Our new Monthly Voting System launched on Saturday and voting for the Best of August is in progress.

For the first time, we’re including Art and Audio in the selection process!

Also for the first time, winners will be receiving trophy badges on their pages. This update is retroactive, meaning all the top five movies and games from the past now have trophies, on both the content pages and the author trophies page.

One thing that might cause confusion: When we first introduced monthly awards in February 2005, movies and games were combined into a single Top Five. We still retained all the voting data, however, so these entries now have trophies based on their respective categories.

For example, Interactive Buddy was #1 for February 2005 and now has a first place trophy for the games category, while Bunnykill 2 was #2 for February 2005 but now has a first place trophy for the movie category.

This inconsistency only exists for the first five months of awards, as we split winners into Movies and Games in June 2005. Side note, it’s a shame Xombie was removed at the request of a film development deal that never panned out.

Dreamcast Collab

The Dreamcast Collab has launched!

This is a downright massive collab, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Sega Dreamcast in North America. An even more impressive interactive version is coming later this month, complete with an art gallery and music listening station.

This collab got so big, in fact, that it is forcing our hand with a change some of you have requested over the years but I’ve always been a bit stubborn about.

First, some history: Besides being the first website that allowed people to instantly publish games and movies on the web, Newgrounds was also the first website to introduce a multi-author crediting system, in April of 2003. This system has gotten a lot of use in the 21 years since, although sometimes the credits get a bit too long for some people’s taste, on mobile in particular. In those cases, we’ve been asked to collapse the credits by default, with the option to expand.

I’ve never been a big fan of that idea because I love seeing long credits lists. It’s a point of pride that NG brings so many talented people together and they end up making these mega projects, where the author list is like a flex of how great this place is.

With the Dreamcast Collab, however, the page response lag is noticeable. We’ve decided it’s probably time to crop longer author lists, with an option to expand. Expect that soonish, then we’ll see how it feels. Probably something like this:

Brazil Day Art Contest

The Brazil Day Art Contest is now in progress, with a deadline of October 13th! The theme of this contest is to illustrate a Brazilian variant of any character you want, in the spirit of the Brazilian Miku trend.

Dragon Ball Collab

The Dragon Ball Collab application deadline is today!

Sketch Collab 2024

Sign ups for Sketch Collab 2024 have opened!

Other News

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

Look back at all these great Summergrounds entries, created from daily prompts by Razur-Draws.

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!

Sick!

A new trophy, that's we (community) wants!

i got stolen valor....

also i used to binge the AIAS podcast so much, imma be listening to that super flash bros podcast NOW!!!!

This all feels like it's been a long time coming. Happy to see it!!

@NoMoreChie will answer for his crimes

Also, it's great to see that the monthly trophies are retroactive!

I like this idea a lot! But I feel it should only be in HUGE collaboration projects like 200+ people or something like that.

Yooo my 31 trophy count went up to 37!! That's pretty dope.

Also, regarding the long author list, first thing that came to my mind was to collapse each role in the project into separate groups that can then be expanded with a click, but now I think that that would also go against your belief about long lists that show all the users being big flexes on how much can a community come together to make something cool.

Very nice changes overall, I'm really impressed on the fact the Sega Dreamcast is almost as old as Newgrounds. That's an EVEN "huger" flex. Cheers and have a nice month of September everyone!

I love how the rating data in the NG database is still doing this heavy lifting even after 20 years, after changing from daily votes to one-per-user, with the multiplier system and everything.

I enjoy the stubbornness on the author situation. Response time being impacted by the number of authors on a submission is honestly a bragging point for the platform <3

Hell yeah glad to see more rewards. Maybe the "Views gems" arent too far behind for a comeback?

This is nice. But what I really love is how the weekly and daily trophy icons now have different shapes!

Im glad that an new award is here.

The Monthly Awards has here before in Art Portal in 2009 lol

THAT'S WHAT I LIKE TO HEAR

that screenshot makes me wish they were all gold lawl

Back in the day when people used to animate with a mouse you could only have 5 coauthors so collabs were split into different submissions as group B or something! Upgrade and first post

wow thats very cool

I think that would be a pretty good compromise, the button’s still like “look, look at all these collaborators!!”

Also cool to be able to look back on submissions and see even better how they performed the month they were posted!

You can see the gradual popularity growth in the Henry Stickmin series on NG, for example:

haha thats great!

explains why I have 93 trophies XD

"Show 999 authors" That's a first one. Dang!

Warriors of the Portal got two Best of the Month trophies!

Salad Fingers 9 is listed in the old NG News announcement as having won best Movie of May 2011, but on the submission page it has Monthly 2nd:

April 2011 seems to be the correct Best of the Month for Warriors of the Portal.

Would a compromise be possible where the "collapsed" version just has a list of the usernames? No icons, just the usernames spaced closer together. Hey, I'm no web designer. Just an idea.

Since Monthly Trophies are here... will Turd of the Week be making a return?

There were some cases where entries ended up on the nominee list two months in a row - Warriors of the Portal was so good it won twice! The dupes should be cleared out now.

I wish that TotW award is back as well, it's a nice award no matter if you get the lowest score.

It'd probably get a different name if it ever made a return - Sumission Rouge, as a nod to the Tour de Frane's Lantern Rouge, seems like a good name.

Oh, these monthlies are beautiful to see.

Excellent work as usual, Fulp!

Heads up. I checked ZekeySpaceyLizard's trophy count following the update. He had 4 additional trophies added, including Metal Gear Funnies, which appears after submissions from 2011, despite being released in 2008.

The dates also seem to be removed.

One thing I think would actually be interesting in terms of the multi-author thing actually is if they were separated or sorted by general category, and then if the expanding idea becomes a thing, then you could expand out by category.

For example, with something like the Dreamcast collab, you could have the credits categorized by Animation, Art, Music, Voice Acting, and Organizing. That way, if people want to know, for instance, who a specific animator is, or they're looking for the NG profile of a specific Voice Actor, they can expand out that category. Or, you can have people expand out the whole credits section and just peruse the whole lineup!

I also don't think this should be a part of every multi-author project, especially if it's only two to seven people. But if you hit a minimum of X people - say, 10 - credited on a project, then the categories would sort everyone out. Especially on massive projects like these collabs or things like Tankmas, categories on credits might help a bit, but that's the idea I'm tossing out lol

I remember years ago there was a front page feature suggestion thread somewhere on the forum, but I can't find it.

I'd like to offer this one up, because their talent is really extraordinary.

It's good that Newgrounds has been bringing news lately. But I have a question. The collection of animation collabs has reached the limit of 100, now what?

I guess it will go on beyond 100