I think that was a free running paper Mario game

Syre

That was very creative. I enjoyed it :)

okenny :)

What a cruel cruel man to make a DS to one-up a child. HOW DARE YOU SIR!

Ah just kidding, that's pretty sweet...

RSTStop780

"Mini-bash, you know how manga doesn't move, while anime does, right?

That's like the difference between your origami DS and zikayn's origami DS."

Hmm... (pause) ... sometimes no matter how we try to make it sensible for kids, we just fail. :-\

reekon

Coolness!

strideo

it would be cool if paper mario had movement animations like that.

jp182

That was just plain AWESOME! A nice way to start my morning. I know what jayntampa means about hating people that draw well. I can't draw a straight line with a ruler. :-/

Menolly

Now that's one Paper Mario game I'll never get to play.

Cruithne

Awesome. I'd comment that his hand-to-paper button movements weren't accurate, but I was too busy looking at a well done penicilmation. Can't think of what, but this reminds me of some kind of awesome animation or show. Regardless, it's nice to see your son inspired someone to do something cool. An excellent lesson for the youth: With a little creativity and imagination, you could inspire anyone.

You just might have to wait a few years for that to sink in.

Christoph

@ Bashcraft

You could tell the kid that he didn't draw his fast enough. See what happens? I know it's cruel but i'm a cruel person.

Cchrist

That's really really awesome!

Puzzle

@Krytha: Maybe one day. Maybe one day . . .

peAr_nectAr

That was awesome! Especially loved that flip over the blocks near the end.

majiesto

I hate people that can draw. They make me feel inadequate. Still, it was very cool ... even more cool is that Mini-Bash inspired it.

jayntampa

Witches are always cool, right?

Lyner

aww poor mini Bash

Syre

That was amazing. Your poor kid. He'll never get a magical paper DS.

Krytha

Now that's a good waste of time.

Unlike that xbox mircowave thing.

And now i'm bored again.

Cchrist

@Cchrist: I think...

Cchrist

@y2julio: Yeah it's safe.

Cchrist

Is this link SFW? I remember back when I used to frequent Newgrounds.com they used to have some semi-NFSW ADs.

y2julio

Yeah, that was pretty cool. The imagination of us human beings is pretty incredible. Kudos to Mini Bash for inspiring this creativity!

Gomerboy

Better than the microwave Xbox! Saves energy and doesn't hurt anyone, only risk is papercuts!

Angryrider

Hahaha.. that's cute.

rich8606

I watched it and for some reason it never occured to me that he might have got it off your kid.

goldwings

Pretty damn fantastic!

LionheartAce

If zikayn is a witch then someone must touch him! Someone that isn't me...

Seriously, I don't know where he is but I have to stay here and wait for a package.

No, I have to sign for it.

No, I'm not having it left on my porch, someone might steal it.

That's none of your buisness.

Fine, let the witch-boy keep on witching. See if i care.

Agies

Love the movie, but hate Newgrounds. Newgrounds doesn't deserve that guy's work!

Robotube

Noice stop-motion thar.

Mini Bash hath produced something of a meme, methinks*.

*an actual meme being something that displays both a level of artistic aptitude and technical skill that the wider internets come to respect.

splines

Oh god Bash, did you really tell your kid the guy is a witch?

ManjiKengo

@Robotube: Metal Gear Awesome dude, Metal Gear Awesome.

Itchy (PSN: Kaizoku-ou)

@jayntampa: "I hate people that can draw. They make me feel inadequate."

I hate to sound like your parents after a piano lesson, but practise makes perfect.

You just need to be "unlocked." In college, I took a class that incorporated life-drawing (I should mention I'm a design student with a background in illustration and comics), which was something I was just NOT good at. The teacher made me see things differently; he made me slow down and really analyze every bump and nuance on my subject's surface, and then all of a sudden, my drawings started to look like things.

I had another teacher that said your drawing could be completely generic, but if you spent a few minutes here and there putting on shadows and highlights, it'd make your drawings look 100 times better than they actually were.

As for my experience with comics, I found that it was very useful growing up to try to copy the work of the artists I most admired: Bill Watterson, Matt Groening, Chuck Schultz. Doing that will really give you insight into WHY they draw things the way they do, and how they solved particular challenges; why they'd put a shadow here or there, or use lines with a certain weight.

You probably don't even care, but I just hate it when I hear someone say they can't do something. EVERYONE can draw!

PlayerX

Oh, cool! My first tip to go in, I was bit worried you guys didn't get it. :D

Itchy (PSN: Kaizoku-ou)

@Robotube: Why is that? I've seen many things on newgrounds over the years that top this gentlemans stop motion.

ManjiKengo

burn teh witch!! hehe

yairube

Man, your whole family is internet famous now! Micro-bash is going to have a lot to live up to...

Interstella5555

Am I the only person who can't see the movie?

Barts

That was pretty friggin' sweet.

Speaking of the paper DS though, I just remembered now that when my sister was about three or four she was jealous at how my brother and I would play our Gameboys in the car so she drew herself a "Gamegirl" on a memo notebook and spent the rest of the car ride making obnoxious sound effects. (At least I had the decency to use headphones...)

Rubiximus

haha poor kid,
After you wrote up the last article I grabbed some games I wasn't going to have time to play and traded them in to buy my son a Crimson DS for his 6th birthday (there was a really good trade in deal in Canada). I can't wait to see his face when he opens it :)

Kinburn

What the hell, that guy sucks! He missed all the coins! ;)

Dakkonfire

Can we just gather the cash to buy him a new one if you wont? $120 over a couple hundred thousand people is pretty reasonable.

Seruza

Whhaaaa! O.o That was sweet.

BonkUGood

That's really well done. I'm very envious of people who can do animation, and do it in a way that has it's own flavour and charm.

epherlite

When I was a wee lad, I made myself a paper Nintendo. For some reason I had a Nintendo compatible joystick but no system, so I taped three pieces of paper together, drew in the first level of Super Mario Brothers, taped it upright in a corner, and pretended to play it. My father saw me playing my paper Nintendo in the corner one day and felt pity on me. A few weeks later I had the real thing...only to have it replaced suddenly (while I was at school) a year later with a typewriter. (sigh) I think my dad took my real Nintendo to a second hand store and gave it away. I still get angry thinking about that.

jburt

@ManjiKengo: I like a lot of the WORK on Newgrounds, I just am not a fan of Newgrounds itself. Its existence is based on pirated copies of Flash, violence, and poop. I dunno. Just can't get behind that.

Robotube

I'm thinking Mini-Bash is owed some bank... give that kid his royalties!!!

Tenth

Awesome. They should totally make a remake of Mario 1 to look like that.

dowingba

It's hilarious how a paper DS still looks a million times more fun than a PSP

DeLoRtEd1

Awesome.
My DS looks kinda wimpy now.

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

That was really cool though. Mini Bash has my sympathy, learning reality's cruel sting...

MajorMcMuffin

That. Was. Awesome. Very nicely done. :D

hrunting

Yet another game that doesn't make good use of the 2nd screen!

treydfleming

@Polywhirl: "A meme is just something that popular.". Hee.. wrong. A meme is a piece of information that clone trough a human system. It replicate as soon one human transmit it to other human. Humans are the "replication vector", but can use electronic mediums to jump to human to other human brain. Is almost exactly like a computer virus, but meme affect humans, and computer virus affect computers.

tei

When mini bash asked why his did not move you should have said it was the file types. His was .pap while this guys was .flv

ocalot

@splines: You know, that would be true, assuming your definition of a meme was correct.
Except, here's the definition of one: "A unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another."
or... "a cultural item that is transmitted by repetition in a manner analogous to the biological transmission of genes."

Neither of which match up to your meaning.
A meme is just something that popular. Quality doesn't factor into it.

@Robotube: True, Newgrounds was founded by Tom Fulp, and did consist of Assassination games. But, he was like 17 or something. Give him a break. He's really brought it up a lot, and works like hard to make it a respectable site.
It's not his fault people take his "Open to Everybody" idea as an invitation to spam shit into it.

@Seruza: I may have mis-understood him, but it's not the money to Ashcraft. It's the lesson behind it. He has to learn that you can't just discard valuable property because somebody makes fun of it, and you can't always get what you want.

@PlayerX: Nope. Some people, me included, just can't draw. I've taken classes. I've practiced. Everything you can do to learn, I've tried it. I can produce some "okay" stuff, but I'll never be able to get beyond where I am, really. I can't draw a straight line. Ever. I can sit there for six hours straight, doing nothing but trying to draw a line, and I will never succeed. I just don't have the hand/eye coordination.

Polywhirl

@Polywhirl: OK, but I never mentioned the founder or blamed him for anything. I know its not his fault. I don't like the site or its content. I have no personal beef with the guy who founded it.

Robotube

This is the future of gaming, right? What with that e-paper and whatnot?

@Barts:
Make sure that your version of the Flash Player is up to the latest version.

@splines:
I don't think this is stop motion. Rather, he probably animated the "game" in Flash, and overlayed it onto the video of him "playing" the paper DS.

BPMα

Yay. Its fun when "my web sites" mix.

thisisasignin

How cool, inspiration really can be found anywhere :)

FancifulUnicorn

I've always wanted a handheld Paper Mario.

Green-clad Gamer Dude

yes yes YES YESSS!!!!!
me want one now, quick somebody get ckraking the code for magic paper, but would it go to 1080p or just #2???

Lets hope Mini Bash inspires more people into making great things, like that flash there.

N3v3r.kNows.b3st.

Awesome, for some reason that kind of animation always appeals to me^_^

Nekokazzie

@tei: So it's like influenza with teh funneh?

deviantchicken

That is pretty darn slick... I would much rather have one of those than the black DS Lite I never use any day!

On a more serious note, that little movie was pretty darn slick!

MantisDragon

The magic of animation yet again brings one dream to life and ruins another's. Will the madness ever end??!!

Phazonmasher