At 7/23/24 12:31 PM, Anonymous-Frog wrote:

At 7/21/24 12:54 PM, TomFulp wrote:

At 7/21/24 12:51 PM, Simoes1000 wrote:I have a question, what the colors mean?

Yellow - General Events, like Meetups or events that cross all the Portals.
Red - Animation
Blue - Games
Green - Audio
Pink - Art

What's brown?

At 7/23/24 12:34 PM, TomFulp wrote:

At 7/23/24 12:31 PM, Anonymous-Frog wrote:

At 7/21/24 12:54 PM, TomFulp wrote:

At 7/21/24 12:51 PM, Simoes1000 wrote:I have a question, what the colors mean?

Yellow - General Events, like Meetups or events that cross all the Portals.
Red - Animation
Blue - Games
Green - Audio
Pink - Art

What's brown?

Edited that reply to change yellow to orange, although it is a bit on the brown side.

At 7/23/24 12:35 PM, Anonymous-Frog wrote:

At 7/23/24 12:34 PM, TomFulp wrote:

At 7/23/24 12:31 PM, Anonymous-Frog wrote:

At 7/21/24 12:54 PM, TomFulp wrote:

At 7/21/24 12:51 PM, Simoes1000 wrote:I have a question, what the colors mean?

Yellow - General Events, like Meetups or events that cross all the Portals.
Red - Animation
Blue - Games
Green - Audio
Pink - Art

What's brown?

Edited that reply to change yellow to orange, although it is a bit on the brown side.

No i mean there's yellow AND brown

At 7/21/24 09:44 PM, TomFulp wrote:

At 7/21/24 03:33 PM, BlueMonday1984 wrote:I'd have also gone for differentiating events by both shape and colour, so the key would still work even if someone was colourblind.
With roughly one in twelve men having some kinda colourblindness, I'd say this was a pretty major oversight on your part.

Made a ticket for potentially swapping these with icons that better rep each portal. Might have to wait a week before that is looked into though.

At 7/23/24 06:09 PM, BlakeyTakeyTheCakey wrote:

At 7/23/24 04:00 AM, Olexxie wrote:tom who hurt u, where did the flavor go??

i feel like im eating white people food with this new calender.

ITS FLAVORLESS.

I agree. But you can install this addon with this theme to get the good ol' design back.

At 7/23/24 06:01 PM, BlueMonday1984 wrote:

At 7/21/24 09:44 PM, TomFulp wrote:Made a ticket for potentially swapping these with icons that better rep each portal. Might have to wait a week before that is looked into though.

Not sure why it took me so long, but it just hit me that NG's already-existing icon set would probably work for this - you've already got pre-existing icons for animations, games, audio and art, and the star icon would likely work for anything in the "General" or "Other" category.

At 7/21/24 11:58 AM, TomFulp wrote:@PsychoGoldfish just launched an update to our Calendar!

We ditched the grid-based calendar design in favor of one that gets to the point, with a list of dates and events, much like I’ve been including in my news posts in recent years.

Events should be easier to find and it works on mobile! We’re also now linking to it from the front page.

Additional enhancements: events are color-coded to specify which creator-type they are geared towards and we now have the option to include additional text. There are more fun ideas on our list but for now we wanted to get this change out there.

Ongoing Updates

The feed clean-up script has been running in the background for the past two weeks and just finished last night. This has been a big project to improve feed performance and reduce database storage and it’s almost all wrapped up.

@liljim has been working on a large number of back-end overhauls and clean-ups that will likely roll out in the next few weeks. As with most work this year, these changes will be invisible but let us know if bugs crop up.

If you appreciate all this work to keep NG running well, please consider becoming a Supporter!

Other News

RWappin animated a segment for Weird Al’s latest video! The journey started in 2006 with this video:

https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/348245

Treasure Hunt Winners were announced last week!

Check out the Best of June!

The new Transformers Collab has been unleashed! Also don’t miss the Bug Collab.

https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/939987
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/937868

@64bitsanimation have been on fire with their demakes this month, first with an NES take of Dark Souls 3 and now Helldivers 2 as a Neo Geo game.

https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/937637
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/939870

Speaking of Neo Geo, the Punch Punch Forever soundtrack has strong Neo Geo energy at 2:44, although I could argue Speedo is the living embodiment of modern-age Neo Geo energy, just look at his Shock Troopers piece!

https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1332561
https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/speedo/milky-shock-troopers

More Neo Geo flavor can be found in this rockin' song by @HEXebyte, made for a now-cancelled game.

https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1339487

I’ll also highlight this excellent One Btn Bosses music shared by @ComposerEvans last night.

https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1342995

@Maxxjamez has a new album coming next week, produced by @RUNNER-BOY. Here are some early release tracks!

https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1330284
https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1343011
https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1343009

For more NG news and events, read today’s edition of The Tank Tribune!

At 7/24/24 07:40 AM, TomFulp wrote:

At 7/24/24 12:50 AM, Dungeonation wrote:

At 7/23/24 12:30 PM, BobbyBurt wrote:No blue events :(

Everyone contributes one line of code to a game...
Something like that. Jokes aside someone's gotta do a game-based collab!

We should at least get some game jams going!