So, I had a bit of trouble trying to sell my latest game, and now it's gotten a horrible score and lots of flamey reviews on the sponsor site (Armor). I'm disappointed, but there's still time to work on it, as it hasn't been released virally yet.

If you guys could test it out and leave me some comments here with any helpful advice for things you think you would change, I'd really appreciate it. Feel free to be really honest, you won't hurt my feelings. I'd like to see if any consensus builds about a certain specific thing about the game pissing people off or something.

Even if you just don't like the game and don't have much of a reason, you can say so. (Or if you really like it, you can say that too. ^^)

Anyway, here's a link!
http://armorgames.com/play/14868/the-naked-alien

So I usually don't do this sort of thing, but this one has always pissed me off.

There's a company that actually trademarked the name "tower defense" and they've been using it to send DMCA notices to people in the Apple app store.... It's been going on for a couple of years and I would have though by now SOMETHING would have been done about it. I haven't heard anything, though, so I decided to try out a Change.org petition. If you sign it, it'll sent Com2Us (the company) an email saying you're going to boycott their products unless they agree to stop enforcing their trademark. Let's fill up their inbox!

https://www.change.org/petitions/stop-com2us-fro m-enforcing-the-trademark-of-the-term-tower-defe nse

Salut!

Alors, je cherche à quelqu'un avec qui je peux parler français dans MSN Messanger ou AIM. :3 Je suis très nouveau à la langue, mais je suis suffisant à faire un conversation, je pense. Peut-être je peux vous assister à parler anglais et vous pouvez me assister à parler français! :D

Hey!

So, I'm looking for someone who I can speak French with in MSN Messanger or AIM. :3 I'm very new to the language, but I know enough to have a conversation, I think. Maybe I can help you speak English and you can help me speak French! :D

So, like, I haven't watched Cartoon Network for a while, and decided to start doing it again, and...damn, where did all these awesome new surrealist shows come from? It's like they took all my best dreams and animated them with noodle limbs.

Also, Bender dog is awesome! :D

I'm resolving to finish my game that's almost done anyway.

Aimin' low... :D

I logged on to see if NG was still here, lol. Hope Tom and them are all doing okay! NG's HQ is right in the path of Sandy...

This smells like well fermented Newgrounds.

I've been looking at the Unity game engine over the last few days, and I'm amazed at how easy it is to make a 3D game these days! I'm thinking I MUST try it out on something. The only downside is that it's REALLY expensive for the pro version which has all the sexy features to make your games look awesome.

Soooo, I'm wondering if anyone has tried any other editors and could recommend one that's less expensive. OR maybe you have lots of horrible things to say about Unity, which is also welcome (I don't want to spend half a year developing a game that won't work, lol).

I think I'll try out Torque3D and NeoAxis to see how they compare. They're much less expensive and sound like they have similar features, but we'll see, I suppose... I'd like something that can export to a variety of platforms, but I'd probably be trying my hand at a downloadable game, so win/mac support is mainly what I'd like to see.

I think the most interesting part of this redesign is the scores/voting. I wonder if the new layout and score graphic (rather than number) will make people vote how they like something rather than what score it already has and where it is in the rankings...

Or maybe once we all get used to the new layout the war will start up again, haha.

P.s. thx 4 new :3 emot

ZOMG it's out! Go play it already!

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/
586756

EDIT: Well well, it looks like Matt (the one who likes swords) had decided to release his newest game. Drat you Matt! THIS MEANS WAR!

Actually, I'm just glad the weekly contest on NG ends on Wednesday. :3