Score: 8

"Interesting and Professional"

submission: Chef Suzie Creations

date: May 20, 2008

This is a really cool product. I liked that the instructions were verbal since that would be particularly good for children whose reading skills might not be very confident. However, I think one way you could improve this flash would be to add either subtitles or a written summary of the recipe at the end of each section. That way anyone who wanted to see the recipe written down wouldn't have to make their own notes.

Score: 0

"This is silly."

submission: Sound Maker v.1.5

date: July 10, 2007

Come on man, you spent ages telling everyone to install flash 9 when your first attempt didn't work. You even went so far as to tell people they had shit computers. Now you've suddenly realised that flash 9 wasn't required to make your flash work and you're saying we should all be using flash 8 instead. Double yoo tee eff?
Have you noticed how nobody else on newgrounds has to specify a specific player for their stuff to work? That's because their stuff isn't broken.
Similarly to some other reviewers, I too have wondered how a sound-heavy flash could possibly be so teensy as to be 57k. I'm guessing for the same reason that it doesn't work: it's either a really abstract prank or a really dumb mistake.

Score: 2

"Huge loading time"

submission: Sound Maker v.1

date: July 10, 2007

I had to give up on this game, the loading time is way too long to be acceptable. I thought the loading animation itself was quite cool looking so i gave credit for that, i'm assuming the final flash has an interesting style too. Hope you work out your size problems.

Score: 8

"Great Layout"

submission: Basic Button Tutorial

date: July 2, 2007

I was really surprised by this, it's great. For one thing, everything you told the viewer to do was correct and made sense, unlike the majority of tutorials that cover button making and other simple aspects of flash. I'm sick of seeing "ok lol now i show how to make button: first, do something retarded, second, do something that is unecessary and wrong ..." I guess I should be more sympathetic to people learning flash but those people shouldn't be making tutorials, dammit -_-
Anyway, I also love the layout you chose, it's so clean and simple. It'd be great to see your tutorials on the more complex aspects of flash ^^

Score: 4

"..."

submission: Emo Song

date: June 30, 2007

Screamers are lame, there's even a section specifically in the submission agreement telling you they're lame. It would have been quite funny if this was 1999 ... Try something else, at least the emo part wasn't too bad.

Score: 8

"Nice graphics"

submission: Sikk Sound Board

date: June 29, 2007

Cool soundboard. Sounds like the raid leader is a dick, which makes for stressful raiding and hilarious soundclips. Could use a preloader and maybe less abrupt sound cut offs, but other than that, I liked it ^^

Score: 9

"Well Made Game"

submission: Crappy Space Shooter

date: June 10, 2007

This is *much* better than you make it sound - the graphics are cool and unusual for one thing, but it's also a generally well made game without any annoying bugs or clunkiness. The monsters are really cool - they look kinda like sperm and die by exploding into white goo. That had to be deliberate XD
I wouldn't worry about the fact that this idea has been done before; making a high quality game with an old concept is better than coming up with something original that sucks.

Score: 8

"Text needs improvement"

submission: Dirty Downtown Rotoscope

date: June 6, 2007

The rotoscoping was done really well and the colours of the guy and street looked really good. The text however, appearing in bright red on top of such subtle colours was really jarring and looked unfinished. It really did look as though you'd put a lot of effort into the animation and then dropped the ball when you came to add text at the last minute.

If you were to make the font more interesting and make it a less incongruous colour, this would be gorgeous.

Score: 2

"Tedious and Inefficient"

submission: Sprite Sheet Tutorial -V2

date: June 5, 2007

Trace bitmap: "I could tell them but they still won't understand it" ?

Maybe if you learned to make better tutorials they would.

This was very laborious and frustrating to sit through - the animated illustration of every step was totally unnecessary. And most people know how to open a new file in flash. Other than that, your method on manipulating sprite sheets isn't very efficient - there are plenty of little things you could have done to speed up the process.

The point of a tutorial is to be brief, concise and to illustrate the steps involved precisely. The useful parts of this tutorial were completely lost in the pointless animations and obvious steps.

Score: 1

"Unintuitive and Difficult to Use"

submission: Audio Control Tutorial

date: June 4, 2007

There are a lot of aspects to this flash that make it near impossible to access the tutorial information it contains. There was the overly loud and annoying music at the start, the problems with the custom cursor and the over-large text which makes it difficult to focus on the code being discussed. All of these things are unnecessary to a tutorial. A successful tutorial is clear, concise and with few distractions. If you at least removed the faulty custom cursor it would be a start.