I just checked NewGrounds again tonight to see how my submissions were doing and I was abso-fucking-lutely astonished to discover that my Self-Portrait had sky-rocketed from 3,500 views as of Wednesday to over 27,000 views:

At first I thought maybe some linkdump had linked people to it, but that didn't entirely make sense because any responsible linkdump probably would've linked to my site directly. Then I noticed the NewGrounds FRONT PAGE (http://www.newgrounds.com/):

The handful of submissions featured on the FRONT PAGE are hand-picked by the NewGrounds creators and admins so I feel incredibly flattered to have my very first submission chosen out of the 350+ submissions in the last week.

Many many THANX to Tom, Wade, James and all the people who voted for Self-Portrait!!!

In related news, I got an offer for "sponsorship" for Stick Fighter. It's a chance to make some money, but I'm not sure if I'm going to sell out just yet.

Also, I discovered that Stick Fighter has been posted on MoFunZone.com. This happened entirely without my permission or even notification, but since they are hosting it on their own server, it isn't leeching my bandwidth, and they gave me credit without altering the SWF in any way so it still includes a link to JoshuaJMorgan.com. I checked their disclaimer and it says I can ask them to take it down since I didn't submit it to them personally, but I still retain all copyrights so I'm not going to complain about the extra exposure. They even had some really nice things to say about my game:

One of the best stick fighting games in flash.

It'll take it all as a compliment.