I Puzzle Good and Triangle Sweeper (by the same author) are two more that seem to have HTTPS issues. I PMed the author because the first game works fine, just doesn't submit the medal or scores (thankfully it keeps your last save at the final level). The second one goes blank after finishing a level (i.e. when a medal should submit).

Also, the last two secret medals in Vatnou are broken. I finally managed to get a score of over 10,000 just to make sure. No one has earned them.

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At 4/15/18 09:36 PM, Bobogoobo wrote: I Puzzle Good and Triangle Sweeper (by the same author) are two more that seem to have HTTPS issues. I PMed the author because the first game works fine, just doesn't submit the medal or scores. The second one goes blank after finishing a level

If it is the same author for both games than it is probably the same issue. It will be nice to see them both working.

Also, the last two secret medals in Vatnou are broken. I finally managed to get a score of over 10,000 just to make sure. No one has earned them.

The medals should be fixed, but you will have to earn them again. That has happened to me several times in the past.

At 4/16/18 12:27 AM, DoctorStrongbad wrote:

At 4/15/18 09:36 PM, Bobogoobo wrote: Also, the last two secret medals in Vatnou are broken. I finally managed to get a score of over 10,000 just to make sure. No one has earned them.

The medals should be fixed, but you will have to earn them again. That has happened to me several times in the past.

Not sure what you mean. Do you know what the requirements are for the last two medals?

Looks like Dark Bullet and Newgrounds Sim 2017 have been switched to http and the medals are now working (though I'm not sure how to get the last two in the latter).

At 4/18/18 09:47 PM, Bobogoobo wrote:

At 4/16/18 12:27 AM, DoctorStrongbad wrote:

At 4/15/18 09:36 PM, Bobogoobo wrote: Also, the last two secret medals in Vatnou are broken. I finally managed to get a score of over 10,000 just to make sure.

The medals should be fixed, but you will have to earn them again. That has happened to me several times in the past.

Not sure what you mean.

I have earned all the requirements for a broken medal, and when it was fixed, I did not receive it.

Do you know what the requirements are for the last two medals?

No, I do not know the requirements. Do you?

At 4/18/18 09:47 PM, Bobogoobo wrote:

Looks like Dark Bullet and Newgrounds Sim 2017 have been switched to http and the medals are now working (though I'm not sure how to get the last two in the latter).

The first 2 medals seem to be broken, cause based on their description one can guess that they should unlock after finishing one animation and one "music" that give bonus money. The secret medal does work though.

At 4/19/18 12:33 PM, Optimos wrote:

At 4/18/18 09:47 PM, Bobogoobo wrote:

Looks like Dark Bullet and Newgrounds Sim 2017 have been switched to http and the medals are now working (though I'm not sure how to get the last two in the latter).

The first 2 medals seem to be broken, cause based on their description one can guess that they should unlock after finishing one animation and one "music" that give bonus money. The secret medal does work though.

The first one worked for me yesterday. Second one doesn't seem to work unless the requirements are weird. Can't figure out what to do for the secret medal lol

At 4/19/18 02:07 PM, Bobogoobo wrote: The first one worked for me yesterday. Second one doesn't seem to work unless the requirements are weird. Can't figure out what to do for the secret medal lol

The name of the medal is "Fulp'd", that should be enough hint...

At 4/19/18 02:28 PM, Optimos wrote:

At 4/19/18 02:07 PM, Bobogoobo wrote: The first one worked for me yesterday. Second one doesn't seem to work unless the requirements are weird. Can't figure out what to do for the secret medal lol

The name of the medal is "Fulp'd", that should be enough hint...

Just do what you think a Fulp would do. lol

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  Script Miner

  by VFHolloway

  Use Microbots to recover ancient texts

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I believe all of these are broken. The author is the only one who has earned the medals for viewing the credits and the Steam page. No one has earned any of the others, though the game is so broken maybe they haven't gotten that far.

Two more that seem to have the HTTPS issue:

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  Stoneville

  by ReRapture

  Take a toke for this dim adventure.

  Game

  4,097 Views

  (Ages 13+)

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  Blind Typer

  by Munguia

  Test your skills typing without see

  Game

  13,036 Views

  (Everyone)

At 4/21/18 12:01 AM, Bobogoobo wrote: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/689885
I believe all of these are broken. No one has earned any of the others, though the game is so broken maybe they haven't gotten that far.

Two more that seem to have the HTTPS issue:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/689835
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/680957

I can confirm that all three games are not giving out medals. I checked on Chrome, IE, and Firefox. If they can not be fixed, than remove the medals.

At 2/26/18 06:25 PM, RightTime wrote: Here's a game called Decline Of Humanity by @CriticalAwesome that has a bug where it freezes up when you about to receive the first medal and won't let you continue. I tried it on three different browsers with no luck. Based on previous experience this medal issue may have something to do with the changeover to https based on when medal unlocks end, but that's just a guess.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/687192

Thanks for the help, sadly the medals have been scrapped for now, the game is now playable though

At 4/24/18 07:00 PM, CriticalAwesome wrote:

At 2/26/18 06:25 PM, RightTime wrote: Here's a game called Decline Of Humanity by @CriticalAwesome that has a bug where it freezes up when you about to receive the first medal and won't let you continue.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/687192

Thanks for the help, sadly the medals have been scrapped for now, the game is now playable though

It is always sad when medals are removed and it looks like they might never return. All that hard work earnings them, and they just vanish.

At 4/24/18 07:00 PM, CriticalAwesome wrote:

At 2/26/18 06:25 PM, RightTime wrote:

Thanks for the help, sadly the medals have been scrapped for now, the game is now playable though

Did you remove the medals or they were removed?

At 4/24/18 07:24 PM, HerbieG wrote:

At 4/24/18 07:00 PM, CriticalAwesome wrote:

At 2/26/18 06:25 PM, RightTime wrote:

Thanks for the help, sadly the medals have been scrapped for now, the game is now playable though

Did you remove the medals or they were removed?

We had to remove them

At 4/24/18 07:25 PM, CriticalAwesome wrote:

At 4/24/18 07:24 PM, HerbieG wrote:

At 4/24/18 07:00 PM, CriticalAwesome wrote:

At 2/26/18 06:25 PM, RightTime wrote:

Thanks for the help, sadly the medals have been scrapped for now, the game is now playable though

Did you remove the medals or they were removed?

We had to remove them

So it was some problem on your side, not caused by the https? Were you trying them under http?

Thanks for the help, sadly the medals have been scrapped for now, the game is now playable though

Did you remove the medals or they were removed?

We had to remove them

So it was some problem on your side, not caused by the https? Were you trying them under http?

I'm not sure, we used construct 2 which had a plugin made for newgrounds

At 4/24/18 07:31 PM, CriticalAwesome wrote:

Thanks for the help, sadly the medals have been scrapped for now, the game is now playable though

Did you remove the medals or they were removed?

We had to remove them

So it was some problem on your side, not caused by the https? Were you trying them under http?

I'm not sure, we used construct 2 which had a plugin made for newgrounds

It is possible then that these medals are not dead, @Exedor - could you move this game to http?
When Exedor will move it try to put the medals back and I'll check if they are working.

At 4/24/18 07:35 PM, HerbieG wrote: It is possible then that these medals are not dead, @Exedor - could you move this game to http?
When Exedor will move it try to put the medals back and I'll check if they are working.

Eh? What game? The conversation was confusing, so I'm lost as to what this relates to. x|

Post a link and I'll do it, tho. :)

At 4/25/18 03:04 AM, Exedor wrote:

At 4/24/18 07:35 PM, HerbieG wrote: It is possible then that these medals are not dead, @Exedor - could you move this game to http?
When Exedor will move it try to put the medals back and I'll check if they are working.

Eh? What game? The conversation was confusing, so I'm lost as to what this relates to. x|

Post a link and I'll do it, tho. :)

Yeah, it was long ;-) Here you go:

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  Decline Of Humanity

  by CriticalAwesome

  Surrounded in a parking lot, you must survive waves of zombies to buy supplies

  Game

  12,693 Views

  (Ages 13+)

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  Zit Storm Beta

  by Vilehead

  Hilarious and disgusting arcade-action game and Zit Popping simulator.

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Zit Storm Beta

None of the medals seem to be working. They award in-game but not on your profile. There seems to be an icon which looks like a medals resubmit button in-game in the in-game medals page? It also does nothing.

At 4/25/18 05:04 AM, HerbieG wrote: Yeah, it was long ;-) Here you go:

Try it now. :)

At 4/25/18 02:07 PM, Exedor wrote:

At 4/25/18 05:04 AM, HerbieG wrote: Yeah, it was long ;-) Here you go:

Try it now. :)

Ok, thanks :-)
@CriticalAwesome - try to reattach the medals, we will see if it will work.

At 4/25/18 02:07 PM, Exedor wrote:

At 4/25/18 05:04 AM, HerbieG wrote: Yeah, it was long ;-) Here you go:

Try it now. :)

The medals are working now. Good job fixing them.

At 4/25/18 06:26 PM, DoctorStrongbad wrote:

At 4/25/18 02:07 PM, Exedor wrote:

At 4/25/18 05:04 AM, HerbieG wrote: Yeah, it was long ;-) Here you go:

Try it now. :)

The medals are working now. Good job fixing them.

Err... Doc? What medals? They even did not bring these medals back yet...
A "side effect" of "automated post replying" ;-)

At 4/11/18 08:18 PM, Bobogoobo wrote: CAZE - medals are not working for me, none earned since 9/17/17.

CAZE always had all kinds of problems and should probably be de-medalled entirely.

The last level is not possible to complete as a bug occurs at the very last moment of the very last level which will make you lose 100% of the time. There are a handful of people who seem to have escaped past that.

The only person who has any of the medium medals is game author.

As for the hard medals, the second of the hard medals is and always was broken (check that game author is only person who has that medal, ever) but it also likely suffers the same problem in the last stage but who knows as I can't go back and verify.

There are a few people, myself included, who have a good amount of the hard medals. How? Well how it's supposed to work is complete out *all* levels in easy unlocks medium, complete out *all* levels in medium unlocks hard, right? Well for some reason at one point in time, despite not having completed out easy (as I said the last level *is* broken!) yet the game was letting me play the hard levels, but not the medium levels. I think a game update stopped that from occurring as I can't reproduce it and no more hard medal unlocks past a certain date.

And this is a long time ago, not whatever's occurring with the game now. Just de-medal the entire game I say. If game author cared that much about that game he would have fixed those problems a long time ago.

At 4/25/18 07:07 PM, HerbieG wrote:

At 4/25/18 06:26 PM, DoctorStrongbad wrote:

At 4/25/18 02:07 PM, Exedor wrote:

At 4/25/18 05:04 AM, HerbieG wrote: Yeah, it was long ;-) Here you go:

Try it now. :)

The medals are working now. Good job fixing them.

Err... Doc? What medals? They even did not bring these medals back yet...
A "side effect" of "automated post replying" ;-)

It was suppose to say that the game was working. lol
I was looking at a different game with working medals.

A side effect of multitasking too much. lol

By the way, I think some of you (@Bobogoobo @RightTime and @Optimos in particular) have a tendency of listing games you simply haven't tried enough.

Yes, they tend to be crappy-coded games. Yes, the medals may have some problem. But no they're not permanently broken, at least in a lot of cases.

In particular you tend to list--

Very laggy games) -- which if you're lagging up bad at the moment you otherwise should be awarded a medal perhaps it doesn't award
Games with medals connection timeout) -- which means clear your cache and try again, this time do it faster
Failure to use the save the game reload game get medal technique for time-consuming medals) -- similar to above
Failure to wait around a bit after having earned a medal) -- sometimes it takes up to 10 minutes after earning a medal to get it on profile so closing the game early forfeits medal
Failure to reload game after earning medals) -- some games don't award medals on-profile until you've reloaded the game *after* earning medals, and played through again or played on a different difficulty setting.

Also I've not seen any of you do this but it is something to keep in mind -- sometimes a medal doesn't award when you earn it but instead you have to go to one of the options screens, or even sometimes click on the high scores in-game or things of that nature. I'll generally put a remark to that effect in my comment on the game, but haven't been 100% thorough with this. So always read the comments on games (yes all pages of comments, on every game) as someone may have pointed out how to obtain some problem medal(s). It's something I frequently do.

Although some of the games you are listing really are broken, but it's really hit-and-miss with you guys.

If it's the HTTPS issue, yes that one's valid so definitely bring that to attention.

At 4/26/18 06:48 PM, NeonSpider wrote: By the way, I think some of you (@Bobogoobo @RightTime and @Optimos in particular) have a tendency of listing games you simply haven't tried enough.

Yes, they tend to be crappy-coded games. Yes, the medals may have some problem. But no they're not permanently broken, at least in a lot of cases.

In particular you tend to list--

Very laggy games) -- which if you're lagging up bad at the moment you otherwise should be awarded a medal perhaps it doesn't award
Games with medals connection timeout) -- which means clear your cache and try again, this time do it faster
Failure to use the save the game reload game get medal technique for time-consuming medals) -- similar to above
Failure to wait around a bit after having earned a medal) -- sometimes it takes up to 10 minutes after earning a medal to get it on profile so closing the game early forfeits medal
Failure to reload game after earning medals) -- some games don't award medals on-profile until you've reloaded the game *after* earning medals, and played through again or played on a different difficulty setting.

Also I've not seen any of you do this but it is something to keep in mind -- sometimes a medal doesn't award when you earn it but instead you have to go to one of the options screens, or even sometimes click on the high scores in-game or things of that nature. I'll generally put a remark to that effect in my comment on the game, but haven't been 100% thorough with this. So always read the comments on games (yes all pages of comments, on every game) as someone may have pointed out how to obtain some problem medal(s). It's something I frequently do.

Although some of the games you are listing really are broken, but it's really hit-and-miss with you guys.

If it's the HTTPS issue, yes that one's valid so definitely bring that to attention.

I literally knew all of these tricks, don't worry. I always make sure a medal or several medals from a game have registered in my profile before closing it and moving on.
Maybe the one thing I'm not used to is clearing my cache, but it's because I've had save files from games accidentally erased looots of times because of doing this. Just to let you know, I reached the last stage of Pixelo 3-4 times starting from zero before actually finishing the whole game. So eventually I learnt to leave my cache and my cookies untouched lol.

Either way it's good to let everyone know about those tips to avoid that disappointing feeling when a medal you earned doesn't unlock.

At 4/26/18 07:15 PM, Optimos wrote: I literally knew all of these tricks, don't worry. I always make sure a medal or several medals from a game have registered in my profile before closing it and moving on.
Maybe the one thing I'm not used to is clearing my cache, but it's because I've had save files from games accidentally erased looots of times because of doing this. Just to let you know, I reached the last stage of Pixelo 3-4 times starting from zero before actually finishing the whole game. So eventually I learnt to leave my cache and my cookies untouched lol.

Either way it's good to let everyone know about those tips to avoid that disappointing feeling when a medal you earned doesn't unlock.

What you can do that's kind of a half-solution is if you don't like clearing your cache, start up the game again in a different flavor of browser. So if you'd played the game up to a certain point in Chrome and don't feel like clearing cache, start it up again in Firefox, or vica-versa. Or you can even use Opera or something else.

Though if a game doesn't work in either Firefox or Chrome, it is coded really really badly. And yes there are games like that.

Perhaps there should be better standards for quality of a game before it is allowed medals, but such is not and has not historically been the case on Newgrounds.

I know there are games that are a real chore to get through. Not difficulty. Just pain in the butt because they either take way too long, are just plain buggy and require tons of trial/error and workarounds, or the game freezes up a lot or lags to all hell or other really inexcusable bugs.

I think we should generally disallow quiz games, clickers, idlers, overly-simple platformers, overly-simple runners, pong clones, overly-simple adventure genre games, and generally "first game I ever made hey everyone look at meeee!" type games from having medals. But existing such games with medals should be grandfathered in. But yeah such restrictions are not likely to happen.

At 4/26/18 06:48 PM, NeonSpider wrote: By the way, I think some of you (@Bobogoobo @RightTime and @Optimos in particular) have a tendency of listing games you simply haven't tried enough.

I usually try at least a few things before posting. Most of mine are obvious HTTPS problems or haven't unlocked after several tries, and have been confirmed by others. Do you have any examples of ones I posted that you know do work? Some have also been fixed since I posted, though I don't think all the needed HTTP switched have been done yet.