# Tom Fulp on Reddit (u/TomFulp)

Part of Founders and CEOs on Reddit, researched with Autumn (https://www.autumn.ai) from public sources. Updated 2026-11-07. Interactive version: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/founders-on-reddit/tom-fulp

Tom Fulp: Founder of Newgrounds and co-founder of The Behemoth.

- Reddit account: [u/TomFulp](https://www.reddit.com/user/TomFulp/) (Personal account)
- How we know it's theirs: [His 2009 r/IAmA AMA, posted from this account](https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9z226/)
- Where they post, in the records we retrieved: r/IAmA (8), r/gamedev (2), r/incremental_games (2), r/Newgrounds (2), r/politics (1), r/Games (1)
- Known activity in the posts we found: 2009 to 2025
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Fulp

## Moments

### u/TomFulp in r/Newgrounds, Jan 2, 2025 · Funny

Replying to the post "Tom Fulp private messaged me, is this automated ".

> It was actually me!

Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Newgrounds/comments/1hrxsj6/tom_fulp_private_messaged_me_is_this_automated/m515sd4/ · 56 points as of Nov 7, 2026

### u/TomFulp in r/IAmA, Oct 29, 2009 · Owned it

Replying to a redditor:

> Why did you make Alien Hominid so god damned hard?!

> Rookie mistake... When you play your own game a lot you don't realize how hard it is for everyone else. But there was also a lot of stuff that was hard due to poor implementation, or "bad hard" as opposed to "good hard." That is one of my big pearls of wisdom... If players are having too much trouble beating your game, it's probably because you're stupid, not them.

Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9z226/i_am_tom_fulp_creator_of_newgroundscom_and/c0f3iwg/ · 62 points as of Nov 7, 2026

### u/TomFulp in r/Newgrounds, Aug 18, 2021 · Behind the scenes

Replying to the post "Found this on my stepdads roku, haven’t heard anything about this before. Anyone know anything about it?".

> I actually developed that app back in 2011. It ran for many years but after some big SDK updates I think it no longer works on the Roku OS and would need to be rebuilt.
>
> [https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1272348](https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1272348)

Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Newgrounds/comments/p6rp9p/found_this_on_my_stepdads_roku_havent_heard/h9etfrz/ · 58 points as of Nov 7, 2026

### u/TomFulp in r/incremental_games, Aug 31, 2020 · Fixed it

Replying to a redditor:

> Hi Tom, thanks for being on this thread. The problem with Newgrounds right now for me is simply that idle/incremental games are hard to find. There is no category I can click on, so if the game doesn't literally have "Idle" or "Incremental" in its title, I have no way (at least…

> An Idle / Incremental category was long overdue so we got that going yesterday and I updated the genre details on a bunch of games:  [https://www.newgrounds.com/games/browse/genre/idle-incremental/sort/score](https://www.newgrounds.com/games/browse/genre/idle-incremental/sort/score)
>
> As far as some of the other suggestions in this thread, a microtransactions API is something we've long considered but hard to say if we'll ever actually do it, given the big to-do list we're always working through. We do have a hub update to the games section coming, which will introduce larger thumbnails and more filtering options.
>
> This subreddit could even consider crowdfunding a monthly prize that's given out each month to new games, regardless of what site they appear on.

Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/incremental_games/comments/iilok3/the_fall_of_kongregate_has_left_a_cavity_in_the/g3gg8zf/ · 59 points as of Nov 7, 2026