Hey there everyone! I'm now back from my skiing holiday in the French Alps! An amazing place it is, and the skiing goes as high as 3600 metres (I went up to 3000 myself, the last lift had a 20 minute queue) but overall that was the best holiday I have ever had.

On another note, the results for the National Cipher Challenge are through, in which I am part of the team of 6 who have WON. We won £1000 to share between 6, though we have decided that one of the team will recieve £50, since she only helped in the last 2 weeks, that leaves £190 for each of the other 5.

Third note: Hallowe'en photos are finally up! At last managed to get them into the computer, and here they are! My friend and I did a cosplaying double act with me as Kira and him as L, enjoy.

P.S. These were taken with my friends camera, so there are a couple more of him than of me, I only appear in the two right hand photos.

Last thing: Goals. My goals I set myself at the beginning of '08. Very few have been completed: Remix Mad World, be a ways into SNBM and... that's it. The Doomsday Rings has had yet another graphics makeover and now is awesome, but not far along, CFB has been halted for the time being, and The Tablet of Oya has been all but scrapped. Well... I cba to set goals for this year, I won't fulfil them anyway ;D

Hope everyone had an epic New Year! See you around!

Yep, that's right! Since yesterday, at about 3pm (GMT), I set off for London, and at 7am this morning, we set off the channel crossing, and now I'm in France! It's a little warmer than in England, but still awesome. I'm staying for a week at my aunt's house, spending christmas there, then on boxing day, we're heading south for a weeks skiing in the Alps!
More good news, when I get back, I'll be able to finally post Hallowe'en photos for you all! If you don't know, my friend and I did a dual act of Kira and L, so be assured it will be awesome.
Even better (for me) is that because of this skiing trip, I've already opened some of my xmas presents that were too cumbersome to take to France. These include a brand new bike, a multi-region, upscaling 1080p HD DVD player, and a region 1 copy of the first series of Rozen Maiden to go with this.

Unfortunately, I won't be able to be on Newgrounds as much as usual, but when I get back, I should have some awesome stuff, possibly even a new orchestra sample for my audio! So, this is going to be an awesome christmas, hope you all have an Epic Christmas and a 1337 New Year!

That's Hoeloe out.

;D

So, I got Mario Kart Wii today. It's pretty cool, fun for a bit, but then it gets frustrating because of the bastardly item combos... Anyway... Yeah, I like it. I bought a spare wheel too, so I could get multiplayer XD I recommend the game to all of you who don't yet have it, unless you are impatient. Then I recommend staying far away from it...

In other news, I just got back from seeing Wall-E. It was a really great movie. Some really important and deep messages inside an animated cartoon. It achieved it's goal really well, and I really do praise it for that. The comedy in it was good, but the messages behind the movie were more what brought me to my decision. A very epic movie, and I order you to go and see it now if you haven't already.

Also, if you don't look at my last news post and this site, you lose 5000 cool points.

Ok, this is really my first proffessional looking sig. It's a bit like a poster really, since it's showing a game I am just starting to make (or remake, since the last time it died). It is actually an uber spruced-up version of my game "The Last Wizard" Everything in it will be roughly a bazillion times better, the graphics in particular.
Also, this sig is the first time that the main enemy, Ikta (originally called Dogzin, and the name is based on the same guy, Matt Atki) has been shown publicly. He has had a huge redesign from his original form (he used to have a huge hat).
The new title also gives a hint as to the stories subject matter: The Doomsday Rings. Surprisingly, the Lord of the Rings didn't even come to mind until about a month after I had thought of the name and begun a storyline for it.
The music for the game has already been collected, and it features some of the greatest songs in the audio portal, including Eternal Clash and Crumbling Cathedral!

Also, ironically, I got banned from the BBS for 3 days for posting one word :P

Oh yeah, and I'm gonna be away for 2 weeks starting Monday. I'm going on holiday to France and I won't be able to access the internet D=

Sorry for all these edits, but: I WON $1 FROM LUIS!! XD
Unfortunately, paypal are complete BASTARDS and charged me 1/3 of it for the transaction. I now only have $0.66... thats 32p. That is fucking outrageous!

The new signature can be seen here btw:

YES! After about a year's worth of delays, finally Brawl is out in the UK. I got it this morning and have stopped playing only to eat. It's awesome. I just need more people to play with for the full multiplayer effect. I still have a lot of characters and stuff to unlock though, so that should keep me busy.

Oh, yeah, I discovered that my character is Sonic. I like speed over power, so... :)

There's not much else to say really... I'm playing it with the wiimote & nunchuck for the full feel of it, and I still have a long way to go to get back to my Melee standard... I just felt like telling you all how awesome this is.

On another note, 2 of my Rubik's cubes, my 4x4 Rubik's Revenge and my 5x5 Professor's cube broke. I'm getting replacements sent, and luckily, Brawl should keep my attention till then :)

BOOM! We're back in business baby! The Element Fire is back, though now it goes by a different name: The Flute of Aeons! The preview I have at the moment uses old code and graphics, now it will have more efficient code and hand drawn graphics rather than sprites! I have a video of the graphics show, sorry for the low quality, but youtube is ghey.

Hope you like the new style, I was going for a more Wind Waker style HUD in this one...

Also, here's an image of Link in his downward pose to show what he looks like in high quality:

Ok, Time to start a medieval fantasy story news post. Post in the comments if you want to be included as a character, and I'll try to write you into the next chapter, you can also give a short description of your character, but no guns please, magic and medieval weapons only. The first chapter has a few guys chosen by me already. I'll regularly update with new chapters. Here is chapter 1:

PROLOGUE
Rain poured from the dark sky. A lone figure walked purposefully across the barren fields towards the small pinprick of light in the distance that was the army camp. When finally he reached it, he strode slowly past the hundreds of tents towards the captain's. He opened the flap of the captain's tent and entered. The captain was sitting at a desk, writing. As the man entered, the captain looked up. "You have returned," he said.
"Yes," was the simple reply.
"And?"
"The time is not yet right," the man said, shaking his head. "We must wait."
"Then wait we shall. You may go."
The man bowed slightly.
"Thank you," he said, and left.

Six hundred miles away, the Lord of Newgrounds woke. Tom Fulp sat up and rubbed his eyes. It had been a restless night and the first rays of sunlight were just visible on the horizon. He sighed and stood up, pausing only to flatten out his duvet. He left the large stone room and walked out into the corridor. As he set down the stairs, he paused at the window. A horse and rider were flying at breakneck speed towards the castle. Tom quickly ran back to his room.
Five minutes later, he was rushing to the gates now fully dressed. His brother, Wade was already there, as well as his steward, Stamper.
"What is going on?" Tom asked Wade.
"I have no more idea than you."
The horse and rider finally reached them and Tom recognised the man riding it, who quickly jumped down.
"Denvish! What are you doing here?"
"I have grave news," Denvish replied.
"Speak it," Wade commanded.
"There is a large army camp based not six hundred miles from here with hostile intentions. I fear they mean to overthrow Newgrounds."
"This is grim news indeed," Stamper said.
"That it is," Devish agreed.
"We must make ready," Tom said, drawing the broadsword slung at his belt, "Ready my horse, I must leave as soon as possible."

CHAPTER 1 - The Dark Staff
"It is done." The man said to the captain.
"Excellent."
"We must still wait, we have not yet harnessed the power."
"Then wait we must."
"The enemy is on the move."
The captain paused then, twirling the axe that rested against his chair.
"This news is ominous... but we must wait, we cannot face Newgrounds without the Staff."
The man nodded, and turned to leave.
"Oh, by the way, Drakonik,"
Drokinik turned back towards the captain.
"We must find one worthy of weilding the Dark Staff."
Drakonik smiled.
"I know of such a man. His name is DoogleFlip, he is an old friend of mine and a powerful sorcerer, he will lead us to victory."
The captain merely nodded.

"Wait, we have been called to battle?"
Jokobjcy was sitting in the Rec room in Newgrounds main Portal Control Camp. MinusNick, the Armies Head Wizard had just brought him the news.
"I'm afraid so."
"This must be serious..."
"It is. There is an army ready to attack the land of Newgrounds."
"In that case I should ready my Battalion."
"And I Will rally the Wizards of the Land."
They bowed to each other and parted in opposite directions.

*To be continued*

I did include everyone who sent me their information in that, though not all by name :P You will be named in later chapters, but I need more people.

Hey, been quite a while since I actually produced anything original, and now I have come up with a comedy series concept. This might not ever get made, but it probably will, so be on the lookout.

It is called Infinite Monkeys. The series has nothing to do with monkeys itself, the name comes from the philosophy that if you stick an infinite number of monkeys in a room with a typewriter, one will eventually produce a line of Shakespeare...this will be shown in the title sequence only (and possibly in one episode, but I havn't decided on that yet)

At the moment, the characters are as follows:

Dr. Thuyet Concigroto - Male - the star, a completely failed inventor
Dr. Laura Venestas - Female - his assistant who actually has really good ideas, but he never listens to them
Dr. Mac Inuresus - Male - sort of hangs around but doesn't do anything productive
It - No Gender - one of Dr. Concigroto's failed experiments. He will brought into being in the pilot episode, he is basically a fusion of tortoise and man (and platypus)

They get into all sorts of mentally unstable situations... with supposedly hilarious results!

What do people think of this concept?

I was looking back over some of my old flash works, and realised just how SHIT they were.

I have decided to delete most of them, for the simple reason that I dont want to have 42 crap submissions on NG. None of the great flash artists have that, and I don't want to either. Great apologies to anyone who liked them. They will temporarily be available on my shit website, www.bombagstudios.co.uk till I revamp it.

Sayonara!

X-mas

Christmas was pretty good this year!

Got a pocketwatch, tally ho!
Season 3 of House
Seasons 1+2 of Life on Mars
Part 1 of Heroes
Crash of the Titans on Wii
and about £110 towards an intuos 3 tablet!

What did you all get?

Goals

Now, onto the goals.

Before Jan 1 '09 I hope to have:
Completed work on the Last Wizard and the Doomsday Rings
Finished work on Crash Flash
Be far along with Super Nuke Bros Melee
Be well into Keenan: The Tablet of Oya (New game not mentioned before)
Have remixed the song Mad World

If you have any flash goals, feel free to post them here!