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[Abusive Review Guide 2]

Alright

I still think this is somewhat lacking though, I don't know I mean you have plenty of information and it's good to see you are talking about whistling submissions and how to. Still not too keen on all the text though and the red font doesn't work too well with the orange background. The audio is fine, which is great to have and all, as well as a mute button.

You added a quiz to this which is good but one major problem with this is that the questions aren't based on the information in the flash. I would suggest basing questions on the content of the flash, but it's good the way it seems to have been done with a try again method. Although still somewhat simple, a scoring system and such would be decent.

Not sure what more you could really add to this, a more entertaining way to present the main information would be a decent idea. I mean the quiz is a simple way to get information across but surly you can think of some clever way to get the main talking parts across. Try some wacky animation some time with some way of bringing points in.

3/5

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RohantheBarbarian responds:

Thanks for the review!

I know the animation is still a little weak, but I'm still learning at the moment, so I'm making baby steps in terms of animation.

[Abusive Review Guide]

Okay

You have quite a bit of information in this, which is good and everything to help people judge what is an abusive review and then work out what isn't, it's just a shame this is all text, for myself I find chunks of text hard to read after a while. I would suggest throwing some images in there, even just a background image or design, just to give something else to look at while reading.

The audio was fine, no problems with that, but a mute button would have been good to have. The buttons worked fine going back and forth between pages, so again, nothing wrong with that. The actual content was decent enough to get an idea, though one other thing you could do is expand on the examples, like giving real examples as oppose to a brife summary.

I would also suggest putting a game in this, like a short little quiz or something, just to see if the viewer has lernt anything from it as well as giving them something else to do after reading. But that's entirly your choice, maybe you'll use those in future if you do another.

3/5

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RohantheBarbarian responds:

Hey, thanks for the review!

Those are some good suggestions, and I'll definitely see about including them in future projects. I'm pleased that you found it to be ok in light of it being my first submission,

[Abe Simpson Soundboard]

Okay

As far as soundboards go, this works and is well what I would expect from a soundboard, there is nothing really wrong with the whole thing, decent audio and everything. Although, the buttons are kind of an off colour, I would suggest yellow for those or something a little simler to that because as they are, they don't fit in. Also, make the image a button as oppose to the text because if you hover over part with no text, you can't click it.

Other than the look and such of the button, they fit down the screen pretty well and keep the image in the centre looking fine which is decent quality in itself. I wasn't so sure about the extra in this, it wasn't really ammusing or worth watching, so eh. Everything else worked fine and as a soundboard yeah, this is okay.

3/5

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Frenzy responds:

Thanks for the review!

~ Z

[MSC 3]

Decent Scene Creator

As far as scene creators go and other forms of flash like this, I generally don't like them but this one seems to be decent enough. There are plenty of options here and everything seems to work fine for me, also I like the fact that you have a mute button in this, lol. The tools you have are decent and can get everything done fine, infact you seem to have something for everything that someone would need which is good.

Although some of the backgrounds and such don't look all that great, there is plenty of choice for objects and such, so someone could create a decent scene with this. Although you could add a way for users to recolour objects and drawing their own backgrounds, that would be good if you could. But otherwise, good work, a bit laggy at times though.

4/5

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AntoArts-Admin responds:

Some drawing tools would be good, but complicated and by the way when it goes that way, it would maybe be pretty much doing a scene from scratch. Thanks for your review, and I'll try to improve the graphics.

[Button Finder 2]

Not Bad

There are many things about this that you could improve on though, I mean to start with though, it can be quite a hard game at parts, not hard to work out how to play but hard to find, though you might want the button to stand out a little to give a chance, I don't mean make it obvious but just to stand out a little more, on easy mode anyway. The pictures used where pretty good too, so no problems with that and the music was okay.

One thing I'm not to keen on is the overall layout of the whole thing, the menu just looks really basic and thrown together, no real structure to it. Try to add a nice background to the menu and some plesent looking buttons, just so they look nicer, I mean that would really help, not just plain white with badly colour buttons, no offence, lol.

The idea of diffrent levels of difficulty is good but maybe some other modes too, like a timed mode or something, just to give someone a little more to do. I don't know about everyone else, but if I can't do something, I get bored and just close, adding a timed mode means they have to work it out in that time and try again if they can't do it.

2/5

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EmmDubya responds:

Thanks! This has helped a lot. I agree with the menu. If my brother didn't get me to put in then it would've had another blank background. I have considered adding a time mode and if I get a script for it before the next one then I will. I might just add a clock so people can time themselves.

[Awesome Sprite Tutorial]

Nothing New

Pardon me for not really liking this or finding it all that intresting but from what I can say is that there is nothing really new here, there are many sprite tutorials around and well this might explain it a little diffrently, it isn't really all that new to me. That's the major problem with it, other than that though, the presentation seems okay, but I question the use of the Wright sprite.

The lack of audio although does make it smaller, it also makes it less intresting, try to find a small loop and use that for audio and add a mute button for people who don't want to hear the audio. Everything else seems to look okay and explained pretty well too, although I'd do it a diffrent way, everyone is diffrent.

2/5

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Swizardv2 responds:

Some parts ARE new. I checked almost all sprite toturials and they skipped a few things. Oh and almost no constructive criticism in sight.

[Choices: a poem]

Clever

Although the main presentation of the menu and everything could be improved quite a lot with buttons that are equal in size and look much better than just text in a border. The main point to the flash was done very well, all the choices and possiblitys was really a good idea and well thought out I belive to get it to work in like you did here.

The way it ended was the same for each which did keep it consistant but I do think it must have been quite hard to stick to the same lines for the start and end, so good job writting poems to fit for all and still sound good. Though the text could be improved too with presentation, it was still good. The narration was pretty good to, almost perfect even but there was something there that sounded a little muffled.

All the same, this does seem to be a good idea, the only problems I have with this is the presentation of it. I mean you have the poems done well and the narration is almost there to, good work overall.

4/5

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Vert responds:

Thanks for all the compliments! You're dead right about many things, specially about how it was -very- hard to write each ending for the poem to be the same. I can't remeber exactly why I chose that sort structure for the poem, but it meant that I had to somehow weave it into each poem ending... which was probably the hardest part of writing the poem (which, in turn, was the hardest part of the flash). Thanks for noticing!

The problem with the narration is that I have only a reasonable microfone and my computer is way too noisy, making the recording quality a bit low (but it's definatly improved from past recordings, I think). You're also dead right about the presentation, which is why I'm determined to seek out a co-author if (and it's almost certain) I make a new flash poem. Thanks for the review!

[Kill Boe 2]

Okay

Well it's kind of limited in many ways though you do have a pretty decent choice, some of them are funnier, others just don't really seem to be, but eh, the menu and choice settings are both presented well, though the scrolling of the choices seems more for looks than practicality. A drop down list or something word have worked better but maybe not looked as good.

The animation seems pretty decent, which is good though there is much detail missing, some backgrounds might have been nice to have or just some background objects even to give something else to look at. But otherwise, it seems to be pretty good.

3/5

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Graeme responds:

The scrolling menu was something I envisioned for the game when I first started.
I kept it, even though it won't keep track of where you last death was, or anything of that manner.
So yea, I see what you mean. But I thought it was still kinda cool :D

I left backgrounds out.
The original had no backgrounds, so animation was solely focused on the deaths.
Also, I don't draw the greatest backgrounds...

[NSG015: Apples & Bananas]

Alright

It's kind of a silly game but it seems to have been done pretty well, though some of them are kind of hard to work out but often the texture gives it away, I can tell them appart but time limits cause silly mistakes. Randomising the images would be a pretty good idea too, that would mean that you could memorise what they are, lol. The message at the end is also pretty funny and the verious other messages.

The music was okay, though after a while it did become a little eh, it was good for a bit though, maybe a mute button or something, not to say it's bad but when you want to play over and over to see how you can do, it does get boring to listen to. But overall, a pretty decent game.

4/5

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Bezman responds:

You're obviously a lad who knows his fruit! Congrats!
Would have been nice to know your score, but enh.

Randomisation and mute buttons are both excellent ideas.

Thanks for the top-banana review!

[LoZ:A Link to the Future]

Uhh Okay

Well there are som obvious improvments that could be made with this, such as the sprite moving into a run animation sprite when you move it, also there is far too much empty space, use less area or more items around. The people you talk to need the crash actionscript too so you can't just walk through them, that and you need to hide the right click menu.

The idea is okay and some of the things you have it are also good, you just have a lot of things that need fixing, the yellow gate looks kind of silly too, you might want an actual gate sprite or something for that, it would make it look a little better. Keep working at it though.

2/5

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ZiggyZack99 responds:

OK.