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PAX, Madness & Throwback Thursday!

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Please take a moment to check out the Madness: Project Nexus 2 Kickstarter and it would be awesome if you could help push Madness: PN2 through Greenlight on Steam!

If you're at PAX this weekend, come by the Behemoth booth and say hi! We're showcasing Game 4 and the booth has a fresh new look. I'll have to post pictures later!

Today is Throwback Thursday and the movies and games featured in this post are from this week in NG history. We'll be featuring highlights on our Facebook, Tumblr and Twitter feeds so you should follow those!

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Response to PAX, Madness & Throwback Thursday! 2014-08-28 09:15:12


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Response to PAX, Madness & Throwback Thursday! 2014-08-28 09:16:20


Tom, how many time daily do You spend on browsing these submissions You reccomend?

Response to PAX, Madness & Throwback Thursday! 2014-08-28 09:20:02


At 8/28/14 09:16 AM, Makakaov wrote: Tom, how many time daily do You spend on browsing these submissions You reccomend?

It ends up taking a few hours to prep the list and make a doc for all the ones to go out on social. Wade also ends up having to make larger thumbnails for all the stuff featured on social and Swivel MP4 alternates in case people are browsing via phone and can't view the SWF. After a year of doing this though a lot of classics will be up-to-date for mobile and social sharing!


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Response to PAX, Madness & Throwback Thursday! 2014-08-28 13:52:59


At 8/28/14 09:20 AM, TomFulp wrote:
At 8/28/14 09:16 AM, Makakaov wrote: Tom, how many time daily do You spend on browsing these submissions You reccomend?

in case people are browsing via phone and can't view the SWF.

Hey that reminds me how's the mobile redesign coming along?


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Response to PAX, Madness & Throwback Thursday! 2014-08-28 19:13:45


I would have gone to pax to see all your beautiful faces but by the time I realized it was almost time the tickets were sold out.


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Response to PAX, Madness & Throwback Thursday! 2014-08-29 01:41:05


Ah, I was going to say calm down, Tom, you don't need to list EVERYTHING, but I see you have a bigger agenda to keep the site up to date. This place is going to be quite the time capsule some day. Imagine museum curators arguing over whether pixel density should be maintained for historic value on strawberry clock's "B" movie, hahahaha...


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Response to PAX, Madness & Throwback Thursday! 2014-08-29 02:12:28


So, got any cool medal-enabled games from this list?

Response to PAX, Madness & Throwback Thursday! 2014-08-29 04:18:44


At 8/29/14 02:12 AM, LauriAJ wrote: So, got any cool medal-enabled games from this list?

They're in chronological order here, no idea how many medal games were made during this week, over the course of the past few years though. Maybe medal games should have a little icon over the thumbnail image or something...


Vault 101 I have many old and deleted Flash submissions, PM me the filename, maybe I got it.

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Response to PAX, Madness & Throwback Thursday! 2014-08-29 05:02:10


At 8/28/14 09:20 AM, TomFulp wrote:
At 8/28/14 09:16 AM, Makakaov wrote: Tom, how many time daily do You spend on browsing these submissions You recommend?
It ends up taking a few hours to prep the list and make a doc for all the ones to go out on social. Wade also ends up having to make larger thumbnails for all the stuff featured on social and Swivel MP4 alternates in case people are browsing via phone and can't view the SWF. After a year of doing this though a lot of classics will be up-to-date for mobile and social sharing!

Damn. And I thought updating all my own content with new thumbnails and video files for a new site was a lot of work. Doing it for all of NG's history is a monumental task. Kudos Fulp Bros.

Something I can't say enough, thanks for Swivel. It's great for all sorts of things, even beyond simply making mp4s out of flashes.

Response to PAX, Madness & Throwback Thursday! 2014-08-29 05:45:32


At 8/29/14 04:18 AM, VicariousE wrote:
At 8/29/14 02:12 AM, LauriAJ wrote: So, got any cool medal-enabled games from this list?
They're in chronological order here, no idea how many medal games were made during this week, over the course of the past few years though. Maybe medal games should have a little icon over the thumbnail image or something...

I agree. Currently, the only way to determine whether or not a certain game has medals is to check the game page itself and that's always awful...

Response to PAX, Madness & Throwback Thursday! 2014-08-29 10:35:30


At 8/29/14 05:45 AM, LauriAJ wrote: I agree. Currently, the only way to determine whether or not a certain game has medals is to check the game page itself and that's always awful...

We could always hassle Tom for menu drop down filter options on search results and on pages like Medals... it's better than nothing.


Vault 101 I have many old and deleted Flash submissions, PM me the filename, maybe I got it.

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Response to PAX, Madness & Throwback Thursday! 2014-08-29 14:40:21


I can't grasp the fact that you remember all these submissions by heart.

Response to PAX, Madness & Throwback Thursday! 2014-08-29 16:35:29


At 8/29/14 02:40 PM, Damien wrote: I can't grasp the fact that you remember all these submissions by heart.

Tom's a machine alright, but he hardly messes with the UJ stuff, so it's a tad easier when we vet the content for him :) When I couldn't log on here for years, I hit the FP more than the Portal, looking for that.. something special.

not porn lol

Vault 101 I have many old and deleted Flash submissions, PM me the filename, maybe I got it.

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Response to PAX, Madness & Throwback Thursday! 2014-08-29 17:23:04


At 8/28/14 09:14 AM, TomFulp wrote: Please take a moment to check out the Madness: Project Nexus 2 Kickstarter and it would be awesome if you could help push Madness: PN2 through Greenlight on Steam!

Hopefully I won't have to upgrade my KS contribution to see it through, but they should busk the Steam Greenlight some more! Not everyone has an account there, or would simply make one just to vote PN2 up.

That Quells is an amazing game developer, I'm so glad you sponsored Phoenotopia! The two musicians he tapped for the game, did a bang up job, it's been a week since I played it, and their haunting tones are still in my head! Though I'm glad they made an account here, they should add a few samples to their profiles, so get on that @cruiseb and @sillythewilly


Vault 101 I have many old and deleted Flash submissions, PM me the filename, maybe I got it.

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Response to PAX, Madness & Throwback Thursday! 2014-08-29 21:51:14


Backers: 334
Pledged: $17,971 (out of $56,000)
24 Days to go.

Not a bad pace. They already got in over a quarter of what they need, but they'll never make the $140G mark at this rate. If they keep raising nearly 18K every four days, they can still match the $100G mark, though. Lol, like that'll happen...

Good luck to the dev. team, anyway.

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Response to PAX, Madness & Throwback Thursday! 2014-08-30 04:28:26


I was wondering if you can give this a feature.

It had an awesome score in it's judgement stage. But, that was when Purple Menace was taking over the portal 'til you fixed it.

Response to PAX, Madness & Throwback Thursday! 2014-08-30 11:10:05


At 8/29/14 02:40 PM, Damien wrote: I can't grasp the fact that you remember all these submissions by heart.

I occasionally find stuff I never saw before while putting these together. If you see something in the list with a low view count, it's probably a hidden gem that was uncovered!


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Response to PAX, Madness & Throwback Thursday! 2014-08-30 13:38:20


At 8/30/14 11:54 AM, KatMaestro wrote:
At 8/29/14 09:51 PM, CiviLies wrote: Backers: 334
Pledged: $17,971 (out of $56,000)
24 Days to go.

Not a bad pace. They already got in over a quarter of what they need, but they'll never make the $140G mark at this rate. If they keep raising nearly 18K every four days, they can still match the $100G mark, though. Lol, like that'll happen...
I don't think the people is interested in the 2nd Nexus. Sure that a lot of people (including me) back the project since early stage but it take more than just a few promises from the devs to convince people that this is happening. I personally don't believe they can make a MMO from 2 people (Swain's experience in Unity is a few months old). Almost impossible unless he hire other people to do it.

As for the $56k mark, yeah we're gonna make it. If an idiot could raise $40k for his potato salad, why can't we?

I agree, they'll definitely make the $56K mark, but I don't think people will take PN2 that seriously (most will probably write it off as a typical Madness game that just so happens to have 3D features, as opposed to a fully fleshed out, open world adventure game) with just a few modeling videos.

Not to mention people just aren't as interested in madness as they used to be. If this idea had come out in the heyday of madness where Krinkels was worshiped like a God, then it wouldn't even be a question of raising money. They probably would have raised more money than AIDs and cancer research combined, but now the fanbase has dwindled and most have remained loyal for nostalgic purposes.

Your point about Swain's experience (or lack thereof) is another valid concern, but he did say that if they raised enough money, MindChamber would join the crew. Personally, that does sound promising to me (though admittedly I'm unsure of MC's experience with Unity).

Response to PAX, Madness & Throwback Thursday! 2014-08-31 09:47:53


Wow...I was originally going to put Tarboy and Mario Vs. Sonic SE as my favorites, but then I noticed this list was so freaking massive, I couldn't wrap my head around it. You're awesome for showing all of this to us!


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Response to PAX, Madness & Throwback Thursday! 2014-08-31 11:40:57


First post.


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Response to PAX, Madness & Throwback Thursday! 2014-08-31 15:30:05


At 8/31/14 11:40 AM, Luis wrote: First post.

What have you done

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Response to PAX, Madness & Throwback Thursday! 2014-09-01 17:41:36


Looks great! Still trying to recover steam account at the moment!


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Response to PAX, Madness & Throwback Thursday! 2014-09-02 02:34:35


I have checked out the kickstarter. It looks like Madness PN2 will be awesome!!!

Response to PAX, Madness & Throwback Thursday! 2014-09-06 01:49:55


At 9/2/14 02:34 AM, cga-999 wrote: I have checked out the kickstarter. It looks like Madness PN2 will be awesome!!!

Really hoping it is as well. The devs seem incredibly invested in the project, and they have the skill to use that incredible drive and complete a pretty awesome vision. Just hope the community can come together and support it. They still need the Kickstarter campaign to be successful to make the game. And that's on us!


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