Merry Christmas, everyone!

Congrats! And it's cool to see a shout out to Potatoman, that dude is wicked talented.

I'm loving the new art viewer! Definitely a much-needed update, my previous method for viewing large art submissions was opening the image in a new tab - far from ideal. It'll be nice to see the Art Portal integrated into the Project System too, looking forward to that!

It's interesting to think about scouting extending to Games and Movies - I like the idea of scouted artists being able to just send content through while unscouted folks still need to go through judgement. It feels like a good compromise. Part of me is worried that submissions that have been sitting in judgement for a while would take even longer to go through, but after checking a minute ago, it looks like the longest anything has been in there as of this moment is a few days. That's not so bad. I remember back before Unity used WebGL, it was awful; submissions could sit in there for months before getting voted through.

Plus, the honest truth is that standards for judgement have gotten a lot more lax, anyway.

Super excited to see this in action! Do we know what time this will be uploaded tomorrow?

Congrats to all the winners! It's super surprising to me to see so little Madness representation, though, especially after such a flood of great content for Madness Day. It's especially nuts to see Madness Ghostification and Madness 4:20 not even break the top 30, those were such good entries.

RIP, Blounty.

Happy Madness Day, folks! Gotta love those violent lil' guys.

Ooh, a pretty big win as far as researching how to make certain things work in Flash! I had a game from the last Flash Forward I had to drop, and 90% of the tutorials/Stack overflow tips I found were for AS3, and often weren't transferable to AS2.

Man, you know it was a content-filled day when the King of the Portal himself only hits #10.

Congrats to all the winners! And the new API content is awesome - I'm working on a mobile game in Unity for Stepford's jam, so the timing for those new components couldn't be better.

Also super happy to see the cloud saves in the API! @PsychoGoldfish , is this a precursor to getting the level sharing API back in business?

No worries! I recorded a quick clip on my PC here. I remembered the BG having a little more going on, like particles that reacted to the mouse, but I think this still gets the idea across. Even though those aesthetics wouldn't be a good fit for this project, the part that grabbed me was that it's A) abstract, and B) reacts to the mouse.

Looks awesome! As for the BG, maybe something more abstract instead of representational? It could contrast nicely with all the characters at the forefront. Might seem like a weird example, but I think Prey (the 2017 one) had menus where the background was abstract, but subtly moved in response the the user's mouse movements.

Hey, I'd be down to join a team in a supporting role! I'm working full-time, but I've got no major events going on through the 15th. I'd especially love to take a stab at some UX/UI design, and I'd be available for 2D VFX, art/animation touch-up, and some scripting too. Most of my experience is in Flash (latest project below), but I've got some Unity experience under my belt as well.

Hey! I've been working on a CSS add-on for Newgrounds, and I'm stumped on how to fix a bug. In a nutshell, I want to be able to change the background of the vote input on Newgrounds submissions as the user moves their mouse over the stars. I think I've gotten 90% of the way there with this code (I've been using Stylus, but you should be able to just slap this into the ng_2015.css file on any submission page and it'll work). For the sake of making a small example, this only changes the BG on the 4 rating, AKA 2 stars out of 5:

input[value="4"]:hover+label:before {
width: 150px !important;
height: 65px !important;
left: 100px !important;
background-size: 75px 333px !important;
}

input[value="4"]:hover+label {
background: url("http://t3.gstatic.com/licensed-image?q=tbn:ANd9GcSdSSSufvK4PeNcBroBsBjG7OPzcikFEaWXpy9SZ4cWMGQfcMnaTI1_5qiLvRU8Ot3g");
width: 400px !important;
height: 400px !important;
left: -100px !important;
opacity: 0.5;
}

Some general notes on that code:

- I realize that there's way too much "!important" going on, but note that's there to override values enforced in the original CSS from the "div.vote-input div.star-bar" selectors that otherwise wouldn't let me make changes to individual hover states for each input value.

- Most of the px values are placeholders. They're just there to see if what I'm trying is possible with pure CSS.

- The 1st block there with the :before pseudo class is used to manage the star-bar itself. It acts pretty similarly to the "div.vote-input div.star-bar, div.vote-input div.star-blam" selector in the original CSS. The left value acts as a counter to the one in the 2nd block.

- The 2nd block manages the background itself. The opacity value is there so I can see that the other stars actually are being drawn underneath the image.

So, that brings me to my issue. With the code above in action, you can see that dragging the mouse back to the left works perfectly fine, but not the right. I'd have thought that'd be an issue with the 1st block, but I found that if I push the BG image further left so it doesn't overlap the next star (which ideally it wouldn't do anyway), it works as intended. So, I thought I'd mess with the z-index for the "div.star-bar" selector, but man, this thing is just not having it. Here's a pastebin with what I tried (because I don't want to stuff this post with any more text than it already has).

That... almost works? There's a weird flickering effect, and my guess is that the hover behavior is interfering. So I'm not sure how to resolve that. I've also tried using pointer-events: none, but that similarly interferes with the hover behavior, which makes sense.

So, the long and short of it... I think I'm most of the way there, just can't figure out that last piece. How would I make it so you can hover back and forth across the stars, and be able to seamlessly switch out the voting input's background?

I know this post probably ended up wicked bloated, but I wanted to make sure I covered all bases in terms of what I've already tried, the logic of things, etc etc. Plus, this is such a specific issue, I haven't had much luck searching elsewhere. Thanks for any help!

Hey Dungeonation, what would you think of asking a mod if you'd be able to edit the first post in this thread to say that submissions are closed? I'm not even sure if they'd be able to, but it might be worth a shot. There've been a handful of folks coming in that aren't aware that they can't submit, must be frustrating for everyone involved.

Finished with Goloth! Here's the 200x200 version:

And here's a higher res version in case we need it!

A) Real-life experiences, and B) Blend together the things that inspire you. Super basic example, but look at Star Wars. George Lucas blended together what interested him - myth, westerns, religious stories, and a whole bunch of other things. Then he made something new from it. Same idea. I'm sure Eddsworld and the Unikitty creators did the same thing.

The original post says 200x200, but I'd recommend going way higher in your source (just make sure to retain that 200x200 ratio). If you ever want to post your art somewhere else, it'll look a lot better at a higher res!

Just saw the post about starting to close the door on new entries - didn't expect this to fill up so fast! If there's still room, I'd love to do Goloth by @Vongrimsworth if they're alright with it. I think Goloth would qualify since they showed up in a few frontpaged art pieces Vongrimsworth made this year, like this one:

Happy Pico Day, everyone! Man, it's nuts to see how much progress was made in the last year when everything is listed out like that. Here's to another year of big growth!

Oh, also - made a little something for those who want to Pico-ify their voting experience!

Featured Item font, you have met your match!

Man, so many recent updates around content ratings and filtering! Guessing there was an update behind the scenes that made this a lot easier to implement? Or does someone on the team have a deeply-rooted passion for filtering?

Happy Kinda-Not-Really Pico Day!

The real question: will Elon fund the creation of a real-life version of the Tankmen tank (electric, capable of space travel, wifi, heated cup holder, etc etc included)?

For all the folks saying they didn't get confirmation: I messaged EKublai a few weeks ago after having the same issue, and he confirmed that my initial email did go through, he just had to search in a different place for it. My guess is that some auto-filter on Google's end might've sent it to the wrong folder or something, but the moral of the story is that it did go through. I'm assuming the same happened for most other people in here, and your writing did get sent. I know EKublai's juggling a couple of other projects right now, so I felt like it'd probably be a little less stress on everyone's plate to put that out there.

Can't wait to see what else comes through the portal for the game jam! A ton of the entries from last year were just insane. Wasn't able to finish my entry in time, but I'm still going to finish it up and submit it sometime soon-ish! I just hope AS3 support is added to Ruffle if this is done again next year - there's a mountain of stuff I learned from this jam that would've been a hell of a lot easier in AS3 than 2.

I sure do! Here is the library for the Delaunay / Voronoi content. I'm going to try to get the A* pathfinding up tomorrow; I was trying to put together an XML example much like in the original link written in AS3 (I reconfigured the library to take objects straight from AS2, having the id, x, y, and joined properties to mimic the XML file), but AS2 doesn't play nearly as nicely with XML as AS3 does. I'm going to put together a little example and repo for that tomorrow after work, pretty similar to the Voronoi one there.

Gat damn, that image gets bigger every time I refresh, I swear

Oh, also, on the color scheme for the cover... aqua-green could be super cool, like in the palette files here that were meant to be reserved for the Lit Portal.