TomFulp's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Metal Slugggggg]

Top tier Metal Slug art, I want to frame this!

[The Mexican Food Tom Fulp Won't Buy For Us]

Looks delicious!

[CASTLE CRASHERS ANNYVERSARY!]

This is gorgeous, love the composition!

PixelHeadAche responds:

Thank you!
I love this game, I literally grew up with it xD
it has been one of many inspirations to start drawing

[Newgrounds app]

One reason we haven't done something like a Kickstarter for a mobile app is that a mobile app would be a permanent ongoing expense, in both developer maintenance and increased hosting expenses to support an app if it became popular. Supporter revenue doesn't currently cover hosting expenses, so if hosting expenses doubled, I'd have to shut everything down after a few months unless we had a long runway. Maybe it could work if the Kickstarter was for $500k+ but that could still run out pretty quick.

Alternative is to let VCs invest in NG but then we'd be on the path to change in ways people don't like and ultimately sell the company to someone big. The ideal option is for more people to become Supporters, at which point we'd have to decide between putting the surplus into rev share or into developing an app first.

I'd personally prefer to keep improving the mobile web experience and not be at the mercy of Apple and Google app stores but I know people would like a well-done app. It would likely be a much more limited version of NG; while Twitter somehow gets away with adult content in their app, most apps don't get away with it, as adult content is against Apple's terms. The app would need to be heavily policed or it would get removed, as happened to Artstation in the past. We might even do something like dedicated apps for movies, art, music and games, although the game app might not get approved by Apple because they tend to squash things that compete with the app store itself for games.

Sorry for being negative lol, just trying to explain why it hasn't already happened!

GENC responds:

Ayo thanks so much for the feedback and understanding!

Apologies for the ignorance of the post, is there any way to do a sort of subscriber signal boost campaign? Maybe how wikipedia does their annual donation drives. I'm a dedicated user and would love to give back to the community financially, and I'm sure many others feel the same way!

Thanks for the open discussion tho, you're a champ, if there are any ways to figure any of this stuff out while keeping it as in house as possible I'm sure the community would love to be on board.

I do understand the gargantuan task that would take...maybe gauge interest from other users and how far their support is willing to go, even if I'm inexperienced with hosting and networking, 500k seems like a lowball, and I feel like the community if really pressed together would push for more for a dedicated APK, that's just my thought tho.

Apple really makin it tough for us huh, lol.

[MERRY BIRTHMAS, TOM!!]

Reminder to everyone: Don't sit like this at the computer!

[Chris]

I love this, excited to see the others!

chromxtic responds:

Thanks for the kind words Tom! It means a lot :]

[RPG]

This is the song I was listening to when I saw this gif; they go well together: https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1104515

SandBagg responds:

This is canon now

[Evil Artist Archetypes]

I kinda want these to be actual badges we pin to NG accounts.

[PICO DAY MF]

This is just screaming to be a massive wall decal at the office.

[2020 in Newgrounds]

Love seeing bathtub dude in there, he's deserved more spotlight this year!