BBS Awards

It's the time of year again for BBS awards, here are the links for you to view, or not if you aren't a supporter!

BBS Awards 2024 : Discussion

BBS Awards 2024 : Nominations

BBS Awards 2024 : Supporters User of the Year

And here's your timetable.

• BBS Award Nominations: 28th November 2024 - 12th December 2024
• BBS Award Voting: 13th December 2024 - 31st December 2024
• BBS Award Results: 1st January 2025 (Hopefully)

BBS Awards Request

My progamming skills are so basic, no cap fr fr, so I am looking for someone who wants to work on the BBS Awards with me, and create some cool way to present the awards. Something like an RPG style could be cool, but I am open to ideas, and suggestions.

If someone wants to make some music, that would be cool too, anyone who wants to help out is welcome! Just drop me a message.

Bluesky

All the cool kids are moving over to Bluesky, so I have as well, and because I am a cool Newgrounds supporter, I of course have the custom handle! Feel free to follow me, or don't - https://bsky.app/profile/little-rena.newgrounds.com

I will try to post on Bluesky, but I am terrible with newer techology, I still miss the old days of forums for everything, for some reason, I struggle more with centralised social media than I ever did with multiple forums.

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Sketch Collab Shitpost

Still plenty of time to join the Sketch Collab Shitpost, you can find the thread here - https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1539397

My previous newspost also covers this collab, I look forward to seeing you.

BYE!

That's it, thanks for reading!

I love ripping off the people who do the official one, if you want to check that out, please do go here - https://midgetsausage.newgrounds.com/news/post/1472374

The shitpost version is always a bit of fun, mostly for the untalented like me, but everyone is allowed to join!

Here's the thread if you want to: https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1539397

Deadline is December 13th.

I am funny.

Yo,

If you are not a supporter, you won't have seen this thread: https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1536582

But that is a reason you should become a supporter: https://www.newgrounds.com/supporter

However, because I am nice, I am inviting everyone to make a part for Clocks of the BBS 2024 for this upcoming Clock Day, here's last years, with all the previous ones in the description.

Just draw or animate a clock persona thing and send it to me.

Love u

lmao ok yes that's what it was, not your attitude

A few months back, I had a great idea of making a game with Chat-GPT and the graphics with DALL-E. this was an experiment to see how useful it was for someone who has no experience with Javascript, but a basic understanding of programming.

I did run this by @TomFulp before hand, to make sure it was all okay to submit to the portal, and I also enlisted the help of @Olskoo to do the Newgrounds API intergration because I couldn't work it out, and I don't think Chat-GPT would have stood a chance.

The game I had a concept for, which I gave to Chat-GPT, and it produced a base structure, and the bones of the game. Over time, I would ask it to fill in parts to add function to the game, such as the generation of planets, the UI elements, and other parts. The only part I played was putting the code into place, like the simple monkey brain I am.

However, when actually getting things to work, Chat-GPT suffered from what could only be described as Computer Senility, fans of Red Dwarf will note that the ships computer, Holly suffers from this affliction. It had a terrible habit of forgetting what the game was doing, what the assigned variables were, and getting stuck in debug loops.

Multiple times, I would have to start from scratch because it just painted itself into a corner, and I couldn't help, because I had no idea what I was doing either, the old saying of the blind leading the blind, nither of us were going to be able to debug the problem.

Another issue I ran into was the character limit for input, so the game came to a conclusion once I couldn't paste the whole code in anymore. I'm not sure if this is a limitation of the free Chat-GPT or not, but there we go. I could have seperated the code into different files, however, again I had no idea what I was doing, and I tried to go down this route with Chat-GPT to do it, however, it was unable, and ended up in a debug loop of hell.

Chat-GPT would also sometimes just stop when giving an output, so you'd say "continue" and it would continue, however, it was 50/50 if it had remembered what code it had written before it stopped, to what was coming next, it was a mess, and frustrating.

The easier part was the art, you just input some words, and get an outcome, though I will say, the mines look more like birthday cakes. I'm not a fan of using AI art for anything outside of personal projects, generally I am more than happy to pay an artist for their time. The words for the description, and in game were also generated by Chat-GPT, and that's probably one of it's better uses, even though it is a pack of lies.

In conclusion, the outcome is a playable game, it sort of matches the vision I had, and for that, it would be a great basis to pass onto a human as a proof of concept to build a game from, with a decent game loop, and have more of a purpose to it. Currently, it is bare bones, an experiment of a monkey brain, and a senile AI.

What did I learn from this experiment though? That AI could be a great tool for what I mentioned above, and for those with an understanding of programming to get it to do some of the more tedious work for you, but you would then be better off debugging it yourself, or getting someone else to look over the code, else you may also end up in debug hell.

You can check out the project below, and please give me your thoughts on this experiment, I am not looking for an ethical discussion, personally I believe the art, and programming would have been better if I had run it all past a human. The biggest ethical issue is shovelware, but that has always been an issue, asset flipping, and dodgy labour.

I would also like to invite @Olskoo to give his thoughts, as he saw the code! I may also release the code to supporters of Newgrounds in future.

Thank you for reading my essay, if there are any teachers, please give me a grade, I hope I pass.

I wish you all a Happy Clock Day and invite you to check out my submissions, the first being a joint effort with Newgrounds supporters, all contributing some great art!

Thanks!

Hello!

Everyone seems to be doing one of these recaps, so I shall do so as well, partly as a bit of a time away from putting together this years BBS Awards submission, which will be released tomorrow, or in a few days, depending how well I feel. Last year, I kicked off the year with the BBS Award Results.

And my submission for Flash Forward 2022 got the Honorable Mention - Oldschool Award and won first in the Best Games of February, yet, because it wasn't OC content, I didn't win the money! I'm not mad, I don't own the rights to Putin, or Russia, though things would be better if I did.

I was also honoured that one of my terrible voice clips got remixed, and added into a game.

When Halloween rolled around, I submitted something in every category, but, I was unable to win anything. You can check out my recap of that here. I can only assume that the contest was rigged, as I didn't even win anything for "Best Halloween Newspost" or "Best NG Dumb Entry".

I did submit a fair number of other works through the year, and helped @DVa-Clock with the Clock Crews Flash Flood in February. Please do check out my other works, should you wish, or don't, most would recommend against it. I rounded out the year with the General BBS Sketch Collab Shitpost 2022, a parody of the main Sketch Collab.

Thank you very much for reading, have a happy new year, and here's to many more on Newgrounds!

Hello,

I am here on Halloween for you guys, bringing you news that I have accomplished my goal of entering all four contests of the Newgrounds Halloween contest thing. But, on top of that, you lucky devils also get this blog post, and a bonus dump item! I have made use of all 6 Newgrounds upload options!

I shall now link all of my amazing work for you to check out!

My terrible game:

My terrible animation:

My terrible audio drama:

My terrible art:

I hope you hate them as much as I do!

You might also be interested in two projects I have been involved in, the first is OTB - The Derelict by the ever amazing @RadioTubeClock, it was a real honour to feature in a series I have loved watching!

The other is HAPPY FAMILY organised by the wonderful @Kolumbo who I have known for some time, it was a fun concept, and a great role!

Thank you for checking out this newspost, have a great Halloween, and brush your teeth!

<3

Hello,

I am Little-Rena, here to wish you a happy Clock Day, and look towards many great years to come! Newgrounds really seems to be in another golden age right now, so why not take this time to get to know the Clock Crew? Here is the website, incase you don't know it! Also, become a supporter, help out Newgrounds, go on, click the link and put some money down, you know you want to!

Now, sales pitch over, time to intoduce you to my two submissions for Clockday.

Clocks of the BBS, a collab of BBS users

D.Va Clock and the Quest for Flash 8, a great AAA title, for free!

And if you are one of them loonies who thinks that I am also D.Va Clock, here is Das Twenty-One Second Collab

As for my favourite Clock Day submission so far? Well, I mean, they are all amazing, like:

FFFFFF-F: Additional F, it has drama, twists, and turns

Medic's Magnum Opus, for those who love art

OTB - Powder Keg because OTB is always a good time

But I mean, really, when it comes down to picking a favourite, with no bias, it has to be Untitled-4.fla

Enjoy the rest of Clock Day, and see you on the flip side, or something innit!