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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Good Morning Newgrounds! How are all of you doing today? I had a break from my day job last week, so that was nice. I'm still working on adding some touches here and there to The Tank Tribune. Mainly retooling the Supporter and Member's Choice sections going forward. The Flash Forward Jam winners were announced. The Daily Feature awards have been getting picked up by collaborations more recently. Speaking of which, the Collabinator has been getting adjusted and plugged. There's some singing in the Phonograph today. @DrSevenSeizeMD and @KayEf have become new Patrons on Patreon! We also take a look back at one of the greatest reviews on Newgrounds. Without further delay, here are the hip happenings on Newgrounds!
THEME SONG BY @sorohanro
FEATURED COMPOSERS
@ZONE-SAMA @AceMantra @GalaxyTones @Vista-Sound13 @DESHIEL
@CreatorsStudio @JNGMusicOfficial @CHGangBoy05 @Surkol @Kysertron
@NoStereo @Hoverland @H1K0 @EctiBot @Petrol4brains
@BenTibbetts @Rythim-Man @Jazza @LawnReality @MaestroRage
Flash Forward 2022 Winners
The winners for this year's Flash Foward Jam have been announced! Best Game goes to @BoMToons, @Luis, @JohnnyUtah, @l0litsmonica, @Pyragmus, and @TeraVex for Portal Defenders: Tower Defense. Best Interactive Movie goes to @GGMagenta and @PaleFreak for Dangalorian Chicken Race. Congratulations to you both!
BEST GAME
BEST INTERACTIVE MOVIE
Sonic Prime on Netflix
@D-Mac-Double is the voice of Sonic the Hedgehog for Sonic Prime! He is featured in this morning's Flash Portal History section!
Open for Commissions?
The Collabinator is a feature here on Newgrounds where you can post your services. If you're looking for an animator, voice actor, musician, writer, developer, someone who can bark like a dog really well, or draw a cat really well, then look through the Collabinator. If you're open for commissions, you can put all of that information in a post on the Collabinator. Which now you can rate your posts, so if people are looking for NSFW material or SFW material. Something violent? Something kid friendly?
SHOOT TRIP DIE is out!
@conundrym has announced the release of SHOOT TRIP DIE. The Full Game is now available on Steam and as of this post it is ON SALE! If you want to try it out, you can play the demo here on Newgrounds!
We start off the month of May and the week with The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie Rehydrated Part 2 picking up the Daily Feature, Review Crew Pick, and Weekly 2nd Place for the @SBRehydrated team. With The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie Rehydrated Part 1 picking up the Daily 2nd Place and Weekly 1st Place. Another entry in @Delfrig Alphabet: The Series picks up his seventh Daily Feature and eighth Weekly 3rd Place entitled Y. The first entry in this series to win a Daily Feature was for K back in February 2022. @BayLaugh wins their first Daily Feature for Kirby Shorts Compilation to celebrate Kirby's 30th Anniversary. BOXBOT DELIVERY wins a Daily Feature for its team, @heyddderek, @foneycone, @ohmepeepee, and @stillcrisp. This is the first Daily Feature win for heyddderek, ohmepeepee, and stillcrisp. It is the tenth Daily Feature win for foneycone. 7 GRAND AWESOME (safe for work) has picked up a Daily Feature for its team, @mBluett, @pikachu000000000, @SiIvaGunner, @600billionlazer, @BobTheTacocat, and @HeartPink. Kero Kero Groove - License to DIE! wins a Daily Feature for its team. @tofokyo Daily Feature, @cosmicpopstar, and @InfestedPear. To close off the week we have @Scrabble007 winning his first Daily Feature for Raven Seat.
These are the Top 5 songs from the Audio Portal based on Popularity from May 1, 2022 - May 8, 2022. Starting off at number five is cherry ~ ! by @1450. At the number four spot is Great Blue by @ItsOceanus. Taking the number three spot is Decline's Drops - Petroleum Port 3 by @modalmodule. Coming in at number two is tenby & SupaBubba - Pasta Parkway by @SupaBubba. And the number one song of Newgrounds last week goes to @Diffraktor for Pigstep - Diffraktor Remix.
This week's featured artist is @ForgeFrog. They've been on the site for over a year now. They haven't posted much in the Forums or through News Posts. They have a lot of content on the Art Portal though. Check them out, give ForgeFrog a hello!
Depression
ForgeFrog
The Interviewer has been a bit behind lately. I would like to share with you, the inspiration for The Interviewer. It is with a project back on the Newgrounds Mag called Developer Spotlight. This is where interviews would be conducted with the animators and game developers of Newgrounds. Tom Fulp of Newgrounds, Randy Solem of Video Game Directors Cut, Dave of Retarded Animal Babies. It is being updated every Tuesday on the Newgrounds @Archive. Check out some interviews of the past.
ARTIST NEWS
Announcement
@cliquebeats music can now be found on multiple listening platforms. Amazon, Spotify, YouTube Music, Apple Music, iTunes, SoundCloud, and of course Newgrounds. He's also looking for feedback on his music. Listen to his works below and give them a rating and review!
MarkyLyne is back after 10 years!
@MarkyLyne has returned after a ten year hiatus. He is working on a new project. A character is lost navigating a puzzle in a strange dream. He has worked on numerous collaborations here on Newgrounds!
Alice is Dead Updates
@Hyptosis has been working on a remake of the Alice is Dead Trilogy created by @ImpendingRiot and himself for a launch on Steam. The Steam version entitled Alice is Dead: Hearts and Diamonds will include new art, lore, and puzzles. A fun classic brought back for a new generation, and new experiences for the older players.
Hey, question.
@Vortonox wants to know if he should release some of his old stuff on Newgrounds. He is looking for feedback.
We have two entries into the Flash Portal History this morning. The first one to talk about is Super PSTW Action RPG. Which is the shortened version of Super Press Space To Win Action Role-Playing Game. You go on an adventure, upgrading stats along the way, finding the golden sword, and face off against the evil King. This was a fun little game, mocking RPG tropes and simplifying them way down. It won the Daily 3rd Place and was Frontpaged. It was made by @Rhete and one of the voice actors was @D-Mac-Double. One user however did not like this game. @axman13 made a review about it. Giving it one star and listing his reasons why. This review is no long on axman13's page. However it has been forever enshrined in our next entry this morning.
@D-Mac-Double first decided to voice act axman13's review in dramatic fashion. This would go onto @RicePirate making an animation based on it. Oddly enough, axman13's review in audio and animation form would garner more views and recognition than the game he reviewed. Dot Dot Dot - Animated would go on to win the Triple Crown on Newgrounds, winning a Daily Feature, Weekly 1st Place, and funnily enough the Review Crew Pick. axman13 reviewed the movie and took it all in stride. He liked it.
The inspiration was D-Mac's track. I thought it was hilarious, classy, and well played. One night I had eaten too much salsa and I couldn't sleep on account of stomach pains. I'd always wanted to try my hand at kinetic typography, so I gave it whirl and completed it the next day. O Fortuna was the first song that came to mind and it happened to time out almost perfectly. I bank the success of DotDotDot completely on D-Mac's performance. The success of the video was a fortuitous fluke, and to this day I am most proud of it only because it brought a good chunk of traffic to Newgrounds, to Rhete's game, and most of all to D-Mac's voice talent.
RicePirate
axman13 has recently come back to Newgrounds due to FRIDAY NIGHT FUNKIN'. He reviewed that game with five stars. @ninjamuffin99 has decided to frame said review. As funny as this is and how much we have laughed at axman13's review. He's probably the most famous reviewer here on Newgrounds. Anyone would love to have their work reviewed by him. Keep on rocking axman13.
NEW USERS
@HyperPikachu64 is new to the site. He's a fan of Pokemon and Yoshi. He loves the animations and games here on Newgrounds. He just popped into the Intro Thread to say hi. Share some of your favorite Yoshi and Pokemon stuff here on Newgrounds with him!
@DuMitchaWelch is a new artist here on Newgrounds. He wrote DuMitcha Academy Fighters on DeviantArt before it was bought by Welch Vineyard Productions in 2021. He's looking to produce more artwork though. Check out his works below!
@Pixelad3 is a new artist on the scene. Say hello them in the Intro Thread and check out their works below!
@Danir2905 is a new musician on the site, you can call him Eldar. He was recommended Newgrounds by others. Check out his works below!
@Idunnomanreally is a new artist to the site. They joined to play the games on the site with one being Madness Accelerant. Through browsing the site, they learned that a lot of independent creators are on the site. They even came across us The Tank Tribune! They're looking to build up confidence in posting something to the site and to communicate with others on the site. Give them a hello in the Intro Thread!
@UziDoorman-1 is new to site. Give them a friendly hello in the Intro Thread!
STORIES
I’m 20 now!
@Tritnew turned 20 Years Old last week! Go and wish him a Happy Belated Birthday!
Holy shit I got taller
@poopypeter got one inch taller! Check out the thread to see this development!
The Book Fair!!!!!
@DrSevenSeizeMD is setting up the Book Fair. She has shown Newgrounds the best book!
Question: Why even after all these years, you're still on NG?
@THE-VOID wants to know, that after all these years. What has made you stick around here on Newgrounds?
QUOTES OF THE WEEK
"not nearly sexy enough to be maltos' cousin"
"Persona? - I'm a real leprechaun."
"wake up take a shit then go to the bathroom"
"4 PAGES GUYS 4 PAGES - Itcigxigxitcigxigcgickgckgdsursr6r746as7585dditxigxigcohckchohcigxigxdt"
"I don't bake but I do get baked."
PIC OF THE WEEK
SOMEBODY IS UOTD
Everyday, Newgrounds picks a random user of the day that is put on the front of the Community Page. Here on The Tank Tribune, we feature last week's Users of the Day as Users of the Week. Newgrounds member @iOcide made a thread, perhaps out of spite, about this.
"and i dont care who"
-iOcide
The first response came from @HAQnSPITT who stated that they wanted to collect these. Thus, whenever someone is User of the Day, this is the thread to highlight that user more. It is also a title that The-Great-One will never have. Ever.
#NOIMNOTBITTER
@NickSenny
@DoodleDox
@BuhlBoy
@BioPlant
@Linethickness
@Cyranek
@BenzBT
Technically DrSevenSeizeMD has been a patron for The Tank Tribune since its inception. She was under the Tip Jar Tier. Now she's under the Producer Tier. As a Patreon of Dohn's Desk, you will see behind the scenes stuff for The Interviewer, the Upcoming Composers for The Tank Tribune, and if you are at the highest tier, interviews for The Interviewer one week before they are posted on Newgrounds. I'm still working on my Patreon stuff. Juggling day job and essentially Newgrounds as a night job is daunting. I can manage though. Before you drop a single dollar to my Patreon I implore you Support Newgrounds first and foremost. Without Newgrounds there is no Tank Tribune. Thank you all for reading. I will be seeing you next week, in a shinier new issue!
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Luis
Thanks fo the shout out homie