Sounds like a packed first quarter so far! I'll see if I can keep up with everything this year.
It's kind of funny that technically "Newgrounds Day" and "Pico day" are always close to each other. Both would be celebrated on Pico Day, but Newgrounds' and Pico's (School's) actual birthdays both being in July (July 6th for NG, July 21st for Pico's debut game) makes that connection even stronger.
At 1/2/25 12:46 PM, Vorozoff wrote:At 1/2/25 11:58 AM, Myceli0m wrote:📆 NG’s 30th Anniversary
For NG’s 30th Anniversary may i suggest this?
The tank, and that whole background thing that was used in 2008.
Or atleast a modernized version of it, after all Retro / Nostalgia stuff is pretty trendy if you ask me!
I second this!
Could be cool.
Third it! Fulp, please change the layout JUST for the 30th for all those retro vibes! The community’s got your back!
Really hyped for low poly day and the 30th anniversary! Both will 100% have great submissions. I also like how this year's pico day is taking more of a "laid back" approach.
Looking forward to this year's Pixel Day, I hope to see some awesome retro-style games and movies!
I feel like I should know the answer to this question, but what's the best way to make Flash content these days? I got some old laptops that had Flash on it, but not so sure if they'll run properly. Can someone DM me with a solution if it's not appropriate to post publicly?
At 1/2/25 11:58 AM, Myceli0m wrote:
: : 📆 NG’s 30th Anniversary
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: For NG’s 30th Anniversary may i suggest this?
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: The tank, and that whole background thing that was used in 2008.
: Or atleast a modernized version of it, after all Retro / Nostalgia stuff is pretty trendy if you ask me!
I myself would love to see this happen, as someone who never experienced old NG, this would be absolutely sick!
While this may seem like a shameless ad for this forum, but I think a lot of suggestions could be made in this forum!
I can't believe this year's going to be Newgrounds' 30th anniversary!
"Everything by Everyone"
Lots going on this year. I plan to participate in more event days this year than I usually do. I usually just do Spooktacular and thats it
At 1/2/25 11:24 AM, TomFulp wrote:Welcome to 2025! Here are our current event plans for this year:
📆 Pixel Day
Our tenth annual Pixel Day is January 23rd!
Participate by making original pixel art, animation, games or chiptunes. Publish your entry on January 23rd and include the "pixelday2025" tag.
If your work is making its world premier on Pixel Day, you are eligible for our prize competition! Include a second tag, "pixelday2025-compo" to confirm it is a world premier piece and is competing for a prize. If you are sharing something you've already posted elsewhere, stick with just the pixelday2025 tag.
If you’re a pixel artist who has never shared your work on NG, we’d love to see you join in! You can enter multiple categories or submit multiple entries. You can also team up with friends to make stuff.
Fan art is fine, if the art is your own original pixel work and not sprites ripped from games.
If you’re making a movie or game, try partnering with someone making chiptunes on NG! We can’t host content with unlicensed commercial music, so avoid using songs you don’t have permission to use. Here are some music resources.
Best Pixel Art
1st - $100
2nd - $55
Best Pixel Animation
1st - $100
2nd - $75
Best Pixel Game
1st - $150
2nd - $100
Best Chiptune Music
1st - $100
2nd - $50
Thank You to our Pixel Day Sponsors!
@MindChamber - $200
@FutureCopLGF - $50
@53xy83457 - $50
@Aalasteir - $25
@emsdelaroz - $5
Prizes will grow with support from the community. If you’re down to sponsor, use the donation option on the Supporter page and PM me a heads up you donated towards Pixel Day. You can also specify a category (art, animation, game, music) if you like!
📆 Flash Forward Jam & Flash Portal 25th Year Anniversary
Our fifth annual Flash Forward event will be officially announced in early February but you can start making a Flash game or interactive movie right now if you plan to participate!
April 6th is the 25th anniversary of NG’s Flash Portal, the very first place on the Internet where people could instantly publish movies and games. What better way to celebrate 25 years than with a whole bunch of new Flash games and interactive movies?
It would be awesome if you could publish your Flash Forward entry ON April 6th, to make the whole day a big event. Note: The original deadline was April 20th but I bumped it up to match the 25th Anniversary. Let me know if this messes with your plans.
Prizes are TBD but you can use the donation option to donate towards the prize pool at any time. PM me a heads up if you donate towards Flash Forward. It would be great to kick this off with a big prize pool.
📆 Pico Day
We’re changing things up a bit this year. The first Pico Day was organized in the forums and happened on my birthday. When it became an official NG event with prizes each year, I tried to move it away from my birthday because that felt weird. I also tried to turn it into a more general “Newgrounds Day” rather than expect people to make Pico fan stuff every year. It never really succeeded in becoming a not-Pico Day and last year a bunch of people posted fan art on my birthday AND on Pico Day, which was fun for me but felt like it would be best as a single day.
I both love seeing Pico fan art but also feel weird encouraging it with prizes each year, so Pico Day is going to return to being a more casual event like it was the first time. We can stick to it being on my birthday (April 30th) to keep all the fan art on a single day. There won’t be prizes or picking winners anymore but please let me know if you have been working on something huge, maybe it would even be best for NG's 30th Anniversary in July.
📆 Low-Poly Day
After teasing it for the past few years, we’re finally gonna have a Low-Poly Day this year! The current plan is for it to happen on Friday, June 6th. A more formal post will come later but if you want to participate, you have six months to think of something! As a general reference, think PS1-PS2 graphics and Y2K electronic music. Read the Brainstorming thread for more examples / inspiration.
📆 NG’s 30th Anniversary
July 6th is NG’s 30th birthday! There are no big plans at the moment but we’d love to see anything people want to do to celebrate. This could be the “Newgrounds Day” that Pico Day never quite was.
📆 Halloween Spooktacular
As usual, October will be our Halloween Spooktacular.
Game & Animation Jams
If you’re relatively well-known on NG and you’d like to host a game or animation jam this year, let me know! These jams tend to do best when they are hosted by prominent people in the community, for example if you’ve made popular games or popular movies.
📜 2024 Year-End Recap
If you missed it, please read the 2024 Year-End Recap!
I'm planning to be at the Behemoth booth at PAX East, the weekend of May 9-11th.
Other upcoming events can be found on the calendar.
I am so excited for this year, I have a feeling this will be a good year :)
Fuck
For Ng's 30th anniversary, you can take us all to go get Mexican food.
| It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose|||Love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel.||||
Ooooh hell yea!! We still doin the TMG meetup this year?
Home, its where I want to be
But I guess I'm already there
At 1/2/25 08:50 PM, DrSevenSeizeMD wrote:For Ng's 30th anniversary, you can take us all to go get Mexican food.
I'd spare some food myself, but first I gotta get to the USA
Being 100% alive means taking a 50% of actions and having a 50% of perspective
At 1/2/25 04:22 PM, MindChamber wrote:Is it finally time to upgrade to an official NG-Con yet? >:)
Pico Day NJ 2024 felt as close as we're likely gonna get to NG-Con :P
I dunno if I will retire from Pixel Day next year but it was a good journey seeing awesome pixel art from awesome Newgrounders both beginner and advance pixel artist that uploads pixel entry to lift the spirits of Newgrounds Pixel Day while expressing themselves with art art style.
I wouldn't be able to participate the competition though since I might retire soon in the future depending on my life but all that that matters on Pixel Day is making the best pixel day art to celebrate it and having pixel artist becoming a part of community of Newgrounds Pixel Day where pixel artists of all skill are welcomed (scouted and not scouted). As always respecting Pixel Day entries is a ritual for Pixel Day.
With that said I hope everyone had a great journey of pretty pixels they made until we reach the 10th annual Pixel Day! We as Newgrounders come this far. :)
I feel that 2025 will be a great year for Newgrounds.
The birth of Low-Poly Day will give me an excuse to break out Misfit Model 3D again. It's been years since I've had the desire to use it.
Oh wow, and I was already working on a pixel art side scrolling shooter with a couple of my OCs, this would be perfect for pixel day! Question though, I am making it in Python/Pygame, I should be able to still upload it whenever it's done, right?
Everyday is a challenge, but you will overcome.
At 1/2/25 11:24 AM, TomFulp wrote:Welcome to 2025! Here are our current event plans for this year:
📆 Pixel Day
Our tenth annual Pixel Day is January 23rd!
Participate by making original pixel art, animation, games or chiptunes. Publish your entry on January 23rd and include the "pixelday2025" tag.
If your work is making its world premier on Pixel Day, you are eligible for our prize competition! Include a second tag, "pixelday2025-compo" to confirm it is a world premier piece and is competing for a prize. If you are sharing something you've already posted elsewhere, stick with just the pixelday2025 tag.
If you’re a pixel artist who has never shared your work on NG, we’d love to see you join in! You can enter multiple categories or submit multiple entries. You can also team up with friends to make stuff.
Fan art is fine, if the art is your own original pixel work and not sprites ripped from games.
If you’re making a movie or game, try partnering with someone making chiptunes on NG! We can’t host content with unlicensed commercial music, so avoid using songs you don’t have permission to use. Here are some music resources.
Best Pixel Art
1st - $125
2nd - $90
Best Pixel Animation
1st - $125
2nd - $100
Best Pixel Game
1st - $175
2nd - $100
Best Chiptune Music
1st - $125
2nd - $50
Thank You to our Pixel Day Sponsors!
@MindChamber - $200
@WannabePyx - $100
@DrSevenSeizeMD - $53.12
@FutureCopLGF - $50
@53xy83457 - $50
@Aalasteir - $25
@emsdelaroz - $5
@siddikinz - $5
Prizes will grow with support from the community. If you’re down to sponsor, use the donation option on the Supporter page and PM me a heads up you donated towards Pixel Day. You can also specify a category (art, animation, game, music) if you like!
📆 Flash Forward Jam & Flash Portal 25th Year Anniversary
Our fifth annual Flash Forward event will be officially announced in early February but you can start making a Flash game or interactive movie right now if you plan to participate!
April 6th is the 25th anniversary of NG’s Flash Portal, the very first place on the Internet where people could instantly publish movies and games. What better way to celebrate 25 years than with a whole bunch of new Flash games and interactive movies?
It would be awesome if you could publish your Flash Forward entry ON April 6th, to make the whole day a big event. Note: The original deadline was April 20th but I bumped it up to match the 25th Anniversary. Let me know if this messes with your plans.
Prizes are TBD but you can use the donation option to donate towards the prize pool at any time. PM me a heads up if you donate towards Flash Forward. It would be great to kick this off with a big prize pool.
📆 Pico Day
We’re changing things up a bit this year. The first Pico Day was organized in the forums and happened on my birthday. When it became an official NG event with prizes each year, I tried to move it away from my birthday because that felt weird. I also tried to turn it into a more general “Newgrounds Day” rather than expect people to make Pico fan stuff every year. It never really succeeded in becoming a not-Pico Day and last year a bunch of people posted fan art on my birthday AND on Pico Day, which was fun for me but felt like it would be best as a single day.
I both love seeing Pico fan art but also feel weird encouraging it with prizes each year, so Pico Day is going to return to being a more casual event like it was the first time. We can stick to it being on my birthday (April 30th) to keep all the fan art on a single day. There won’t be prizes or picking winners anymore but please let me know if you have been working on something huge, maybe it would even be best for NG's 30th Anniversary in July.
📆 Low-Poly Day
After teasing it for the past few years, we’re finally gonna have a Low-Poly Day this year! The current plan is for it to happen on Friday, June 6th. A more formal post will come later but if you want to participate, you have six months to think of something! As a general reference, think PS1-PS2 graphics and Y2K electronic music. Read the Brainstorming thread for more examples / inspiration.
📆 NG’s 30th Anniversary
July 6th is NG’s 30th birthday! There are no big plans at the moment but we’d love to see anything people want to do to celebrate. This could be the “Newgrounds Day” that Pico Day never quite was.
📆 Halloween Spooktacular
As usual, October will be our Halloween Spooktacular.
Game & Animation Jams
If you’re relatively well-known on NG and you’d like to host a game or animation jam this year, let me know! These jams tend to do best when they are hosted by prominent people in the community, for example if you’ve made popular games or popular movies.
📜 2024 Year-End Recap
If you missed it, please read the 2024 Year-End Recap!
I'm planning to be at the Behemoth booth at PAX East, the weekend of May 9-11th.
Other upcoming events can be found on the calendar.
As a person who loves making pixel art, and chiptune music! I’m excited for this years Pixel day! Definitely joining (and I’m hopefully on time) this year
I like making music because making music is something I like
Vibin~! ^w^
I always thought of Pico day as NG day that happened to also feature a lot of art of Pico himself. I'd prefer if people thought of it as a wider celebration of NG or making that a separate day.
Also please somebody start a gamejam. Come ON it's been too long
HAPPY 2025 TOM FULP 🤩🤩🤩
I LOVE U SO MUCH
I might actually take a crack at a few of those as musician.
If anyone's up to team up for the Flash Forward event, I'm available! :)
At 1/2/25 12:04 PM, TomFulp wrote:At 1/2/25 11:51 AM, BoiledMilkz wrote:Good thing I learnt low-poly art! Also, is low-poly day just for art? I kind of wanted to make a movie for it.
I'm okay with Pico Day not having anymore prizes. It seemed more like a competition to win 1st in everything rather than a casual event when there were prizes.
Low-poly movies, art, games and "Y2K game music" are all fair game!
I'm gonna try to get my old Linkin Park cover band back together
remade my NG account yesterday. so worth it >:D
I am so excited to try and participate in as many events as I can this year XD
I have absolutely no pixel art skills unfortunately x_x I have mad respect for anyone who does pixel art and hope to learn it some day ^-^ I wonder if cross stitch of pixel art from a game like Pokémon could count towards the occasion though.... o.o
Cannot wait to see what amazing artworks are in store this year! ^o^
At 1/2/25 11:11 PM, PachkaNG wrote:Ooooh hell yea!! We still doin the TMG meetup this year?
I have a feeling people will still be meeting up at TMG but I don't know of any formal plans yet.
I got some wild stuff to submit this year, I'm very giddy about it. Excited to see what the year brings for NG!
holy smokes i found a folder of all my like 2008 forum signatures that my friends made me i'm gonna use them lol
At 1/3/25 12:14 PM, sagahanson25 wrote:Oh wow, and I was already working on a pixel art side scrolling shooter with a couple of my OCs, this would be perfect for pixel day! Question though, I am making it in Python/Pygame, I should be able to still upload it whenever it's done, right?
As long as it runs in a web browser!
I could write a short chiptune song. Only have LMMS, though, so I'll have to be a bit creative.
That actually would make sense to call Pico Day Newgrounds day. I think it should generally be about stuff all about Newgrounds from generations of great content on the web from Egoraptor(awesome video game parody series) and Krinkels(Madness series). It would be awesome.
