Score: 6

"A nice tutorial"

submission: GlenK's Flash Tutorial

date: December 29, 2005

The details inside it were good. Your flash skills are good. However you need to work on presentation more, the next and menu buttons didn't look nice at all, in fact it made it look amaturish.
Work on the quality of presentation because the users here on NG are attracted to pictures not text.
A nice tip for back and forward buttons is to use the character map from the accessories, find a font with a good right and left arrow (windings has a use!!!) and copy and paste into flash, then press ctrl+b to break it up and then fill and edit the graphic.#
Apart from that, the content was good, the printscreen method of presentation is great, a lot of tutorials are missing out on it nowadays. Prehaps change the arrows (pointing out the layers/frames) into the line tool.
Otherwise some good work.

- JPI

Score: 9

"The best Armor Game submission so far!"

submission: Snowball Fight!

date: December 27, 2005

Very nice character graphics by Goldsickle, it really gave it a professional touch (also, japanese girl manga is nice eye candy).
Game was great, map editor must of taken you ages, contols were cool the way you could switch between.
Instuctions must of taken a while to make, looks really nice.
In game graphics could of been slightly nicer, but the Goldsickle manga made it not matter.
Improvements for next version,
Have a showdown option, playing a random levels, making the character ratio harder every time.

This game was great, please keep it up.

JPI

Score: 8

"Very hard"

submission: King of Cursors: X-MAS

date: December 22, 2005

I was on level 7 and i had 57 deaths! How is someone gonna win that $40!
Anyways, simplistic but great... i loved it.
If this is for the contest, you might have won...
Just make sure you check out my christmas game too.

I gave it a 4/5

Score: 8

"Hmm"

submission: S.M.B.3 Bloopers

date: December 15, 2005

Didn't float my boat, the humor wasn't so great. But i did chuckle when the bleeps came.
However, it was lovely sprite work and i presume you used a v-cam. And the scene select was genious.
And the use of sound was perfect.
Congrats.
The humor otherwise was too old for me.

Keep it up,
Your good =D
Congrats on the daily 1st i gave you a 4/5

Score: 8

"Very funny"

submission: Meaning Of Life

date: December 15, 2005

But too short, the animation and graphics were nice though. And the audio was funny as hell, and reminded me of Rex-the-Runt.
Anyways, i'll go laugh my ass off now.
Bye

Score: 7

"This collaboration could of been so much better"

submission: B.Y.O.B. Collab

date: December 13, 2005

This collaboration could of been so much better, but it was half-assed :(

The whole project took 7 months when it was meant to talke about 2-3. The organisation of this was shocking!
What had happened is that you didn't organise it will enough and people did the lines multiple times, making a lot of cuts nessesary. There was a lot of flash that i saw in the making that i saw didn't make the cut.
And things got put into the collab that were not meant to go in...
Things like cats here and there! And the preloader becoming a part of the flash, things like the introduction.
Can you honestly not think of a better way to animate text for the intro?
It really let the flash down.
Also, the ending was placed too fast, there was a flicker of text that no-one can read because it goes too fast...
However there are a few animator that i'd like to point out from the collab:
Dr Beast - He really needs to work on the mouth movement, it was a poor blob attempt :(, You should have preset mouths for different sounds, then transform them so they look different, but the key to mouthmovement is having it change on <b>every</b> frame.
Master-Fury, your work in this collab was great, those snippets were well animated and well shaded. However, not in this submission, but in ArmorDude, you should work no optimising your work, because not everyone has a 3Ghz+ computer!
Lynn_Scottish, your work rocks and i love you!
Anyways, the thing was quickly finished, and the menu was no exception. You didn't even have the decenty to email people for their information so you could have the authors section in the collab. Your just stealing a lot of glory, and not giving anything in return :(
I hope this review has been constructive.

James Prankard Inc

Score: 10

"Ingenious"

submission: Zelda - Seeds of Darkness

date: December 13, 2005

It doesn't seem to lag too much for me, although i can't seem to get to the final boss.
It's a great remake of Zelda and brings me back memories, this is a GREAT flash. I'll have a look at the source code in my spare time, but i kinda found out your french throught it!
Anyways, this is fantasic, and it is much better than our other Zelda game on here (Zelda and the lampshade of no significance).
It didn't bother me that it was using sprites because they were of good quality and without it this version would of taken you twice as long to build.
I especialy liked the orignial screen setting and controls, so it was all fimiliar, so i could just pick up and play like the original.
Unfortunaty i cannot defeat the boss :( Because i cannot find him...
You should have a website with a guide and the projector (exe) file of the game. So we can play with (hopefully) less lag, and all the time :)
Im sure now the source code is out, people will finish your story and the game.

Congratulations!

James Prankard Inc

Score: 8

"Nice..."

submission: Down At Juice Bar

date: December 10, 2005

Not as good as the first two, but it is really nice. The sound made by you i enjoyed, but it was a little toned up. However the background art has improved in this a lot! Pretty funny, but the last one was better (Bad Guy's go to Hell). You've got yourself a nice site up now for your animations, it's looking nice. When is the next installment coming?

Score: 8

"Nice one"

submission: Dr. Love

date: December 7, 2005

Great animation. Must of taken you ages...

Wanna be taught flash! After watching that?!? I don't think you really need it!

Buttons, eg. Replay buttons can be learnt best by going to the forums on this site, searching for "AS: Main" then going to the last page, and click the buttons tutorial. Also, on that part o the site, there are hundreds of the best actionscript tutorials.

And or a preloader, there is the official that can be found (with instructions) at www . newgrounds . com / flash / index.html

and better preloaders at planetbob . net / ng/ pl /

Hope this helps.

And i enjoyed the flash.

James Prankard Inc

Score: 4

"Not great"

submission: Complete Tutorial V1

date: December 6, 2005

You don't know what your talking about i'm afraid, most of the information is pointless and you just copied and pasted someone else's codes.
First, the driving car is upside down, the pivot isn't centered and you didn't explain the BASICS of the code, only the boundries.
That was bad.
How are people like you going to learn actionscript like this?!?

Tip, go NOW to the forums to AS: Main, and actually start LEARNING the code!

Secondly, the choice is colours is too dark, i can't read anything!?! And the menu is pretty damn shoddy, and when you click the item to enter, it is pretty poor. Becuase the item just disapears. The reason you havnt got that sound code sorted is because you dont know any! Goto AS: Main: it is really easy to fix :(

And the whole NG section is now up on the Help, it even gives you the CORRECT levels of B/P status.

Try harder, and PLEASE goto AS: Main

I enjoyed the music by ljcoffee, just have this music, otherwise the filesize is too big.

James Prankard Inc