Best of October 2023!

[TomFulp]

We are actively fundraising for NG to sponsor the upcoming episode of Monkey Wrench! We still need more people to come aboard before we fully commit, thank you for your consideration.

Best of October

Your votes are in and the Best of October have been decided!

Top Five Movies ($100 each + $200 for best Original)

The top entry based on original material and winner of $300 total is Dopamine Dance Man, however @JamesLee has once again generously passed the prize money along, so the $200 for Best Original is going to Flossing Mishap and a sixth place prize of $100 is going to Share your candies!

Top Five Games ($100 each + $200 for best Original)

The top game based on original material and winner of $300 total is Bleek. Congrats @FodderLabs!

@FuturecopLGF has made a Best Games of October post, including a video where he plays every game and gives feedback!

Runner-Up Animation

6. Share your candies!

7. POV: You're Buying Milk | TaterWorld

8. Astarion's Greatest Moment

9. One More Pull (Genshin Impact Song)

10. Feelings 3: Foray

11. Spooky Secret-Newgrounds anime shorts-[VHS]-{sub}

12. Friday The 13th

13. Hockey, Love, & GUTS!

14. The Web has lost its Soul - LOVEWEB

15. RFF The Porpoise Slashing High Sea MadMan

16. Sex Woman in Space

17. Joel Finds Maxwell

18. DO RATS GO 2 HEAVEN?

19. 🚨 SECURITY ALERT !!! 🚨

20. Joust My Luck

21. Wimp Witch: Hiya, Toots!

22. Snowboarding and Honey

23. Failing Upward: Sick Day

24. Honk

25. HAHA, YOU CLOWNS - EP2: POOL PARTY

26. Raisin

27. Gym Rat

28. CASTLEVANIA FLOW

29. 'Adventuring Aloe'

30. 4AM ZOMBIE

Runner-Up Games

6. Beneath

7. Katti

8. Spooky Season

9. Dinosaurs Attack Collab 2023

10. MÆRE

11. THREAT != CONTAINED

12. Sentient Cleaning Device

13. Sporit

14. Hauling Ass

15. Mini-Putt 4

16. Marelza's Cauldron

17. Blockade Burst 95

18. GᕼOᔕTᖴᗩᑕE ᖇIᗪE ᗪᗩ ᗯᕼIᑭ

19. Mírame

20. The Ghost of the Witch: An Ear-ie Halloween Headphone Adventure

21. Creature Collab 2023

22. Fall from Space

23. Wall Wizard

24. Mosa Lina Demo

25. Featherless-Cake Delivery!

26. Cursed Dreams

27. Home 15 Min Experience!

28. Boo! Bark!

29. Prickle

30. Dude - The Deck Swabber

Voter of the Month

The voter of the month and winner of honorary Supporter status is @Evil-Sora!

There's a lot more in the replies below, including featured music and art, along with a compilation of collaborations!

[TomFulp]

Check out the Top Featured Art of October!

@gooseworx unveiled The Amazing Digital Circus, opening the floodgates for fan art.

Five Nights at Freddy’s arrived in theaters, inspiring a fresh round of fan art as well!

Mario Wonder was released, leading @IbraH-Toonz to ponder this situation:

@SuperPhil64 wondered what Super Mario Bros 3 Wonder would look like.

@YinyangGio wondered what the Super Mario Bros Super Show would look like with Elephant Mario.

@ABitofEpicness, @Yonsoncb and @DeluxeDuke created some colorful character collages!

@itzah made some pretty Rosalina pixel art.

@violxiv treated us to gorgeous low poly art all month.

@Cayyrizius wanted to draw a knight casually chatting with a giant dragon. Mission accomplished!

@Stradomyre celebrated the two year anniversary of Dead Estate on Steam with some art! The web version and 2020 Spooktacular winner turned three this year.

The Dinosaurs Attack Collab brought all sorts of goodies for fans of large reptiles. Here are two highlights from @namosaurus and @PestilenceGremlin.

@OneGrumpyLumpy gave us a preview of Death Clown!

@Nempatriarch contemplated AI with the Artificial Harvester of Human Progress.

@BoogWerks dooted us with a honking mech.

@Armpitcore420 created daily mechs for Mechtober!

@nakvi dreamed up some terrifying Pennywise art.

@KarboFelarya took us back on a Journey.

@WizardoFrank crafted some wild PAYDAY fan art.

@UnsolvedCases participated in three days of Nightmaretober with glorious Nightmare Cops art.

Of course there was also lots of Halloween art, which we’ll revisit when the Spooktacular winners are announced! For this post I’ll feature a few artists who didn’t enter the contest.

The season wouldn’t be the same without @VonKreepula, who also made our Halloween site skin!

@SrPelo wished us all a Happy Halloween and a spooky month. @Shukilnashuki also rang in the season and @CheetoDeeto imagined a Spooky Month GBA game

@BeefyThunder did an entire month of monsters behind wheels!

@Shenanigansen created a whole series on getting cozy.

@sinnykitt celebrated Goretober with all sorts of gruesome creations.

[TomFulp]

Check out the Top Featured Audio of October!

@HumanCenterpiece made some dark garage music to vibe out to.

@ifritgoat used Windows XP sounds to make some dark hip hop.

@octopus58 created a spooky dance track for the Keyccordion Dawn rhythm game.

@vai5000 teamed up with SEBii on some sweet glitchcore hyperpop.

@Viraxor made some old school demoscene music for Flashparty 2023.

@Dutonic imagined the final stage of the photosynthesis process; this is what that sounds like.

Coming off a Metroid bender, @skybreakedm partnered with Daeya on this powerful piece.

@SnekkMusic combined pop, fusion and video game elements in this lively song!

@BuhlBoy released a groovy EP.

@BedroomProjects dropped a beat tape.

@XLRSTONE jammed on the electric guitar, inspired by Japanese Fusion bands.

@ZaneLittle released a whole album of digital fusion goodies.

@Fpeyro es en fuego with this Spanish bop!

@Jumbs made some jazzy music for WizardChess

Listen to my October Playlist for more!

Closing Thoughts

Thank you everyone who participated in October! It was a MASSIVE month for collabs.

@Prismisho released The Skibidi Toilet Collab on the last day of September.

@DannyGoodShirt organized Dr. Good’s Operating Theater 2023.

@BlackDingo86NG organized the Dinosaurs Attack Collab.

@Zfert organized Creature Collab 2023.

@Emizip organized Creepypasta Collab 2023.

@DieterTheuns organized Halloworm 2023.

@TechnoCookie organized the Boner Collab.

@AhWham organized The Shrieks and Screams Collab.

@Dry organized a Collaborative Autumn Album.

@EthosSketches organized the Graffiti collab.

@Karlestonchew organized the Cubes mini collab.

@TravelSizedLions organized the 1-Bit Artapalooza - Spooky Edition.

@MechanicalMantis organized the NG Hex Collab 2023, released at the start of this month.

It’s wild that all these things exist thanks to the efforts of their organizers and everyone who joined in to turn visions into reality. It’s also rewarding to see NG’s multi-author and multi-art functionality put to good use.

@mogy64 hosted a Taifau Cafe Art Contest, check out the winners!

@BrandyBuizel organized a meetup at Yestercade in NJ. Here’s a recap!

@Imprez hosted an NG panel and screening at Derpycon.

We hosted our annual Halloween Spooktacular, while @DrSevenSeizeMD hosted the Pumpkin Carving contest, @Thetageist hosted Costume Jam 2023 and @deathink hosted a Horror Game Mashup art contest.

October is always an exceptional month on NG, thanks to so many exceptional people!

Other News

We updated the Art Portal with true multi-image and multi-author support and are still working on touch-ups and fixes.

We migrated collections and series into an upgraded Playlist system, so now people can manage their own series pages, set up music albums and more! Two examples:

November 20th is the Sega Saturn Collab and Sketch Collab 2023 deadline.

November 30th is the BBS Awards Nomination deadline.

December 8th is the Gogo’s Crazy Bones Collab deadline.

December 11th is The Sweet Sixteen Comic Contest deadline, with $1k in prizes!

December 20th is the NGTV Christmas Collab deadline.

January 15th is the Break It Up Collab breakbeat audio deadline.

January 30th is the Kamen Rider Collab deadline.

February 28th is the LISA Campfire Collab and Transformers Collab deadline.

Slushydojo is organizing a Nickelodeon Collab!

[octopus58]

Woah, I've never been on one of these featured posts before I think, thank you so much!!!

Gotta check out all this other awesome music you mentioned in the list soon :D

At 11/7/23 11:48 AM, TomFulp wrote:Check out the Top Featured Audio of October!

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[SkilledFella]

This is awesome! >w<

[FodderLabs]

Whoa, I can't believe Bleek won!

This is awesome! :D

Thank you everyone for playing, leaving very helpful + kind comments and giving much needed feedback!

And thanks to Tom + NG Crew for maintaining and making Newgrounds an awesome place.

This is definitely a huge motivational boost for more updates + upcoming games!

Thanks again and we hope you all are ready for more games! :D

At 11/7/23 11:47 AM, TomFulp wrote:We are actively fundraising for NG to sponsor the upcoming episode of Monkey Wrench! We still need more people to come aboard before we fully commit, thank you for your consideration.

Best of October

Your votes are in and the Best of October have been decided!

Top Five Movies ($100 each + $200 for best Original)

https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/904080
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/904792
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/904745
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/900984
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/902104

The top entry based on original material and winner of $300 total is Dopamine Dance Man. Congrats @JamesLee!

Top Five Games ($100 each + $200 for best Original)

https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/904412
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/902893
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/901502
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/904630
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/902734

The top game based on original material and winner of $300 total is Bleek. Congrats @FodderLabs!

Runner-Up Animation

6. Share your candies!
7. POV: You're Buying Milk | TaterWorld
8. Astarion's Greatest Moment
9. One More Pull (Genshin Impact Song)
10. Feelings 3: Foray
11. Spooky Secret-Newgrounds anime shorts-[VHS]-{sub}
12. Friday The 13th
13. Hockey, Love, & GUTS!
14. The Web has lost its Soul - LOVEWEB
15. RFF The Porpoise Slashing High Sea MadMan
16. Sex Woman in Space
17. Joel Finds Maxwell
18. DO RATS GO 2 HEAVEN?
19. 🚨 SECURITY ALERT !!! 🚨
20. Joust My Luck
21. Wimp Witch: Hiya, Toots!
22. Snowboarding and Honey
23. Failing Upward: Sick Day
24. Honk
25. HAHA, YOU CLOWNS - EP2: POOL PARTY
26. Raisin
27. Gym Rat
28. CASTLEVANIA FLOW
29. 'Adventuring Aloe'
30. 4AM ZOMBIE

Runner-Up Games

6. Beneath
7. Katti
8. Spooky Season
9. Dinosaurs Attack Collab 2023
10. MÆRE
11. THREAT != CONTAINED
12. Sentient Cleaning Device
13. Sporit
14. Hauling Ass
15. Mini-Putt 4
16. Marelza's Cauldron
17. Blockade Burst 95
18. GᕼOᔕTᖴᗩᑕE ᖇIᗪE ᗪᗩ ᗯᕼIᑭ
19. Mírame
20. The Ghost of the Witch: An Ear-ie Halloween Headphone Adventure
21. Creature Collab 2023
22. Fall from Space
23. Wall Wizard
24. Mosa Lina Demo
25. Featherless-Cake Delivery!
26. Cursed Dreams
27. Home 15 Min Experience!
28. Boo! Bark!
29. Prickle
30. Dude - The Deck Swabber

Voter of the Month

The voter of the month and winner of honorary Supporter status is @Evil-Sora!

There's a lot more in the replies below, including featured music and art, along with a compilation of collaborations!

[Nebulate]

What a good month yet again. October is just one of those months that everyone here can connect with. For being my first october/halloween here on NG, it was a great first october and Halloween.

For me: the biggest victory was the creature collab was actually finished i thought it was dead. It was so funn being part of it despite it being in limbo for a month. At it turned out amazing. I love that i was part of it. I may not be a director or programmer (i was just one of the artists). But im so happy that others liked it.

[FutureCopLGF]

Congratulations to all of the game developers for another great month of games! Just when I thought I could relax, the floodgates opened and delivered us 40 great games: I guess the Halloween spirit really brings it out of people!

There were some delightfully spooky games released this month! The top 5 here has already mentioned the fantastic Bleek and Sofia the Witch, but don't miss these:

While we're on recommendations, this is twice now that @EufrasioNuclear has amazed me and stole my number one slot with their games, and I've been surprised to not see them in the top here: last time it was Paraiso, and this time it was Mírame. Do yourself a favor and check it out!

In addition, while they may not have been released this month, making them ineligible for the running, there were some pretty cool games on the featured list that were very appropriate for the season! Make sure to take a peek at:

You can find everything else on my news page as usual!

[TomaFokio]

Yeaaah!!!

[BlueMonday1984]

Another good month for NG as usual.

Going somewhat off-topic:

Fulp, how does it feel knowing this site just outlived The Escapist?

[TomFulp]

At 11/7/23 12:45 PM, BlueMonday1984 wrote:Another good month for NG as usual.

Going somewhat off-topic:
Fulp, how does it feel knowing this site just outlived The Escapist?

NG also technically outlived Twitter.

[BlueMonday1984]

At 11/7/23 12:49 PM, TomFulp wrote:

At 11/7/23 12:45 PM, BlueMonday1984 wrote:Another good month for NG as usual.

Going somewhat off-topic:
Fulp, how does it feel knowing this site just outlived The Escapist?

NG also technically outlived Twitter.

What won't this site outlive?

[TomFulp]

At 11/7/23 12:50 PM, BlueMonday1984 wrote:What won't this site outlive?

I'm curious to find out!

[WaeBakStudios]

Thanks for having us in the running! This was such an exciting month for our show. Newgrounds embracing Failing Upward was the best thing to happen all year. We'll definitely have more soon!

[Luis]

strong animation energy this month.

first post regardless

[ratchili]

Ayyy 18th place !! There was so much good stuff this month, wasn’t even sure I’d make it as a runner up. Congrats 2 all the winners and much love to NG for being epic as always B^)

[deathink]

Thank you to everyone who participated in my competition!

I was able to get my hands on a bunch more keys before the contesed ended so EVERYONE WHO ENTERED RECIVED A PRIZE, and a bunch of people recived extra prizes!

I'll make a post later, but for now here is the grand prize winning submission!

here is the second prize winner

and third prize winner

[DoctorStrongbad]

October 2023 had many Top Notch submissions.

[Redead-ITA]

The best of October banner made me want to this.

i just couldn't resist.

Also yeah James lee animation was both though provoking and also felt like something cyriak worked on.

would be cool to see them both collaborate one day.

[Zapchon]

Everything James Lee puts out is god-tier

[NK2007]

oh, best movies of october 2023, It good!

[Thetageist]

Cong-RATS @HatiValcoran!!! (Hehe, the rat jokes never stop.)

I had a great time testing Forest Shack and I’m excited to see what we can accomplish in the future!

[Thetageist]

At 11/7/23 12:51 PM, TomFulp wrote:

At 11/7/23 12:50 PM, BlueMonday1984 wrote:What won't this site outlive?

I'm curious to find out!

Hopefully you don’t have to find out in your lifetime. Long live NG!

[Topcatyo]

The dedication to showcasing independent artists on this site is always so inspirational. Thanks for doing what you do! A lot of great art on display

[CubePunks]

2ND PLACE - LET'S GO!!!

For real, NewGrounds is an amazing platform and one we've been encouraging creatives of all kinds to use for years now. Its existence has cultivated and spotlighted a lot of the best talent in recent years (and by recent years, like almost 2 decades).

My biggest regret is not owning the Tankman figure.

[HumanCenterpiece]

woah thank you for listening. Love the picks this month. I am glad I joined

[Inku-Inku]

DAMNIT! UNACKNOWLEDGED AGAIN! PUT MOST OF MY EFFORT INTO IT TOO!

[Inku-Inku]

Lucky Bastard

[DrSevenSeizeMD]

@TomFulp when you announce the spooktacular winners, will you include my pumpkin peeps please? 🎃

[NickSenny]

My boi Adam getting Voter of the Month, let's go @Evil-Sora aka DEUCE LA GOOSE