Good ol' Windows 98 screensaver vibes! ^_^
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Do you have a long-form comic and want to publish it online, especially on Newgrounds? Well, wait no longer! Here's Bando's Comic Wizard! This utility allows you to embed your comic pages or even just images into a viewer ready to be uploaded to the Games Portal.
Smooth streaming comics and image viewers can be yours in just a few steps! The wizard itself will walk you through the entire process, but basically you number your pages, put them in a folder with your comics title, and drag and drop. The utility then let's you download a zip file that's ready to upload.
This is the same technology that we here at Montrose use to publish Paradise Slice, but now in easy to use drag and drop "wizard" form that's hosted right here on Newgrounds!
The viewer features:
- Smooth streaming of pages using intelligent preloading
- No additional image compression
- Loading indicator
- Mouse navigation
- Touch navigation
- Arrow-key navigation
- Browser navigation (forward and back)
- Compatibility with browser zoom-in and zoom-out
- Bookmarking
- "Right-click* image saving
In addition to being ready to upload to Newgrounds, the zip files the wizard produces are a hybrid format that's also ready to server from a generic web server (just uncompress into a served directory) and can be read by most dedicated comic viewer apps (you may need to rename the .zip to a .cbz). So it's a very useful for comic artists!
If you like this sort of thing, check out our Newgrounds Art Scheduler.
We're always on the lookout for bugs! Please let us know if you find any or have any questions! Happy Comicking!
Browser Requirements:
Bando's Comic Wizard requires folder (webkitdirectory) drag and drop support. Brave, Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari have been tested and are known to work. Opera GX in unsupported.
Credits:
Programming: @alsoknownas1
GFX: @KittyhawkMontrose
Music: @Dieswyx
Fonts Used: League Spartan
KittyhawkMontrose responds:
We kicking it demoscene~ 💜💖
This is awesome! I'll definably make sure to use it! This offers some great instructions on how to format your own comic through folders and files. Is there a way that there could be a downloadable version of this program so that you can quicky format your files without having to be connected to WIFI? I'm guessing that all of your numbered files would automatically get put into an HTML5 format? or will it just automatically submit to the game section? Is there also a way where you could program alternat paths and options through numbering the files?
alsoknownas1 responds:
Thank you! You're exactly right about how it works. Your prepped and numbered files are formatted into an HTML5 archive (.zip) that you can download. You don't have to upload it to the games or movie portal. The archive should also work wherever HTML content is supported (neocities, itch.io). There isn't any support for alternative paths or offline conversion, but we're in the early days of working on a more expanded motion comic engine that does. Check out @KittyhawkMontrose and her "Velvet & Minky: Barra Drops In" to see a very early version in action.
This looks pretty cool. Is this more or less the standard way to put a comic or graphic novel as a game rather than individual submissions on the art portal? And if I use this, should I post the said 'game' (comic rather) as a gadget - other?
KittyhawkMontrose responds:
Hey! Thank you! Yup, this is a way to put your comic in the Games Portal so it has smooth streaming of the pages. I would recommend "Visual Novel" as the category if you're going to use it. That's what I've been using. And stay tuned! We've got more features on the way. :D
There's obviously a fair bit more you could to improve this, but as it is, this is a pretty fun little gadget to play with, and was an absolute godsend for comic creators before the Art Portal got multi-art support.
I'd like to give particular praise to Montrose and Dieswyx for the bursting-with-personality art and the banging Amiga-style chiptune - makes this feel like so much more than a simple comic utility.
KittyhawkMontrose responds:
Thank you so much! I'm glad you like it! @Dieswyx really knocked it out of the park with the song, really capturing that Amiga-style as you said.
We've got more coming to Bando's! We're going BEYOND comics! 🚀
A good maker For those comic people
not recommend for making a collab gallery
KittyhawkMontrose responds:
lol But no worries, we got a Bando product coming soon that might help the gallery issue. 😁
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