newgrounds loading animation demonstration
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Infamous Newgrounds Loader Animation recreated using PowerPoint.TRANSCRIPT
Presentation by SOCial
Everything. By Everyone.
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Presentation by SOCial
Everything. By Everyone.
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Presentation by SOCial
Everything. By Everyone.
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Founded in 1995, Newgrounds is one of the oldest online flash portals that hosts Adobe Flash animations and games, as well as music and artworks.
About Newgrounds
Key FeaturesNewgrounds Forum (BBS)
Newgrounds forum is a large community for discussion ranging from Flash submissions to personal and off topic.
Some statistics:7,000 unique postings a dayTotal Threads: 1,022,168 | Total Posts: 19,752,959
Newgrounds utilizes Blam and Protection Points to judge new submissions.
Key FeaturesBlam and Protection Points
Submissions are deleted if they fall below the listed score at the listed number of votes:
100 votes: 1.0150 votes: 1.25200 votes: 1.60
Key FeaturesNewgrounds Stats
Levels increase the voting power in the Flash Portal and to indicate amount of experience.
Rank is determined by a user's Blam and Protection Points.
Key FeaturesExperience Points and Levels
Allows users to flag inappropriate content by blowing their whistle on new, “Under Judgement” Portal submissions.
Key FeaturesWhistle Status
Key FeaturesBlogs
Staff, flash animators and users make use of blogs to share any latest news they have.
Through its automated submission and rating system, users are able to submit flash movies, games, art and music.
StrengthsUser Generated Content
To encourage users to submit better entries, awards such as Daily Feature, Weekly Users Choice and Review Crew Pick are introduced.
Awards
Strengths
To provide players a goal to reach, medals are awarded to players for accomplishing certain achievements in a particular game.
Medals
Strengths
The huge active community with over 7,000 unique posting everyday (large user base, interactive), allows members to team up to create flash movies/games (portal buddies).
Collaboration
Strengths
Several flash movies and games are developed into series and have popularized characters that are unique to Newgrounds.
Characters and Sequels
Strengths
Famous characters:Tankman, Strawberry Clock, Pico, Alien Hominid, Bitey, Salad Fingers.
While Newgrounds is an entertainment site, it contains flash movies and games that have mature content and are thus not family friendly.
Mature Content
Weaknesses
Newgrounds lacks the interactivity of Kongregate, which introduces live chat at the side of the games allowing users to ask for helps.
Interactivity
Weaknesses
Similar to Newgrounds, Kongregate is another popular entertainment website that allows users to upload user-created flash games.
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