History Of Newgrounds

Newgrounds, an American website related to entertainment, was established by Tom Fulp in the year 1995. The website features artwork, music, films, and games that were created by actual users. Fulp is responsible for the production of its own material at its headquarters in Glenside, Pennsylvania.

The Internet culture, particularly animation and independent video games, was significantly influenced by Newgrounds throughout the 2000s. It has been recognized as a "distinct time in gaming history" , a period of history "where many animators and developers cut their teeth and gained a following long before social media was even a thing" , & "a haven for fostering the greats of internet animation"

New Ground was a Neo Geo journal that Tom Fulp created when he was 13 years old. He delivered copies of the magazine to one hundred members of a Prodigy club.

In 1995, he established New Ground Remix as a hosting service. The company rose to fame over the summer of 1996, when Fulp developed the BBS games Club a Seal and Assassin while he was attending Drexel University.

Following that, he went on to make Club a Seal II, Assassin II, and New Ground Atomix, which is a hosting website.The Flash browser game Pico's School, which was released in 1999, "exhibited a complexity of design and polish in presentation that was virtually unseen in amateur Flash game development." This game was essential in Newgrounds' rise to prominence as a community-oriented platform.

1999 was the year when both websites were merged into newgrounds.com, and it was also the year that "The Portal" was launched for Fulp's lesser Flash projects that were not yet at completion. Visitors to the website submitted Flash content in order to be featured on The Portal.

As of November 2008, Newgrounds has 1.5 million users and 130,000 animations available for viewing. By the month of August in 2010, the website had more than 2.2 million users and 180,000 games and animated films. The majority of these features were single-person animations, but some were made via collaborative efforts. There have been "hundreds of thousands of animated movies and online games" created by users, according to a research from 2013.

The year 2018 saw Newgrounds prioritize HTML5 game submissions above Flash game submissions. Tumblr was the source of new subscribers for the company throughout the months of November and December, when the website restricted adult content owing to the illegality of child pornography and removed its iOS app from the App Store store.

Prior to the end of Flash, Newgrounds made the announcement in the summer of 2019 that it would be releasing the Newgrounds Player for Windows. This "solution for playing Flash games and movies" would be hosted on the website.

The application would be executed on the website whenever it was asked to play Flash content.Following the introduction of the player, the Ruffle Flash emulator was finally made available in August of 2019, providing both options as the development of Ruffle progressed.

Due to an increase in the volume of visitors, the server of Newgrounds became overwhelmed in April 2021, when the update for Friday Night Funkin' was exclusively released on that platform.

Following his efforts with The Behemoth and the establishment of Newgrounds, Fulp was presented with the Game Developers Choice Awards Pioneer Award in July of 2021.

The Art Portal on the website was modified in September 2023 to incorporate it in the Project system for animation, games, and music; to provide multi-author credits on Art submissions; and to enable multi-art in Inline, Strip, or Gallery formats. All of these feature additions were made possible by the change.