Hello everyone, I hope you are doing great in this period. After noticing how well received my previous blog about B/P and the concepts behind them, I make this journal as personal way to keep track of future ideas/projects I have in mind for my series "Newgrounds Adventures". Initially it was just this blog about blams and saves and I thank you all for the nice reactions and comments given to me both privately and in the comment section since a couple of them made me want to update some things that are visible as "UPDATE XX/XX/XXX" at the beginning of the blog. In future I don't rule out to add comments/marginal notes/additions and/or appendices to the blog, and this might be done for future blogs about this series. This series is for those who are new to the site and maybe want to understand how it works. I know there are many guides around the site, and I think many are infinitely better than mine because of their greater experience. After all, I've only been here since December 3, 2023 XD.

I just want to add my personal touch to this living experience that is Newgrounds, a site that, if used well and with consciousness, can even help one develop some cognitive skills such as ability to distinguish abusive review from useless review, write helpful reviews, blamming from protecting, etc. Of course I keep repeating that there is not a single, absolute correct way to experience NG. NG is awesome because you can enjoy, use, experience it the way you like as long as it's respectful of the site's ToS, rules and law.

But I also think that a well-rounded approach to the site helps you to fully experience it, enriching your personal experience of growth both as a content creator and as a person. Keep in mind these guides are not for content creators such as game developers, animators, musicians and artists because I know jack shit about them, minus a bit of art but that's reserved for reviews and forum threads. These guides are for users of the site, are meant to understand a bit better how this site works and function as of 2025, so in future they might become obsolete if major changes are made and in this case I will make updated versions of said guides.

So in the meantime I plan to write future guides for beginner users such as (the order is not random but intentional since I want to take my time to fully grasp concepts in order to make easily accessible to beginner users):

Newgrounds Adventures: beginner guide to Experience points and Voting Power

Newgrounds Adventures: beginner guide to Reviewing

Newgrounds Adventures: beginner guide to Whistle levels

Newgrounds Adventures: beginner guide to Support

Newgrounds Adventures: beginner guide to Scouting

Newgrounds Adventures: beginner guide to NG site layout

other guides might be added if other topics come in mind, for now these are the ones I would like to cover. Be warned: 1) they will be long so if you are a tl;dr person then they are not for you, 2) they are for users who want to be part of this site, so no stat whores guides here even if I learnt some tricks to boost some stats through some NG-related games, but I don't want to share because I would like people to understand why some aspects are the way they are and this will be covered in the guide about whistle points.

Along with these guides I also plan to do a sort of archaeological research on Newgrounds where I collect documents, videos and flash games, old forum threads that are no longer available, old site layouts, etc. To do this I started a playlist of how the site was since the beginning, and if I could even before since NG was originally a fanzine. You can already see the playlist I created and also put in the links next to my profile.

For now it's a ballpark, I hope to be able to do a more meticulous job, especially in terms of dates and related events. Here the first volume of these future playlists, thanks to Portal History pages that can be found here, I could already collect some material but others will be done with the help of the Internet Web Archive site:

I know some forum discussions (such as the forum thread that started Pico Day tradition) can still be found but I preferred to add them via Internet Web Archive when the site had a different feel in order to give that old, nostalgia or even anemoia-like vibe.

This blog is more a personal reminder for what I plan to do in future, than a way to spam my blog inbox for my fans XD but feel free to add suggestions, link or other interesting stuff that might enrich the experience. Now sorry but I have to get back Xiang as she stole the tank from the tankmen XD (runs after her just to be squished by the tank)

Newgrounds Font by Filiprb

old NG logo used as reference