FattyWhale's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Dress up that Jeff !]

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^^Good Points^^
Well, the drawings weren't bad. They looked nothing like Jeff, but still they are good for a generic character. The clothes fit well and were layered right. Also, the different backgrounds were good.

^^Needs Improving^^
This game is about 5 MB, which is far too much for a dress up game. You seriously need to compress your audio. Next, it seems things move around a lot when you change backgrounds. Not sure if I'm losing pieces but it doesn't make much sense. Also, half of the items stick out on an edge making them hard to see/grab.

[Orbital Experiment]

K

^^Good Points^^
This was kind of neat to play around with for a little while. There were a lot of options in this to change and to see what happens.

^^Needs Improving^^
I just don't get this game. Increasing the mass really shouldn't cause the planets to go all crazy in orbit, they should still have an eliptical orbit, but perhaps closer to the sun. Also, it seems quite a few of the planets don't cause tracing, which was an options i liked to see. Also, I didn't really get the "planet number" option, which didn't seem to change much at all....not the number of planets though, that makes sense.

[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.

Courgy 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.

[Fat Santa]

K

^^Good Points^^
A pretty good holiday themed game. The graphics were very clean. You had lots of good drawings, like Santa, the reindeer, and also the background, which I liked quite a bit. The game was rather funny. The sound effects were kind of humorous, and I had to like Santa's response to eating some greens. The music was very fitting, and quite a good tune.

^^Needs Improving^^
The instructions are a little bit vague for me. I had to play a few times before I really knew what was going on. You should say that one needs to open his mouth a certain amount to eat stuff, and also I would like to see some way of knowing when I am near losing the game.

[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.

[Ninja Lau]

K

^^Good Points^^
This was overall a very good game. You had a nice short intro to this movie, which is more interesting than most games. The storyline in this was pretty cool, and the graphics were very good too, especially in the drawings and life-like perspective. The music was a good tune too. I liked this game.

^^Needs Improving^^
This game wasn't very hard at all. I played it for a few minutes and didn't really see it get too hard to me, and I got bored by it. I also don't really like how you die in this game. It would be nice to able to have some time to fend off attackers that break your kick/punch range..perhaps a health meter of some sort.