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[Small Adventure Game]

Really impressive actually.

Animation/Graphics - The animation itself was very simple. Not too bad at all though. I thought it was kind of weird when the knight would turn back facing the screen no matter what way you walked last. He should probably be facing the way that he was facing last instead.

While walking diagonally the feet of the knight would completely stop walking. Something else you may want to attempt fixing.

Story/Content - I think the battles would have been so much better if you would have done something like a battle system. Made it so you had the choice to attack, defend, magic, etc.. That of course would take more advanced coding, but would really make the game much more enjoyable.

Audio - Nice audio and it's awesome that you created it yourself. I'll get to reviewing your audio someday too so respond to these reviews and those reviews. :p

Overall - Pretty good coding skills. You're going to be pretty good if you keep practicing.

fallensoul289 responds:

thank you for the review yes i noticed this problem apperantly flash teache rdidnt know flash isnt that funny i mean the codes i got for it were wrong and i was the one who helped everyone by figuring it out i will try to fix this

[CatBurgler]

Needs some work

Animation/Graphics - The drawings/pictures that you used were pretty good. The only thing that I can recommend to make this any better would be to add actual animation to the cat instead of just a moving picture. Perhaps something like an walking legs, etc...

The animation of the moving walls that you had could have been done just a little bit better. I think you should have drawn them a little off of the screen in addition to what you did draw so they looked like they were attached to something instead of just floating in the air.

The one wall in the first level I could go right through on the way back. This made it really easy. :p

Story/Content - The first level was pretty easy. I got through the first time without dying. The second level gave me a problem a couple of time, but I eventually figured it out and when I did it was also really easy. Perhaps adding a level where enemies follow you around or something like that. It needs to be a little harder in my opinion.

When I collected everything in the second level it just ended there. What was I suppose to do? I could just move around until I died.

Audio - I don't remember hearing any audio. I think that you could have added some nice background music and a sound effect when you succeeded/failed in a level or when you collected something.

Overall - It needs a couple of things worked out on it and needs to have much more added to it.

fallensoul289 responds:

yes thank you for the review i did intend of doing many levels like this which i probaly should because of there simplicity but you are right but this was my first game i had ever made

[Interactive Stick 1.0]

Not too shabby, needs some work.

~ Animation/Graphics ~

The Good Points - I like that the menu/preloader has some animation to it. That kind of adds to the submission and makes it a little better than the submissions that are just the plain old menus. Again, a nicely animated title in the flash itself. The stickman and the background are decently drawn, even though it could be a tad bit better. The animation of the stick man and other objects that you were included were actually pretty decent all around.

The Bad Points - The animation/graphics do need just a little bit of work. I would recommend working to the point that you get out of sticks and into drawing actual people, but for now sticks will work. Things to work on for the most part though is cleaning up some drawing. Like I think the alien could have been drawn a little bit better and the shooting of the friend had kind of cheesy graphics.

~ Story/Content ~

The Good Points - A couple of nice selection to choose from. A couple of random ones that you really wouldn't think of most of the time. The one with the basketball hoop and also the apple made me laugh a little bit. To make the one with the apples even funnier you could make it so that so many fall down that they crush him to death. I also thought the credits were a little humorous.

The Bad Points - The idea of the game is very unoriginal. That being said I do understand that making an original flash is almost impossible anymore. You really do need more selections to choose from. Somewhere up to 10 to 20 selections would probably be a good idea. The more the better, but make sure to make each one as equally funny and high quality as the other.

~ Audio ~

The Good Points - You had a decent selection of audio to use for this. The sound effects were done very nicely and were in sync. Great job with the sound effects.

The Bad Points - Even though the audio was a decent selection I still think you need to choose some songs right here from Newgrounds from the audio portal. A nice ambient piece for the flash would have been much better and probably something like a heavy metal song for the credits would work pretty good. The file of the flash was also huge. I think this is because of the audio that you added. Try optimizing your audio before you submit the flash. Learn how to do that at the following link. (Remember to remove any spaces that may be caused in the link)

http://www.newgrounds.com/flash/audio .html

~ Overall ~

Not really an original idea, but with some time and effort you can make it into a submission that is just as good as any other submission of this type. Good luck and I hope my review gave you some tips on how to improve.

~ Review Request Club ~

GokUC responds:

Thank you this will help me in future submissions ;)

[Willy Wonka Soundboard]

Good soundboard.

Animation/Graphics - The layout was done pretty well. I can't really think of anything else to add to this at all. There isn't much that you can do with the visuals of a soundboard anyway.

Story/Content - You had a lot of things to choose from, but to be honest when I think of a sound board I think of small sentences. Something like three to five words, give or take a couple of words. I think small phrases are much better than anything too long. The new pictures with the old sounds was sort of weird.

Audio - The voices sounded good and were pretty clear. Easy to understand and everything. Decent all around here.

Overall - A very decent soundboard that you have made here. I think the only thing that I recommend is shorting the phrases, but that may be a personal preference more than anything.

~ Review Request Club ~

Frenzy responds:

Thanks for another review, and I agree with you on the old/new background thing. I would have used an old background if I could have found one, but I couldn't.

~ Z

[Floor of Irritation]

Awesome job.

Animation/Graphics - This is a really high quality game that you have here. All of the animation was very smooth and drawings were well done. I understand you didn't draw anything more than squares, but everything about the game was good on the eyes. The color used, background, etc...

Story/Content - Not an original idea, but still a very fun game. I personally thought it was a little easy, but that's just me. The only level that I died more than two times on was level 5. I think that might be because it was the first "hard" or different level. After that I knew what to expect though.

I think you can really add to this game and add different shapes. That would bring a lot of different element to the game because trying to aviod a circle and triangle is obviously different from trying to advoid a square every time just because of the shape.

Something else that you may want to think about making for the game in the future is upgrades. Something like having a time for each level and the sooner they finished the level the more money they received. They could then by small upgrades like a shield that takes one hit before it disappears, speed upgrade, maybe a health upgrade so it takes more hits to kill you, etc...

Audio - I thought it was a great choice for audio here. Really fast pace and quick just like the game itself. I don't think it needs any sound effects, but if you do implement the money and store to the game you could add some money sounds and things like that. That's obviously completely up to you though.

Overall - A good game to play and perhaps if it had things like upgrades it could be a little better.

~ Review Request Club ~

AntoArts-Admin responds:

I don't know if it would work any well with a store. It's a great idea, but I think that most of the upgrades would probably make the game too easy

[Yet Another Dress-Up]

Basic

Animation/Graphics - The drawings really need to be worked on. That's the biggest thing that's going to improve on your score of the flash. I recommend not only working a lot on your drawing skills here, but perhaps try adding some actual animated items. I know that most dress up games don't include animated objects, but I really think it adds to the quality of the flash when they have them.

Story/Content - Wow, what a good title because it was basically the same as any other beginner dress up game. Nothing too exciting, poor drawing, etc... I think the only way that dress up games get any attention anymore is if they are different in some way. If this means adding some animated things, doing a subject that hasn't been done before, etc... You should try something different out in the future.

I think you should also add backgrounds that the person playing can change to so they can find something interesting. Something like the different colors, snow, cave, forest, city, etc... Anything cool that would make it more visual.

Audio - Decent audio. I see that when you click the button twice the song plays twice, but a lot of dress up games and other games alike are like that. The choice of having more than one song was a nice part of the flash.

Overall - It's basically the generic dress up game.

~ Review Request Club ~

Frenzy responds:

Yeah, this was basically my first attempt at a full body dress up game. I know it's not great but hey I tried.

~ Z

[Interactive Drum Kit]

Decent job.

Animation/Graphics - There really wasn't any animation so perhaps in the future you could think about having the drums animate when you click on them. The drawings themselves weren't too bad, but could have been worked on a little better. Maybe simply adding background, color, and working on the drawing could have greatly improved the visuals of this flash a lot more also.

Story/Content - Nothing much here, but things you could add would be something like the drummer to the drums. That of course would add a little bit more animation, but I think it would add to the submission a lot. This could also open up a lot of things in the game like having the people be able to "dress" or just choose their drummer and then see them in action.

Audio - Of course the audio was perfectly fine. I think it sounded very good all around. Not too much more to say than that.

Overall - I think simply working on the visuals and adding a few things to the content of the flash like the drummer and little dress up section with the drummer could greatly increase the score of your flash.

~ Review Request Club ~

Frenzy responds:

Watch out for the sequel (once I figure out the hotkeys actionscript!)

Thanks for the review.

~ Z

[More Avoidance!]

Nothing too interesting.

Animation/Graphics - You had a lot of different colors and everything, but perhaps adding some other things like pictures of things and have them warp/stretch/etc... as you move the mouse certain ways. It was laggy on my computer, but if I turned it down to low quality and it was then perfectly fine. Overall the layout could have been just a little bit better quality.

Story/Content - Um... why? Ha, it really isn't too exciting to do or anything like that. Perhaps if it was a game like you had to get certain colors into certain areas like that then it wouldn't be too bad, but it really has no point. It's rather boring and isn't really too interesting to watch.

Audio - A decent choice for audio. Perhaps in the future you could make it so you could select from a menu what audio you wanted to listen to.

Overall - I just can't see a purpose to this flash. Isn't really entertaining or anything of the such. Perhaps just a good practice of the actionscript skills.

therealmoomoomoomoo responds:

OK, some good ideas there, ty for the review ;P!

[Santa vs Robots The game]

Not bad.

Animation/Graphics - The graphics are pretty good. Everything was pretty colorful and well detailed. I felt the robot animation was done very well.

Story/Content - Not bad. The only thing that was kind of annoying. (very annoying actually) Was the fact that the hit detection was off by quite a bit. Santa didn't really have to hit the robots for them to die. As long as he was close enough it would hit. So I would say work a little bit on the hit detection.

Audio - It would have been nice if you would have added sound effects. Maybe next time? The audio that you used though was pretty good and I enjoyed the music that you chose for the flash.

Overall - Just the one problem that I pointed out, but other than that it's really not too bad.

~ Review Request Club ~

MrRandomist responds:

Thanks for your review!!!
yes the hit detection was off unfortunetly but time restraints, normally i would do pretty adverage hit detection but this one was off and im for that! and i keep using the same excuse i know!
as the gut below you said about sound effects i will included them next time!!! for sure i like working with sound!

[Punkin Shoot Reloaded]

Good improvements.

Animation/Graphics - Hmm, if my memory serves me right it wasn't too much different than your last version of this game. For the most part the graphics were perfectly fine. Perhaps a little bit mediocre, but there isn't much room for improvement with the style of game you were making in my opinion. For the most part things were pretty well organized and everything. The animation was also pretty smooth and I didn't have any troubles while shooting the objects or anything. The seemed to explode on time also.

Story/Content - Hmm, again this is where you improved from the last one. You added a bunch of things to shoot. I noticed that the store had two things and you couldn't buy the one thing. The other thing was a new gun and it doesn't really do anything does it? Also, you should be able to buy this gun unless you have the score for it. You can buy this gun at anytime, which means that if you don't have the score it will just subtract a little bit from you.

For some reason a couple of the objects in the instructions, descriptions, and in the background could be shot for points both positive and negative. I'm not sure if you meant to do that or not, but it's a nice little way of "cheating" to get your score higher.

I don't think I have too much to talk about on things that you could improve upon except for trying to master upgrades and trying to make it so you can actually lose the game by perhaps making it so if you don't get a certain score that you lose and you can't continue. If you did do this than obviously I didn't score low enough to find out. :P

Audio - The sound effects were alright. The background music was pretty fitting for the flash also. The voices were a nice addition, but perhaps making them a little bit clearer because at times I can't really understand what they are saying. They aren't that bad though. Perhaps adding some voice overs where the instructions are could add to the quality of the flash also.

Overall - I will give you a couple of bonus points because of your obvious improvement on the game from the last one that you made. Keep up the good work and good luck on future projects.

~ Review Request Club ~

Lord-Of-Lazyness responds:

Yes unfortunately I did have trouble with mastering power ups, though the game turned out better then I hoped*after fixing it*. Naturally I missed a few bugs after a couple of hours of debugging. I completely forgot to put in the losing code, I focused on the last bit of game more(which I had done this throughout the game) it might have been better(this was done over a few months, naturally I thought of better ideas later thus the beginning is not as good). I used the voices from the original Punkin shoot(yes I fit my user name here, did not want make many more).

Thanks for the review.