Another day, another month. time to vote again.

Movies

Not much to say. Ultimately this month will end up biased towards Halloween movies, so it's expected they'll show up.

I did try to include a few non-Halloween entries.

Games

Usually this is not my strongest suit. I try to vote for stuff that a. have the most effort put into them, and b. innovative and seem fun to play, but unfortunately, I don't have the time to play more than 10 games, vs. 10 movies, because a lot of tend to be

Nonetheless, I still try to "guess" in order to fill up all ten slots. IDK if voting fewer games would make my overall vote stronger or weaker.

Reincarnation would've gotten higher if it weren't a redo of an existing 2008 game.

Audio

Art

Quick mention, even though I didn't vote for this one: Why'd you select this one and not the zombie one?

Previous month: https://anonymous-frog.newgrounds.com/news/post/1473498

I think I should keep posting these every month.

Movies

Games

Audio

Art

Other Stuff:

Mostly audio related. I've got nothing animation, or art-wise.

Beep Block Bunch (Collab)

I'm hosting another audio collab. This time, it's to make set to the beeping rhythm used in the Beep Block levels from the Super Mario series.

Previously, I've hosted the "A Sine of Relief" collab, where the theme is to sine waves as the majority of your instruments. That turned out well, so why not host another.

See NGAP Collab Center Discord for more details and to join in.

Submissions due December 1st.

Dipthong 3

Previous post: https://anonymous-frog.newgrounds.com/news/post/1464544

I originally said I'd release Dipthong 3 on September 18th. this is entirely my fault. It's been delayed to this month (and hopefully not again)

As of writing, it's nearly complete. The cover art's done (all 3 'discs'), all 30 songs are laid out and composed. Two tracks (OverParty and Parasocial) need vocals, which I plan to add with Speakonia (weird experiment), and some mixing fixing, but that's about it. Hopefully it'll all be done by Halloween.

Takeover Tuesday

I'll end this post with my thoughts on Takeover Tuesday.

First: Thank you @RedMongoose for featuring the track "Damp Thicks", currently only the 2nd worst track with the word "thick" thanks to YouTuber KSI.

Second: I haven't noticed that much of a difference in view count. I checked Damp Thicks for reference.

There's a recent breach at the Internet Archive, this means no Wayback Machine, and NG also doesn't have view analytics, unlike YouTube or Bandcamp. With these factors out of the question, I can't gauge how well it did during the event. But given it only has 156 listens as of today, I doubt it gained that much.

If your work is featured this way, don't expect hundreds or thousands of views, unlike a regular frontpage. When 843 people put up a submission for a whole day, the whole thing thins out. If 8,430 people join in this Tuesday and they all view one submission, each one will only get 10 views if they were all evenly spread out.

Third: If you are looking for submissions post-Takeover, searching the archive trying to find DT (or any other specific thing) is like trying to find a needle in a haystack, and it didn't show up until after I scrolled past 100+ submissions.

When searching purely for audio, it's easier to search, but most people will just use the default page.

Fourth: I've seen plenty of people try to self-promote their own stuff, even if they didn't really need it. some people really don't need it. You can say you want "maximise freedom", but it's best if you just disallowed it outright. It's annoying, it ruins the experience.

Fifth: Surprisingly, there weren't that many A-rated submissions, only 27 in total. Out of 800+. I expected more, but this is a good step.

Final thoughts: I think the event is good, but too chaotic and oversaturated to be worth it, the returns are too minimal to be meaningful to anyone who gets featured this way. By replacing the normal front page, it becomes a massive interruption. It tries to bring a form of scouting to the entire site, but it just feels like feature creep.

For featurers, it can be fun, and maybe that's all that matters, but for recipients, self-promo or otherwise, at the current moment, you won't get much out of having your submission featured.

It's still a neat way to get people to pay money to Newgrounds, but it's mostly just a novelty.

I think if NG introduced a second tier of Supporter (ie. make it for $8 per month vs the usual $3), it would be an incredible perk. It will reduce the amount of active participants (which should mean more views per submission featured), but in return, people can be more incentivised to pay extra money to NG, both of which a win in my book.

Took you long enough. Thread’s been dead for almost 17 years,

This is a bit of a quick, slightly rushed post, but it was today o' clock when I discovered that Monthly awards have been added to Newgrounds, and I felt that would be something big to talk about.

So a bit of history: The Monthly voting system was introduced in early 2005, they kept all the data and were able to retroactively add it to old monthly winners.

Examples:

What this means:

1- Monthly voting has spread to Audio, so it will also get the award, most likely.

However, Weekly trophies are hidden and currently only visible through an RSS feed or the author's Trophy page, so we might need that updated. (Tom? hello?)

2- The Art Portal also has monthly voting, so they'll probably be getting the award again. Monthlies were already on the Art Portal for a few months, so they're nothing new. I see it as a grand return that's more than welcome, even if it is partially curated due to the way monthly voting works (more on that in my last post).

3- The upper ceiling for awards is now 4 per movie/game.

This means the fabled Triple Crown is no more. Introducing the QUADRUPLE CROWN, aka.

Daily Feature, Weekly User's Choice, Review Crew Pick, Best of the Month.

4- Talented, well-deserved authors (mainly bigshots like SrPelo, Zeurel, JoelG, MarcoCardenas, and such) gain a slight boost on their trophy count, edging them just a bit higher and away from the low-effort hacks who could only go up to Daily.

5- If you've opted out of awards, yet still got voted in, you still win the award (eg. some of SrPelo's stuff).

IDK if the "Opt out of awards" function currently works for monthly voting, or if I'd have to contact Tom or co to remove it from the nominee list.

6- A possible suggestion: Make it so you can click the date on the monthly trophy and it'll redirect you to the "Best of [year]" thread that it was posted on.

I will close this post off with a Wikigrounds article I've written for the updated award.

https://newgrounds.miraheze.org/wiki/Monthly_Portal_Awards

This post documents the new updated Monthly Voting tab, my thoughts on the whole thing, and the submissions that got my vote.

The first change I've noticed: there's an easy to understand and insightful description about the nominees and its suggested criteria, updated from the original version.

Safe for Work (formerly "Not pornographic")

Independent (formerly "Not commercial")

Contains Artistry (seems new, yet somehow 2 Pebbles movies are on there).

Honestly, those criteria should be more than just be a suggestion.

Rather than each submission be arranged as a grid, it puts them all in a list. First,

-it puts all pinned submissions on top, if any.

-then all submissions I've favourited

-then stuff voted highly on,

-then those from authors I follow

-then the other eligible submissions

Arranging the familiar, already seen, already liked submissions on top, gives some familiarity with whatever picks I've selected, but at the same time, if you haven't watched that many submissions, it can make it seem biased, especially if you missed a few technically superior selections.

Ideally, the voter should aim to watch them after the fact, so my suggestion: if you vote for something you haven't watched, it will notify you to watch it, but will still let you vote anyway.

After you pick 10 or less submissions, you are then redirected to another page to sort them. I think it'd be nicer to sort them on the same page, for convenience.

Movies:

These are my picks: Since these are from August, of course the first 6 are Clock stuff.

One neat thing I like is that the voted submissions are highlighted in their Portal's colour

(movies = red, games = blue, audio = green, art = purple)

Games

Mostly identical, only there's a smaller pool of eligible submissions, and less stuff I've actually played or looked at prior to voting. The main issue is that games take longer to load and are longer to get into, compared to the other submissions, so overall... it's longer.

I know Bastard Aliens has a dick in the intro cutscene, but that's a joke penis. For comedic effect, For pissing. Different vibes.

Speaking of: that game is played through typing, like inMario Teaches Typing, so that alone makes it worth it.

Also, clocks before rocks!

Audio

If I could recommend a new criteria, it'd be "make sure it's not that overdone, overrated techno-dubstep EDM bullshit from those DJ-Geometry Dashheads."

I wanted to highlight a selection of new, unique from other genres-type bangers. Give at least one of these guys a follow.

There was also a piece of official Among Us music from Puff himself, that one I deliberately didn't vote for to highlight the other artists.

Art

Same as Audio, it's great that Newgrounds is actually allowing them into the contest, but at the same time, I don't know what is considered eligible for voting in this category, and that's a big concern for me. There seems to be about 60 submissions on this list, which is lower than what's currently frontpaged. WAY lower.

There was this whole discussion in the Suggestions to Tom thread about this whole ordeal. At one point, 84 submissions were frontpaged in a single day, which was more than what the site could handle.

Even if only 10 submissions are FP'd per day, that's still ~300 submissions, or in other words, more than two thirds of all submissions featured on this site didn't make the cut.

I've come up with a few case studies.

CASE 1: Multiple works by the same author

One of the most prolific artists here, BridgeofFaust, had 13 submissions on the month of August, every single one of them frontpaged. Only two of them made it on here (I "voted highly" to highlight them in the same screenshot)

In fact, none of the submitters had more than two entries.

CASE 2: Late-FP'd Submissions

This piece by @Veloxscene isn't featured in the voting list. It was released in April, but featured in August.

It's a little rough, but it was on the front page.

This is also a late submission, though the author does a lot of NSFW art as well.

This piece was only one day off, released July 31st.

CASE 3: Miku

Only 5 eligible submissions feature Hatsune Miku, or her regional variants, despite there being a big boom in Miku fanart.

Some neat variants that didn't make it.

CASE 4: Other Ommissions

@KokoroHatsaru did the 30 Day Summergrounds Showdown. Unlike other prolific authors like Faust, violxiv, and such, none of her stuff made the cut.

Although some of them weren't put on the front page, a lot of them (including these ones) did. I wonder why they weren't eligible.

I really like this animated loop, but alas, it didn't make the cut either. This author had 4 submissions frontpaged and none are up here.

Both of these works from a newcomer aren't on here, even though they cool has hek!.

There doesn't seem to be a @Lisnovski on the list.

My theory: the submissions are manually curated by Tom/the mods, this is why the monthly voting was delayed by 1 week. Since there's no award system, and score sorting tends to be unviable at this scale, this seems to be the only real explanation.

Most of these ommisions, I can agree. If you allow a whole dozen submissions from the big shot Fausts and Violets out there, there's a chance they'll flood multiple slots at once, so I can see why they limited them to just two.

Some of these are just people participating in a trend or doing portraits of popular characters, so presumably only the best of those kind are selected.

Some are just not as polished, but still, it's ~70% of all FP'd art, a chance is a chance.

Anyway: these are my picks. Once again, women and children second, clocks first.

Other Things to Note

While writing this post, I clicked off and on the voting page multiple times and it seemed to save my progress. It also automatically considers my picks a full vote without locking in, regardless of whether I did the full 10 or not.

Interesting to note.

Another suggestion: A tick to indicate whether a submission is "original material" or a parody/fanart/etc.. Even though I can tell already by looking at it, it makes it easier to notice in a massive list.

Anyway: Happy voting!

Quick announcement: I've fixed up my Discord server again. To keep it short, I've had it since 2020 and it's been dormant for most of that time.

If you want to be on the know about all my latest projects, banter about overrated movies and web creations, or just talk about stuff that falls outside Newgrounds' jurisdiction, this is the place for you.

Join the Durthole!

If this is your first time seeing this: I am making a third album in the 'Dipthong' series.

Dipthong III is a 3-part megacollection of tunes from A+B loosely based on The Divine Comedy, and my own personal grudges.

30 tracks blending different genres, including rock, techno, breakbeat, ambient, chiptune, synthwave, all the other 'waves, and more!

Progress: 95% complete,

I just need to make 1 more song, polish another 3, and create 3 pieces of cover art.

Planned release: September 2024:

August if I'm lucky.

SIDE A: Crimes Against Dipthong

This soundtrack tells the tale of two oddball trespassers, Nick and McBill, as they trek their way through nine layers of the Underworld to see a fallen warrior trained in the mysterious way of the Dipthong.

TRACKLIST:

Prelude: Vestibular Cancer

Act I: Butt-Breaking Smack of Doom!

Act II: A lot of it is grey

Act III: Monster Chalk

Act IV: Ombra del Cieco

Act V: OverParty

Act VI: Can't Do Shit

Act VII: Gaius von Jakov

Act VIII: Crimes Against Dipthong (Part 1)

Act IX: Crimes Against Dipthong (Part 2)

SIDE B: Divine Tragedy

Centuries after Nick and McBill's initial visit, an unknown purple vigilante embarks on a heroic quest. What was supposed to have been a heavily cliched and typical journey, ends up becoming more than what he had originally bargained for.

TRACKLIST:

0: Divine Tragedy

1: Damp Thicks

2: Deserted Tree

3: Decayed Tungsten

4: Deputy Tusk

5: Double Tundra

6: Dwayne's Train

7: Dopamine Town

8: Dipthong 3033

9: Dysfunctional Tyrant

SIDE THREE: Partners in Brine

The hero from Side B, after completing his quest, returns to the present for a well-earned break.

Little does he know, there's a surprise waiting for him, and no it's not a force of evil.

TRACKLIST:

0: Lord Forgor (synt2.0)

1: You Bit Up The Wrong Person

2: Partners in Brine

3: Parasocial

4: Zen Gwuka (eeee)

5: 55 MPH

6: Silver Shower

7: Caroline

8: Non subtle allegory

9: Rehabilitation (Synt)

*bold indicates an A song (Anonymous-Frog)

**italics indicates a B song (BeepBoxClock)

***underline indicates direct involvement from both parties

Already Released Tracks:

If you're new, do also check out my previous albums.

thank you!

Hello! I've just come up with a quick trick to promote yourself to 1,000+ people on Newgrounds. Especially useful for creators with zero followers.

Step 1:

Find a list of users.

For this example, I've clipped some names off my own follower list, though you could also use someone else's.

TIP: If you are going through someone else's follower list, try to go for those with a similar style as yours

(eg. Krinkels).

Step 2:

Select them:

Step 3:

Paste them as plain text: Should look like this:

1rach5's icon

1rach5

3ZAVL's icon

3ZAVL

4n0nymou5's icon

4n0nymou5

50Steaks's icon

50Steaks

53xy83457's icon

53xy83457

5ug4r5w3etC4ndy's icon

5ug4r5w3etC4ndy

7henderGames's icon

7henderGames

8bitalien64's icon

8bitalien64

Aalasteir's icon

Aalasteir

accountv1's icon

accountv1

Acefent's icon

Acefent

adammonster1's icon

adammonster1

ADR3-N's icon

ADR3-N

Step 4:

Remove every odd numbered that says 's icon. These came from when you selected the list.

THEN, put an @ at the start of each name that remains. In large quantities you should be able to do it quickly and efficiently.

Should look like this:

@1rach5

@3ZAVL

@4n0nymou5

@50Steaks

@53xy83457

@5ug4r5w3etC4ndy

@7henderGames

@8bitalien64

@Aalasteir

@accountv1

@Acefent

@adammonster1

@ADR3-N

Sorry if your name started with an A. I think 14 is enough for this demonstration.

TIP: Press LEFT, then DOWN, then @

Step 5:

Make a blog post containing your list. Doesn't need to be frontpaged.

You can fit anywhere between 2000 and 4000 names if they're short enough, though realistically you can get about 1,000 if you want room to write your actual post. Don't worry, you can make multiple posts!

TIP: Claim somewhere in the post that it's a special invitation, or come up with some other gimmick, so they'll see it's legit.

Step 6:

The content of your promotion should ideally be enough to fit 5 lines of text and 1 Newgrounds submission, so make sure your promotion does that.

______YOU MUST BE THIS SHORT TO BE SEEN!

-5

-4

-3

-2

-1

---------

Step 7

Publish the blog post. It will now instantly notify everyone on your list at once, complete with a big red pop-up. They can't ignore it!

Make sure it's something important, such as the release of a new animation, game, comic, or album.

TIP: Prune out some of the bigger creators you can recognise. About 60% of them are smart enough to not give a shit, so what's the point? Not to mention they already get hundreds of these already from reviews, new followers, etc.

Congratulations! you just did some free promotion!

totally works!

tOTALLY 100% legal and not out of date

No questions asked!

Here's an honest critique of the 5 "best" movies and games of the days 18th-20th of April:

I will admit, it's already starting to get demotivating, so I skipped over two whole days. But here it is, the mega-review.

15 submissions.

April 18th

Entries thread: https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1534205

Authors: @MojoMontebon @awd @El-Cid @Oswelt @SaveSlothStudios

1st: 0/3

Super low-effort.

There is very little animation, probably took about 1 week tops. It's at least a little more interesting than the previous Sonic animation, but at this point, why bother?

2nd: 0/3

Another "Keanu Reeves Shadow" animation: Again, very small and rushed out before the trend dies.

Shadow's animation is better, but it's 10 seconds long and there's no background, so there's nothing of value.

idk, just stop cutting corners and make something bigger.

3rd: 2/3

Here it is! The grand return of the one and only El-Cid, legendary animator from the golden age of Newgrounds, after almost 5 years since his last animation: The Shooting Stars - Diplomacy Mode.

And it's a bit of a disappointment:

The movie is centered around Klaus Schwab (Wikipedia), aka the 86 yo. founder of the World Economic Forum. The big punchline is that the 3 jokes he tells are very basic and unfunny.

As an animation, it's very MeatCanyon-esque. The background is most likely AI-generated (and gets very blurry up close), most of the movements are in Schwab's mouth, and not the rest of his face.

It just barely gets a 2 because TheJanitor9k and AlmightyHans are both good voice actors. But the only other difference between this movie and several other political cartoon strips satirizing the WEF and Klaus, is that this one drags out for a minute longer than it needed to.

For example: this strip by former Financial Times cartoonist Ingram Pinn.

This Simpsons clip comes to mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llE7wT1BKt8

4th 1/3

When I saw "Animation Meme" in the title, combined with the other 2 stinkers, I had low expectations.

It looks like those two people are in love, but they just end up staring at each other.

The animation, though not my cup of tea, is still good. It uses the song "Fighter" by Jack Stauber, which is 30 seconds long, though it only uses the latter half.

The dancing Marge Simpson at the end is still cool.

5th 3/3

This is a strategy card game, made for Ludum Dare 55.

Every turn, you place up to 3 cards with varying strength levels and abilitieson the first column. When the turn ends, each card moves forward, where their strength multiplies. If they reach the castle at the end, they die.

The goal is to make sure the combined strength is higher than the castle's own health, which means you have to be careful about which cards are sacrificed, which row you place them on,

, something that took me a bit of time to understand, and a bit more time to explain in simple terms.

Presentation and theme are both good, good-fitting music, there's a story told through text and illustrations.

All in all, I ended up enjoying the whole experience twice. I only wish I could undo cards before I end my turn.

It should be noted that although this is a 72 hour game jam (ie. 3 days), I can estimate that this is equivalent to 6-10 days of regular development, given that there's 2 developers, and that you usually prepare for and spend more hours of the day if there's a strict development window.

Overall, complete rubbish. The only true saving grace here is The Royal Writ, and even then it's at the bottom.

Total Score: 6/15 (38%)

Best/Favourite:

#5: The Royal Writ

April 19th

Entries thread: https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1534238

Authors: @jumpbreak96 @violxiv and co @KimiOmega @Figburn @squidly and co.

1st: 3/3

Great aesthetic, great music selection: Still kinda comes off as a demo-ey character showcase, or portfolio piece, but it's almost a minute long.

Please make a Streetdevil series or at least a short film.

PS: I also noticed a few movies, including some old realistic ones based on DOOM or Madness, have been removed. Like, can't watch them here anymore. Care to explain?

2nd: 3/3

I've seen a few teasers dating up to October, so there's a bit of hype to this, and I'd like to say it's worth it.

It starts with a 60 second training video about a pizza joint for the undead, then the rest of the movie is a confrontation with Suzie, a delivery driver, and a ghost who ends up disatisfied with his order, which ended up costing $3 ($5:62 in today's money, given that this is set in the year 1999).

I think it feels more like a short pilot and would benefit from a sequel or a full series.

3rd: 3/3

This is a fan-series based on the Kirby games, mainly . I haven't watched every single episode, but I can already tell this one good.

This episode is centered around a fight against against a giant monster (lore in the author comments). The Kirbys can't stand a chance, but Adeleine manages to kick its ass.

4th: 2/3

Animated teaser for Contract Rush DX, which is still not done yet.

The animated intro (15 secs) is very cool, and the trailer itself is well-edited, save for a lack of sounds. It does look like a lot of progress was made on the game itself.

5th: 3/3

Ludum Dare 55 entry. You must use "gachapons", ie. you pay money in select machines to unlock random fighters which automatically kill enemies like slimes, rats, and scorpions. Every minute you must pay rent that keeps increasing, money you earn by attacking and defeating enemies with your gachapons. The enemies can't attack you personally, but can kill the gachapons. You can earn medals to

IDK if this is truly endless or not, but it doesn't seem that well-polished or executed. I got up to 400K points. Please send me a video of someone.

Graphics are good, there's a great variety of gachapons, and some good original music. But there are plenty of flaws, even in version 1.2:

First, the directional controls are a bit floaty, though you can use the mouse.

Second: the voices can be annoying, and there's no way to turn them off (that I know of).

Third: a map would be nice.

That's all! Congrats to everyone involved.

Overall, I see a lot of incredible work, If you love video games, you'll love today's entries!

Total Score: 14/15 (95%)

Best/Favourite: #3, 1,#5

April 20th

Entries thread (correct link this time): https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1534269

Authors: CumminHam @MD00dles @Kwing and @Cyberdevil, @remusyurov @SleP16

1st: 0/3

Puddle is an original frog character. There's quite a bit of uncanniness to this submission, both the character design itself and the lighting. This is despite the E-rating.

Given the lack of substance and the #1 spot, it doesn't deserve any points.

2nd: 1/3

Animatic + Advertisement to promote SrPelo's Spooky Month merch.

3rd: 2/3

Flash Forward Jam entry: This is a fighting game, the twist is that it's set to a rap battle between two NG users and that you gain an attack bonus if your fighter's verse plays. The battle ends when the song ends, and the winner is declared by who dealt the most damage. I don't know if it's possible to completely knock out your opponent by going all the way..

It's a bit choppy, and the visuals are jank, but I like the idea.

4th: 3/3

It's a retelling of Half Life: Alyx made using paper. I thought this would be similar to Paper Mario, but nope.

Style's good, great background art.

5th: 2/3

This is a rhythm platformer where you time your moves to the beat of the music.

First impressions: looks great.

When I got to play it: pretty confusing.

You're supposed to time your jumps and other moves to the beat to the song, but here, it just makes it difficult to control.

Left-right movement is stiff, forcing me to jump most of the way, and it's not clear on how to perform tricks.

I also couldn't get any of the other moves to work and I got stuck at a breakable wall on the first level.

Overall, yeah this selection is totally generic. Save yourself and go check out yesterday's lineup instead!

Total Score: 8/15 (53%)

Best/Favourite: #4, #3, #5

Here's an honest critique of the 5 "best" movies and games of the day.

Entries thread: https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1534186

Authors: @snailpirate, @LuckoDaStars and co, @MojoMontebon @KokoroHatsaru @thesemichrist

1st: 1/3

This is a Smiling Friends animation. Let's play a little game called: "added context three".

• First: the music used is the final boss music from Super Mario Galaxy. Good start to possibly getting it taken down in the future.
• Second, the video is 19 seconds long, a bit small, but whatever.
• Third: this video previously gained 100K views on YouTube, which could mean the audience is pulling most of the weight. Even a small fraction of that can overpower the score: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDV8P_mdysY

That being said, the animation does still match the Smiling Friends style very well. Just wish the music thing was sorted out first.

2nd: 3/3

This is an opening cutscene for a game of the same name. Animation is great, given the horsepower of the Lucko team.

However, there was one scene that had inconsistent outline thickness (~0:37). That's about it.

3rd: 0/3

Sonic says: "you....."

and then I asked "Why the big pause?"

And then he said: "You're probably thinking of Knuckles, streaming on Paramount+ next week!"

Anyway, onto the review:

Animation: Out of 34 seconds, 12 come from a basic outro, and the remaining 22 had big pauses taking up half of it. It's also a little choppy, even the lip syncing is very minimal.

Sound: Author says it sucks. I only somewhat agree.

Humor: Painfully unfunny to all but the cringiest of 13 year olds.

There's always next time!

4th 1/3

This is another promotional short for that Tsubasa Siren manga. (what does "Tsubasa" mean in English?)

It's again, very basic, just them playing Castle Crashers.

See: frogreview #22

PS: Are you familiar with Totally Spies! for some reason? Just asking.

5th 2/3

Puss in Boots animation: Audio comes from Ace Vane, a YouTuber.

Congrats on the first win though, and your first completed animation proper (at least from what I can find on NG)!

It's still a bit rough though.

Overall, still pretty decent.

Total Score: 7/15 (52%)

Best/Favourite:

#2, #4, #5, #1, in that order.