1ST PLACE

@TheThirdRates @kelwynshade @Lucidin @Rythim-Man @Bosa

FEATURED COMPOSERS

@GizzyKittyMusic @SecretMusician @PredatorMusic @zenkusaa @Vista-Sound13

@VadellGabriel @DJChidow @SnakezOfficial @Trianglory @Syntrus

@orbitron408 @Aalasteir @CIEIRMusic @ForTheLeft @50Steaks

The 2023 Newgrounds Audio Deathmatch has come to an end and the winners were announced by @TaintedLogic. This year’s Deathmatch winner is Lordant! Congratulations to all of the combatants and the winners! Special thanks to the judges @ADR3-N, @Bosa, @ConnorGrail, @SplatterDash, @TeraVex, @wobwobrob, and @X3LL3N for taking time out of their schedules, works, and lives to judge this year’s Deathmatch!

1ST PLACE

@Lordant

2ND PLACE

@LucidShadowDreamer

3RD PLACE

@Papkee

4TH PLACE

@FJOB

NEWGROUNDS SECRET SANTA 2023

The holiday season is around the corner! @Xinxinix is hosting this year’s Secret Santa once again! He started it alongside @@D3writo with extreme help from @Template88. An annual art-trade with multiple artists. There are some big changes this year.

BIG CHANGES

We have a NG Secret Santa public Discord server for questions, as well as this forum.
You MUST BE SCOUTED IN THE ART PORTAL this year !!!
Your reference MUST BE UPLOADED TO THE ART PORTAL
Your reference must be drawn by you and not by any kind of template software
ABSOLUTELY NO AI ART OR THIRD PARTY CHARACTER CREATOR SOFTWARE
NO panty shots or explicit boob (nothing rated M or promiscuous)
ALL CHARACTER INFORMATION MUST BE ADDED TO THE USER PROFILE
You CANNOT update your secret santa user profile once you're assigned a secret santa !!!
If your reference makes the receiver uncomfortable, they are by no means obligated to draw it !!!
All art forms (including GIFs, but not animation portal entries) are accepted as long as it's not a stolen asset
You're encouraged to write "To:" and "From:" on your gift
Reminder to upload your finished drawing to the Art Portal AFTER the big reveal
We will be actively seeking feedback at the end of this event ^^

Other than these minor changes (and the whole automated system implemented by @PsychoGoldfish last year) we are on a fast track to having this as optimized as possible.

Revive the 2000s Collaboration

The 2000s had a unique art style to it. Where the 90’s were refusing to die and the new millennium was promising newer tech, even edgier content, and the future! @StationTerminal is looking to capture that time of history with a collaboration. There are no guidelines or set deadlines at the moment, so jump in!

$5000 prize pool - The Chosen One Tournament teaser!

@Hyun from The Dojo is hosting an animation tournament! The prize pool is set at $5,000. There’s only one round and one animation for you to submit. Judges include Weilin Zhang, Howard Wimshurst, Telepurte, Miccool, and Juny. The tournament begins on December 1st. Check out the video below to learn how to join the tournament. You not only have a chance at winning a cash prize, but your work will be viewed by some big industry animators.

This week's featured artist is @bernie-buddy. He has been on the site since 2007 and submitting artwork since 2018. Check out his works below! Give him a follow!

1960's room

bernie-buddy

@Wiesi

During a period of Newgrounds time when the site was losing traffic to the rapid growth of social media, Wiesi never faltered. He constantly posted on Tom's news posts in the forums, left reviews and feedback whenever he had the time, and was constantly experimenting a lot with games on Newgrounds. His works were mentioned in the news and helped bring more eyes to the site with his Shark series. The legacy he left behind will always be remembered. Thank you Wiesi, for everything.

IT'S COMIC TIME

@SkyHawkins has been posting comics online since 2020. With the multi-image artwork update, they have been posting their comics here on Newgrounds! One being their ongoing series Exhaust. Check them out below!

Dark nectar of life.

Potent source of energy.

God I love coffee.

@AceMantra

BBS Awards 2023 : Nominations

It’s that time of year again! For the fifth year in a row @Little-Rena is hosting the Newgrounds Bulletin Board System Awards! The nominations thread is open so you can nominate the Best, Helpful, Worst, and Turd of Newgrounds! The Tank Tribune will be chronicling the past awards in future posts as a bit of history.

USERS OF THE WEEK

Here are the Users of the Week for the week of November 12th - November 18th. Congratulations to all of you!

@b1tterpunk

@nan0wav

@ChutneyGlaze

@EugeneDoesArt

@Dogmintz

@Valfire

@Teknodice

USERS OF THE DAY ON THIS DATE

2022: @Loopsdaloop

2021: @Cyberdevil

2015: @Incredibly-Ironic

2006: @Vert

As you have read at the start of this topic, beloved Newgrounds member @Wiesi has passed away. He has left us a legacy of fun games throughout the 21 years here on Newgrounds. Thank you Wiesi for all of the filthy, fun, and crazy games you have given us.

If a game is not loading properly for you, then install the Newgrounds Flash Player. There are instructions on how to do so. If it is still not working or you don't understand, create a thread in the Where is / How to / Help! Forum for assistance.

The Tank Tribune is a part of Dohn's Desk Productions

NO. 91 - The Aalasteir Show!

Posted by TheTankTribune - November 11th, 2023

CREATIVITY ALLOWS US TO MAKE MISTAKES: BE HAPPY TO FAIL, BE HAPPY TO TRY

@Aalasteir

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Good Morning Newgrounds! How have things been with all of you! Things have been rough these past two months. Things are looking up for the end of the year though, so there's that! You're going to hear a lot about a user named Aalasteir in this issue of The Tank Tribune, which that was not by design, he's just been doing a lot on the site. From helping clean up the Portal in The Elite Guard Barracks and the Audio Portal Cleanup threads, to hosting collaborations, posting music to the Audio Portal, hosting his personal podcast A100 and hosting a podcast alongside myself with @ClubNG, he has been a busy fellow. We are in the month of November, with the Spooktacular over, we're awaiting the results on those winners, in the meantime the Best of October has been voted on. The Newgrounds Money Gang has shown to be a success. This is just a small fraction of what has been going on. So without further a do, here are the hip happenings on Newgrounds!

The-Great-One

INTRO AND OUTRO

@JizzyJazz @DruoxtheShredder @Trippple @Urielthepro @Vista-Sound13

FEATURED COMPOSERS

@hania @cadecomposer @RunoNG @Vanware @Diives

@GooberStudios @SnekkMusic @LionJeff @TeirrelMusic @Skullbeatz

@sorohanro @Goukisan @Crashtroid @Latadenata @Vista-Sound13

@Vlone-Dolphyn @RaverNG

Best of October 2023!

You voted Newgrounds, and the best entries of the Spooky Month have been decided! Best Movie goes to @JamesLee for DOPAMINE DANCE MAN. Best Game goes to @FodderLabs for Bleek. Best Audio goes to @octopus58 for ME-OS OST 52 - Keyccordion Dawn - Electro Macabre. Best Art goes to @Sangiez for PEAK SHOT. Congratulations to all of the winners!

BEST MOVIE

BEST GAME

BEST AUDIO

BEST ART

Spooktacular 2023 Writing Contest Winners

@Remi-le-Oduen has announced the winners of the Spooktacular Writing Contest. There were seven entries with a tie for second place! Congratulations to the winners below!

1ST PLACE

@LiamRomK for Polar Night

2ND PLACE

@thxfam for Abigail

@Thetageist for Rapunzel Tower

NG Money Gang: Mission 2

The Money Gang was an official success with Salad Fingers 13. The goal is Newgrounds members with disposable income to put money towards sponsoring future artists. By doing so, the project will debut on Newgrounds first before going anywhere else and will receive Newgrounds branding.

The next project will be episode 3 of the Monkey Wrench series by @Zeurel. The past two episodes have won Best of July 2022 and Best of April 2023. Zeurel has produced a lot of great work here on Newgrounds, even being nominated for a Tank Award for Best Movie back in 2010. If you are able to donate to the Money Gang, then PM Tom and the amount in which you would like to contribute. Once the project is greenlit then Tom will give you the follow-up to send the money. The minimum contributions he’s looking for is $100 USD.

If you can’t make that kind of commitment, but still want to help Newgrounds, don’t despair. You can still become a Newgrounds Supporter which is still a huge help.

Starbarians, NOXP & Alien Hominid

The ever popular Starbarians series here on Newgrounds by @HappyHarry is now in its own playlist which you view by clicking the new custom link for playlists below! HappyHarry has an IndieGogo Campaign for a 90 page Starbarians comic book! Snag your copy today!

Check out the NOXP series on Newgrounds as well if you haven’t yet!

Alien Hominid Invasion

The latest game from The Behemoth, join alongside a group of aliens as you take the Mothership to invade Earth. Featuring Co-op multiplayer blasting and beaming fun! Wishlist it on Steam! Don’t forget to pick up Alien Hominid HD on Steam as well! If you’ve never played this game and wondering what it’s about, then play the original on Newgrounds today!

SKETCH COLLAB 2023

@midgetsausage and @Ozone are hosting this year’s annual Sketch Collab! If you’re interested in the collaboration check out the past entries. This collab has been going on since 2007! Don’t forget the iconic tracks that have been a part of each collab entry as well! The deadline is November 20th!

Newgrounds Battle of The Bands - Signup Deadline!

@Flamadour has posted a reminder about The Battle of The Bands Deadline. The deadline to signup is November 16th, that’s this Thursday. Learn about the details and how to join in the official thread here. After the deadline, bands will have two weeks to make their songs. Be sure to have your song ready to auto-publish on November 30th at 10:00PM | EST. If you’re not sure how to tag multiple Newgrounds members to a song, auto-publish, or have any other questions regarding uploading your song to the Audio Portal, then be sure to query your questions in the Where is / How to / Help! Forum or message an Audio Moderator.

Playlist / Series / Album / Collection Update

The playlist feature has been updated! The Tank Tribune will be doing some cleaning up with its own playlists over the coming week. The Collections and Series pages have been migrated to the playlist feature. You can now look up playlists using the search function! Which you can nest playlists together! Playlists in playlists, inception, *BWOOONG*! Check out some of Newgrounds classic series and collections in their new homes below!

The NGTV Christmas Collab

@Kolumbo is hosting a Christmas collaboration. The theme is some holiday special, commercial, or mindless holiday thing you would see on TV while channel surfing or lying about watching TV. A couch potato Christmas as it were. The collab is semi-open, where everyone can participate, but not all entries may be accepted in the final movie. If you’re interested, check out the thread above. The deadline is December 20th.

Tankmas Audio Message Collab

@Aalasteir is hosting a collab where you can wish the members of Newgrounds a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! The deadline to enter is November 29th with the collab being posted on December 1st. Below are the rules and submissions rubric.

RULES:

You must be 18+ to participate
This collab is rated T
Minimal length 1 second -- Maximum length 5 minutes for each submission

HOW TO SUBMIT:

1 - Export in WAV format

2 - Upload your file to a file-sharing service

Google Drive: Click the share button and make a link that can be "Accessed by anyone"

3 - Send me a PM with the link

If it was a collaborative effort, kindly provide the usernames of all participants.

The Transformers Collab Update!!

@CrockettDK has posted an update on the upcoming Transformers Collab. The deadline has been pushed back from late 2023 to January/February 2024. This will coincide with the 40th Anniversary of the Transformers franchise on May 29th. The change gives more time to prepare and celebrate the original collab on Newgrounds Blamformers!. If you want to apply then check out the details in the news post above. CrockettDK is looking for animators, artists, and musicians to help out with the collaboration! Collab requirements have also been altered from the original post, mistakes were made and errors corrected.

Free NG Cursors by ScepterDPinoy

@Aalasteir asked @ScepterDPinoy if he could make some Newgrounds themed cursors. He has provided them. You can download these cursors here. ScepterDPinoy is also behind an Emoji set you can use here on Newgrounds. The Tank Tribune typically uses the same Emoji for each issue of The Tank Tribune.

This week's featured artist is @KayEf. His style has gone through multiple changes throughout the years. He's also a comic artist and writer on the site, with a comic using the new Art Portal system entitled BreakPoint. Check out his works below and follow him on Patreon!

A Not So Pale Wave

KayEf

@DannyGoodShirt

DannyGoodShirt has been with Newgrounds for five years. During that time he has brought us a yearly Halloween tradition, a collaboration entitled Dr. Good's Operating Theatre. He is also a talented writer, entering many Monthly Writing Contests, and hosting a Pico Day Writing Contest this year. He's also a boxer! He has done a lot for Newgrounds and we give him our thanks!

The Tank Tribune sat down to talk to DannyGoodShirt about the Dr. Good's Operating Theatre Collabs!

Q: Where did the idea for the collaboration Dr. Good's Operating Theatre come from?

A: My good friend @Rannitx and I were just messing around with ideas we could make creepy. We ended up having a fascination about old Operating Theaters in Italy, and thought it would be a fun setting for the Collab.

Q: This would mark the Collab's fifth anniversary. What are you looking forward in seeing in this year's Collab?

A: Honestly, this Collab has no expectations. I just want it to be fun. It's funny though, through this Collab where we encourage horror and disturbing animations, I've learned how tame most animators are.

Q: If you were to make a best of compilation of the past Collab's, which pieces would you pick?

A: Anything by @DakNjaxterLazerNails (they've submitted every year) or one of @mattyburrito's past submissions, but actually my favorite was @Numbnates Legend of Zelda: Linkle Redead short, but I wrote that one so I wouldn't count it haha. For Doctor Good's bits, my favorite is in the first Collab, where he eats the Chronenburger...

Q: With the new Multi-Image Support feature just launched. What comics do you have planned? Anyone you're looking to work on these comics with?

A: I want to repost Astromon! Webcomic to fit the new support feature, and I would love to work with @brebrz again at some point, they did beautiful art for Astromon! To be honest Newgrounds has so many talented artists. I'm a big fan of @aetherionArt, @twosipsofbleach, @doublemaximus, @Raviolibox, @snackers and so many more, but they are all super popular and probably busy with their own awesome projects. lol I tend to lean toward manga-influenced styles and would love to work with anyone for sure.

Upcoming Rap Project! [Not in October]

@Vista-Sound13 is a sound you have heard in just about every Sunday Phonograph here on The Tank Tribune. He’s working on a rap project with a friend of his. He worked on the beat and his friend is working on the vocals. He also dropped a new song which you can listen to below!

Lift-Off 2023 Film Festival for PukeBomb! VOTE NOW!

@NickSenny needs your help! The movie Everything Must Go by @PukeBomb is part of a Film Festival! He needs your help in voting on it! There are details in the news post on how you can vote on this film! The deadline for voting is November 20th! Follow the instructions in the news post and vote! Check out the movie below here on Newgrounds as well!

IT IS COMING

@Shenanigansen has been working on… something. More details will come on November 17th at 3:00 PM | EST.

My heart goes out to

Israel, it's not perfect

But deserves better

@art-dude

BBS Awards 2023 : Nominations

USERS OF THE WEEK

Here are the Users of the Week for the week of November 5th - November 11th. Congratulations to all of you!

@acheney

@ShowaFlow

@Jaster

@snailshu

@R3tronaut

@kubernikus18

@fueg

USERS OF THE DAY ON THIS DATE

2022: @MichaFrario

2021: @raptorbricks

2015: @Leotavius

2006: @perj

The week can get people down sometimes. With all of the hustle and bustle and action packed drama that entails our lives, sometimes it's nice to just kickback and relax. Today we're going to take a look at an old collection of the site. The Assassin games. A collection of movies and games where celebrities, icons, and other pop culture figures, are destroyed!

The month of October was filled with some Halloween celebrations, spending more time with Rex, spending time with friends, and just being overworked at my day job. Seriously, one week I worked seven days in a row. On the sixth day, I went to a wedding right after work, then on the seventh day back to work in the morning, followed by work after that day to count inventory, then a day off to do some work on Newgrounds, what little I could, which included recording a podcast. My body is sore, my mind even more so, it is why this issue is up right before Sunday breaks, at least where I'm at. I just need to sleep, and actual sleep. I hope you all enjoyed this jam packed edition of The Tank Tribune, sorry for the lack of issues the past couple of weeks. There's just been a lot of just plain shit happening. Thank you again for reading and I hope you all have a fantastic Sunday morning!

The Tank Tribune is a part of Dohn's Desk Productions

UPDATE

Posted by TheTankTribune - November 6th, 2023

Sorry for the delays in getting The Tank Tribune out. The past two weeks my day job and events have been pulling me away from Newgrounds. I've hosted a Halloween Party, worked eight days straight at my day job, and attended a wedding. I've been working on next week's issue and I'm looking to make The Tank Tribune a Supporter account so I can clean up the playlists with the new features available.

Thank you all for your patience and understanding. In the meantime go read the latest issue of TankmanTriweekly. See you all on Sunday!

-TGO

NO. 90 - TaintedLogic

Posted by TheTankTribune - September 30th, 2023

A SHAMELESS SELF PROMOTION POST, WOULD BE COOL IF MY ATTEMPT ORGANIZING SPOOKTACULAR 2023 WRITING EVENT WAS MENTIONED IN THE TANK TRIBUNE

@Remi-le-Oduen

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Good Morning Newgrounds! I am sorry that this issue is not as big as it usually is. I didn't have a lot of time to work on it due to what was going on on Newgrounds last week. For more information you can read this post. I had to do some editing, damage control, and work with @Aalasteir. Which by the way, you should go and follow him and listen to all of the interviews he has done on his podcast 90AA. Shoutout to @PsychoGoldfish for all of the hard work he puts into Newgrounds. Without him, there wouldn't be a lot of cool stuff you enjoy here! Today though is a new start. The beginning of Spooky Month and the Spooktacular here on Newgrounds! Halloween is upon us! With that so many contests and events involving all things creepy, scary, spooky, and demented! This issue is also dedicated to @TaintedLogic. A musician on the site who not only has given us so many wonderful tracks over the years. With his tireless dedication to honing his craft and helping with others, the Sunday Phonograph is dedicated to him. Here are the hip happenings of Newgrounds!

The-Great-One

INTRO AND OUTRO

FEATURED COMPOSERS

@TaintedLogic

Spooktacular 2023 writing contest discussion

@Remi-le-Oduen is hosting the Spooktacular Writing Contest this year! He's just announced the theme for this year's contest! It is "Nightmare". The contest is still being discussed and is looking for judges to help with the contest!

Art Portal: Multi-Art and Multi-Author!

The multi-art and multi-author features have been officially launched. There are still bugs that need to be worked out. If you see anything wrong then PM Tom Fulp and let him know. If you want to send a screenshot of your device and don’t know how here’s a tutorial to screenshot on any device. All users can upload up ten images, Supporters can upload up to thirty images. Features include Multi-Image Content Ratings, Multi-Image Display Options, Multi-Author & Tools Credits, Improved Art Loading, Scheduled Publishing, Project Preview, Projects List, and Art Feed. @Snackers and @PKettles are working on a new comic that will take advantage of these new features!

SKETCH COLLAB 2023

It’s that time of year again! A collab that has been a Newgrounds household name since 2007! @midgetsausage and @Ozone are both hosting for a second year in a row. You can watch the past Sketch Collabs in this morning’s Sunday Matinee. There are some stipulations that you must follow. The deadline is November 20, 2023. For full details follow the thread link above.

Stipulations

As the name implies, this is the Sketch Collab.
The animation must be 5-10 seconds long. (If you want to go longer, please ask us very nicely)
Try to keep it a Teen (T) rating on NG.
No tracing/rotoscoping.
Sound effects are somewhat allowed

Sweet Sixteen Comic Contest!

@KittyhawkMontrose is hosting a comic contest with cash prizes with $500 being for the 1st Place Winner. The goal is to make a 16 page comic within the ratings of E to M. No illegal porn, no spamming/flooding, and no furry material/links. There are more stipulations in the news post below. This contest started on September 12th and ends on December 11th. With the Multi-Art update, regular accounts can post up to 20 images while this contest is running.

Costume Jam 2023!

@Thetageist is hosting a costume jam for this year’s Spooktacular! The goal is to make a simple dress-up game with a unique twist. With either a character reacting to what you put on them or making dress-up part of the game’s narrative. The rules are No NSFW, no hateful content, and follow the Art Submission Guidelines. Thetageist has made a list of dress-up games for examples. Below is The Tank Tribune’s example of a unique dress-up game.

Hiring Voice Actors (18+) for minor + incidental roles! (Paid)

@Coolboyman is looking for voice actors for a pilot episode he’s working on. He needs voices for the following roles below.

Two male construction workers
Confused grandma
Upset little girl
Three firemen
Three angry people stuck in traffic
Harsh sounding male police officer
Angry man
Four people in a crowd cheering at a celebration

If you’re interested you can PM Coolboyman or E-Mail him at adam@adamvierra.com. If you want to try out, tell him what role you want to try out for and he’ll work with you further. He is leaving out information on the pilot, although there is one background made by Allison Nantes.

This week's featured artist is @BellvonArtsy. They're a freelance artist and animator who implements their art into their animation skillfully! They're the creator of Exodiver and have also done work on SHOOT TRIP DIE - DEMO. Check out their works below! Follow the Exodiver Patreon!

Feels like Heaven-

BellvonArtsy

@TaintedLogic

Welcome back to the Supporter of the Week! With this section's return, The Tank Tribune has dedicated the paper and this section to TaintedLogic. He is the founder of the Newgrounds Underdogs’ Audio Contest since 2014. He has been a competitor, judge, and host of the Newgrounds Audio Deathmatch, being the host of this year's Deathmatch. He has participated in two of @Ceevro's singalong collaborations, Drive (Singalong) and Barrett's Privateer Singalong. He also wrote poetry for a time. He's been on the site for over ten years now. Thank you TaintedLogic for all you have contributed and done for the site!

"Going through all these memories - old forum posts, reviews, poetry, and songs - only makes me more excited about what the next 10 years will hold. I have another year of graduate school, after which I plan on securing a 9-5 job that will keep my evenings and weekends free. I’ll be keeping a keen eye on Newgrounds as it continues to grow and change, and I want to continue running the NGUAC for the foreseeable future too.

I’m also getting back into the writing forums more actively with a submission or two to the 2nd edition of the Newgrounds Writing Anthology, which is currently in the editing phase. Ask @EKublai for details if you’re interested in participating yourself, but be aware that time to submit is short!

I’ve been rather less prolific with writing music since graduating from college, but I’m still optimistic that this is a temporary phenomenon. Since my summer internship ended last week, I have much more time now to focus on music until school starts on the 31st - in between NGUAC judging phases, at least. But then there’s always school breaks and whatnot. We’ll see…"

TaintedLogic

August 16, 2022

Need Feedback on Gameplay Changes

@LuckyDingoStudios is working on his game Franco Fox in Fairyland DEMO. He has been making improvements and is looking for feedback on the development build. If you could play it and offer feedback on the project in the comments section of the news post link above, LuckyDingoStudios would appreciate it.

Hello Newgrounds, I'm back!

@feliscede has made his return to Newgrounds! Give him a nice welcome back to the site! Support him on Patreon.

Played Toss the Turtle —

first time since twelve — twelve hours

later — go figure.

@JimmyTheCaterpillar

Discouraged Artists’ Support Group

@Thetageist has made a thread for artists who feel they’ve lost their motivation, impostor syndrome, and feeling that they're not enough as an artist. I imagine it is also a thread for those feeling burnout, lack of inspiration, and anything else that may bring down the artists’ creativity in this world. If you feel down or wanting to pick someone else up, check out the thread.

Do You Make Karate Noises When You Draw?

@King-Kiddoh has asked an important question. Do you make karate noises when you draw? Some people have responded with making pewpew noises, screeching until the project is done, and just holding into a certain position.

It’s my birthday! (And Madness day)

@MondoBilby has recently celebrated her birthday! If you haven’t wished her a Happy Birthday, now would be the time!

USERS OF THE WEEK

Here are the Users of the Week for the week of September 24th - September 30th. Congratulations to all of you!

@Grimmzly

@KokoroHatsaru

@awd

@ParraDX

@joecruely

@OrangePylon

@Duppio

USERS OF THE DAY ON THIS DATE

2022: @chipollo

2021: @LiteralHat

2013: @Ted-Easton

2005: @Slade2985

Welcome back to the Sunday Matinee. Where we highlight the movies from the Newgrounds Portal that have captivated the users of Newgrounds! This week we're taking a look back at the Sketch Collab's throughout the years! Below is last year's Sketch Collab!

Sorry for the lack of an issue last week, as well as this short issue. I've had a lot going on in September, and my part of my vacation was cut having to take care of some things on Newgrounds. I don't really have too much here for you either. I'll see all of you next week!

The Tank Tribune is a part of Dohn's Desk Productions

NO. 89 - Much Ado About Newgrounds

Posted by TheTankTribune - September 10th, 2023

DOES THIS TAGLINE HAVE ENOUGH CHARACTERS FOR ME TO RECITE THE TRAGEDY OF DARTH PLAGUEIS THE WISE?

@Anonymous-Frog

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Good Morning Newgrounds! Welcome Back to The Tank Tribune! Last week was a huge issue of The Tank Tribune, with a lot going on here on Newgrounds. Some big news for me, was that a goal I always wanted on Newgrounds. One of the most trivial things you could ever achieve on this site, which took me being on here 17 years to happen, was that I became User of the Day! If you remember the old SOMEBODY IS UOTD thread, then you would know that late in the thread I released the lore that I was searching for this prestigious honor. I finally achieved it! I can retire from Newgrounds forever now! I won't though, there's still a lot to do and plenty of things to experience. The Art Portal got it's much needed update launched. You can multi-author pieces of now, multi-image support is available as well. This is not only great news for comic artists and writers, but for collaborations, contents, the possibilities are endless! jmtb02 has made a return to Newgrounds, with him becoming CEO of Armor Games. Yes, that happened and it is well deserved. The Best of August was voted on and the results are in. The pilot for a new show has premiered! In next week's issue, the Quotes of the Week will be returning to the Community section, and the Supporter section will be returning as well. It just goes to show, you never know what is going to happen on Newgrounds and where it will take you. Without further delay, here are the hip happenings of Newgrounds!

-The-Great-One

INTRO AND OUTRO

@Manvineo @TheReaperPepper @MasterHand4444 @GooberStudios @Vista-Sound13

FEATURED COMPOSERS

@JAME22 @xkatttt @ZaneLittle @ItsBurner @TaintedLogic

@Uyrie @etherealwinds @FDA @WoodTick @Finnsfolks

@Ackee39 @iamwontolla @JensVide @Arevin @Waterflame

Best of August 2023!

Newgrounds voted, the votes were tabulated, and here are the winners of Best of August. August has always been a pretty big month for content here on Newgrounds, and this month is no exception. Best Movie goes to @PringusMcDingus for Calamity. Best Game goes to @SpaceKryptonite for OneBit Adventure. Best Audio goes to @HunterMilo for Hunter Milo - Toys. Best Art goes to @DeimosArt for Madness :Project Nexus Trailer - Hank. Congratulations to all of the winners!

BEST MOVIE

BEST GAME

BEST AUDIO

BEST ART

Madness :Project Nexus Trailer - Hank

DeimosArt

Elephant Rave 2 + Thank you Newgrounds <3

@jmtb02 has made his return to Newgrounds with a sequel to the popular Elephant Rave, with Elephant Rave 2. He has also been working alongside @The-EXP to remaster all of the elephant games into The Elephant Collection on Steam. During his absence, he was an indie developer for Kongregate and is now the CEO of Armor Games. He is also a father of two kids. All of this made him take a step back from game development for a while. We're all happy to see jmtb02 once again. Welcome Back to Newgrounds!

Prepare for Multi-Art / Multi-Author Art

An event that a lot of Newgrounds comic artists has finally happened. Multi-image support is now available in the Art Portal. There's the Inline support, which is an expanded part that Newgrounds has already had, just with more images. Strip support, for comics. As well as a Gallery support for multiple images, which could be useful for mangas. Also, Multi-Author support is available for collaborative efforts. The collages that can come out of this would be incredible.

This week's featured artist is @DaShahRach00. He's been on Newgrounds since the beginning of the year. This is a style that I absolutely love. A lot of pieces have a special meaning behind them. Check out his works below!

Chemin du Choc: Futur Incertain.

DaShahRach00

Dungeon Downtime!

@Uebie has released a pilot of a new series entitled Dungeon Downtime!. It is a multi-cam podcast that is animated to life. With monster simply talking. Check out the pilot episode! Check out Uebie's other movies too!

New album released!

@Dieswyx has released a brand new album entitled Welcome to my darkside. You can listen to the full album here on Newgrounds. You can also listen to it on Bandcamp!

I'll Remix/Cover Your Tracks!! FREE REQUESTS!!!1!

@TheMusicalManiac is offering to remix or cover your tracks for free! It make take some time for her to get your song, because she is starting college. If you want your song remixed then post it in the thread! Check out her songs below!

I'M IN A BAND! FIRST EP RELEASING TMRW!!!

@realityreimagined and his friends have formed a band, one of his friends being on Newgrounds named @FreakFormal. The name of their band is Slinky Jobs. You can listen to their music on Spotify and Bandcamp!

The Great Monkey Wrench Merch Fundraiser

@Zeurel is the creator behind the Monkey Wrench series here on Newgrounds. The first episode Monkey Wrench - The Ghost Egg hit the Triple Crown here on Newgrounds winning the Daily Feature, Weekly Users' Choice, and Review Crew Pick awards. If you want to see more episodes of Monkey Wrench, you can help buy buying merchandise or becoming a patron on his Patreon.

LATEST INTERVIEW: VoicesByCorey

The voice actor behind over three hundred projects on Newgrounds, the founder of the Newgrounds Voice Acting Collaboration, and former co-host of The Newgrounds Podcast. Check out the interview with @VoicesByCorey!

[ Related Interviews ]

On the latest episode of Off The Wall, @Aalasteir sat down with @NickSenny about voice acting, his podcast The Open Door Policy, wrestling, and Halloween!

PAST EPISODES

I might have covid

Staying home, nostalgic warm

Feeling sick is nice

@InTheNowEventually

This week is a little different. Instead of featuring one movie or game, we're taking a look back at 14 of them. All the way back in Issue NO. 15, we took a look back at when the automated Portal was introduced to Newgrounds in 2000. It is the foundation of Newgrounds, to where people can submit their own works to be judged by the members of Newgrounds. One feature that was at the top of the Portal for years was a collection of characters from various Newgrounds movies, games, and series. This was called The Gang. In the @Archive, a collection featuring all of these characters can be seen! Enjoy!

I have a life again, whoops!

@Synami has taken a step back from Newgrounds lately. She's going off to college and looking to becoming a part of society outside of the Internet. Her release schedule will be having gaps due to this. Good luck at college Synami! We eagerly await to see what you produce for Newgrounds next! Check out some of her music below!

hihi

@RairikuMusic is looking to hangout and chat with Newgrounds members! Send them a PM or hit them up on Discord! They like to draw and make music. Check out some of their songs below!

To be blunt (my inactivity)

@Taka has been off of Newgrounds lately. He's not making games and art like he used. His attention has shifted away from the site. He still plans on being on Newgrounds and is open to chat or answer any questions.

NEW USERS

Here we have the latest people to come to Newgrounds! Whether they heard about us through a movie or game, a let's player or streamer, a friend or family member, or were a creator who has been shunned or mistreated on other platforms. Let's all welcome them to Newgrounds! Give them all a hello in the Greeting Club!

@EasyDad is our newest user on the site. He saw that someone in his family was on Newgrounds through the browser history. Welcome to Newgrounds EasyDad!

USERS OF THE WEEK

Here are the Users of the Week for the week of September 3rd - September 9th. Congratulations to all of you!

@ColeDawg

@CheeseBaron

@thecooldrawingguy

@The-Great-One

@horrorhare

@Skoops

@AceBonanza

USERS OF THE DAY ON THIS DATE

2022: @MS360

2021: @1418

2013: N/A

2005: @calmius

The week can get people down sometimes. With all of the hustle and bustle and action packed drama that entails our lives, sometimes it's nice to just kickback and relax. We're going to take a look at some of the art games here on Newgrounds. These games are not meant to be challenging, but either convey a message or be a beautiful experience.

17 years on Newgrounds. Achieving User of the Day. Becoming a part of Newgrounds History. Many new exciting changes to the site. Having a great job, with vacation time coming up. Spending more time with Rex. Life is truly good. Thank you to my patrons on Patreon, my readers, my friends on Newgrounds, Tom Fulp, and everyone else who has helped me on this 17 year journey that has made me a better writer, a better person, and just an overall better human being. This site can mold you into something incredible. It is certainly true. Next Sunday will be another entry of The Tank Tribune. If things go well though, you can expect something brand new on this account. I've been cooking up some things here and there. I'll see you all next week! Take care and thank you for reading, reacting, and commenting!

The Tank Tribune is a part of Dohn's Desk Productions

NO. 88 - Happy Anniversary

Posted by TheTankTribune - September 3rd, 2023

TODAY THE TAGLINE, TOMORROW THE WORLD!

@MetalSlayer69

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Good Morning Newgrounds! Welcome to The Tank Tribune! On Newgrounds we have a lot to celebrate! A lot of Newgrounds projects have been celebrating their anniversaries, including myself! Yesterday I celebrated being on Newgrounds for 17 Years. That's nearly two decades. We look back on the Numa Numa Dance, Badgers, and Nyan Cat! The Robot Day winners were announced. The Newgrounds Money Gang is becoming a success with a new Salad Fingers movie on the horizon. Madness Day is creeping up. All of this and so much more! It just goes to show you that there is always something new happening on Newgrounds, made with love and dedication from its creators. I think that's what I like most about Newgrounds. With YouTube creators, there's always this huge team and it feels more marketable than entertaining. With Newgrounds, you know people are growing, improving, and experience this growth while giving the audiences of Newgrounds experiences they will never forget. This truly is a wonderful place to be. I'm glad all of you are here with me - and I'm happy to be here with you. Here are the hip happenings of Newgrounds!

The-Great-One

INTRO AND OUTRO

@iWTBAT @MrAdry54 @Flamadour @MettaSeven @CheeseCakeStelar2004

FEATURED COMPOSERS

@Dry @Vista-Sound13 @TaintedLogic @SlyceCaik @Basiator

@FJOB @Bosa @slowfreq @CootieGirl @StormyDew

@Tritnew @GotMyFury @BigBlueBazooka @Cacola @AureoCobaltYellow

NG Money Gang

Tom is toying around with idea of Newgrounds with disposable income to sponsor projects by big artists. The way it works is that the sponsors would get to decide if their sponsorship would go towards the project for a big artist or pass onto the next project for a different artist. The sponsored project would then be branded with the Newgrounds logo and would debut on Newgrounds one week before going anywhere else. It would also carry that Newgrounds logo elsewhere so it would bring users to the site.

It is like in the old days of Flash, where the Newgrounds preloader would be seen on Flash submissions, if another website swiped it and put it elsewhere, Newgrounds logo would still be on it. It would also help Newgrounds branch out more and be kind of like a studio in a way. Now again, this is just an idea. It is also only for those who can make big payments, the amount being $100 per sponsorship. If you can't make this kind of payment then don't despair and don't try to make a payment that you can't commit to. There are ideas getting thrown around on this. If you still want to support Newgrounds on a smaller scale, you can become a Newgrounds Supporter. If you have any ideas to share on this, then please post them in the thread.

The Fall of Newgrounds

@TomFulp has a follow up on the NG Money Gang. Money has been raised to gain sponsorship of another entry in @Doki's Salad Fingers series. It will be debuting on Newgrounds later this month! Madness Day is September 22nd, slowly approaching. The prize pool for all of the categories is growing!

Robot Day 2023 Winners

@MindChamber has announced the winners of this year's Robot Day! 1st Place went to the team behind Waha's Robot Daze, @rickropes, @Skoops, and @MaldivirDragonwitch. 2nd Place went to @CrossCarrasco for his song Quantize My Heartbeat (NGADM 2023), which as you've seen in the title is also his piece for the Newgrounds Audio Deathmatch. And finally at 3rd Place goes to @ilikerobot for his art piece <<V>> [Practice] 2023.6.26. Congratulations to all of you!

1ST PLACE

2ND PLACE

3RD PLACE

<<V>> [Practice] 2023.6.26

ilikerobot

Summer Fest, Alien Hominid HD and Too Many Browser Tabs

The Post Summer Fest, Tom had a huge post about what is happening on Newgrounds. Plus Office Visit Photos to see with @AlmightyHans, @BrandyBuizel, @The-Swain, @TomFulp, and @Luis, just to name a few. Alien Hominid HD is coming to Steam and Nintendo Switch, which it will release alongside the new game in the line up Alien Hominid Invasion. The original can still be played here on Newgrounds!

The game LISA: THE PAINFUL RPG recently got a huge update. In celebration, @BooneBum and @Spinalpalm are hosting a collaboration. In the new definitive edition, campfire conversations were added. They're essentially scenes to flesh out the characters more. Here's one of the new conversations. The goal is to make more of them in akin to the collab Africa Dudes.

There are a number of rules and guidelines to follow when submitting your piece. See the full news post by clicking the pic above for more information if you're interested in being a part of this collab. The due date is November 28, 2023.

On September 1st, 2003, @TheWeebl graced Newgrounds with badger ver.1. This became widely popular on Newgrounds and took the Internet by storm, before YouTube even was a thing. TheWeebl has released a new movie to celebrate it's 20th Anniversary! Check it out below, alongside the original!

This week's featured artist is @ChrisOssu. He's been on Newgrounds for almost a year now. He has a web comic entitled Curious Ventures for Curious Folk. He also has a WIP thread and he does commission work! Check out his works below and his Ko-fi!

The Repair Man (Robot Day 2023)

ChrisOssu

@Gman250, better known as Gary Brolsma, has updated his iconic Numa Numa Dance for 2023. If you don't know what Numa Numa is here's the details. Gary Brolsma was just fooling around with his webcam and made a lip sync video to Dragostea Din Tei by the band O-Zone. This was back in 2004, which at the time YouTube didn't exist. Flash dominated the Internet. Gary uploaded his creation to Newgrounds. Unfortunately, the Internet is no longer the wild west that it used to be, so due to entries with copyrighted music getting cracked down on, it was removed. The history page still stands in its place though.

MY GAME KICKSTARTER!

@Cubesona finished streaming for the NG Summer Fest. He's been working on the artwork for a new game entitled Hymn to the Earless God. An RPG where you explore a mysterious and hostile animal planet. He's working alongside Kasey Ozymy, creator of Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass. Check out the trailer below! If you like what you see, then you can help by backing the project on Kickstarter!

I GOT MARRIED, Recording is COMPLETE for Better Than The Book's upcoming album, more guitar videos + more!

@Jabun recently got married to his girlfriend of 10 years back in mid August. They had a wonderful wedding and reception. There was a mosh-pit, dancing, heartfelt speeches, it was an outright party. Jabun has also finished recording for Better Than The Book, his upcoming album. 10 tracks and 4 bonus tracks are in the editing phase now before mixing. He's also been releasing new guitar videos on YouTube. You can see the full playlist here! There's even more that Jabun is doing over on his Patreon if you wanna check that out. One item being a fully recorded demo of his song Rewrite which will be on his upcoming album!

HELLION EPISODE 2 FUNDRAISING

Last year in Issue NO. 69, @GrantTheHierophant was putting out a casting call for the pilot episode of the show he was working on called Hellion: Oxenfree, which you can watch the pilot below! Now GrantTHeHierophant is running a GoFundMe for the second episode. The goal is $9,999. GrantTheHierophant has already raised $220 at the time of this post. If you can help, click the picture below to open the GoFundMe Page.

Rin and Len Takeover 2023

With the end of the Hatsune Miku Birthday Collab, user @TwisterzX0 wants to celebrate the 16th anniversary of Rin and Len, the Orange and Banana twins. The deadline is December 27, 2023, with the tag #rin-len-takeover2023. Follow the thread link and read the rules!

LATEST INTERVIEW: Prox276

@TheInterviewer has returned, with the creator of Dynacore, Pain Reaction, and Fruity Tower. Check out the interview with @Prox276!

[ Related Interviews ]

On the latest episode of Off The Wall, @Aalasteir sat down with @Hyptosis talked about The Sagittarian series, the Hood series, working with @Afro-Ninja, and of course Alice is Dead.

PAST EPISODES

When will it return -

The intent to finish off

What I have started?

@RepriseAgain

Nyan Cat was a small Internet phenomenon back in 2011. The full story can be read here, the short version though is that Nyan Cat (originally Pop-Tart Cat) was based off of comic artist Chris Torres' own Russian Blue cat. It was suggested during a Red Cross Charity event that a cat be crossed with a Pop-Tart. YouTuber saraj00n created the Nyan Cat [original] video, using a GIF that Chris Torres would create, set to the song Nyanyanyanyanyanyanya by Daniwell-P and sung by Utauloid Momo Momone. Nyan Cat would eventually reach Newgrounds.

@WoodTick decided to take the artwork and music of Nyan Cat and put it through multiple genres of music. This would net him the Daily Feature, Weekly Users' Choice, and a spot on the Frontpage.

"My introduction to Nyan Cat was this amazing video I discovered on YouTube. If you didn't watch it, it's a Slipknot video with the audio removed and replaced with the Nyat Cat song, so from the beginning, I was already primed to hear the song in ways it was never intended to be heard. While I was obsessing over that Slipknot video, I did another search and found the "a cappella" version of the Nyan Cat song, in other words, just the vocals. And then I started thinking about all the cool things I could do with that, and that's when I had the idea to just cycle through as many genres as I could manage. Of course, I instantly wanted to turn it into a video as well, so I started brainstorming visual styles as I brainstormed musical genres. Pixel-art was a no-brainer, since I have some experience doing it, and the original Nyan Cat was done with pixel animation. For those of you who find this sort of thing interesting, there were a lot of genres that I wanted to do that didn't work out for one reason or another, like jazz, rap, baroque, and even a Simpsons version. The main problem was the tempo. I couldn't keep speeding up and slowing down in the middle of the song, so I had to stick with the original tempo, and a lot of those genres just don't work at that speed."

-WoodTick

March 20th, 2013

It's my Birthday!!!

@Notakin celebrated his birthday last week! Wish him a happy birthday! Check out some of his works below while you're at it!

NEW USERS

@Monae is our newest artist and writer on the site. She's looking to start doing digital art again, she may be posting some of it here on Newgrounds! We eagerly await to see what she has in store for the site!

USERS OF THE WEEK

Here are the Users of the Week for the week of August 27th - September 2nd. Congratulations to all of you!

@EelSocks

@dannydoods

@EpicTones

@Starcat-Sama

@Tanadrine-Studios

@Stopsignal

@Snug-Bug

USERS OF THE DAY ON THIS DATE

2022: @Geoplex

2021: @gildedguy

2013: @MrVideogame

2005: @Aphex-Splangy

Welcome back to the Sunday Matinee. Where we highlight the movies from the Newgrounds Portal that have captivated the users of Newgrounds! This week we're taking a look at @DannyGoodShirt's yearly Halloween collab, Dr. Good's Operating Theatre. Enjoy! Watch the first collab below. Click the header above to load the rest!

This has been a huge celebration of Newgrounds past, present, and its future. It was a lot of fun putting together this week's issue, working on The Interviewer, really connecting with a lot of creative people on the site. I am really happy to be able to bring you the news of Newgrounds every Sunday. After posting my Weekly Review on my main page, I ended up calling Rex and talking. We'll be going shopping for 1920's clothing for a murder mystery party we're going to. He has been an absolute joy to talk to and be around. I think I'm starting to fall for him more and more. Who knows where the next day will take us. I'm just happy to be in his company. I'm happy to have been a part of Newgrounds for the past 17 years and everything this site has given me. I don't know where I would be or who I would be if it weren't for Newgrounds. Thank you to all of my patrons on Patreon. Thank you to all of my readers. I hope you all have a fantastic Sunday morning! To all those who say "thank you guys who run The Tank Tribune" - it warms my heart that you think there's this big team behind this paper. It is actually just one person, me. This paper is a labor of love, and a labor of fun. I hope you all have a fantastic Sunday morning and a happy Labor Day.

The Tank Tribune is a part of Dohn's Desk Productions

NO. 87 - Summer's End

Posted by TheTankTribune - August 27th, 2023

SINCE WHEN HAS ANYONE READ A NEWSPAPER?

@GGishere

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Good Morning Newgrounds! We are nearing the end of Summer. A lot of kids and teenagers are going back to school. Many are beginning and returning to college. The Summer heat is still here, but Fall is right around the corner. Robot Day was yesterday, which we'll be going into further detail in next week's issue. Today is the last day of the Newgrounds Summer Festival! The Newgrounds Deathmatch is still undergoing fierce competition. The Newgrounds Underdogs’ Audio Contest Knock-out Round has officially closed and the judging process has officially started.

INTRO AND OUTRO

@BeyondOurEyes @ZaneLittle @Lordant @Ryzmik @papkee

FEATURED COMPOSERS

@Mischa-head @DenPelm @NASHqp @FJOB @TheRiskster

@spoonman420 @Benji-G @LordAndiso @Troisnyx @DisOmikron

@CrossCarrasco @LucidShadowDreamer

July 12, 1995. That is the day that Newgrounds was founded. It is actually older than Pokemon! Newgrounds has celebrated 20 years with a collab in the past. It is crazy to see that another ten years are almost here. In just two years, Newgrounds will be 30 years old. @Undertalekid12 is looking to host this year's collaboration. Check out the thread by clicking the picture above to go to the collab thread. Help Newgrounds celebrate 30 Years!

He's looking to make a game using HaxeFlixel. He wants an art gallery, maybe an audio gallery, and a long cutscene, like something out of FRIDAY NIGHT FUNKIN'.

The Eventual Decay of DeviantArt

@Over2000Blizzards has noted the changes to DeviantArt is causing users to leave to sites like Twitter, Instagram, Furaffinity, and of course Newgrounds. Although, with the changes to Twitter as we noted in last week's issue, people are leaving there too. Newgrounds has always been gaining users from DeviantArt due to changes to the site, from the sound of things, we'll be getting more. @rtil has talked about changes and moderation on SheezyArt which caused users to leave in an interview back in 2020. rtil has also spoken out on DeviantArt permabanning him and his thoughts on AI art as well. The conversation on the NSFW art and AI art scene is divisive lately. Both also tend to overlap in terms of conversation. Over2000Blizzards and rtil have offered different perspectives on these discussions in the links provided in this news bulletin. Thankfully Newgrounds won't decay due to the policies and how it features art on the site. SFW art is still prominent, NSFW is not featured on the Frontpage, AI art is completely forbidden, and we have top notch Art Moderators who have a keen eye to spot what goes against the site's guidelines. By that measure, Newgrounds will be the better place to build an art portfolio due to its standards, where DeviantArt will end up tainting its image.

@Krinkels has announced that the 17th Annual Madness Day is next month! At the time of posting this paper, it is less than a month away. There are prizes for Best Animation, Best Game, and Best Music! 1st Place will involve a cash prize plus a Makeship Plushy of a Madness character, either Hank or Tricky. Below are the rules!

Rules/Guidelines/Expectations;

In the event of a collab placing, all winnings will be sent to the collab organizer for them to distribute as they see fit
Music submissions can only be judged as individual songs. Soundscapes or Albums should be parsed/broken down into their individual tracks so that judging can be done on a individual basis.
All winnings will be distributed via Paypal.
In order for us to find you, please tag your submission with #MadnessDay2023, this is very important!
We can only consider submissions which debuted on Sept 22nd, or 23rd, any later or earlier and it's out of our range.
It should go without saying, but just in case; post it here on Newgrounds!

August Status Update

Tom has given us some updates to close off the Summer with. The Art Portal will be featuring an update to the multi-image support, making all of you aspiring comic creators able to share your comics and webtoons into one submission rather than split them up. The Art Portal will also be migrated to the Project System going forward, so multiple authors who have contributed to a piece can be credited properly.

The second update is going towards the Playlists. This feature is heavily used by The Tank Tribune, with some aspects already in place. When the changes go into effect, the Series and Collections pages will be put into the Playlist feature. When that happens, hopefully a thread to suggest items to be put into certain Collections will return or The Genre Mod Crew could have its duties expanded.

The end of this week is where a lot of deadline are. The Cog Collab, Hatsune Miku Birthday Collab and Bar Hopping Art Collab are all on August 31st. The first Writer's Jam on Newgrounds will be on September 1st. The Live Action Jam deadline is September 3rd. As we enter into September, Madness Day will be on September 22nd.

5th Dr. Good Animation Collab!

@DannyGoodShirt and @Rannitx are hosting the Fifth Annual Dr. Good's Operating Theatre is coming up. To be a part of this historic collab series, you can join by following the link above. Below are the rules and guidelines.

Requirements

Newgrounds Users Only
Horror/Horror-Comedy/Halloween related shorts only. (Weird, creepy, and gross animations are encouraged!)
Length: 10-90 seconds long. If you want to make something longer please let me know.
NO LOW-EFFORT MEMES
DEADLINE: OCT 1st

Send you entry to DannyGoodShirt's E-Mail at DANNYGOODSHIRT@GMAIL.COM. You can also PM DannyGoodShirt for the Discord Information. Below are the past Dr. Good's Operating Theatre Collabs.

It is my BIRTHDAY

@ZaneLittle recently celebrated his birthday! Happy Birthday from The Tank Tribune!

This week's featured artist is criminally underrated. @AmericanMuscleHead has not only a unique style that kind of reminds me of Gorillaz artwork. One thing that he does incredibly that I love, is the stars he puts into his drawings. He has been on the site since 2020 and even has an art thread, yet he only has 42 fans. That needs to change! Check out his works below! Follow him on Newgrounds! Donate to his Ko-fi! Do all of the things!

The Fear of Midnight

AmericanMuscleHead

New Singles, New Album, & Zero Hour

@ThatJohnnyGuy has been hard at work. He has released a new song from Piercing Lazer entitled The Midas Touch. He made a soundtrack for an RPG that was cancelled. He has been given permission to release the soundtrack, which you can listen to here on Bandcamp. He has also released a song from his vault entitled A Silent Voice - Void, which he wrote while in a dark place, which you can read about in the link above. Things have been improving for him though. A new album entitled Post-Nostalgia, Vol. 1: Inner Static will be released on September 30th. It is one of three albums that will be releasing. It follows the darkness that ThatJohnnyGuy was going through during a rough time in his life.

The game Newgrounds: Zero Hour has been progressing splendidly. If you haven't played the demo yet, you can here on Newgrounds! You can also learn more about the game through the NG: Zero Hour Fan Server!

The last thing to note is ThatJohnnyGuy is looking to start a Newgrounds Ballads Collab. The purpose to make a tribute song for some of your favorite Newgrounds Users and Content Creators. With some aspects of parody, but keeping it classy. You can join the Newgrounds Audio Portal Collab Center Server and become a part of the collab! Rules and information are in the link!

To be in bed

Ah I try to get up

But I will still be in bed

@Netherbrine5902

The story of Raptor Jesus itself is a part of Internet history. @Sexual-Lobster decided to feature this character in the Australian talk show, Q+A. It was a short movie, with quick jokes. Raptor Jesus' one line, that ending, the Captain Planet knife fight, it's all amazing how much he fit into one movie.

"All of the random stuff has a deeper meaning, but I doubt most people here would care about Australian politics so I won't go into it, plus it would take a lot of exposition. To answer your question, basically I really liked and wanted to animate Raptor Jesus. Your question implies that you're not familiar with him; in a nutshell he's a meme from 4chan. You probably noticed I like drawing lizards, and I love the irreverent attitude towards Christianity. The point of this film was to highlight the fact that no one was talking about climate change anymore (and also that both the prime minister and the alternative prime minister at the time were church loonies), at least in the media spotlight in Australia. Since then our prime minister, the silver haired guy wearing the dress and the moustache in the audience was overthrown, partly (or mostly, depending on who you talk to) over this issue."

Sexual-Lobster

February 17th, 2011

Hello and I sorry

@ForNoReason was off the site for a while, but he's back! His account was hacked and someone was abusing his moderator powers. Thankfully Tom was able to help him retrieve his account and clean up the mess. Welcome Back ForNoReason!

What's THAT song that turns on your Berserker Mode?

@Grillyf wants to know that song that when you hear it you just want to beat the hell out of anyone that gets in your way! The song that just pumps your adrenaline up to where you have the power to run through walls! For Grillyf it's King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man. For The Tank Tribune, that would be Master of Puppets by Metallica.

NEW USERS

@vlsrb is our new artist here on the site! He's looking to share gay experiences through his art! Whether they be wholesome or Not Safe For Work (NSFW). He wants to share his works with Newgrounds! Welcome aboard! Check out some their works below!

USERS OF THE WEEK

Here are the Users of the Week for the week of August 20th - August 26th. Congratulations to all of you!

@Nipelets

@MikeTheCreator

@TopHatDoodles

@Phronemophobia

@yuki-oto

@Mustache-MTC

@ArnieGutz

The week can get people down sometimes. With all of the hustle and bustle and action packed drama that entails our lives, sometimes it's nice to just kickback and relax. This week we're featuring the Trapped series by @stonefruitstudios. A collection of mazes to escape out of!

I don't have much to talk to all of you about down here. Except work has been killer lately. If you knew my day-to-day schedule, your head would spin. I have been working on The Interviewer more, in which I am awaiting a response from one game developer. I am in the process of writing questions for an animator with multiple series on here, and I just got the confirmation PM for a guest I've interviewed over ten years ago who has done a lot since then. If you want to know more about that, I post behind-the-scenes stuff on my Patreon. Shameless plug I know. I will always tell you to donate to Newgrounds first and foremost, because without Newgrounds, my Patreon is useless. The Tank Tribune I still put a lot of work into. It's nice to be back on a consistent work schedule. Although my day job is a hindrance, it doesn't take a lot out of me. Thank you all for reading and I hope you have a fantastic Sunday morning!

The Tank Tribune is a part of Dohn's Desk Productions

NO. 86 - The Official Newspaper of Newgrounds!

Posted by TheTankTribune - August 20th, 2023

IS THIS REALLY OFFICIAL? WOW

@ZombieGhost

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Good Morning Newgrounds! Welcome to The Tank Tribune! The Official Newspaper of Newgrounds! My name is The-Great-One. I've been the writer and editor of this newspaper for three years now. There have been a lot of ups and downs in my life, redesigns to the paper, new additions, cut sections, the closing of the General Forum, with new updates that have made this paper look neater and better! I just wanted to spend the opening of this paper discussing a small sample of history that this paper has gone through. Now, life is going amazingly well, and Newgrounds is going through another boon period that has been growing more and more due to the other platforms not understanding what made their sites great. While Newgrounds continues to evolve with feedback from its fans and contributors to the site. The month of August alone has a lot of events and contests going on. With the annual Clock Day, the Newgrounds Summer Fest, the Summer Animation Jam, this year being the Live Action Jam, and Robot Day. Even then, that's just a small amount of things going on in August on Newgrounds. We haven't even gotten to September with Madness Day and what events that may come then. The Newgrounds Audio Death Match started at the end of Spring and battle happens throughout the seasons. This and more you can only experience here! Here are the hip happenings of Newgrounds!

The-Great-One

INTRO AND OUTRO

@TheMerelyHuman @BigBlueBazooka @DJSupaMonkey @CluppHead @Banana-head

FEATURED COMPOSERS

@PaulyBFromDa303 @AndrewCr @blaceigh83 @Felocai @DPZ0

@Eisine @coolyy @ItsBurner @StaticLF @steampianist

@Biggyzoom @Witcherrage @DuttonsaysHi @Dylnmatrix @Vista-Sound13

Happy Clock Day 2023!

The 22nd Annual Clock Day was last week in celebration of when @StrawberryClock, the King of the Portal, got the movie B pass the Flash Portal. It would give us one of the first factions here on Newgrounds, The Clock Crew. For a longer in-depth history of The Clock Crew and B, check out the video below by @Graeme!

Live Action Jam

@BrandyBuizel is hosting this year's Summer Animation Jam, with the theme being Live Action. If you haven't finished your submission yet or haven't started, you have until September 3rd! That's just around the corner! It still needs to be an animation, but with some live action elements in it. Here are some examples below!

The annual Robot Day here on Newgrounds is coming up! Hosted by @MindChamber the festivities to celebrate robots, including our own @P-Bot, is this Saturday! Check out some of the past Robot Day submissions here on Newgrounds!

Twitter Exodus

With Elon Musk acquiring Twitter, he has been making a lot of changes to the platform that has upset creators and community members here on Newgrounds. Elon recently changed the name of the site to X. Elon is also looking to remove the block feature from the site.

@WhiteKitsu is leaving the site due to it not being a good platform for artists. @TheAerolithe is leaving due to the changes. @Lemon-Andy has shown his disdain. @wpzkx was suspended on Twitter for trying to talk someone out of killing themselves. @FunnelCakeClown recently left Twitter and is looking to make some friends here. This is just a handful of those who have recently left.

I imagine much like the Tumblr Exodus, this one will grow in size as Elon continues to make changes to the platform overall. We should be ready to embrace the influx of users that will soon come to Newgrounds!

Newgrounds Summer Fest 2023

The Newgrounds Summer Fest is this coming weekend! Friday, Saturday, and Sunday! The panel schedule is below, with all times under Eastern Standard Time. You can watch the Summer Fest through the Newgrounds Festivals YouTube Channel!

This week's featured artist is @wonkypaws. They've been here for over a year and have already taken the Art Portal by storm! They have done a lot of character artwork, but they've taken a shot at landscape painting which you can see below. Check out their works below and check out their art thread!

dessert land(?)

wonkypaws

Art Navigation & News for 08/18/2023; "Birthday! (And stitches...)"

@eeMcCutcheon has been quite busy lately. With work on his comic The Amazing Alligator of Country A. Page 110 has just been released! He has also been working on character design based off the intro "Sanctuary" from Kingdom Hearts 2. He has also celebrated his birthday! At the hospital after cutting his knee with a hedge trimmer. He required eight stitches. He goes into detail about his pain tolerance. Follow his news post to learn more!

Newgrounds Rules!

@GeoKureli is showing their appreciation for Newgrounds! Where other platforms are based off ad companies using metrics to determine your experience or how you should use it, Newgrounds is open to how you want to experience it! Whether you want to share your creation! Determine what stays and goes. Just be a lurker. However you want to enjoy the site!

WHAT THE HELL? an UPDATE??

@xDoodlz has given an update on the game he's working on entitled WHAT THE HELL? with a sneak peek! You can also hear more about the game through the Off The Wall podcast!

Night's embrace alone,

Fireflies dance, stars above gleam,

Your presence I crave.

@BananaBreadBoi

@Kirbopher would be browsing the Audio Portal and come across two different songs. One being the Geno's Forest || ROBOVoice. Which is such an iconic song that it has been heard in the Nico Nico Douga Final Mix Version. It would be remixed into SMRPG - Rawest Forest, which Kirbopher would animate.

"I had heard the original many times and thought it was cool, but then I had found the remix version from the site and got inspired to make a music video out of it. The original isn't very "musicy" in the sense that it's more of just a loop as opposed to the Rawest Forest remix is much more like a full-fledged piece of polished music."

-Kirbopher

June 23rd, 2010

I guess I'm on Newgrounds now.

@KaizenArt has recently joined Newgrounds, with Twitter not being a safe place to post their art anymore. They're going to keep their Twitter account alive as long as possible. We'll be seeing their art posted to the site. Welcome to Newgrounds KaizenArt.

Introduction

@Murder-House is a new electronic musician on Newgrounds. They used to be an animator on YouTube, then decided to do something different. They started making music on GarageBand, which wasn't so good, so they switched to FL Studio. You can hear their music on BandLab. You can also check out their works below here on Newgrounds!

back to where it all began

@snozzd used to be on the site making flash games, which gave him the inspiration to pursue college. He was reminiscing and decided to come back where he started out. He already has two works posted below!

NEW USERS

@knotstraight has been on the site for over ten years now. She's introduced herself on the forums and is hoping to get her name out there more.

@MARXVEEMOAM is a new artist on the site! He's still trying to get used to the layout and the rules on the site. If you ever need help AM you can check the site's Wiki! Any Newgrounder can also answer your questions in the Where is / How to / Help! Forum. Check out his works below!

@YSNartworks is a new artist on the site! He used to be a lurker and his now posting his art here! Check out his works below!

USERS OF THE WEEK

Here are the Users of the Week for the week of August 13th - August 19th. Congratulations to all of you!

@gene-goldstein

@Doggonnys

@DRAGONKITTYiPOD

@Leroysei

@King-Kiddoh

@MassiveMarioLuigi700

@Archcee5

The week can get people down sometimes. With all of the hustle and bustle and action packed drama that entails our lives, sometimes it's nice to just kickback and relax. This week we just have a selection of some fun games on the site! This morning, some relaxing puzzle games for you to enjoy with your Sunday coffee.

Hello all who make it to the bottom of the paper. I usually talk to you on a personal level here and I want to continue that. I am most interested in how people read The Tank Tribune. Do you read it on your computer? Your tablet? Your phone? Do you enjoy it on a Sunday morning with a cup of coffee? Perhaps on a Sunday night with a nice latte? Do you read it at work later on in the week? I know the paper is part of many's bowel movement routine, I just want to know how and when you read it. As for my personal life. I believe I have spoken about the guy I'm talking to named Rex. He says hi by the way. We went to a 90's Themed Party recently. My little brother is coming home from being enlisted in the army. Which, with the way things have been going in the world, is a heavy weight of worry off of my shoulders. I am glad I can find a way to involve community posts here with the closing of General. I have added and removed sections throughout the years, so getting back to the basics from Issue NO. 1 seems to have been the step in the right direction. Thank you to everyone who have been reading The Tank Tribune for these past three years, and I hope you have a fantastic Sunday morning!

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NO. 85 - Sixteen Tons

Posted by TheTankTribune - August 13th, 2023

I GIVE MESSAGE THIS THE OFFICIAL SEAL OF APPROVAL. DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT USING A METAL CLUB ON IT

@NitroOrient

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Good Evening Newgrounds! My apologies for the late issue, work has been killing me lately. We have had the Best of July announced, with a lot of fan art of PUNCH PUNCH FOREVER!. This morning's Sunday Phonograph features the audition pieces from those who moved onto the Group Stage of Newgrounds Audio Deathmatch 2023. Kingbastard has a new album out! Paper Planet is coming out next week! All of this and more! Here are hip happenings of Newgrounds!

The-Great-One

INTRO AND OUTRO

@3xBlastMx @A145 @Ackee39 @AlbeGian @ALGOfficial

FEATURED COMPOSERS

@ArramEggleston @ArtCowles @Aterr @Bassclefff @Benji-G

@BeyondOurEyes @CHPSK8 @CloakedSoup @ColBreakz @Cresince

@CrossCarrasco @CrowdDoll @Deemo-R @DenPelm @ErikMcClure

@ET16 @Finnsfolks @FJOB @GalaxyTones @gdfoxy0021

@iamwontolla @IglicaV @Irish-Soul @Boomnm @JensVide

@JinZ @Ketyri @Kitschy @Kreagato @Kysertron

@Lashmush @LordAndiso @Lordant @LucidShadowDreamer @MetaHumanBoi

@MetatronMusic @Mischa-head @Mockany @nascene @NASHqp

@NDXLOfficial @papkee @PsiStarOfficial @Qshunt @Ryzmik

@Semzaiy @SkaydenMusic @spoonman420 @Syamori @ThePal

@Trackers @hania @Troisnyx @DisOmikron @trunotfals

@vidu3k333 @WingsOfAsh @wushyx @xxxZigZagxxx @ZaneLittle

@Zip-Zap-Official @Zoftle @Tokzick

Best of July 2023!

You voted Newgrounds and the Best of July have been announced! PUNCH PUNCH FOREVER! took Best Movie for its team of @Speedo, @arkoirisangel, @Crisppyboat, @ieJoMaFLo, and @bluethebone. Best Game goes to GIMMIKO DEMO and its team of @Tombdude, @Prutte, @AmaryllisMyo, @andiiii, @Andyl4nd, @dreampersons, @gooberthed, @itsreddqueen, @Otrebot, @pollyanoid, @pyokow, @ScariestLemon, @Sumeragi, and @The-G-Zone. The Best Audio goes to @ziday for dreams come true - ziday + wintfye. The Best Art goes to @Luarogen for Art inspired by @bumblesteak on twitter. Congratulations to all of you!

BEST MOVIE

BEST GAME

BEST AUDIO

BEST ART

Best Games of July Review! (with video feedback)

If you're not following @FuturecopLGF, or subscribed to him on YouTube, you really should. He reviews every game from the Best Games of the month!

@JAMRIOT is hosting Newgrounds first Writer's Jam. This being the first one, you had to fill out a form to participate. The maximum entrants have been taken. The Jam will begin on September 1st and end on September 2nd. The Tank Tribune will be posting an update on the September 3rd edition.

Paper Planet Art Contest! ($$ Prizes)

In a past issue we talked about @Graeme and the Paper Planet game. There is now an art contest to celebrate the release of the game! The deadline is August 20th, a day before the game's launch on August 21st. That is next Sunday!

This week's featured artist is @QASSIMELLO. They've been here since 2012, but have recently shared some of their Madness art. Check out their works below!

Just one sip

QASSIMELLO

@Kingbastard has released a new album on Bandcamp entitled Sunken Measures. Kingbastard is inspired by deep sea exploration with some influence from the Titanic Submersible expedition. You can listen to a part of it here on Newgrounds!

Yesterday I shaved

And I forgot overnight

My chin surprised me

@Urichov

The week can get people down sometimes. With all of the hustle and bustle and action packed drama that entails our lives, sometimes it's nice to just kickback and relax. This week we just have a selection of some fun games on the site!

It has been a while since I put something down here. I sadly didn't have enough time to work on the paper due to my workload. I've also a lot going on in September and October that I've been gearing up for. I've also been dedicating part of my time to The Interviewer. Thankfully I also have vacation time coming up at the end of September, so that'll be nice. Thank you all for reading and I hope you have a wonderful rest of the week!

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NO. 84 - Music Everywhere, By Everyone!

Posted by TheTankTribune - August 6th, 2023

"ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO POST"

@TaintedLogic

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Good Morning Newgrounds! Welcome to The Tank Tribune! The Newgrounds Deathmatch Auditions have concluded with Round 1 under way. We sat down with TaintedLogic to talk about not only the Deathmatch, but the Newgrounds Underdogs' Audio Contest as well. There's a change to one of the sections of The Tank Tribune. Don't worry, it's not a replacement, just something a little different. Clock Day is next week, August 15th. The Newgrounds Summer Fest is coming at the end of August, which also signifies the end of Summer. School is back in session, for primary to college alike. Here are the hip happenings of Newgrounds!

The-Great-One

INTRO AND OUTRO

@TeffyD @Kettako @HouseMasta @Psyguy @Setu-Firestorm

FEATURED COMPOSERS

@Karco @MaestroRage @DPK4 @ClassicalFreak @Envy

@TheMerelyHuman @MarkRuff21 @AndrewCr @EDG4RXD @MJnHerAbsolution

@Whatlollolyeet @Banana-head @50Steaks @Anonymous-Frog @TankmanTriweekly

NG TORONO 2023 TRIBUTE

@spicycoffee

Toronto Meetup Recap

@ninjamuffin99 hosted a meetup in Toronto. Tom Fulp was one of many Newgrounds members who attended. There were many stories, laughs, and pictures. They all met up at a The Royal Theater to watch movies from Newgrounds famous Flash Portal. These movies can be seen in this morning Sunday Matinee at the end of the paper.

Art-Inspired Music Contest Results

The 10th Annual Art-Inspired Music Contest has come to a close. @Random-storykeeper has announced the results for this year's winners! Taking home the win in 1st Place was @Everratic for AIM - Bellowers of Grief. It was inspired by @themefinland piece Bellowers of grief. Congratulations!

Bellowers of grief

themefinland

RIP Instagram (and what's next)

@wavetro has left his Instagram account behind. He gave a review of Instagram, describing its flaws, and its stranglehold on its users that it tries to achieve. The part of this post, which is the bulk of it, is the explanation of the other social media sites that creators use to get their names out there. YouTube, Twitter, Odysee, and Newgrounds. If you're an online creator, you should definitely read it.

Newgrounds Summer Fest 2023

This year's Summer Fest is two weeks away! August 25th, 26th, and 27th! @Kekiiro has announced the full schedule! This year's panelists include @ninjamuffin99, @Bleak-Creep, @Jack, @SrPelo, @stradomyre, @RickSteubens, and @milkyace!

We are currently in Round 1 of Newgrounds Audio Deathmatch 2023. The Tank Tribune sat down with former combatant, judge, co-host, and current host of this year's Deathmatch @TaintedLogic, to talk about this and the Newgrounds Underdogs' Audio Contest.

Interviewer: @The-Great-One

Interviewee: @TaintedLogic

The-Great-One: You are hosting two contests this year. One being the (NGUAC). How has this contest evolved over the years? What makes you passionate about it after so long?

TaintedLogic: When I first joined Newgrounds about 11 years ago, I was most excited about using it as a platform to share my own music. I still enjoy making music, but over the years I’ve cultivated a passion for giving others feedback on theirs. I think I’m actually pretty good at giving constructive feedback, something I’m not sure I can say of making music myself, especially on the production/mixing side. I review every piece that I score as a judge for these contests. I don’t think of the goal of these contests as just to determine a winner. I see people coming back to these contests year after year, improving greatly in between. It’s really fulfilling for me to see that improvement and think that I’ve helped motivate that improvement, even in a small way.

The main way the NGUAC has evolved over time is that it’s gotten bigger. The first year, we had 63 participants. Since Covid, it’s been about 400-450. The format is pretty much the same, although the rules have gotten longer and more specific as I’ve learned to anticipate certain problems. I’m also much more proactive about sending reminders for people to participate, boosting our “retention rate” in the 2nd and 3rd rounds.

Also, in the early days of the NGUAC, shortly before the results were posted, I would build anticipation for the results by concocting an elaborate fictional narrative in a series of posts explaining why the results and/or judges were “in danger.” Like many aspects of the NGUAC, these “stall stories” were inspired by some (tamer) jokes made by @Step and @Echo in the early days of the NGADM. Eventually, I discontinued the stall stories, in part because some contestants got very confused and even angry with me. Also, a lot of the forum discussion about the NGUAC now takes place off of Newgrounds itself, especially on Discord.

Most importantly, in 2017 I changed the name of the NGUAC. It used to be the NGAUC, but some folks on the Chips Compo site run by @Johnfn convinced me to switch the U and the A so that we had a standing contest named “chips” and another one named “guac.” XD

The-Great-One: The other contest (is the NGADM). How did you come from auditioning back in Deathmatch 2013 to hosting ten years later?

TaintedLogic: I think it was @Step and @Echo, actually. Darklight17 wasn’t even a member of the site in 2009. But anyway, before I hosted or even participated in the NGADM, I was just a passionate spectator. As a @Waterflame fan, I followed the contest closely in 2012, when he finished 2nd overall. I made a Newgrounds account shortly thereafter, and decided to audition the following year. But I actually have both judged and hosted the NGADM before. Step asked me to be a fill-in judge one time while he was still hosting, maybe in 2015. Then, when he and Echo stepped away from hosting a year later, I helped find new hosts and judges to re-organize the contest, a process led by @ThatJohnnyGuy (then known as RealFaction). @ChronoNomad and I ended up co-hosting the contest in 2017, and I also came back on board as a judge for 2019. So I have a long history of stepping in to help with the NGADM as needed, although the NGUAC usually keeps me plenty busy by itself. :)

The-Great-One: The NGUAC and the NGADM seem to be similar in nature. What are the differences between the two?

TaintedLogic: It's true that the NGUAC format is heavily inspired by the NGADM. I think the main differences are as follows:

1) For the first couple of rounds, the NGUAC subdivides the contestants into groups based on fan total, a proxy for experience level (both with music and with Newgrounds). This helps give less-experienced users a better chance of advancing to future rounds and gaining exposure from the competition, since they're not directly competing with some of the heavy-hitting NG veterans. Then, in the final round, musicians of all skill levels face each other, sometimes with surprising results!

2) The NGUAC is way shorter - 3 rounds and 2 months vs. 6 rounds and 5 months for the NGADM. I try to make sure that the NGUAC is wrapping up before most high school and college kids are back in school. The NGADM usually wraps up in November.

3) A lot of the later rounds in the NGADM are 1-v-1 match-ups, which makes the contest really intense and personal later on. The NGADM also has a series of “fill-ins” lined up ready to rejoin the competition in case someone drops out. That’s not as necessary in the NGUAC because the groups you’re competing against are so large - usually 30+ people in every round.

4) There are also a couple of small administrative differences. The NGADM has usually been stricter with "forum thread management" - creating threads for both discussion and submission, as opposed to one for both in the NGUAC. Various other NGADM hosts have also implemented age restrictions, banned submissions from unscouted users, and had much harder deadlines, whereas the NGUAC has always accepted and even encouraged young and inexperienced musicians to join, and in recent years has had a 24-hour leeway period with submission deadlines. Overall, the NGADM has more of a reputation for exclusivity. Most people join the NGADM because they already know it exists. Meanwhile, I send hundreds of personal invites for the NGUAC to Audio Portal users every year, simply because they’ve posted a song in the few weeks before the contest starts.

It used to be that people regarded the NGUAC as kind of like a stepping stone to being able to compete effectively in the NGADM - users like @Bassfiddlejones and @FinnMK won the NGUAC one year and the NGADM the next. But I think the “stepping stone” model is less relevant now that the NGUAC typically has more participants than the NGADM. In recent years, we’ve had really talented NGUAC winners like @VociferousMusic and @Anthonyragus who have never auditioned for the NGADM.

The-Great-One: How do you like the prospects in both contests this year compared to last year?

TaintedLogic: Oh my goodness, I don’t even have the space here to list all of the musicians I’m excited about. Suffice it to say that I added more than 10% of the NGADM auditions this year to my favorites list, most of which I will likely end up downloading into my personal song library, and that I will certainly pad my favorites list again after the NGUAC tryouts are complete.

The-Great-One: Anything you want to add about the Deathmatch and the Underdogs?

TaintedLogic: Huge thank you to my fellow judges in both contests! These contests are not just something that I can manage alone. I have a lot of help sending PM invites (@ADR3-N), identifying potential rules violations (@Everratic), and managing the Discord servers (@LD-W). Plenty of contestants also make constructive suggestions for how to improve the competitions every year, which I appreciate. These contests ultimately serve as a way of enhancing the sense of community we have on Newgrounds, forming lasting connections between talented aspiring creators, and so they would mean nothing without the contestants themselves. People might think of the NGUAC in particular as “TaintedLogic’s baby,” but it takes a village to raise a child. :)

This week's featured artist is @FunnyPlush. He joined the site back in May 2021, but hit the Art Portal March 2023. Although still new, he has quite a grasp on lighting and shadows. Check out his works below and his art thread Plush's Landfill!

Hoodo

FunnyPlush

TODAY'S HAIKU

A prolonged, dense heat

finally lifts. A wily

summer breeze fills me.

@TaintedLogic

Welcome to something a little different. To celebrate the Newgrounds Underdogs' Audio Contest and the Newgrounds Audio Deathmatch, I thought a change to the history portion of the paper was in order. This is the Audio Portal History. A lot of movies and games on Newgrounds wouldn't be what they are without music. This site has a ton of it. Not just that, it is one of the best places for musicians to put their works up for feedback and use. The best place to start would be the winner of the first Newgrounds Audio Deathmatch on the site. @ErikMcClure, who went by Blackhole12, was one of the combatants in the first Deathmatch. The first Deathmatch was a new idea and was still being worked on. ErikMcClure would snag his victory on May 24, 2010 with his song Soar [Original Mix]. If you're not following him on Newgrounds, you should, he's still on the site making music to this day, with his latest song entitled Eternal Sky.

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