Yes, the "game" is more of a practical joke than an actual game. I felt like I'd want to have more Enthalpy-related games than just the two NWAs when I put the official website up (which I will shortly before releasing the first episode, which I absolutely must finish within the next couple of months).
I didn't want to spend a lot of time making something, though, since I want to devote most of my time and effort to finishing the first episode of Enthalpy. I scoured the Internet for inspiration; in other words, I played a porkload of Flash games. I went to every Flash game site I could think of: maxgames.com, armorgames.com, Newgrounds (of course), and nick.com.
Inspiration came to me after playing the Spongebob Squarepants game "Poop Deck Draw Down". I decided that I needed to make a card game. But I certainly didn't want to make it any old card game you could play anywhere. No, I wanted mine to be completely irrational, unpredictable, and utterly confusing to the player. Patterning the game loosely after Mario's FUNdamentals (specifically Go Fish), I wrote down how I wanted the gameplay to work. I quickly realized that this wouldn't turn out to be a "real" game, and wasn't sure at first whether or not I'd actually submit it to Newgrounds.
I eventually decided that I'd submit it to NG and not worry too much about the score, but that I would advertise it on my illogically popular Youtube Poop account of WalrusGuy (on YouTube, of course). Shortly after submitting the game to NG, I submitted an ephemeral video to YouTube with a link to the game, saying to vote five if you like it, and that it would be awesome if it got Daily Feature since that would be really confusing to players (and confusing people is hilarious). I set the video to private once I actually got Daily Feature, as I felt somewhat bad about promoting a non-YTP game I made on my YTP account. And there's the fact that people were almost certainly just voting five because I made it, not because of the quality of the game.
Mostly, I really do hope I led a lot of people who know me as WalrusGuy on YouTube to my Newgrounds account to see my more original work. Making Youtube Poops is fun, but I put way more effort into my original Flashes and they don't get nearly as much attention. While I'm not saying I'd prefer not to have all those subscribers I have on my YouTube account, I'd much rather be known for my original works that I put a lot of creativity and effort into than for my Youtube Poops.
I have to finish the first episode of Enthalpy soon. I must. I've been working on it off and on (mostly off) for way too long. And Enthalpy is supposed to be a series... I should only be spending a couple of months on each episode! I'm sure I could work much faster than I am...
OneRedMage
lol you make a valid point there. the game wasn't much of a game and quality wasn't as great as many other works, yet the score was incredibly high. your other pieces are around the score of 4 though, which i don't think you advertised as walrusguy. interesting experiment: kinda fits in with that argument over high quality serious flashes vs. funny parodies with lower quality.