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TomFulp
Hi there! In case you didn't know, I created newgrounds. No, it wasn't made by some giant company - just some dumb kid who now has help. I also co-founded the Behemoth; we made Alien Hominid and Castle Crashers. Icon by Pegosho, banner by OmenaKettu.

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Posted by TomFulp - December 4th, 2008


So for months now, I've been dealing with this bad stomach pain. I thought it was an ulcer brought on by the stress of Castle Crashers, but I got checked out and don't have an ulcer. Instead I have pre-ulcer conditions that could lead to an ulcer.


I first started taking Prevacid, for acid reflux. It helped with some of the reflux symptoms but I still had regular stomach pains, waking up every morning with stomach pain and having regular pains at times throughout the day. I was diagnosed with having a spastic stomach and given Metoclopramide, a "potent dopamine receptor antagonist." This actually worked and my symptoms pretty much went away, but the side effect was that I was a lot more tired and became totally unmotivated. I actually started falling asleep on the couch at night in front of the TV, which I never do - I usually have to force myself to bed. I was also more tired in the morning, although I always hate mornings... But I think it really was making me get DEPRESSED.


The one month of pills ran out and I've shifted back to being more alert and awake, but the stomach pain is back. I don't know if another month could solve things once and for all, or what. In the meantime, I've been trying to fix up my diet... I'm drinking tea instead of coffee and trying not to eat too much in one sitting. The really troublesome part is that beer doesn't sit very well... I wanna kick this before the UK Meetup so I can drink like a champ, but I have a bad feeling I'm gonna be nursing bottles sloooooowly. So anyway this is a heads up.


May 2022 Update: It turns out Metoclopramide crosses the blood brain barrier, which was the problem there. I actually took a medicine for months after this that wasn't supposed to cross the blood brain barrier but it made me really lethargic and it was later discovered that it DOES cross the blood brain barrier and I recall it was discontinued... But I don't remember the name right now, probably because it made me a hazy mess during that period.


I ultimately got an upper endoscopy and was diagnosed with an incompetent esophageal sphincter and a hiatal hernia. Basically my esophagus no longer opened and closed and my stomach had worked its way up in there. Nowadays I take Prevacid and Dicyclomine, which do a decent job with my stomach issues.


Posted by TomFulp - October 27th, 2008


Rocco from Mega 64 posted this little video about us in Japan:



There is a Game Connection going on in France again before the end of the year. I went to France with John back in 2005, when we were looking for a publisher for Castle Crashers - this was before we moved it over to XBLA and decided to become our own publisher. If we went this year, it would be as a publisher looking to bring other games to market, but we're kinda up in the air on that. I really just want to go for the wine and food, which were awesome. I'm tired of traveling, though, so the UK Meetup is probably all I'll keep on my plate.


Speaking of which, the UK Meetup is in January! I just mailed in my passport renewal form this morning because my passport expires in November. It's kinda sad to start with a new passport because you lose all the stamps that show what countries you've been to, but I guess it also gives you a reason to want to travel a lot and fill it up again. I'm pretty good now that I got Japan out of my system, though.


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Posted by TomFulp - October 21st, 2008


We just had our latest ultrasound visit and everything is looking good, so I figured now is a good time to finally announce that APRIL IS PREGNANT! The new Fulp is due on March 17th, St. Patrick's Day.


Here are some pics from a photo booth in a Tokyo arcade, sorry if they make you throw up in your mouth.


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Posted by TomFulp - September 30th, 2008


Luis makes me feel guilty talking about Castle Crashers on the front page, so I gotta keep it all here on my blog.


TSstudios sent me this video from the NY Anime Fest:


Also, check out these guys who raced in LeMons with a Castle Crashers car! A pic of the car also appeared in this NY Times article.


Check out Dan's latest devblog post for some fun fan-art and title update news and whatnot.


I'm about to make a much bigger FRONT PAGE post that will be more exciting for guys like LUIS.


Posted by TomFulp - September 9th, 2008


The Castle Crashers booth at PAX was a huge success this year! We pretty much sold out of everything we brought, which is especially nice at the end of the show when we need to pack everything up and ship it back.


Every year at PAX, I end up buying a few games at the Pink Godzilla booth. This year, I bought Rhythm Tengoku 2 (DS) and PC Engine Best Collection. PEBC is three classic PC Engine games on one PSP disc: Galaxy Fraulein Yuna 1&2, and Galaxy Policewoman Sapphire. Yuna is some sort of interactive story game featuring girls in space suits; completely worthless crap. Policewoman Sapphire, however, is an awesome vertical shooter, "the best shooter ever for the PC Engine", according to Nathan from Pink Godzilla.


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That night, the guys from Pink Godzilla toilet papered our booth before meeting us for dinner.


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Back to Castle Crashers - someone is making a Street Fighter vs Castle Crashers MUGEN!


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Despite the network and save issues (a title update is on the way), the fan response to Castle Crashers has been totally amazing. We received this email today:


To Tom fulp.

To Dan paladin.


It apologizes.

The photograph of the papercraft was suddenly sent.


I was glad and it was exciting.


My name is LESQUA.

I am Japanese.

It works at the game company in Japan.


The game that you made is very interesting and wonderful.

It is impressed and the papermodel has been made instinctively.


Please hold out in the future.

It looks forward.


Thank you.


You can see a picture of the papercraft below, along with a picture taken at a Trader Joe's in California!


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Posted by TomFulp - August 18th, 2008


So I'm about to watch this movie and it has ONE review, with a score of zero. The review read:


"What is up with the coughing and burping throughout the video? That was incredibly annoying. I wasn't even able to finish watching the video because of it."


So then I watched the movie and having read the review, it suddenly became funny for some stupid reason.


Posted by TomFulp - August 5th, 2008


Wombats!



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Posted by TomFulp - May 30th, 2008


I've been back all week and I'm kinda caught up, with the exception of an old PM backlog that I still need to get through. Most of my time is still spent fixing bugs and play testing Castle Crashers, which continues to be fun after all these years, thanks to all the crazy multiplayer mayhem.


Today we'll be announcing the winners of the annual awards! I also need to include an announcement about Apple Con in NYC, where a bunch of us will be on June 7th and 8th (next weekend). You can get all the details in this post by Luis.


Next up: I'm finally gonna finish Pixel Puncher. It should run insanely well with the Flash 10 plugin!



Posted by TomFulp - April 19th, 2008


I'm horrible, I can't fight the itch to keep sharing the videos that get sent my way. So here's the latest.


Right now I'm working on the desert level of Castle Crashers... trying to make it feel as exciting as a desert can feel. I really gotta take some time out to get all the contracts together for the Audio Portal artists whose music we might use! Speaking of the AP, the prize packs for the last MAC were sent out early this past week.


So here it is, robotic flaming legs pushing a shopping cart:



Posted by TomFulp - April 18th, 2008


I normally wouldn't make posts about trivial things during the day, but the desire to share any weird video that comes my way compels me to package it with some news.


I'll be announcing the Pico Day pre-loaders this afternoon! I have a post just about ready to go.


I'm also rushing to have a good build of Castle Crashers ready, because Luis is coming to visit tonight! He's spending the night at the office, then going to NYC with MindChamber and some of the guys. I'll be staying in the office all weekend, of course, because I no longer get to live a life beyond Castle Crashers... but not for much longer!!!!!!!!!!!


So here's the video, it's a Japanese subway.