Best of August 2007!

[TomFulp]

Check out this epic collab that RubberNinja is putting together. Respond to his post with feedback, ideas and offers to help!

You've probably noticed that we've had a lot of ads this past month for Shoot 'Em Up! Making the movie even more relevant to the NG audience is these cool animatics that Luis brought to my attention. It turns out that director Michael Davis had pitched the movie to New Line Cinema through a series of animatics he created on his drawing tablet in FLASH! Makes me wonder if a 3 Ali movie could be far way...

While we're on the topic of giving Shoot Em Up some extra plugs, check out this naughty shooting game they made to promote the film.

Moving right along, when you are listening to a song in the Audio Portal, you can now find a list of "Users who liked this also enjoyed..." in the related submissions box on the bottom left. This feature has been in the Flash Portal for a while, but it's new to the AP!

It's time to announce the best of August! Each winner will receive $250, an award certificate and a t-shirt from the NG Store.

TOP FIVE MOVIES

1. Aladdin 3150
2. Blockhead: Episode 10
3. Awesome Compilation Vol 2
4. Health Reminder
5. SleepEasy

TOP FIVE GAMES

1. Newgrounds in a Box
2. Boss Bash
3. Ball Revamped 5: Synergy
4. Tower Bloxx
5. Bloons Tower Defense

RUNNER-UP MOVIES

6. Thwomps: The Movie
7. Children of Clocks
8. Machete
9. Tomas et la Fraise
10. This Is What You Want!
11. Super Hero Clock
12. Who Shot SBC? Part 2
13. Mindchamber </3
14. Star Wars: The Rebels
15. Canadian Idiot!
16. Metal Gear Yotsuba
17. Oh Jesus
18. 3 Second Collab
19. sharks and not sharks
20. :: Car Wash ::

RUNNER-UP GAMES

6. Deal Or No Deal CCedition
7. GC Flash Fighter (D)
8. Kazahana: No Exit
9. Invasion Tactical Defense
10. Turret Defence 2
11. SC Guitar Maniac Dx 2
12. Pizza Shack Deluxe
13. Swords & Sandals Crusader
14. Quickling
15. DestructoTanks
16. ColorBurst
17. Ninja Guiji
18. Ramps
19. Schwarzkäppchen
20. Bowling Alley Defense

The randomly selected active voter of the month for August and winner of $100 and a t-shirt is Blitz-Mage!

Winners should PM Bob with the following info:

1. Specify if you are splitting the award money with other credited authors on the submission.
2. Your real name, for the check.
3. Your name, as you want it to appear on the award certified.
4. Your mailing address (be sure to include zip code, country, all that stuff!)
5. Your t-shirt size (S, M, L, XL, 2XL)
6. Your t-shirt preference (pick anything from the store. Make sure we have your size in-stock!

Congrats everyone! Next up is Madness Day on September 22nd, as well as our ongoing Halloween competition.

[Absurd-Ditties]

I'm a bit surprised, I thought Health Reminder would place higher than 4th.

[BuddhaGeo]

Newgrounds in a box didn't deserve winning if you ask me.

[Catoblepas]

Oh Jesus didn't win?

FOR SHAAME!

[TacticalShoe]

Wow, I should really start voting again.

[Sonucais]

At 9/12/07 09:15 AM, TomFulp wrote: 5. SleepEasy

You finally did it Rupee! :D

[Sqeezy]

Yay, congrats to them all.
Well deserved.

Still need to get my ass into gear to ever get one of those beautiful certificates.

Also can't wait for the Project. I'll most likely take a part in the animating role.

[RupeeClock]

Haha, holy shit! I won!!! :D

Thank you Newgrounds, thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed my movie THAT much!

[Wonchop]

The Aladdin one definitely deserved that spot.

[RubberNinja]

At 9/12/07 09:28 AM, TimFrommeyer wrote:
Also can't wait for the Project. I'll most likely take a part in the animating role.

Oh so we're JUST INVITING OURSELVES IN NOW ARE WE TIM!?

Yeah ok, sweet. Glad to have you aboard.

[Wonchop]

Oh my god, if those animatics of Shoot em Up are anything to go by, I just might have to make it my duty to see this movie.

[MCEGG]

fuck yeah! aladin won. but i'm still suprised of the score for health reminder and the thwomps movie, i mean, that's a 20-min. movie for god sake.

[RupeeClock]

At 9/12/07 09:48 AM, Wonchop wrote: The Aladdin one definitely deserved that spot.

I aught to check that out, it must be pretty damn good.

[Mind-Edge]

At 9/12/07 09:58 AM, MCEGG wrote: fuck yeah! aladin won. but i'm still suprised of the score for health reminder and the thwomps movie, i mean, that's a 20-min. movie for god sake.

Twas too long if you ask me.

[TacoFreak]

Do you guys even make money? All you do is spend your money on contests.

Im not saying thats bad or anything and thats good that you care about us but do you make a profit out of it or what.

[Little-Rena]

At 9/12/07 09:20 AM, BuddhaGeo wrote: Newgrounds in a box didn't deserve winning if you ask me.

I agree with that :\

SleepEasy was good though, definatly deserved somthing, so did some of the others.
Congrats everyone :)

[RubberNinja]

Oh and, thanks for mentioning the collaboration Tom.

Appreciated.

[WilliWowza]

Awesome compilation didn't deserve to be that high, the only funny one was the PoP bit.

[Luis]

Congrats to everyone, specially Swain, Flecko, BoM, and NewgroundsInaBox.

RubberNinja I think i just invited myself cause i can.

[BlueHippo]

At 9/12/07 09:15 AM, TomFulp wrote: Check out this epic collab that RubberNinja is putting together. Respond to his post with feedback, ideas and offers to help!

woah, i'd better hurry up and comment on that :P that IS quite the epic collab o_O

You've probably noticed that we've had a lot of ads this past month for Shoot 'Em Up! Making the movie even more relevant to the NG audience is these cool animatics that Luis brought to my attention. It turns out that director Michael Davis had pitched the movie to New Line Cinema through a series of animatics he created on his drawing tablet in FLASH!

damn, that's pretty cool, ha... <jealous>

Makes me wonder if a 3 Ali movie could be far way...

hahaha, dear god i hope so :3

While we're on the topic of giving Shoot Em Up some extra plugs, check out this naughty shooting game they made to promote the film.

aww, was hoping for a link on the portal... i guess that explains why the link appears unclicked ;) mebbe after work :0

Moving right along, when you are listening to a song in the Audio Portal, you can now find a list of "Users who liked this also enjoyed..." in the related submissions box on the bottom left. This feature has been in the Flash Portal for a while, but it's new to the AP!

The audio portal slowly becomes a functioning member of society ;)

It's time to announce the best of August! Each winner will receive $250, an award certificate and a t-shirt from the NG Store.

TOP FIVE MOVIES

1. Aladdin 3150
2. Blockhead: Episode 10
3. Awesome Compilation Vol 2
4. Health Reminder
5. SleepEasy

TOP FIVE GAMES

1. Newgrounds in a Box
2. Boss Bash
3. Ball Revamped 5: Synergy
4. Tower Bloxx
5. Bloons Tower Defense

congrats to all of the winners :3 of course aladdin won, congrats to rupee for winning his first award :3 better pick out a good shirt! Neat the NG in a box got number one, a cool toy :)

RUNNER-UP MOVIES

RUNNER-UP GAMES

sorry guys, better luck next time :(

The randomly selected active voter of the month for August and winner of $100 and a t-shirt is Blitz-Mage!

sadly i don't know this winner, but they have a nice level ;) congrats ^_^

Congrats everyone! Next up is Madness Day on September 22nd, as well as our ongoing Halloween competition.

i'm scared to see what madness day will bring, heh... OH WELL, the day is approaching!

At 9/12/07 10:02 AM, RupeeClock wrote: I aught to check that out, it must be pretty damn good.

it's pretty damn epic o_O

PS tom you still need to update your webcam :X

another month downnnn! we all know who wins this month, i lurve you rtil ;)

[RubberNinja]

At 9/12/07 10:27 AM, Luis wrote: Congrats to everyone, specially Swain, Flecko, BoM, and NewgroundsInaBox.

RubberNinja I think i just invited myself cause i can.

Dearest Luis, the collaboration welcomes you with open arms.

We'll talk.

[Kumar]

Maybe a switch between the last three in places would have been a better finish but anyway a fifth or higher end should be considered a first place finish I think everybody did an awesome job especially Aladin and Blockhead. Huge animations great graphics got to love it.

[Sidorio]

Newgrounds in a box?
No. Just no.

[RupeeClock]

At 9/12/07 10:56 AM, TheD-LucksEdition wrote: All Top 5 Movies deserved to be there.

However, I didn't think that Boss Bash was all that good.

Same, I only tried the Wart boss and it was horrible, everything was way too large and the camera was horrible, you couldn't see the damn floor.

But this often the case with the games, they get less of them.
You know those simple flash games where you control something simple and grab things falling from the sky, and also dodge things? One of those won once, it was a Salad fingers fan game.
It all comes down to who enjoyed what.

[EON]

At 9/12/07 10:53 AM, Sidorio wrote: Newgrounds in a box?
No. Just no.

>:(

Well, it is a love it or hate it thing..

[Casualty]

Newgrounds in a Box won?? Oh come on, that's something that can me made in a day with no effort...

Congrats to the other winners though!

[Psycosis91]

Aww dammit, Thwomps got 6th, I could've really used the money.

Oh well, you win some and you lose some, all of the top 5 movies deserved to be up there, congrats to the winners!

[EON]

At 9/12/07 11:32 AM, Casualty wrote: Newgrounds in a Box won?? Oh come on, that's something that can me made in a day with no effort...

Congrats to the other winners though!

A couple of weeks actually. And it's innovation that counts..

[BlueHippo]

At 9/12/07 11:50 AM, Psycosis91 wrote: Aww dammit, Thwomps got 6th, I could've really used the money.

Oh well, you win some and you lose some, all of the top 5 movies deserved to be up there, congrats to the winners!

yeah, so close :( sucks, too, cuz your movie was #1 in the portal for a while :0 sorry you didn't get teh moneez, better luck to you on future monthly votings ^_^

[FleckoGold]

I...I won! Holy crap! Unbelievable! Thank you all! This is HUGE! I gotta go tell Flecko this...wait, he prolly already knows....Wow, just wow.

I think this would be a good time to announce my retirement from flash. It's been a good run and all of it's been fun, but sadly, I must go now. I guess you can say I'm quitting while I'm ahead, off to explore the world....

....who am I kidding? I'm just getting WARMED UP! Expect many many projects to come from me in the future! I'm sorry Newgrounds, but you're stuck with me for LIFE!

-Flecko-