MERRY CHRISTMAS, YOU MANIACS.

Thank you, those of you who dropped by the stream last night for some chrismas(ish?) themed art.

This year definitely felt like a cold year for me. Chipping away at this monument of a project.

2024 should be a hoot.

Supposin' a lil update on what I'm up to is in order, given that we're on the other side of Madness Day.

I'm basically spending my daytime hours fielding asset requests for MPN updates, and working on assets/concepts for a non-Madness project that we (Swain and I) have been working on. It'll be a bit, but when we have something that's worth showing off I'm stoked to bring it to the light of day.

The evenings are filled with animating mc12 part 1 (or getting caught up playing Ground Branch). It's been a painstakingly slow process given how absolutely turbulent this last year has been for me. NOW, however, stability is on the menu. I am going to be getting back to my art streams regularly, and a stronger schedule for animating.

You're the heart and soul of this whole Madness thing. Thank you all for your continued support and patience.

edit; drew sanford punchin' a guy

-Matt

Hello.

There was a bloodbath this last weekend. The judges and I swung it out and deliberated at length on everything submitted for this last Madness Day. We got a little tilted about it this year around, the quality this year being such that trying to parse out which are 'better' than others is an absolutely absurd task, but one we took on. The sheer volume of kick ass entries this year made it excruciating at every step. There's blood on these hands.

Total Prize Pool; $2520 - I have 18 messages to send out, which I will be doing tomorrow. If you're on this list I will be reaching out to you via Newgrounds DM. HUGE THANKS to our judging panel; absoluteDETH, Isolave, Cheshyre, Vix, Zep, Funkle, and Miss Ebola. Could not have done this alone.

-1st Place: Madness Revolt 1: The Maelstrom

-2nd Place: Madness VS Takis

-3rd Place: Hank Kills

-4th Place: Soul Madness 3.5: AFTERMATH ACT II

-5th Place: Madness Rogue Collab

-6th Place: Madness Nightmare

We had a lot to fight over this year. Approx 116 animations and every one of them brought black, white and red all over in high energy, creative and passionate ways. The fact that we could only pick six winners left us fighting tooth and nail for entries that didn't make the list. That said each of the judges had an entry we wanted to single out as an honorable mention. 

 -1st Place: Yipieee Madness Day!

-2nd Place: Madness Day 2023

-3rd Place: ROMP.FLA Poster

-4th Place: Madness Day 2023 - S-3lf Eater

-5th Place: Lightning Strike

-6th Place: MADNESS DAY

Total art submissions this year with the tag #MadnessDay2023; Approx 717

-1st Place: Mayhem

-2nd Place: The Whole Circus

-3rd Place: S4NFORD

-4th Place: Men in Shades [SIN3.5]

-5th Place: MT1-07. Refraction (Maximal Ninjutsu Edit)

-6th Place: Damaged Artificial Nervous System

Total music submissions this year with the tag #MadnessDay2023; Approx 90

Something worth mentioning; GAMES. WE GOT GAMES THIS YEAR. EXAMINE THEM.

Madness Combat - The Sheriff Clones

Madness: Fueled By Hotdogs

Madness: The Battering

Madness SEVERED

Madness Collab'23

Madness Combat Deimos Pew Pew

Madness Clicker

Madness: Ludicrosity

That was brutal. That was Madness. Thank you all for supporting the series for more than two decades, and the continued mayhem and violence you guys put fourth year after year. Could not even BE without you.

We made it, we all made it to another Madness Day! We're going to let some entries pile up in the portal, and around 2pm EST I will be going live on my Twitch channel. I'm keeping my eyes off what's coming through the portal until I am on stream. I'm excited to start digging into what you guys have been working so hard on!

We got $2,520 in cash prizes, thanks to the incredible donations from you guys! We also will be giving out plushies, shirts and posters to winners chosen by the judge panel! (edit; last minute dono of 320 dollars really boosted the prize pool! Holy shit! Thank you Sk1tz!!!)

edit; Alright we got a LOT of entries this year. Going to take a bit to chew through all this. Thank you everyone who showed up, this is a consistently insane experience to see this much content relating to madcom stuff manifesting on the same day with such intensity. Deliberations and judging are well underway.

Oh god there's so much music.... and art.... and animation....

Animation

1st - $400 + Makeship plush (Hank or Tricky)

2nd - $290 + Antipathy shirt

3rd - $195 + Choice of poster from Etsy shop

4th - $100

5th - $75

6th - $50

Art

1st - $275 + Makeship plush (Hank or Tricky)

2nd - $165 + Antipathy shirt

3rd - $100 + Choice of poster from Etsy shop

4th - $75

5th - $55

6th - $35

Music

1st - $275 + Makeship plush (Hank or Tricky)

2nd - $165 + Antipathy shirt

3rd - $100 + Choice of poster from Etsy shop

4th - $75

5th - $55

6th - $35

Thanks for stopping by, watching, and supporting the Madness, fellas/fellettes, this is all possible because of your involvement!

HELLO.

September 22nd is coming fast, and it will mark the seventeenth Madness Day here on Newgrounds.com. Madness Combat has been on this site for over two decades, and we're sitting here celebrating yet another Madness Day because the fandom (read that as: you guys) keep the fire burning hot and we're going to champion that, put the love on display. We're celebrating the enthusiasm, talent, and passion that has been drawn to this series that I had the good fortune to start here on this portal.

The prize pool will be done through Ko-Fi, this year. I will be putting in 250 of my own cash in initially. This year we've got merch prizes, too! I've recently come into the possession of new Madness Antipathy shirts (available in S, M, L, & XL), and I intend to throw in some Madness plushies and posters from my Etsy store, as well! As we get closer to September 22nd I will be adjusting the winnings, based on Ko-Fi prize pool donations.

Prize Pool as of 9.18.2023: $2,180.00! (Aggregate from Ko-Fi and Twitch Donos + initial $250)

Animation

1st - $350 + Makeship plush (Hank or Tricky)

2nd - $200 + Antipathy shirt

3rd - $135 + Choice of poster from Etsy shop

4th - $100

5th - $75

6th - $50

Art

1st - $225 + Makeship plush (Hank or Tricky)

2nd - $160 + Antipathy shirt

3rd - $90 + Choice of poster from Etsy shop

4th - $70

5th - $55

6th - $35

Music

1st - $225 + Makeship plush (Hank or Tricky)

2nd - $160 + Antipathy shirt

3rd - $90 + Choice of poster from Etsy shop

4th - $70

5th - $55

6th - $35

Rules/Guidelines/Expectations;

• In the event of a collab placing, all winnings will be sent to the collab organizer for them to distribute as they see fit
• Music submissions can only be judged as individual songs. Soundscapes or Albums should be parsed/broken down into their individual tracks so that judging can be done on a individual basis.
• All winnings will be distributed via Paypal.
• In order for us to find you, please tag your submission with #MadnessDay2023, this is very important!
• We can only consider submissions which debuted on Sept 22nd, or 23rd, any later or earlier and it's out of our range.
• YOWO - You Only Win Once. A person can post multiple entries across every category, but can only win placement once.
• It should go without saying, but just in case; post it here on Newgrounds!

Godspeed, and thank you.

September 22nd, 2023 will mark Newgrounds.com's seventeenth Madness Day. We're 75 days away, and already I'm excited for what this year brings.... every year some absolutely incredible stuff comes through, I encourage you to take a trip down memory lane and investigate some of the years past.

Youse guys, I really like that reload Arnold does in T2. It's pretty dope.

Animated gif here that won't play on my news post.

Not much to report. The long and short of it is that I've been working on stuff for a non-Mandess prototype Swain and I want to get done, and animating mc12 part 1 in my off hours. Progress is progress, and my progress is as always a little sluggish.

...How much blood these dopes got innem. I should be getting to a work stream this weekend. Last weekend I was out of town, missed a beat as a result. Regularly scheduled routines are back.

MC12.1 gets work done on it in lil spurts. Priorities are divided, as usual. Thank you.

Not much to say. MC12 pt 1 continues along at the slow pace. I stream progress on my twitch from time to time (when I'm not just goofing off and playing videogames on there) if you're interested in seeing where it's at.

Sanford really likes messin' dudes up with that sword.

How've you been? What've you been doing?

P.S; looks like djjaner's making a team and needs hands on deck? check it out.

Hello.

Madness Combat 12 part 1 continues to move, but moves very slowly as a result of it being so low on the priority queue. It's agonizing that I cannot work on it every day but I'm glad to have the opportunity to work on it when I can. Now that i've gotten a substantial amount of animation done I'm feeling a little more confident about what the 'identity' of this cartoon is. I just need to dump another 1k hours of nonsense into it. Thankfully I've reached out to Tarkade for backgrounds to help keep the process smooth.

Higher on the priority queue is my work with The-Swain at Gibbing Tree. I've done all the assets necessary for the next M:PN update so while we continue to speculate on the distant future for this game I've been studying Blender further. It's a little embarrassing to pick up basic shit this late in the game, but I learn like I do anything; slowly! This here image is just me using multi-uv textures while we prototype up new games. The next one we want out there'll be a non madness affair.

And lets not forget that TurtlePals is still running the 5 LP set of the MPN OST + Madness Art book combo. Extremely cool shit; https://www.turtlepalstapes.com/product/mpn-5xlp-pre-order

Thanks for reading.