4. About Newgrounds Founded in 1995, Newgrounds is one of the oldest online flash portals that hosts Adobe Flash animations and games, as well as music and artworks.
5. Key Features Newgrounds Forum (BBS) Newgrounds forum is a large community for discussion ranging from Flash submissions to personal and off topic. Some statistics: 7,000 unique postings a day Total Threads: 1,022,168 | Total Posts: 19,752,959
6. Key Features Blam and Protection Points Newgrounds utilizes Blam and Protection Points to judge new submissions. Submissions are deleted if they fall below the listed score at the listed number of votes: 100 votes: 1.0 150 votes: 1.25 200 votes: 1.60
8. Key Features Experience Points and Levels Levels increase the voting power in the Flash Portal and to indicate amount of experience. Rank is determined by a user's Blam and Protection Points.
9. Key Features Whistle Status Allows users to flag inappropriate content by blowing their whistle on new, “Under Judgement” Portal submissions.
10. Key Features Blogs Staff, flash animators and users make use of blogs to share any latest news they have.
11. Strengths User Generated Content Through its automated submission and rating system, users are able to submit flash movies, games, art and music.
12. Strengths Awards To encourage users to submit better entries, awards such as Daily Feature, Weekly Users Choice and Review Crew Pick are introduced.
13. Strengths Medals To provide players a goal to reach, medals are awarded to players for accomplishing certain achievements in a particular game.
14. Strengths Collaboration The huge active community with over 7,000 unique posting everyday (large user base, interactive), allows members to team up to create flash movies/games (portal buddies).
15. Strengths Characters and Sequels Several flash movies and games are developed into series and have popularized characters that are unique to Newgrounds. Famous characters: Tankman, Strawberry Clock, Pico, Alien Hominid, Bitey, Salad Fingers.
16. Weaknesses Mature Content While Newgrounds is an entertainment site, it contains flash movies and games that have mature content and are thus not family friendly.
17. Weaknesses Interactivity Newgrounds lacks the interactivity of Kongregate, which introduces live chat at the side of the games allowing users to ask for helps. Similar to Newgrounds, Kongregateis another popular entertainment website that allows users to upload user-created flash games.
Talks about objective..Allows users and flash animators to upload, share, discuss and play flash movies and games.
New entries will be deleted if they fall below a certain score after a certain number of votes. However, it isdifficult to actually remove a bad quality work as the rating may not fall below the cut-off within 200 votesBlam is similar to dislike button on youtube.
The best reason to gain experience points is added weight to your votes. Levels increase based on constant votingThe higher your level, the more your voting power you have, which will affect the rating of the submissions on Newgrounds.The more new submissions you judge, the higher your rank is.
