Animation Jam, Ruffle Update and More

[TomFulp]

Animation Jam

@BrandyBuizel has been cooking up a new Animation Jam, expect it to be announced tomorrow if all goes as planned.

Deadlines

Today is the deadline to enter the NG Audio Deathmatch!

Seven days remain to support the Neo Junk City Kickstarter. Have a look at this game! It’s being worked on by @Jhano, @Izzi8bit and @Piggybank12. Here’s the trailer on NG:

Flash Preservation with Ruffle

Ruffle is what Newgrounds uses to run Flash content in the browser, without the Flash plugin. 

Last night’s Ruffle update introduced new filter support that got more movies and games working properly. I listed a bunch of examples in the Ruffle Testing / Flash Preservation Crew.

If you’re ever checking out classic Flash on NG and it isn’t loading in the browser, add this to the URL to test it with Ruffle:

/format/flash?emulate=flash

For example:

https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/59593/format/flash?emulate=flash

If everything appears to be working, post a link in the Ruffle Testing thread and we can turn on Ruffle for that item!

Other News

A lot of invisible changes went live this morning, message me if you stumble on anything that isn’t working right.

Check out the Best of June!

We improved multi-tag search.

July 18 is the ”Loss” Art Collab entry deadline.

July 21 is the Slumberland Music Collab deadline.

July 22nd is the Love Me NG Art Contest deadline.

@ninjamuffin99 is hosting a Toronto Theater Meetup on July 29th!

August 3rd is the Underdog Audio Contest entry deadline.

August 7th is the House Music Collab deadline.

August 11th is the NG Summer Games.

August 15th is Clock Day!

August 20th is the Pass the Mic Collab deadline.

August 26th is Robot Day!

August 31st is the Bar Hopping Art Collab entry deadline.

September 22nd is Madness Day.

October 1st is the Dr. Good Halloween Animation Collab entry deadline.

October 13th is the October NG vs Boyfriend Audio Collab deadline.

November 20th is the Sega Saturn Collab deadline.

@BrandyBuizel and @GeoKureli are looking for people to take the reins on Tankmas ADVENTure. This is a big community event each December but it demands a lot of work and would benefit from fresh talent in the programming and art department.

Something to listen to:

[Czyszy]

Fuck yeah, an animation jam! I've missed these! <3

[NK2007]

Yeah!!!! ruffle update :D

oh wait, Animation jam? that sounds awesome!

[Edeshye]

Haha, that's a nice announcement of an announcement, Mr. Fulp.

Btw I'm loving Neo Junk City teasers, i hope it gets the funds it needs in time

[Dungeonation]

Henry Stickmin games have their outlined text and blurry clouds now in Ruffle! Woohoo!

I was thinkin’ about helping with programming this year for Advent since the conversation in December-January went to possibly using GameMaker this time around. I wanted to help last year but HaxeFlixel was completely new territory for me. Aside from getting multiplayer set up I’d love to help, whoever takes the reins running it DM me 😘

[TomFulp]

At 7/13/23 11:29 AM, Dungeonation wrote:Henry Stickmin games have their outlined text and blurry clouds now in Ruffle! Woohoo!

I was thinkin’ about helping with programming this year for Advent since the conversation in December-January went to possibly using GameMaker this time around. I wanted to help last year but HaxeFlixel was completely new territory for me. Aside from getting multiplayer set up I’d love to help, whoever takes the reins running it DM me 😘

Curious how well Game Maker supports multiplayer, not sure if I've ever seen a Game Maker game do that. Know of any examples?

[OnixDark]

time to set another flash testing day!

YAY! :D

[Dungeonation]

At 7/13/23 11:30 AM, TomFulp wrote:Curious how well Game Maker supports multiplayer, not sure if I've ever seen a Game Maker game do that. Know of any examples?

Off the top of my head I know of Boring Man, and GameMaker Server-based games, which is entering end-of-life in 2024 and requires an account with them to play games that use it.

[joaovictorsilva]

yooo filters!!!

[Billy-SuperSkullz]

Always good to see the emulation of Flash games getting more accurate by the day!

[SkilledFella]

I like collabs!

Anyways, this is great!

[Izzi8bit]

Thanks for the support and shout out Tom, you're the best!

[FunnyPlush]

an animation jam right as i start learning flash 8? count me in!

[FutureCopLGF]

At 7/13/23 11:29 AM, Dungeonation wrote:Henry Stickmin games have their outlined text and blurry clouds now in Ruffle! Woohoo!

I was thinkin’ about helping with programming this year for Advent since the conversation in December-January went to possibly using GameMaker this time around. I wanted to help last year but HaxeFlixel was completely new territory for me. Aside from getting multiplayer set up I’d love to help, whoever takes the reins running it DM me 😘

Oh wow, I just checked out my old game Balls to the Brawl and like you say, it's finally rendering the text with black outlines which improves readability so much! Game had a really rough history with Ruffle: first it couldn't even play due to objects still being treated as existing when they were removed, then it was tough to read because of the missing black outlines for text, but now I think it's practically perfect! Amazing work these Ruffle fellas have done!

[AlexToolStudio]

What is Animation Jam?

[DoctorStrongbad]

Animation Jam should be amazing. Looking forward to all the submissions.

[Luis]

Dammit brandy. Also first post

[MasterHand4444]

Whoever ends up running Tankmas this year, I'd love it if y'all used some of the tracks from the Christmas in July collab album lol. Everyone who's submitted tracks so far has been doing a great job! (I unfortunately can't help in the asked for art or programming departments, but I'd also be down to help make some original music if need be!)

Also y'all - please oh please oh PLEASE check out the Newgrounds VS. Boyfriend collab Tom linked. It's an idea I'm very proud of and I'd absolutely love it for everyone to take part.

[TheExtreamH]

Brandy cooking up another summer jam? count me intrigued.

[TomFulp]

At 7/13/23 07:07 PM, TheAlexToolStudio wrote:What is Animation Jam?

People are given a theme and a deadline to create an animation based on the theme. More info on this one soon!

[AlexToolStudio]

Gahh im not a animater yet

[MSGhero]

I think Tankmas would be irresponsible for me to attempt this year with the projects I have going on. If I'm allowed to not use Flixel, then next year... @GeoKureli

[DoctorStrongbad]

At 7/13/23 10:33 AM, CzySzy wrote:Fuck yeah, an animation jam! I've missed these! <3

@CzySzy

It's about time to bring them back in the forefront. There are never enough reasons to animate.

[TwisterzX0]

Aw, Yeah this is nice, Im looking forward to the madness day and art portal update, this seems nice fulp!

[DoctorStrongbad]

At 7/13/23 10:37 AM, NK2007 wrote:Yeah!!!! ruffle update :D

I came for the ruffle update.

oh wait, Animation jam? that sounds awesome!

but I stayed for the Animation Jam.

How about you?

@NK2007

[Kolumbo]

lets goooo

[NK2007]

At 7/14/23 03:36 PM, DoctorStrongbad wrote:

At 7/13/23 10:37 AM, NK2007 wrote:Yeah!!!! ruffle update :D

I came for the ruffle update.

oh wait, Animation jam? that sounds awesome!

but I stayed for the Animation Jam.

How about you?

@NK2007

me too, i came for ruffle update too.

about animation Jam, the animation jam also got my my attention.

while im inactive i can try to make a animation for animation jam.

@DoctorStrongBad

[XwaynecoltX]

Awesome indeed

~X~

[DoctorStrongbad]

At 7/13/23 05:40 PM, Tankcraft wrote:Awesome to hear that Newgrounds still kicking with animation jams and ruffle

NewGrounds never went anywhere, it's always been kicking and animating. This is the best place to be number two, or soon to be number one. Believe it!

@Tankcraft

[Guidodinho]

Last Ruffle update was absolutely fantastic! Filters seemed to work flawlessly in some of my old animations I checked it with.

And dunno if it was in the latest update, or a previous one, but after the initial Ruffle loading screen, the old NG pre-loaders seem to look like they're loading like they used to do. Actually seeing that bar fill up, instead of being ready right after the blue Ruffl screen. Things did get quite laggy when I was watching the preloader do its thing though, and that's making it take a little bit longer to load too. But when its all done loading, it is playing as silkysmooth like it did back in the day, if not a lil bit more smooth actually. And the right klick, (or tap & hold on the phone) so you can select full-screen has been a super welcome addition right from day 1, thought that deserved to be mentioned as well, before people forget or take that for granted.

Much love for the wonderfull work, even long after the fact of contributing incredible tools like Swivel, well over a decade ago. Genuinely amazing!