Hey you! Do you want to design a hero or villain for a world of endless possibilities? Or do you have a hero or villain OC who you want to include in an epic battle between good and evil? Well, this is your chance!

@totally-inkish is hosting a trading card collab! Primarily themed around superheroes, this world is also home to living cartoons, aliens, vampires, robot assassins, and much more! We’re working on a Kickstarter campaign to be able to sell packs of these cards. You’ll get a physical copy of your own character card(s), and all proceeds from selling packs will go to the PA Equality Project, an LGBT organization local to the collab organizer.

Can’t draw? No problem! You can be part of the team that makes the marketing possible! Animators, musicians, voice actors and others are all welcome to pitch into the official trailer and other parts of the project.

So, what are you waiting for? The city of Strongstead Hills awaits you!

Got any questions or concerns? Leave a comment below and I will do my best to answer!

For more info, here’s the original Collab Forum post. Note that some of it has been changed since the making of this post, so when in doubt, just ask.

Well, yes, I am, but this is out-of-character Cass, and I wanted to talk about the series a bit, as well as thank everyone who helped me.

I started this serialized Creepypasta as I was coming off the end of another, much larger project that I had to abandon because the scope was far too big for what little business know-how I have. I wanted to do something much, much smaller to get at least one thing finished and out of my head. Truth be told, it’s not as exciting to write this as it is to imagine what it would look like as a game (and believe me, I do have an entire game in my head), but I have to maintain a certain degree of self-restraint in order to succeed. I may want to do everything, but I am not one of those people who can do anything.

That being said, it’s a pleasant surprise that this has actually worked out well so far. It’s been a long and hard battle to facilitate engagement with the posts, especially since they’re in General, where they can easily be flattened by a million other people’s trains of thought. But we’ve gotten it working, and made some modifications to prevent having to rely on an audience too much. Less of an ARG, I suppose.

Anyway.

Big thank you to the team who’s been acting as the other characters in the story of New Grounds, PA:

• @DrSevenSeizeMD - Seven Seize
• @Tritnew - Tritt Newman
• @GJMARS - Gemma Mars
• @Tsnophaljakarax - Fancy Jack
• @anothergamedev - Captain Chan

Special shoutout as well to @wonkypaws for being invested in the ARG across multiple posts, as well as @Taka for briefly being part of the cast before other time commitments got in the way.

And thanks as well to the team from the abandoned project, in no particular order:

@tee-dot-jay-dot, @Frostgale, @Tsnophaljakarax, @Doumierstar, @VoicesByCorey, @themaskedmonocle, @SquigglyVA, @JoshDytonVO, @VioletJosh, @VoroVoice, @Bleak-Creep, @SumOlives, @Sorayaya, and @WrapFX, who willingly took on the special responsibility to sit me down and kindly tell me I was an idiot.

In order to keep the ARG going, I resolve to be as optimistic about it as a child too young for NG who thinks that 10 followers makes them a celebrity. We will see this to the end.

New to the series? Click here!

Hey you! Do you like anime and waifus? Appreciate a good OC design? Do theme park rides with extra lore hold a special place in your heart? Excited about Sonic? And do you love… booba? Well, there’s a new artist in town who can show you all of these things and more! It’s my friend Mitch, or @Mitchika, who I first met as an anon on his Tumblr blog. Tumblr and the like haven’t been treating him very well, and so I’ve finally convinced him to come here! So let’s welcome Mitch to Newgrounds, where the waifu culture runs strong and the drama-seeking is frowned upon.

Mitch has a great eye for character and outfit design, which he uses to the fullest in his cast of humanized Alton Towers rides and other OCs. His characters are a lot of fun and have a wide variety of personalities!

There will likely be some NSFW artwork from him in the future, but NG’s content filtering, and especially the newly reimplemented blocks against underage users viewing A-rated submissions, make me confident in being able to recommend his work to everyone, regardless of whether or not you want to see that. I encourage you to go check out the artworks he’s already posted and give him a follow!

What is Rom Reaper?

Rom Reaper is a serialized creepypasta project with an element of audience interactivity, thus making it kind of a casual ARG. The game is organized by me and posts are made by a group of my friends who have designated “character” roles in the story. Other users are welcome to converse with us in our threads!

The game takes place in the seaside town of New Grounds, Pennsylvania. Something strange is afoot - a mysterious being lurks around the sea. Is he man or monster, or maybe both? Stay tuned for more threads to find out more!

All Posts So Far (as of 1/2/23):

• Something crawled out of the sea… - posted by Cass Kingside
• New Grounds Boating Party! - posted by Seven Seize
• I'm Okay! - posted by Tritt Newman
• Just wanted to let you know I'm okay. - posted by Cass Kingside
• The Hospital Break In - posted by Gemma Mars
• IMPORTANT: Please Help Me Rescue Cass! - posted by Seven Seize
• We Didn't Find Cass, But She Might Still Be Out There - posted by Fancy Jack
• We did some research on the laughing gas we found - posted by Fancy Jack
• Info Of The Reapers - posted by Gemma Mars

Daaaayo! The Thetageist holiday special is here! You can give it a listen on my YouTube channel!

For @Seth’s Christmas collab album, I went all-out in Sibelius to cover Mele Kalikimaka in the style of Danny Elfman. I mean, it makes sense, right? With the use of Harry Belafonte’s music in the Beetlejuice soundtrack, I thought it would be fitting.

Unfortunately, Seth didn’t get enough entrants into the collab, so it couldn’t be posted on his music group’s YouTube channel. Instead, since it’s a cover and can’t be put on NG, it’s on mine! This was actually one of the things that motivated me to get a YouTube channel in the first place.

So, happy Halloween, merry Christmas, and happy holidays all around! I hope you enjoy this time to come together as friends, family, and community!

I’m keeping it a secret until the video comes out, but let’s just say I’ve got something big about to drop.

Thank you especially to @Seth for the spark that started this project.

Welcome back to my follower milestone party! This time we've got 52 more, with the total being 202 fans!

I'm really not sure what to do to celebrate - even the usual "inspirational" newspost seems a bit too dry - so how would you like to celebrate?

As always, be sure to check out my YouTube channel! Big stuff is coming!

-Cass

Hey everyone!

Due to having a lot of creative ideas that don’t work on NG for whatever reason, I have started a YouTube channel now to collect all of it.

Currently, I only have two videos up - they’re just a couple of short animations I made when I was learning Flash. Too short for the Movies Portal and too reliant on sound to be posted as gifs. But in the future, there’ll be meme animations, video edits, and more!

I keep the comments off because I’d prefer to use my channel as a portfolio for my work rather than another social media site to keep track of. So if you think something I did was cool, let me know here on NG! I’m happy to finally be put this stuff out there, and I’d appreciate you subscribing if you want to keep updated on my adventures!

Thanks!

-Cass

Hey!

I’ve been off and on thinking of doing the same thing as “I’ll make you an OC”, but with some kind of variation. This will have to be quite some time from now, because of my current art fatigue, but I’m still interested to hear your thoughts on what I could come up with.

The two ideas I can think of that I think are pretty solid are for fandom OCs and personas. I also have the idea of “give an OC, get an OC,” where people getting OCs from me must first make one for me, as a way of slowing down the flow of requests and getting some dopamine for me in the process.

Let me know if you’d be interested in any of these, or if you have more ideas!

Back in April, I made a news post when I got 50 followers. That amount has since tripled. (I missed the 100 follower milestone in the middle, but that’s okay.)

Look at us now. We’re not just a party anymore, we’re like a small local festival. And the more members we gather, the more likely it is that I’ll be able to start hosting my own events and they’ll get off the ground. So it’ll be good for you too! (Still sad about the laser tag thing, that would’ve been fun. This is part of the reason why I don’t feel up for doing an event for this milestone, the other being I’ve loaded myself with too many projects already and I’m just perpetually burnt out in general.)

There has been some stress and strife, but in the end, I’ve learned from my mistakes (I hope) and I’m still standing. I’ve got a different name from the one I started on NG with, I use skull emojis all the time now, and I spend way too much time on the BBS. But it’s me, and I’m here.

Thank you all for getting me here.

While you’re at it, feel free to join either of the clubs I’m trying to start!