Coming Monday, Nov 28th, 2022, North Hollywood;

In the area? Consider dropping by; Eventbrite tickets.

Update on Madness Combat 12

This project moves slowly. Patreon supporters will have noticed a skipped payment cycle to reflect how little forward progress there is. I've more or less figured out the general arc of it (which is subject to change) and I am warm to this notion of breaking it into three parts. A classic rise, fall, return format (which is also subject to mutation and change.) I won't be posting too often about the progress on this one, to let it sleep and not try to accidentally amp people for the eons it'll take to complete.

The Hank plush over at Makeship is STILL AVAILABLE.

www.makeship.com/products/hank-wimbleton-plush

I gotta post more here.

Another year, another violent altercation between myself and the other judges for MD entries. This year felt even more difficult than last year's deliberation, and I place the blame for that squarely on the quality of stuff submitted. I am astonished that this series inspires such incredible feats of artistic prowess. This year we've gotten an astonishing 695 Artwork submissions, 117 Animations, 72 Musical entries, and 5 games! 

Last year felt like a bloody massacre, cutting down the list of winners over and over until we've figured out who winds up on top. It's never easy, there's so much blood, and we feel like monsters trying to figure this out. I can't say it enough, guys; the support for this series in its many forms, whether you're here to watch along, or create, is absolutely appreciated.

Total Prize Pool; $2025 - I have 26 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 - $405: Project Creber

2nd - $200: 420

3rd - $150: DEATHWISH 3

4th - $105: Krinkels.mp4

5th - $85: District 14

6th - $50: Ghostification

7th - $25: The Point

8th - $20: Paradox

9th - $15: Intrusion

10th - $10: Thing Thing

1st - $175: Madness Day 2022 (Train)

2nd - $100: Madness Day 2022 (Slice of Life)

3rd - $75: Cheers to Madness Day

4th - $50: Happy Madness Day

5th - $35: Purgatory

6th - $20: NEVADA PSYCHOSIS

7th - $15: Hofnarr's Obsession

8th - $10: Madness Day 2022

1st - $175: (SIN III) CRY.NN - Last Day on Earth

2nd - $100: MADNESS | THE POINT OST (MADNESS DAY 2022)

3rd - $75: Extrication 2 OST

4th - $50: NAVOJ-Endless Misery

5th - $35: Somewhere in Nevada III | RistikMusic - Under the Iceberg

6th - $20: Nevada Skies

7th - $20: X3ll3n - Madness 2022

8th - $20: The Affair II (MD2022)

Had some games float through, be sure to give them a look, too!

MarshMallow Madness: THE GAME

Madness: Bullet Mayhem

Madness Genesis

Madness: An FPS Demo

Madness: Break Out

Thank you all.

MD2022 prize pool on deck; $2025

Hey there! Not dead, or even dormant, here! been busy, and you're due an update on all that!

Quickly, what I am up to in big broad strokes;

Work with Gibbing Tree obligations has me putting together assets and planning updates for Madness: Project Nexus with the-Swain that will take us into 2023. Halloween stuff, some new map lookin' things. That sorta thing.

The guys over at Makeship decided to extend the availability of the plush by a week!! Tricky Plush over at Makeship! Consider supporting the Madness and getting a really sweet plush at the same time!

MC12 clips along with what time I can scrape together! I've gotten into the part where I'm done sketching stuff out and doing backgrounds and got to the killin', so.... maybe a million years til that one sees the light of day. GOOD NEWS, however, I've begun enlisting assistance to help me along with the more arduous aspects of asset creation. Right now I got Tarkade on board to lighten the background artwork load.

AS FOR THE JUDGING;

We've got a lot to work through. Having broken up the judging into three waves, we're still barely into the second wave of elimination to widdle things down to get our winners. If there weren't so many incredible pieces of art, music and animation this would be going faster. We're dealing with 695 Art submissions, 117 animations, and 72 music entries. I've been listening to these a lot while sketching idly in the evenings. Picking favorites is agonizing, but we're getting there. Thank you for your patience and you'll be hearing from me/us before long.

MADNESS DAY 2022 IMMEDIATE THOUGHTS:

Holy smokes. I woke up today with a rather sizable chunk of videos presented to me that we didn't even get to during a seven and a half hour stream! This weekend I'm absolutely going to be spending a lot of time pouring over what has yet to be seen, and filling the spreadsheet for the judge panel to work with. We should have a final count of entries before long. Frankly I'm stunned. My right-now thoughts are that I'm practically frozen, beset on all sides by intense greatness. I figured time would have taken a lot of the steam out of the enthusiasm but I was egregiously incorrect. You guys made this year something SPECIAL, once again.

The front page for animations alone shows off some seriously powerful work, but that's only the surface. There's so, so much here... Animations, games, music, and EVEN A COUPLE GAMES! We have a lot to witness, here.

Also a point of note; The SIN3 Album dropped and it's sick.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VxM1Wp-onU

Prizes, as they stand;

FINAL POOL as of 09-23: $2025

Animation

1st - $405

2nd - $200

3rd - $150

4th - $105

5th - $85

6th - $50

7th - $25

8th - $20

9th - $15

10th - 10

Art

1st - $175

2nd - $100

3rd - $75

4th - $50

5th - $35

6th - $20

7th - $15

8th - $10

Music

1st - $175

2nd - $100

3rd - $75

4th - $50

5th - $35

6th - $20

7th - $15

Rules for prize eligibility; We can only consider Art, Animation, and Music entries posted ON SEPTEMBER 21st, 22 or 23 (we can probably wiggle the days around). Be sure to tag your entry with "madness-day-2022" so that we can find it. I can issue prize payment only in Paypal, Venmo, or Cashapp. Collaborative efforts that place will have the prize money sent to the collab organizer for them to distribute as they see fit. Multiple entries are permitted but an individual can only win one place.

And, of course, if you haven't seen it yet; Skel Studios produced a promotional trailer for M:PN, and it's unreal;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrBiokcY_9s

Also, the final count for submissions flying under the Madness-Day-2022 tag;

695 Art Submissions

117 Animations

5 Games(!!!)

72 Music Entries.

The 16th Annual Madness Day is fast coming up, guys. Sixteen years of Madness Days here on Newgrounds, and every one of them a banger. Last year's submissions were absolutely incredible and I anticipate the same level of mind blowing work to pass through on that day because, well... it's you guys, and you're all so damn good at this it's unreal, and your willingness to participate in this is a god damned blessing. You can see last years blessing here; Madness Day 2021.

We're doing the prize pool again this year through GoFundMe, because PayPal's money pool feature was discontinued, and GoFundMe has the level of transparency I crave for this. I set the goal to $1,000 dollars, but like before if we go over that we'll make room for more prizes to distribute the cash across more artists. I started things off with a $200 dollar donation.

You can find the link right here; Madness Day 2022 Prize Pool and the winners will be decided by the collective of judges organized by Miss Ebola and myself.

Prizes, as they stand;

Total pool as of 09-19: $2000

The initial 1k goal was hit, and I've extended it out to 2k. Wishful thinking?!

Animation

1st - $405

2nd - $200

3rd - $150

4th - $100

5th - $85

6th - $50

7th - $25

8th - $20

9th - $15

10th - 10

Art

1st - $175

2nd - $100

3rd - $75

4th - $50

5th - $25

6th - $20

7th - $15

8th - $10

Music

1st - $175

2nd - $100

3rd - $75

4th - $50

5th - $25

6th - $20

7th - $15

8th - $10

Rules for prize eligibility; We can only consider Art, Animation, and Music entries posted ON SEPTEMBER 22 or 23. Be sure to tag your entry with "madness-day-2022" so that we can find it. I can issue prize payment only in Paypal, Venmo, or Cashapp. Collaborative efforts that place will have the prize money sent to the collab organizer for them to distribute as they see fit. Multiple entries are permitted but an individual can only win one place.

I'll update the prize amounts every couple days to reflect the new total as it is contributed to. Thank you.

Twenty years of this. Twenty years of chasing this around and adding to it, picking it apart, rolling it through the dirt and affixing wings to it so I can see how far it flies. On the winds of the fan support, this series continues to move forward. I'm not even speaking with a shred of exaggeration or hyperbole when I say that every last bit of fan support is why we are here, still going.

This last weekend was profoundly exhausting, we have exciting things coming up. Thank you so much for the ride.

MC 9.5 part 2 trailer in place.

what a long time coming, this one has been. I'll re-evaluate things after this is up. Whether I want to break mc12 into parts and upload them as they are finished, or just go into hiding for another few years to get it all done together as a whole. Thank you for following along for two decades of Madness Combat. It's been one hell of a ride.

Hit you with bullet points because who has time for paragraphs?!

• Spent a lot of time in January and February learning Unity's Universal Render Pipeline, and trying to get a better grip on environments/non-madness design.

• We've laid out some work to do on Madness: Project Nexus in terms of the next update we plan to issue. Quality of life is the primary focus of the next move. Stat tweaks, bug fixes, checkpoints in some of the longer stages, cloud saves, that sort of thing. Maaaybe a new origin or two.

• The work on MC9.5 pt 2 continues, and the Patreon will remain suspended until it is completed. This one has been a long time coming, and I'm apprehensive about whether or not it stacks up against modern standards. Being a tertiary goal it doesn't move quite as fast as I'd like, but I'm glad it moves. Thanks for sticking around, lads.

• Skel Studios did this;

Holy. Shit.

Marsh Mellow Madness was released twenty years ago today. Since then, thanks to the endless support of fans and the contributions to the madness zeitgeist, it has been allowed to continue and grow as a series and even as a brand. It's absolutely insane to think about and you damn well know that when I tossed this on the portal that I had no idea it would wind me up on this long trajectory (had I known I might've dropped my CS major sooner!)

I've had the opportunity to tell a nonsense story for decades, scored to Cheshyre's brilliant audio tracks. I had the extreme honor of working with Swain to tell the story through a retail game. I've watched Madness Day come to be and grow into a Newgrounds celebration the dwarfs the source material by no less than two orders magnitude. I can't say it enough, thank you guys for being a part of this.

2022 will see the release of MC9.5 part 2, and the completion of the MC9.5 arc. Continued updates for Madness: Project Nexus, and new work on the series in the form of the beginnings of MC12. I'm excited. I'm excited to shoulder this.

THANK YOU.

STATUS UPDATE?

Current animation project: Madness Combat 9.5 part 2

This cartoon has just gotten past the 6 minute mark. I'm wrapping up the final scene but if you've been watching my animation streams then you know I got a horrible proclivity for just jamming more kills/details in and protracting the entire experience. No release date, of course, but progress is a constant. You might've noticed that I have suspended my Patreon and will not let it charge again until this cartoon is done. Thank you, of course, for the support and patience.

Some thoughts?

It's crazy that Madness: Project Nexus is out there. It's been months but I still can't believe it.... it exists! Insane. Even when we were deep in development the prospect of actually getting done was so distant and foggy at times. We got you guys to thank for the success. The Heist update that we posted last month went over pretty good, too, and we're planning a few more in the future!

Also my Etsy store just crossed over 1,000 posters sold. Holy damn you guys; thank you.