Fulp was born and raised in
Perkasie,
Pennsylvania, on April 30, 1978. In 1991, at age 13, Fulp launched a
Neo Geo fanzine called
New Ground and sent issues to approximately 100 members of a club originating on the online service
Prodigy. Using a hosting service, he launched a website called
New Ground Remix in 1995, which increased in popularity during the summer of 1996 after Fulp created the
BBS games
Club a Seal and
Assassin, after graduating from
Pennridge High School. Eventually, this site turned into Newgrounds.com. In 1999, Fulp created the game ''
Pico's School'' in Macromedia Flash 3, before the launch of the scripting language
ActionScript that subsequent Flash game developers would use. The game "exhibited a complexity of design and polish in presentation that was virtually unseen in amateur Flash game development" until then and has been credited both with helping kickstarting the Flash games scene and launching Newgrounds as a "public force". Fulp co-created the Flash game
Alien Hominid, which he later developed for
consoles under The Behemoth, and the console game
Castle Crashers. Fulp received the Pioneer award at the 2021
Game Developers Choice Awards for the creation of Newgrounds and for being a trailblazer of the Macromedia Flash games that helped define a generation of indie developers. ==Games==