies ruled in September!

I brought back 3rd place this month but we’ll be back to two game prizes next month if we don't get more sponsors. If you would like to contribute to our game prize fund, use the donation option on the Supporter page and PM me a heads up you donated towards game prizes.

Thank you to our sponsors @olskoo, @Manderby and @53xy83457.

Runner-Up Animation

6. Sublo and Tangy Mustard - Casual Friday - Watch this!

7. No more half measures.

8. OKAY

9. The Problem with Pokémon vs. Digimon

10. The Brushening

11. A Songus Amongus

12. Measure Up

13. Pimento! (Pilot)

14. SPAMTON $WEEPSTAKES, but I animated it

15. Endless Summer Lovin' [COLLAB]

16. BIG TV

17. Undertale Ruins [Loop]

18. Jerma V.S. Wasp

19. Zapchon Tries Energy Drink

20. MOTOR | Short Film

21. Big Hoss And His Smoker

22. Madness Paradox

23. You are enthralled by the catgirl

24. Koishi Komeiji's Heart-Throbbing Adventure

25. It's A Me A Mario

26. Project Creber: Extrication Part 2

27. The Chipfork Murders

28. CODE RED

29. Homer V-R

30. Geronimo & Heatstepper: The Harvest (part 1)

Runner-Up Games

6. Gods of Defense

7. Ben Stiller's 3D Tour of Hell

8. Catlike Magic

9. Hop Owl

10. MarshMallow Madness: THE GAME

11. Parallelogram Man Orders Takeout!

12. Otherwise

13. Blob Omelette

14. Iced

15. Cowabunga Down Under

16. Cosmic Quadruple-Dutch

17. Adventure Kitty: Drill Buster

18. DreamShock DEMO

19. Pixel Dash

20. Fit Puzzle Blocks

21. Creature Collab 2022

22. Farmula 1 Racing

23. Conflagrator

24. Astronite - Landing on Neplea

25. Alpine Alpaca

26. Dinogen Online

27. Magirune 2 - Demo

28. Weird Wally's Warzone

29. Lina: Witches Of The Moon

30. KINSPLANT

Voter of the Month

The voter of the month and winner of honorary Supporter status is @Zerohour2k12!

Art

Check out the Top Featured Art of September!

This month was dominated by Madness Day Art.

My favorite was this delightful animated dinosaur gif by @SovanJedi: 

Castle Crashers celebrated 14 years last month and PixelHeadAche celebrated in style.

@Ozrk crafted the winning entry in the Chenso Club Art Contest!

@Template88 illustrated the top piece in the Board Game Art Contest!

Audio

Check out the Top Featured Audio of September!

@YasiinClemens released a full album called Newgrounds!

@Droid released an extended version of summer breeze, for the Summer Lovin’ Collab.

@Metaljonus continued to be a Rock God:

@Waterflame mashed up two of his classics, Glorious Morning meets Burst meets Thunderzone!

Some songs are earworms that won’t get out of your head, like @Jacob’s Parallelogram Tutorial song and @speedymuffin’s Autotune Cat Type Beat:

Other News

Sad news: We learned Blounty passed away in August.

This month is our Halloween Spooktacular, with prizes for the best spooky animation, games, art and music.

@SketchyTodd is hosting a Silly VS Spooky Art Collab.

Ludum Dare was last weekend and we’d love to see your web games!

Thank you everyone who made September spectacular!

[trenzin191]

Yay!

[Anonicus]

Congrats to everyone!

Yeah, Everyone.

I think peeps who didn't get up in the top 5 deserves some love too! Here's to another great month!

[ElPichon]

Bunnies FTW!!!

[NK2007]

Very good, some of these animations made this September iconic.

[Dungeonation]

At 10/7/22 11:44 AM, TomFulp wrote:Bunnies ruled in September!

Hell yeah >:B

[Template88]

[Intrapath]

Congrats to all the winners! It's super surprising to me to see so little Madness representation, though, especially after such a flood of great content for Madness Day. It's especially nuts to see Madness Ghostification and Madness 4:20 not even break the top 30, those were such good entries.

[FutureCopLGF]

Congratulations to all of the game devs this month for some really wonderful entries! As said, we've certainly been blessed by great bunny-based games this month, but for me personally, the real blessing was boss rush games which both Cosmic Quadruple-Dutch and Parallelogram Man delivered in stunning quality: nothing like a game that almost makes you wanna break your keyboard before you suddenly hit your stride and get that euphoric win!

Having said that, my favorite for this month that I feel might've been slept on a bit has to be Blob Omelette: was really impressed at how the game, despite having very simple controls, kept getting deeper and more challenging by evolving the levels with all sorts of new mechanics, obstacles and secrets that I never expected! Fans of games like Celeste and old-school platformers like Donkey Kong Country and Super Mario World should definitely give it a go!

Of course, while it's great to talk about these games, it's also really important to give feedback on the tons of demos that were submitted this month, like the DreamShock Demo: it's rough in its current state but very promising and I look forward to seeing how this and the other demos shape up in the future based on our help towards the devs!

[StickmanMarkinson]

Well congrats to winners of Sept 2022. Dang Dinogen Online is in the 26th place. It's a fun game if you wanted to kill the dinosaurs alone with some people online.

[Gustavotonogamer]

I have this thank you?

[DoctorStrongbad]

Congrats to all the winners.

[TomFulp]

At 10/7/22 12:58 PM, FuturecopLGF wrote:
Congratulations to all of the game devs this month for some really wonderful entries! As said, we've certainly been blessed by great bunny-based games this month, but for me personally, the real blessing was boss rush games which both Cosmic Quadruple-Dutch and Parallelogram Man delivered in stunning quality: nothing like a game that almost makes you wanna break your keyboard before you suddenly hit your stride and get that euphoric win!

Having said that, my favorite for this month that I feel might've been slept on a bit has to be Blob Omelette: was really impressed at how the game, despite having very simple controls, kept getting deeper and more challenging by evolving the levels with all sorts of new mechanics, obstacles and secrets that I never expected! Fans of games like Celeste and old-school platformers like Donkey Kong Country and Super Mario World should definitely give it a go!

Of course, while it's great to talk about these games, it's also really important to give feedback on the tons of demos that were submitted this month, like the DreamShock Demo: it's rough in its current state but very promising and I look forward to seeing how this and the other demos shape up in the future based on our help towards the devs!

Thank you again for these monthly videos and also for this summary of great games this month. There is so much cool stuff happening and so much is easy to overlook, I'd love to see more people provide coverage on it!

I agree with everything you said about those games, too. @andrfw is a real dev to watch!

[TomFulp]

At 10/7/22 12:27 PM, Intrapath wrote:Congrats to all the winners! It's super surprising to me to see so little Madness representation, though, especially after such a flood of great content for Madness Day. It's especially nuts to see Madness Ghostification and Madness 4:20 not even break the top 30, those were such good entries.

That is surprising, my guess is the Madness fans didn't turn out to vote the way they turned out for Madness Day. That works out better for everyone else who made stuff last month, although something more in-between might be best.

[DoctorStrongbad]

I had fun with the top five games. The animations were okay this time.

[Metaljonus]

Sweet! Thanks for the shout-out and nomination! <3

[BrandyBuizel]

I'm honestly surprised that Endless Summer Lovin' didnt make the top ten lawl

[TomFulp]

At 10/7/22 04:59 PM, BrandyBuizel wrote:I'm honestly surprised that Endless Summer Lovin' didnt make the top ten lawl

That's interesting too, collabs usually have an edge with all the people involved.

[BrandyBuizel]

At 10/7/22 04:59 PM, TomFulp wrote:

At 10/7/22 04:59 PM, BrandyBuizel wrote:I'm honestly surprised that Endless Summer Lovin' didnt make the top ten lawl

That's interesting too, collabs usually have an edge with all the people involved.

exactly my thought process! #10 in the Best of All Time but only #15 in the Best of September xD

[DamnedByFate]

At 10/7/22 11:44 AM, TomFulp wrote:The top-ranked animation based on original material and winner of $250 is Eddsworld. Congrats, @Eddsworld!

10 years dead and still winning. Nice.

[Bleak-Creep]

How to Animate desperately deserves more love. An insanely cool short and an easy number 1 from last month imo.

[rm]

My sincerest reaction:

[spoiler911]

There were so many good choices this month!

[DoctorStrongbad]

September 2022 was so full on content. Every month seems to outdo the next one.

[GDA-G]

Gratz to all the winners,

as well as the runner ups!!

[DoctorStrongbad]

At 10/7/22 05:57 PM, Bleak-Creep wrote:How to Animate desperately deserves more love. An insanely cool short and an easy number 1 from last month imo.
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/856676

That was a great submission. Not every flash can be number one.

[HenryEYES]

this next month is gonna be game season

[Manderby]

Congratulations to the winners, was a kick-ass month and was hard to choose! I was quite impressed by the time that must have been spent on these submissions. I personally find the Chipfork murderers deserve a higher place, but oh well, all deserve it I suppose.

And October has already started with some more jucy goodies. I look forward to October more and more every year. Noone celebrates spooky month like Newgrounds.

[Luis]

Edd is still making award winning content even in the afterlife

also first post

[DoctorStrongbad]

At 10/7/22 10:50 PM, HenryEYES wrote:this next month is gonna be game season

@HenryEYES

Isn't it always game season? Game on.