Hey guys, since Twitter and Facebook suck, I’m trying to scam people into following me on Newgrounds.
I will be giving away Steam keys for Epic Battle Fantasy 5, one of the best RPGs of all time, to a random 10% of people who start following me on Newgrounds. So if 1,000 people follow me, I’ll give out 100 keys, and so on.
Me and Ronja recently travelled to Brighton in the south of England for the Develop conference. It was a smooth 9-hour drive from Glasgow to Brighton – on our way we briefly stopped in Oxford, and spent a day in Thorpe Park. I assumed we would beat the school holidays, but plenty of kids were on school trips at the theme park, so it was way more crowded than we liked. Eventually we managed to ride most of the rides we wanted to do, except for Swarm, which broke down. It’s a shame that Saw: The Ride is so rough and painful, otherwise it would be a top-tier rollercoaster with awesome horror theming. Nemesis Inferno, Stealth and Walking Dead were good fun, as were the water rides. Anyway, I’d definitely like to visit again on a less busy day.
The conference itself was also incredibly busy – apparently the busiest year by far. We browsed some indie games at the expo, and met up with a few developer friends we knew from Twitter and other events. We met up with The Super Flash Brothers, Damp Gnat, Grey Alien Games, Lowtek Games, Space Spy, and others. We were hoping to meet the developers of Among Us, but missed them by a day – maybe next time.
Overall, time was mostly spent just chatting, eating and drinking with industry people. We also made room to do general tourist stuff around Brighton – we walked around the Royal Pavilion, rode a crappy rollercoaster on the pier, and went up the i360 tower, which while expensive, gives a very nice view of the city from 160 meters up. I’ve been to few seaside cities this year, including Blackpool, Skegness and Llandudno, and I think Brighton had the most interesting and presentable coastline to visit as a tourist.
Anyway, on the drive home, due to bad traffic, bad weather, and rode closures, the trip took us 13 hours instead of 9! That was rough. Would consider taking the train in future, but UK train prices are way too high. In the end we laughed it off and every aspect of the trip was memorable. I will definitely attend the conference again – but maybe not every year!
Winners of the EBF Collection Fanart Contest are finally here! Thanks again to everyone for submitting art and taking part in the contest, we received so much absolutely amazing artwork from all of you and we love celebrating your creativity. Like said before, the sheer quality of everyone’s work this time is mind-blowing, and the judging process was incredibly difficult. Congratulations to all winners, and thank you so much for participating!
Winners will receive prize money from a pool of £500 to be split between the top 6 entries, as well as 2 games or soundtracks of their choice (not including games/ports in development) on the platform of their choosing.
You can click the images to view full sized versions, but they might take a while to load as some are quite big. You can view all entries in the contest channel on the EBF Discord Server.
The EBF Collection Fanart Contest results are finally in. Thank you to everyone for your patience as we’ve judged all your incredible entries. Entries have been judged by Matt, Ronja, Phyrnna, and Troisnyx. The winners of the prize pool will be announced tomorrow. Even though we received less entries compared to the last contests, the quality is so incredibly high this time it has been unbelievably difficult to decide. Each judge voted very differently and ended up with a with a unique set of favourites making it harder than before to narrow down the winners.
Today we celebrate the runners-up who created some incredible art and stole our hearts!
All runners-up will receive 2 games or soundtracks of their choice (not including games/ports in development) on the platform of their choosing. You can view all the entries in the contest channel on the EBF Discord server.
The fanart contest is in full swing and you can still participate by creating new fanart of the games in the Epic Battle Fantasy Collection until Tuesday May 30th at 10PM BST. Check the contest post for all the info on prizes and how to enter.