NG LONDON 2025 RECAP!!
SO last Sunday I had the pleasure of jetting it to London for this year's Europe-side Newgrounds meetup! The last one was in time for Pico Day in good ol' Dublin, Ireland, but this year I infiltrated the land of the Brits to go to London.
We met up in Shoreditch Park (seemingly a nicer bit of London with a lot of student accommodation), hung around the boulder for about an hour... before retreating to some trees because it was too damn hot. Then we headed straight to the venue where the kind folks @HenryEYES and @Snackers blessed us w/ free pizza n drinks - not to mention basically made the whole thing happen in the first place. Thanks so much dudes!!
MY STICKER!
My Gorillaz-inspired sticker I made for the meetup - I wanted to do something cool from England that wasn't tied to the idea of the "union" of the UK - bc well im irish lol.
THE VENUE!
The venue we arrived at! A rented space with everything you could need - drinks, pizza, Dorito's, TV... DIY tools? I distinctly remember opening a drawer with screwdrivers and the like... and shutting it.
The TV had been set up to play different music videos with Flash cartoons overlaid on top. I suddenly realised I should take a photo when the MCR Black Parade music video was being mixed in with Dragon Ball flash skits. Got some very confused replies on my instagram stories to that one.
DOCUMENTARY MOMENT
I should've gotten a photo of this - another fun moment was @liilbox hauling his ass over from the USA to film the meetup and interviewed a bunch of us - myself included - for his Newgrounds-focused Documentary Once Upon a Time on the Internet .I'd heard of the project much earlier but something about having the camera right in front of our faces made everything feel that little bit more real - like the meet & the documentary were a celebration of the internet offering pathways for artists to become part of something bigger than themselves. I have no idea what kind of spin they're gonna put on the story of Newgrounds but fuck am I excited to find out.
COOL ART DUMP
Much of the evening was spent drawing in each others' sketchbooks and chatting away!
I can't possibly name everyone on the big fuckoff whiteboard, but the kind folks who drew in my lil sketchbook include @ChazDude @GuyHitchens @Cappycatii @bbqsetti @kenziecallme @roposhipin @cappycat (and a couple of ppl whos faces i remember but you didnt sign your drawings dhgfdsfyug!!!!
The stickers on my sketchbook include: @DeeDotNG @Snackers @Imprez @GuardiasVA @BellvonArtsy (thx to Ropo for delivering those!) @LegolaSS @ChazDude among others who I again couldn't trace down (also I couldn't actually upload photos of all your games because Newgrounds only lets you do 10 photos per post - sorry!!!)
I met so many of you people that I actually can't possibly stick you all in but if you remember me and we chatted I will be sure to edit you into the tags lol.
OH and special thanks to Matt from @Eddsworld for showing up - was really cool to meet you and I hope you had yourself a good time!