MADNESS DAY 2026 TOTALS
ANIMATIONS: 145
ARTWORKS: 744
MUSICS: 129
You guys don’t make this easy. Parsing for placement is agonizing and I’m still feeling the sting of slashing away everything until we had seven in every category. The 20th madness day and the momentum just doesn’t stop and it’s all thanks to every single one of you for following along in the adventures, and more importantly; contributing and fabricating your own.
Total prize money up for grabs: $2300(thank you to those who threw in cash to the pool)
Animation:
1st - $350 + Mindchamber Hank Trophy; TARGET 324: ACT 1 - Impudency
2nd - $250 + plush of choice; Madness Toonforce
3rd - $150; Nobody Massacre
4th - $100; Madness: Combatant Syndrome
5th - $75; TouHou Madness Project ep4
6th - $50; LSD EN MIS VENAS
7th - $25; Salvaging The Madness
Artwork:
1st - $225 + Mindchamber Hank Trophy; His Predicament - Madnessday2026 by KiwiWiii
2nd - $150 + plush of choice; The Wonders of Creation (and rapid fire Madness artworks!) by Fat4Survival
3rd - $100; Two Titans meet, as if was written by SpryCom
4th - $75; Are They Stupid? by Noobosikov
5th - $50; I WAS HOPING IT WOULD COME TO THIS // Madness Day 2026 by Constantinople1
6th - $25; victor's burgering by t-router
7th - $25; Madness Day 2026: Home Sweet Home by Ketchup-Daddy
Music:
1st - $225 + Mindchamber Hank Trophy; Atlantis
2nd - $250 + plush of choice; 3_0_3 - Shutdown (SIN V)
3rd - $100; Dies Ultima - Auditor Final Boss
4th - $75; Contingency Cognizance
5th - $50; Prepare to Jump
6th - $25; Ashes from Nevada
7th - $25; Capture a point
An absolute goddamn massacre. A knock down, drag out fight to the death. Know that I will be reaching out to the winners via the NG note system tomorrow (Tuesday). There was so much to judge.
Judge Honorable Mentions
Miss_Ebola
Animation: Slipping Mask
Artwork: Madness Dance by PearlFish on Newgrounds
MAD GIRLS | MADNESS DAY 2026 by Twisted4000 on Newgrounds
Music: Pretending You Could Live Without a War
Zepumpkineater
Animation: Options EX [MD2026]
“I think Options EX shows that 2d hand drawn cartoons don't have to fall into the stereotypical expectation that they're light on violence and too focused on depicting their own headcanons rather than an interesting story, I think Options has a lot to love regardless of your taste in Madness cartoons. Dripping with style and hand crafted 2d animation, I'd be amiss if I didn't toss some praise this cartoon's way.”
Artwork: DO WHAT COMES NATURAL!!! by MungoBUNG0 on Newgrounds
“Bungo has been in the Madness art scene for quite some time now and every year I am knocked over by how much style his art has. Bungo's art style reminds me heavily of the glory days of 2000s cartoons and comic books and it's always a treat to my eye whenever it crosses my screen.”
MADNESS DAY 2026 - NOT LONG FOR NEVADA by magiturge on Newgrounds
“Magiturge is another long time artist in the community who clearly has a lot of love and passion for Project Nexus' arena mode. The composition of this piece is just also very alluring to me, I love how every character from arena is incorporated, the difficulty icons in the bottom, if this were a physical playing card I would love to own it in real life.”
The MAD God by razorvampire on Newgrounds
“Razorvampire is one of those artists who knows exactly what he wants to do and does it well. He's got some of the most unique depictions of these characters that I've ever seen and I think that's something worth acknowledging and celebrating. This also just happens to be one of his best
colored and rendered pieces I've seen from him.”
Uncle Funkle
Animation: BIG MAMBO COLLAB
Isolave
Animation: pure rotten light
Cheshyre
Animation: Shonenfication II (Doom of Nexus)
Music: Inherited Consequences
DarkSignal
Music: Crusification
Games
First person shooter based on Madness. Basically a fast paced arena affair with the familiar characters thrown in there so you can have a good time blowing them apart with rocket launchers and miniguns. It has become a far more visually appealing game since you have last seen it.
You might’ve seen a demo for this earlier this year, but Outsidetheboxgames has pushed his original plan much, much further. Story, Arena and Playground modes are there to help you explore what violence this game is capable of.
I am embarrassed to say that I very nearly got completely consumed by this thing live on stream.
This one you gotta download from gamejolt. Side scrolling 3d beat’em up set on a 2d plane makes for an extremely good looking game that plays well while having a shitload of fun with the source material. Captivating stuff and a tight brawler, to boot. You'll find that the inventive splashes here and there keep things really fun.
Mods
This year’s Madness Day stream we also featured some mods for Madness: Project Nexus. This list was brought to me by Darksignal and contains 100% hot shit right here. If you’re into Madness: Project Nexus and modding it, I encourage you to check these out, if you haven’t already.
3.) Cleaning Shift
4.) Madness Reconciliation Demo
5b.) Sully's Arsenal
5c.) Sully's HD Weapons
5d.) Arena Contracting
This year’s Madness Day was a little surprising for me. I really thought after all this time things would simmer down and we’d see things get less frantic, Maybe in the future, but not now! Thank you all for showing up, showing out, and shining like the crazy.
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