Best of May 2020!

[TomFulp]

If you missed it, I posted last week about black lives, protests and the future of policing. I encourage everyone to take time to listen and read about everything that is happening. If you’re fixated on conspiracy theories at the moment, here’s an interesting thread to consider. 

The people seeking change are real and they are putting forth interesting ideas; take it in with an open mind. Consider the Strong Opinions, Weakly Held framework, where you remain open to information that challenges long-held beliefs.

Community News

@VoicesByCorey is organizing a Voice Actor Collab to showcase voice actors and writers.

The Musk Animation Jam prize pool is currently at $5,410 and even 11th place can snag $100.

@3p0ch has created a MetaGame Collab Interface Prototype, which could allow multiple devs to make a game together even with each of them using different frameworks like Phaser, HaxeFlixel, Godot, and Unity. It’s a cool concept!

Best of May

Your votes are in and the Best of May have been determined!

Top Five Animation

The top-ranked animation based on original material and winner of $250 is Auction Day. Congrats, @JoelG!

Top Five Games

Runner-Up Animation

6. Kirby Guardian Ep3: Art school

7. 3 Creepiest Videos Found on the Internet

8. The Hero

9. PSA_Piracy

10. INFINITE GUITARS PREVIEW

11. Swiper No Swipey

12. Sonic the Hedgehog: Special Zone

13. Chaotic Heart: First Encounter

14. A Leson Of LERNING

15. Hello Universe (헬로 유니버스) (2018)

16. X Æ A-12

17. Studio World

18. Are You Baby, Keemstar? (Yo Mama)

19. Pico day collab 2020

20. TREAT

21. Mickey Never Came Back

22. One Step From Eden in a Nutshell

23. May Fox have a Chip

24. Gold Fever

25. RAILROAD

26. Breaking the 4th Wall

27. Gee Wiz

28. Hollywood Interrupted

29. WarioWare Gold Reanimated Collab

30. TD-Year End

Runner-Up Games

6. RED LINE

7. Gunhook.io Online

8. Interstate Drifter 1999

9. Life Of Alex

10. Forgotten Hill Pico

11. Remember To Forget

12. Where's The Cheat?

13. Keep It Powered

14. Gravity Snake

15. Ninja Suffering

16. Melody Shuffle

17. Creep Away

18. Huerage

19. There was something here

20. Prism Light

21. Broken Guns

22. Josh Dumb

23. ShapeMaze

24. Bounce Back

25. Miscen...Again!?

26. Touble & Trouble

27. Can You Save the World ?

28. Get to Work!

29. Larcin Lazer

30. SHEEPS

The voter of the month and winner of honorary Supporter status is @TTRM!

I’ve been keeping up my monthly music playlist tradition with a May Mix Part 1 and Part 2. @littlbox has also created a littlMix for May for your listening pleasure.

For some of the best art from May, I recommend browsing May’s featured art, ranked by score.

I also made a post a few weeks ago highlighting a bunch of cool artists.

Thank you everyone who participated in May! We’ve been seeing so much great stuff in recent months and I’m sure it has brightened a lot of days as COVID lingers on. Stay safe out there.

[TimeBender]

These are cool tom. It was also my birthday this month

[VoicesByCorey]

Thank you for the plug Tom! :D I’m loving the direction this collab is heading. I can’t wait to share it with all of you!

[Fro]

The voice acting collab is going to be really good. Just the scripts that are being voiced now are making me laugh super hard. We have a couple more coming in and a bunch of projects that I haven't had the time to listen to yet.

It's also going to be a crazy good resource for animators to animate off of. It in itself could be an animation Jam! At the very least it's going to get a lot of good voice actors in touch with animators who might not have branched out to them before.

[3p0ch]

Thanks for the shout-out Tom!

If any devs would like to collab to make a meta-game of interacting games then drop me a line in this thread. Imagine along the lines of running around in a metroidvania game to muster troops for a war, while issuing orders in a strategic war sim game to open new metroidvania areas, reaching a spaceship to fly around in a flight sim while strafing enemies from the war sim and entering new metroidvania zones, with bossfights taking place in an FPS shooter game. Bring whatever genre you like to the table.

[Jacob]

Thank you for linking that thread. I've been struggling to comprehend the fervor with which a number of these conspiracy theories have been shared and believed, and Jared Yates Sexton has now given me a lot of history to look into.

[FutureCopLGF]

Another nice month for games as usual! After last month's absolute flood of 50~ games, we're back to the more usual, and more manageable amount of around 30~ (though there certainly wasn't anything wrong with seeing a lot of great games being made during a tough time). I had fun quizzing myself to see how many references I could recognize in the PICOLLAGE: did better than I thought I would, but I still gotta long way to go in familiarizing myself with all the new works on here!

[JoelG]

Wooooo, what a surprise!! Thank you so much everyone!!

[Rarykos]

Whelp, I've never been in top 5 monthly games, that's a new record!

Thank you!

[Urichov]

Hey I voted for 4 of those winners. The voice actor collab and that Metagame thing look super neat. Good month, folks.

[DrSevenSeizeMD]

At 6/9/20 10:29 AM, Fro wrote:The voice acting collab is going to be really good. Just the scripts that are being voiced now are making me laugh super hard. We have a couple more coming in and a bunch of projects that I haven't had the time to listen to yet.

It's also going to be a crazy good resource for animators to animate off of. It in itself could be an animation Jam! At the very least it's going to get a lot of good voice actors in touch with animators who might not have branched out to them before.

Write a skit about biscuits and gravy for me and @FUNKbrs to voice.

[rtil]

always have a soft spot for games with a gameboy aesthetic. they were also fun, which helps.

[PhantomArcade]

That thread was a good read, it's been shocking lately to see the intense hate going around, but amazing seeing long standing racist shit get debunked and generally being armed with real knowledge and history has been satisfying.

I almost regret making that voting cartoon, but it still makes me lol. Maybe I should do another to balance it out.

Anyway, congrats to the winners! Seeing even MORE mazing art on a daily basis has been the highlight of my quarantine.

[littlbox]

At 6/9/20 09:48 AM, TomFulp wrote:I’ve been keeping up my monthly music playlist tradition with a May Mix Part 1 and Part 2. @littlbox has also created a littlMix for May for your listening pleasure.

Tom, you sweetheart. <3

Excellent picks this month!

[snailpirate]

At 6/9/20 07:48 PM, PhantomArcade wrote:That thread was a good read, it's been shocking lately to see the intense hate going around, but amazing seeing long standing racist shit get debunked and generally being armed with real knowledge and history has been satisfying.

I almost regret making that voting cartoon, but it still makes me lol. Maybe I should do another to balance it out.

Anyway, congrats to the winners! Seeing even MORE mazing art on a daily basis has been the highlight of my quarantine.

That voting cartoon is still fuckin hilarious though honestly

[TharosTheDragon]

At 6/9/20 12:32 PM, FuturecopLGF wrote:
Another nice month for games

Indeed, I voted for 8 games and 2 movies this time

[Deity-Donkus]

At 6/9/20 09:51 AM, TimeBender wrote:These are cool tom. It was also my birthday this month

Good thing you said it for me

[Cyberdevil]

Congrats to the winners and hey @TTRM! Always fun with a familiar name in that spot too.

Definitely amazing content all over lately.

[TTRM]

At 6/21/20 09:02 AM, Cyberdevil wrote:Congrats to the winners and hey @TTRM! Always fun with a familiar name in that spot too.

Definitely amazing content all over lately.

Err.... what? Did I miss something?

(Honestly, I'm clueless here....)

edit: And that makes my first forum-post on this site, after a good 10 years of being on it...

[Cyberdevil]

At 6/23/20 05:23 AM, TTRM wrote:

At 6/21/20 09:02 AM, Cyberdevil wrote:Congrats to the winners and hey @TTRM! Always fun with a familiar name in that spot too.

Definitely amazing content all over lately.

Err.... what? Did I miss something?
(Honestly, I'm clueless here....)

Whaaat, you missed the 'The voter of the month and winner of honorary Supporter status is @TTRM!' mention?!

Didn't get a notification from that at all...?

edit: And that makes my first forum-post on this site, after a good 10 years of being on it...

Seems you did post something back in 2018 too...

[TTRM]

At 6/23/20 05:57 AM, Cyberdevil wrote:

At 6/23/20 05:23 AM, TTRM wrote:

At 6/21/20 09:02 AM, Cyberdevil wrote:Congrats to the winners and hey @TTRM! Always fun with a familiar name in that spot too.

Definitely amazing content all over lately.

Err.... what? Did I miss something?
(Honestly, I'm clueless here....)

Whaaat, you missed the 'The voter of the month and winner of honorary Supporter status is @TTRM!' mention?!

Didn't get a notification from that at all...?

edit: And that makes my first forum-post on this site, after a good 10 years of being on it...

Seems you did post something back in 2018 too...

I guess I did.

Yes, I did receive a notification, but I didn't notice it.

Only happened upon it by accident just now, when temporarilly disabling a custom layout-filter.

(I find the behaviour of that bar at the top (the one that shows notifications, messages, etc...) a bit annoying (interferes with visibility of the page's content when adjusting the scroll to fit some submissions' sizes into the window), so I blocked the element.)

TL:DR

Yeah, I missed it.

[Cyberdevil]

At 6/23/20 06:07 AM, TTRM wrote:I guess I did.
Yes, I did receive a notification, but I didn't notice it.
Only happened upon it by accident just now, when temporarilly disabling a custom layout-filter.
(I find the behaviour of that bar at the top (the one that shows notifications, messages, etc...) a bit annoying (interferes with visibility of the page's content when adjusting the scroll to fit some submissions' sizes into the window), so I blocked the element.)

Ah, so you don't usually get notifications at all... interesting way to circumvent layout behavior. I've never had a problem with that icon myself, guess we might use somewhat different resolutions/devices/something.

TL:DR
Yeah, I missed it.

Seems like my post served some purpose then. :) GTK!

[TTRM]

At 6/23/20 09:58 AM, Cyberdevil wrote:

At 6/23/20 06:07 AM, TTRM wrote:I guess I did.
Yes, I did receive a notification, but I didn't notice it.
Only happened upon it by accident just now, when temporarilly disabling a custom layout-filter.
(I find the behaviour of that bar at the top (the one that shows notifications, messages, etc...) a bit annoying (interferes with visibility of the page's content when adjusting the scroll to fit some submissions' sizes into the window), so I blocked the element.)

Ah, so you don't usually get notifications at all... interesting way to circumvent layout behavior. I've never had a problem with that icon myself, guess we might use somewhat different resolutions/devices/something.

TL:DR
Yeah, I missed it.

Seems like my post served some purpose then. :) GTK!

Let's just say that I preferred the old design, where the top bar STAYED at the top, rather than dropping down to your position when you scroll upwards to see the line just offscreen above.

(I know... it's a petty thing. Still a thing though.)

[DoctorStrongbad]

Congrats to the winners. May 2020 was amazing.

[Cyberdevil]

At 6/23/20 11:39 AM, TTRM wrote:Let's just say that I preferred the old design, where the top bar STAYED at the top, rather than dropping down to your position when you scroll upwards to see the line just offscreen above.

Aah right, that thing. It does get in the way occasionally, or disappear at inopportune moments. I guess you just learn to work around it after a while; think less of it.

(I know... it's a petty thing. Still a thing though.)

Yupp.