CTickler's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Play the Cat]

Great start

Nice animation on the cat's tail :) You should definitely consider producing a more elaborate version of this with lots more stuff to click on, as you've made a really nice start. It just needs more to keep the user's attention after the first 30 seconds :D

elliotjames responds:

thanks. I shall keep that in mind.

[Sound Maker v.1.5]

This is silly.

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.

LegolasFIN responds:

Just go and ask them who have Flash 8, they will tell how well it works!

[Basic Button Tutorial]

Great Layout

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 ^^

Hi5er responds:

Thanks very much for the review dude. Its nice to see your first submission being enjoyed by a nice amount of people rather than being blammed for being a noob. Thanks for keeping my spirit and motifation up!

[Sikk Sound Board]

Nice graphics

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 ^^

Slippery-Nipple responds:

Yeah i will make sure to do this on my next one. I just need more content.

[Crappy Space Shooter]

Well Made Game

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.

Ansel responds:

not deliberate, actually. I never thought of it that way before O_o

[Sprite Sheet Tutorial -V2]

Tedious and Inefficient

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.

Shawn responds:

you make think there obvious steps but others don;t some people don;t know theses so called "obvious steps" thats why i have them so even the stupiest of people can understand it
Thanks for the review

[Audio Control Tutorial]

Unintuitive and Difficult to Use

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.

sexual-clarinet responds:

If you thought the music was annoying, why not turn it off with that off button in the top right corner? And i'm sorry about the fault mouse, im fixing that right now...and the text distracted you? how much consentration do you have to have to right click and press select?...but i'll try and fix it