I always thought to myself I wish I had started making these flash games about a decade earlier, I might've been too young to even operate a creative software, let alone make anything. But 10-15 years ago Newgrounds was poppin! Like the Super Mario Bros Z era..Even in 2013 my crappy games averaged 40k views which would be an absolute miracle now..I think all the NG users have grown up and moved on. And it sucks cause all I wanted was to tell my stories, for Sonic Adventure X, Mario's Final RPG and Resident Evil Ebola. I know EXACTLY how many episodes and how each of these series' would've ended. I was extremelyyy excited to finish them all one day, but by the time I learned how to start making decent games, NG lost popularity. It just wouldn't be worth the trouble for the amount of people that would actually play the games at this rate. The future Sonic Adventure X episodes were going to be insane! I had so many great ideas and knew exactly where the story would go, our heroes were going to completely lose at one point, I swear Avengers Infinity War stole my idea lol.. In my series they were going to REALLY LOSE in that extreme fashion..But anyways flash is outdated now so if I wanted to tell these stories at some point in the future I would need to find another medium to do so cause Flash was pretty much all I had in mind..
P.S the Resident Evil Ebola series was almost finished for years now, I had worked on it for the longest..If anything I might release the last few parts and that'll be one of the final things I release on here. just need to touch them up..
jthrash
Ironically I use NG these days because my stuff gets more attention (and crucially more constructive feedback) than on more mainstream websites like YouTube and Twitter. I can’t imagine getting anywhere near 43K views here, though.
The teens that come here for Friday Night Funkin’ definitely have different tastes than the Flash generation, but at the same time the website seems to still have a lot of fanart for 90’s/00’s stuff that no one under 25 would recognize, like Klonoa and Metal Slug. Even Friday Night Funkin’ is basically a homage to Parappa the Rapper. I personally like the weird place NG is in right now, but I understand if stuff that worked up until the early 2010’s no longer seems worth it, and I’m sorry.
MetaMike
Oh yeah I completely agree that there's still an awesome, keen eyed community here. But for what I specialize in, flash stuff. that literally takes months to finish.. the audience is pretty much gone. back in the Super Mario Bros Z days, that was the peak for flash content. Anyways I'm glad Newgrounds is still kicking and attracts a new audience for new events.