Tank-or-Treat Collab
Draw your character. Answer the door. Trick or treat.
What this is
We're building a Halloween trick-or-treat town out of Newgrounds artists' original characters. Players wander the streets, knock on doors, and find out what happens when each artist's character answers.
Every door in town belongs to one artist. That's your spot, and what the player sees when they knock is entirely up to you.
Follow the forum thread for updates.
The main thing: two drawings
Everyone draws the same two frames of their original character in a Halloween costume. This is what to start on if your application is approved.
Closed door
What the player knocks on. You don't draw this one, though you can decorate it later if you want to.
Neutral
Your character answering the door, before anything happens. Calm and standing still. This is the pose players see first.
Trick or treat
The payoff frame. Pick one of these, not both:
- Treat: your character handing out candy.
- Trick: your character doing something silly or spooky.
Every door is a plain one as standard. If you'd like to decorate yours, you'll get the chance to; if you'd rather leave it as it is, that's fine too. The two frames above are the required part.
Sizes, ratios and file specs are on your profile page once you've applied, so you can get them when you need them rather than now.
Plus a candy icon
You'll also make a small custom candy icon. It's the treat players collect at your door, and picking it up unlocks a Newgrounds medal. Everyone makes one, including the folks who go the trick route.
Houses and apartments
House selection isn't open yet. When it is, you'll come back here, pick your house, and get to decorate it. All you decide when you apply is whether you want one at all.
Houses come already drawn. Decorating one means adding your own art on top of what's there, which is optional and still a fair bit of work. Not everyone wants that, so there are apartment buildings in town too: a hallway of doors, one per artist, and no house front to dress up. You get the same knock and the same two frames, and that's the whole job. You can still decorate your door if you feel like it.
If you don't want to decorate a house, untick that box on the application form and we'll assign you an apartment instead. You can change your mind on your profile while you're waiting on a decision, but once you're approved it's settled: that's when we start putting people in houses, and pulling out afterwards leaves a hole in the town. Apartments are also where you'll land if you miss out on the house selection phase. We'll lean on them to accommodate more artists if we need to, but they'll have a limited number of slots as well.
The deadline
Everything is due by , shown in your own timezone. We're aiming to launch the game on 19 October 2026, and the gap between those two dates is us making sure the whole town works before anyone plays it.
You'll submit through your profile page on this site. We're building uploaders that package your art up for the game, so there's nothing to send anywhere and no file naming to get right. They aren't ready yet. Once they are, everything you need will be on your profile.
Rules, please read
- You need to be a scouted artist on the Newgrounds Art Portal. Not scouted yet? Keep posting your work. It happens, and you're welcome to apply to a future collab.
- Slots are limited, so not everyone can be accepted. We're aiming for about 100 houses right now, though that number may move depending on how much interest there is. Apartments give us room for more artists on top of that, but they're limited too. There are more artists on this site than there are doors in the town, so if we can't fit you in, that's a space problem on our end, not a verdict on your art.
- All art must be rated E or T. Anything mature gets turned down outright, and so does anything close enough to the line that we'd have to think about it. Please keep it clean. This is about who can view the finished game, nothing more.
- The character must be yours. An original character you created and own, posted to your own Newgrounds Art Portal. No fan art, and no characters belonging to someone else.
You've already applied
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Check where your application stands, or take it back out, from your profile.
Applications are closed right now
We've got everyone we can fit for the moment. Watch the forum thread. If we expand the town, we'll open applications back up.