At 10/31/23 08:38 PM, OviManic wrote: As corny as those games are, they are probably the only Sonic games I have some connection towards. I’ve basically lost most interest in Sonic once Heroes came about and haven’t gained any further interest in it since. Why? Because I actually got those games for that obscure noisy console, the Dreamcast. Arguably, they are the best versions you can play above any future port: especially in regards to DX.
If Sonic Frontier was like an Adventure 3 rather than a “Sega, hire this man!” game, that probably would’ve been the first Sonic game I bought in over a decade! Despite these games being ultimately linear, there is just enough openness in these stages that makes you feel like you’re doing more than just following a trial. And once you’re done with a few levels, both Adventure games have the best “break-time” sub-game that Sonic Team refuses to replicate after all these years. It’s amazing how many good concepts that development company decides to ditch every time they start making a new game!

Yes, I kinda miss SA1&2, especially the Dreamcast version. Maybe one day, I’ll try to find an emulation of those games and play them again.

At 8/16/23 04:00 AM, OneGrumpyLumpy wrote: There's probably already a topic like this.

Obviously I'm generalising and being cynical, but has anyone else stopped (or mostly stopped) buying video games? Whether due to over-hyped shit quality launches, shady business practices or just falling out of the hobby and not caring enough to buy a system that can run modern releases? To me it just feels like it's not worth upgrading.
The last new release I bought was Doom Eternal back in 2020. Now it's just whatever runs on this shitty laptop.

At 6/30/23 05:48 PM, ZombieGhost wrote: Title of the challenge: It had to be done.

Hey there,

since I cannot do music for some obscure reasons. I decided to make a challenge for a music contest for fun and I will be the judge. All the music here will considered experimental and I did love to hear your take on my challenge.

There is no prize, this is for fun and for training. So feel free to take this as an opportunity for you to exercise you music skills.

Here is some titles for the songs you could use.

The code of nature.
It had to be done.
Sweet revenge.
Sheer Will.
Cold dead hands.
Hollywood's Nightmare.
Professional Brawler.
Beer Pong.
The solution.
Dissolving the proof.
Cruel Fate.
Blessing from the slums.
Dark Sacrament.
Joy ride to hell.
Fear no more.
Angel's lullaby.
Calculating your future.
Lover's note.
Heart to heart.
Sharp wisdom.
Calculated Crime.
Sinner's ambition.
Nothing to care for.
Last call to heaven.
Beauty of a mistake.
Fear me more.
Way to go.
Where's Angela?
Conclusions.
End of the chapter.
Final page.
Less to know.
Smile to me.
Notorious loser.
Freak lose it.
Mind your business.
Professionals do not cry.
Fought like a dragon.
Fight the devil.
A cause for the weak.
Trouble in the matrix.
Thou shall know the price.

Hope to hear you songs very soon!

Have fun!

At 5/26/23 12:21 PM, GameSmashDash wrote: I'm attempting to do a platformer/ tower defense game and it just feels wrong, it feels out of place to use the conventional upgrade system that tower defense games use let alone placing things down.

I haven't played many experimental tower defense games and I have to know if certain elements of genres feel out of place when genre mashing certain ideas together for you guys, anything that just didn't work game formula wise.

At 5/28/23 05:44 AM, lwpage wrote:

At 5/28/23 05:30 AM, DestroyinASentry wrote: DirectX will probably be still stuck at version 12
Also games will only weigh 1.5 GB, what???

Does anyone care about DirectX anymore? It's not 2000 anymore where opengl really sucked, vulkan is surpassing DirectX right now or is on the verge of doing so.

At 5/14/23 05:48 AM, DamnedByFate wrote:

At 5/14/23 02:19 AM, OroburosStudios wrote: I recently opened up a new account on Newgrounds having barely touched the site in almost 20 years. I'm actually pretty surprised at how much of the content I used to look at on here is still around considering Flash being shut down back in 2020. One thing that perplexes me though is that a lot of the "Adults Only" content seems a bit... underwhelming. Like, most of the A-rated stuff I find is in fact porn. But then I also come across a few submissions with the A rating where the only thing "adult" about it is that there's a naked person with their bits showing, but the piece is otherwise no more sexual than a pinup. Did Newgrounds get stricter about nudity since the last time I had an account on this place?

Visible genitals must be A-rated. 'Twas always thus, and always thus will be.

At 5/27/23 08:25 PM, Tenebrare wrote: I have my doubts on Twitter for people, who does not have blue. Twitter recently wrote to me and handed me back an account from 2011 (not sure what year it was, but it was really really old and it was Twitter contacting me with it not me them) or something Anyway very old. And even when I use correct tags, my stuff does not show up on feed. Was better pre Musk. Now its like ... Im dead.

So... have spare money for blue ? go wild.

At 5/27/23 06:51 PM, Griffonmender wrote: Was it taken down or blammed?
If it was blammed, not much you can do about that.
If it was taken down, it may have violated art portal policies, such as being rated improperly.
Here's a link to the art guidelines:https://www.newgrounds.com/wiki/help-information/terms-of-use/art-guidelines

At 5/10/23 05:17 PM, Urichov wrote:

At 5/10/23 05:08 PM, wonkypaws wrote:

At 5/10/23 04:47 PM, Urichov wrote: Buddy.

Buddy.

Come on now. Really think about this. The resolution can go down a smidge I promise.

holy shit those are some GIGANTIC drawings lmao
some people just prefer working with bigger canvases 🤷‍♀️ you need a good computer to be able to run them tho. i personally stick to 1536x2048 bc i work on procreate, which has a layer limit, and my ipad is a potato. plus i find that it’s the size that works best for me personally

Yeah I don't begrudge them working at this size, just I'm having especially slow internet recently and so I'm over here like did my laptop really have to go through a whole episode trying to load this. What detail would not be appreciable if this image were 20% smaller I ask.

At 5/15/23 09:59 PM, Redmage4 wrote:

At 5/15/23 05:30 PM, CyberRobotnix wrote:

At 5/15/23 02:59 PM, Redmage4 wrote:

At 5/15/23 08:09 AM, CyberRobotnix wrote: All RPG Maker games are cringe, yes even some of the classics like Yume Nikki.

I don't get what's so cringeworthy about RPG Maker or SquareSoft's games. Earthbound is an excellent RPG Maker trilogy that's been so underrated.

The problem with this engine is that you're limited in creativity like the only thing it ever does are walking sims and RPGs.

...Maybe, and also no voice acting considering youtube has hundreds of voice actors just doing it for kofi or whatever...

I said RPG Maker games, not RPGs in general dude. Games made on RPG Maker are mostly cringe, point.

Also some of the FFs I played like Final Fantasy 7 are fine meanwhile I never played Earthbound, never will, I have no opinion on it. RPG Maker didn't even bloody exist back when they were made.

Oh, yes it did, it came from Japan in 80's or 90's and was the engine for many console RPGs worldwide. You can call it the Flash Player of Nintendo JRPGs. I think FF7 was when JRPGs started not using it as an engine due to the 3D graphics of the N64, since RPG Maker is all 2D graphics, backgrounds, characters along with everything else. The gameboy still used it, however.

At 5/15/23 09:31 PM, jthrash wrote:

At 5/15/23 08:09 AM, CyberRobotnix wrote: All RPG Maker games are cringe, yes even some of the classics like Yume Nikki.

The problem with this engine is that you're limited in creativity like the only thing it ever does are walking sims and RPGs.

Anyways to answer the question, I think Ao Oni is great cos it uses the engine optimally for a basic gameplay loop that works. It's also not goofy like many other games made on this.

I think the whole point of engines like RPG Maker is to make the silly meme game ideas you have without worrying about whether it's "marketable" enough to justify the cost and time sink of using an industry-standard engine like Unreal and hiring other artists, musicians and game devs. That's perhaps why the games tend to come out as "cringe." It's not for people who have serious ambitions of becoming a game developer (though it may be a good beginner software for someone trying to decide whether they enjoy game dev and think it is worth pursuing), just a slightly healthier way to spend your screen time than just playing JRPGs for hours. Same for Game Guru, which is just a level editor for standard FPS games.

That said, the engine is getting way too complicated (and expensive) for casual game making now. If you must have the Unity-esque features in the upcoming RPG Maker Unite, or code in elaborate workarounds to the limitations of current RPG Makers, you might as well as move on to the engines used in the industry, like Unity and Unreal, or maybe Godot if you like the extra challenge or want an engine that is TRULY free. Save your money and just get RPG Maker 2003 for like 5 bucks at most in the likely event that you only make something in it to pass the time on especially boring weekends. And of course, try to find a way to avoid random enemy encounters in your game once you get comfortable with the engine, it's like the one thing that keeps me from enjoying and finishing otherwise-amazing JRPG classics like Final Fantasy VI (6).

At 5/15/23 02:59 PM, Redmage4 wrote:

At 5/15/23 08:09 AM, CyberRobotnix wrote: All RPG Maker games are cringe, yes even some of the classics like Yume Nikki.

I don't get what's so cringeworthy about RPG Maker or SquareSoft's games. Earthbound is an excellent RPG Maker trilogy that's been so underrated.

The problem with this engine is that you're limited in creativity like the only thing it ever does are walking sims and RPGs.

...Maybe, and also no voice acting considering youtube has hundreds of voice actors just doing it for kofi or whatever...

At 5/10/23 11:59 AM, Stonmann wrote: I wasn't sure if I should put this in the audio or animation forum but I think this is best. I'm working on an animation project, and for it, I took the original South Park intro, which is 30 fps, and dropped it down to 10. I did this by cutting the video into 3 frame chunks, cutting off the second and third and replacing them with the first. Basically, every three frames isn't 3 frames but one frame repeated thrice. The reason this is here, is if you know the original South Park intro, you know it's weird, so listen to what it sounds like after I did all that:

At 5/9/23 11:38 AM, Stonmann wrote: I honestly don't see an issue but posting it may be controversial. I personally hate how society treats a 17 year old as a "minor", literally meaning lesser, and the second you tern ~6 570 days old absolutory everything changes and you're an adult. It's a stupid system, and I also think people treating someone say 16 as a different bread to someone say 18 is wildly unfair. But it is what it is even if I hate it. So I would recommend making NSFW if you want to, though I wouldn't post it though because most people properly won't think the same.

At 4/30/23 05:48 PM, Aivrotsiel wrote: I find the most difficult part of a critique to be keeping the subjective opinion out of it. By subjective, I mean whenever you simply don't like an art style because of how X or Y looks or feels, as opposed to the strong or weak points of a piece (though I feel a critique should always highlight both the good and bad parts and not just the bad).

That said, its important to check whether the critique is wanted or not (some people outright state not looking for it), and to keep things focused on what can be improved, and not "this is garbage, I hate it". To look at it in another way, why would you waste time critiquing someone who doesn't want it, or who will outright ignore it? Wouldn't the time be better spent critiquing someone open to critique?