September 7th Update: Monthly voting launched but there were some bugs! The bug with selecting items should now be fixed, so give it another try if you ran into trouble earlier. The second bug is that the invite PM shows the old deadline of September 6th, when the new deadline is end of day September 13th.

Moving along to the original post:

This next week is gonna be pretty nuts, hope you’re ready!

Here’s what is happening, starting tomorrow:

Monthly Voting Overhaul

Saturday, September 7th: Our new monthly voting system makes its debut, with an expanded voting pool. If you’re part of the pool, you’ll receive an invite from @P-Bot via PM.

Monthly voting will now work on mobile and has expanded to include categories for Art and Music. The link above includes a walkthrough of the new process but @PsychoGoldfish has managed to add two last-minute surprises!

The first is an alpha version of our Art Slideshow Viewer, to make it easier to digest the 100 art nominees. Art, Audio and Movies all let you play entries in-page by clicking the item thumbnail. With art and movies, the arrow keys advance to the next item. This remains on the todo list for audio!

The second addition is a Pin button, so you can pin items to the top of the nominee list, under your Top 10 selections. This helps to organize your thoughts as you finalize which ten entries you will be ranking.

Picking the best of the month can be a big undertaking but we’re trying to make it fun and hope you discover lots of new favorites along the way!

If you get invited and rank your favorites, reply to this post and let us know how the experience was for you. If you try it on mobile, let us know how that works out too!

Brazil Art Contest

Also on Saturday: @Arzonaut will be announcing a Brazil-themed art contest, with prizes! This spawned from the Brasil Roll Call thread.

Dreamcast Collab

Monday, September 9th: The much anticipated Dreamcast Collab arrives! The Dreamcast launched on 9-9-1999 and this collab celebrates its 25th birthday. We’ll also have a Dreamcast site skin by @sheepSLAPS!

Friday Night Funkin’

Thursday, September 12th: The next FNF update, with playable Pico! We’ll have an FNF site skin by @KornArt3, as well!

Surprise?

Friday, September 13th: A tentative surprise! It's a movie.

Best of August Announcement

Saturday, September 14th: If nothing breaks, expect the Best of August to be announced. Really curious to see how things go with art and audio!

Other News

Sign ups for Sketch Collab 2024 have opened!

Listen to this Podcast Interview with The-Super-Flash-Bros!

ComixGuy927 posted the remainder of their wonderful Summergrounds Art!

More code cleanup happened this week! Is NG feeling snappy for you?

Robot Day Winners have been announced!

I made a post highlighting recent games on Steam by NG veterans.

Keep an eye on the NG Calendar for ongoing events and collabs!

The surprise is gonna be that Wade's coming back.

Couple hours later in Poland, the date will be September 7th and I'm already counting time *lol*

Good news, How can I be part of the voting pool?

I am excited to see the walkthrough of the new process! It will be great to see the new monthly voting system in action. Thank you for explaining what it will be like and when I might get to experience it. I will detail my experience, and it will be amazing to see the Brazil-themed art contest! As well as finally getting to see the Dreamcast collaboration and the Friday Night Funkin' update.

Yes, I think NG feels more snappy—that's just my opinion, but I haven't experienced any hiccups or glitches so far.

Thank you! I’m always very happy to see the various site skins. They are certified cool! I’ll make sure to follow both sheepSLAPS and KornArt3!

A surprise from Tom Fulp on Friday the 13th... I know what I'm praying for.

Friday 13th? Hopefully this day does not happening something bad.

Perhaps you will get an invite from @P-Bot via PM.

This is just how I think it works—the system functions in a way that you are more likely to get an invite to the voting pool if you have voted on submissions from the various portals, or even just one portal. You can gain a maximum of 10 EXP per day by voting on five submissions each day.

This increases your chances of being chosen to vote for the monthly events—that’s just how I understand it.

You can go through and read more on the wiki—there’s a lot of amazing information!

https://www.newgrounds.com/wiki

Really excited to check out the new monthly voting system!

Thanks.

always love to see new site skins coming in!

Yeah, I don’t know if I’m gonna be there for Friday the 13th because there’s a brand new game that’s coming out

When playable pico is released hopefully there are alternate costumes available that make him more twink or more straight looking!

WOW!

If it becomes less tentative before then, it should go up on the Calendar as “???” :P

NIGHTMARE COPS NIGHTMARE COPS!

(I hope that's the announcement...)

This is gonna be a damn good week, I know it.

I really hope it's animated banners. Or free soda from the NG Vending Machine.

Or mini vending machines figures

Or-

I guess I didn't qualify for voting this month for the first time since 2016... or maybe a bug, late sendout?

Uh oh, get the flamethrowers!

The invites didn't go out yet, you should be on there when they do though!

I worry I've been making imaginations run wild so I've updated that to note it's a movie!

i fucking LOVE this new monthly voting system

On the new voting system:

It is much better than the old system.

The deadline is listed as September 6th, despite beginning on September 7th

As I am here for the games I like that each category is separated so you can focus on the category you want to vote on. As far as I can see, there are also more entries nominated. This is nice as I often struggle to find 10 entries (in some months I wanted to select just 3 or 4).

I did my votes for Art & Movies! However, the one game I tried to vote for had an error on it after the attempt. I guess that’s because I was involved in the game in some way, is that right?

Seems to work anyway but I get the following error popup every time a game is selected-

"Sorry, there was a problem with your request. Please try again later."

Same for audio selections, I had pinned and then selected from pins. Once I'm in the review panel I only see the first item I selected. and not the remaining nine.

I just got invited to the monthly voting and you guys have done such an amazing job with it!! It's very smooth and easy to use, I used it on mobile and it works wonderfully, also I did find alot of favorites while choosing so that's a plus! Thank you so much for including art and music in it because I've seen and heard plenty of great work that needs to be noticed more!

ooooohhh 8am, i dunno why i thought it would happen at 3am