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[Collect! - Pure Code Game]

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^^Good Points^^
This game was decent. You can't beat the file-size on this one, 6kb takes no time at all to load. The game is kind of challenging as well, since it has the moving platforms and the bullets.

^^Needs Improving^^
The game lacks substance. First off, the bullets should take more than one health away, since its not really hard to avoid them, and it would take ages to lose. Also, perhaps some type of power up system with something that will make you jump higher, move faster, etc.

Naois responds:

Thanks for the review, especially the "Needs Improving" part. I agree that it lacks substance; it was designed to be simple, yet marginally addictive. Maybe the bullets should take more, but later when there are swarms of them coming, you would die in a snap if they took away any more. A power up system has been mentioned by others, and my next game, which is already started, does have a power up system. Thanks for the criticism.
- Naois

[How 2: Draw Stick Heads]

K

^^Good Points^^
Some decent tips in here, like the reflection in the eyes. Also the music was good quality.

^^Needs Improving^^
Really, not a very good tutorial. Seeing how you don't have any stick animations under your belt, I'm not sure you have much experience, which will give you less credibility with people on NG. Besides all that psychological stuff, the tutorial itself is not that good. Your art really isn't that great, and the drawings that you teach really aren't that advanced and really not much better than someone can figure out easily by their self with a little practice.

Makdim-crazy responds:

I apriciete that you don't say : BLAM THIS PIECE OF CRAP, ARGHH! , N00B
Thx!

[Decorate Your House]

K

^^Good Points^^
This game was pretty unique, so I give you credit for that. Some of the art wasn't too badly drawn. You tried to add a little bit of humor into this, like the photograph, which was a little bit funny.

^^Needs Improving^^
This game just isn't very fun. I would have liked it a lot more had you not given complete instructions on everything to do. I would have liked to have some freedom in decorating the room somehow. Perhaps some kind of button system so that I could add/take out whatever I wanted to.

Captain-Cup responds:

Thanks for the review...taken all your tips to mind ^_^

Happy Christmas!

[Christmas of Doom]

K

^^Good Points^^
This is definitely a good concept, and it started off very good. I was impressed in the beginning. The graphics were good, the controls were easy to understand, and the game just had an upbeat mood to it.

^^Needs Improving^^
However, soon after starting the game, I noticed problems. I drove by a few houses, missed the first few getting adjusted to the game, and then after about five houses went by, there was nothing else. No houses under me no matter how long I went along the cityscape. Definitely a bug that needs to be fixed. I would have liked the game much more had this game actually worked half way.

Qrak responds:

There are only six houses on the first level, so no matter where you fly there won't be any more until you complete it. There are more buildings each level though.

[DS Christmas Quiz]

K

^^Good Points^^
I like the amount of effort you put into this quiz. All of the answers that weren't really obvious at all and were pretty plausible. I found myself not being able to eliminate anything on most questions that I didn't know. It's also neat how you give a description of every wrong and right answer. Very educational. This had lots of pictures too, which is good. Overall an above average quiz.

^^Needs Improving^^
Yeah, the images were good, but they just didn't go well with the plain backgrounds. perhaps you could add some borders to your pictures just to make them fit in more. Also, music should be turned off by some kind of button. Gets annoying after a while.

IceDragon64 responds:

Thank you for your detailed review. It seems you got just what I was hoping for out of it!
Glad you liked the movie clips; its a new step for me. i confess I dropped them into my standard DS Quiz template without even thinking of a bgd. I will see what I can do. I will definately put a music off button in all my subs when I learn how!
Best Wishes,
Ice

[The Scarface Soundboard]

K

^^Good Points^^
All of the basic functions of a soundboard are in here. You had rectangular buttons, easy to click, and all of the clips I listened to had working buttons and matched the text.

^^Needs Improving^^
For a soundboard this isn't very interesting. I like a SB that displays some funny quotes or interesting ones from an interesting character. Scarface? just doesn't really cut it for me in providing an interesting variety of sound clips that I will enjoy listening to. Certainly not good for a prank call either.

Seandadj responds:

i apreciate your feedback, and will try to ammend your problems you had with it, thanks for the review :)

[Teach Meh!:Starters Guide]

K

^^Good Points^^
To be honest, one of the best tutorials I've seen covering tweening and shading. I thought this was going to be just an average tween tutorial, but you went into a ton of detail, and had things I never even knew about. I never knew about "Distribute to Layers" or using the ease, which is a very useful tool. This tutorial will be one of the few that will surely improve my animating skills.

^^Needs Improving^^
The buttons, though neat looking, were kind of hard to click. I had a hard time clicking on them, which got annoying.

CourgetteClock responds:

Thanks dude glad I could help.
And the buttons yes I regret I didn't fill them up so they would be easy to click.

[Mind of a Gamer]

K

^^Good Points^^
A pretty neat game, even though the screen is rather small and it was made in an old version of Flash. The intro movie is neat, since it gives good background on the game and gives it more life. I guarantee that if you submitted the game alone it would not have passed. The sound had to be the best part, liked the FF text sound effects and the Frogger music. I liked the drawings too; death scene had to be my favorite.

^^Needs Improving^^
Game is way too hard. Could have something to do with the small screen size quite possibly. You need to make the blue cars move a lot slower, it's almost just luck if you can avoid one of them. Also, make the streets big enough that one can easily stay in it without getting hit by a car in another lane.

COUNTYGATES responds:

I was actually quite supprised about the amount of feedback I got from people with the frogger game being too hard. But there is actually a very simple route you can take to cross both roads with quite ease, but I can see the problem with the screen size, sorry but like I said, I had to meat a brief that stated it was for mobliles so had to be 208x176 =( Yeah, the game alone would have certainly been blammed, so that was why I was hoping the concept would carry it and I'm glad that it partially did, thanks for the review.

[Cloc Man]

K

^^Good Points^^
A decent game, but could use definite improving. The game functioned fairly well. I like the speed at which the game moves. It was pretty funny how you made the ghosts have lock faces, that was pretty clever. Good graphics in this too, I really liked the coloring in this.

^^Needs Improving^^
I don't really like how there is no sound in this. The game just seems rather empty without them. Also, your SBC drawings is way too circular. I've never seen a strawberry that looked like that.

MiracleFruitClock responds:

It's not supposed to be a Strawberry. It's Pac Man, but he's red and has strawberry seeds and the Crown of the Portal.

[Reaction Game]

K

^^Good Points^^
Not a bad reaction game here. It was a good game since you put a safeguard on just random clicking, by disqualifying someone for clicking early. Good idea there. The background had some neat animations; they looked pretty cool. I like how the game kept your highscore on there as well, great for hooking someone to play longer.

^^Needs Improving^^
High score list doesn't seem to be working. I guess there isn't much point of it in this game's stage of life, but if you aren't going to be implementing it, you should have taken it out of the game.

Bezman responds:

The highscore list did work. I just noticed that Deedz took down my subdomain a wee while ago. Not sure when.

In any case, the highscore list was fairly broken as folk kinda just guessed when the screen would change.

Glad you liked everything else.