Exedor's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[mapper]

Well, it works now...

...so that's an improvement. It still has no point though. Here's what I suggest:

1. Add music. There's plenty in the Audio Portal. Not something fast; maybe an ambient loop.

2. Add score and a story. You're hunting treasure. Every time you click the green, a small treasure chest appears on screen. It opens and you get get 5, 10, 100 points or whatever, then it disappears so we can continue.

3. Add a purpose. Put in a timer and an end, so we're not clicking forever. The point of the game would be highest score within 60, 90, 120 seconds or whatever.

7snakes responds:

i like the ideas

[Butterfree]

It doesn't DO anything.

Newgrounds is for animations, not GIFs. This isn't a game. It's barely an animation. It's really just a GIF.

Please don't submit these types of files.

[ninja_game_test_v0.2]

Please don't submit tests to the Portal.

This isn't Demogrounds! You can't just say "please rate my part of a thing that I haven't finished yet..." You have put us in a bind, and here's why:

This "game" is a fragment. It's a piece of what could eventually be turned into a game, but for now, it's nothing more than a part or a bit.

There have been lots of flash parts and bits coming thru recently. The problem is not if it's bad, but rather if it's good. When it's bad, it gets a low score and gets blammed and is forgotten and gone. Done.

If it's a 'good' piece, then people get confused and may pass it. The problem is that then we've got a fragment of a piece of a bit of a flash floating around newgrounds forever, and what's the point of that?

Newgrounds is for FINISHED items. It's not good to have fragments floating around with people going, '...WTF is this??!?' when they find it.

Finish your projects and THEN submit them.

As for this game, the drawings aren't bad, but could still be 'refined' more. There is no sound or music. The controls are bad. You have to run quite a ways before you can jump. If you cut too many trees, you disappear off the edge of the screen. Without a preloader, you have to click again once the game starts to get the program to recognize your commands, or it just sits there. Preloaders are downloadable and free in the 'Downloads' section at the top of any Newgrounds screen.

This fragment is too small, though. If you MUST submit a demo, make it be about a quarter of the game; levels 1 thru 3 out of 10, or something like that. Enough to get a taste, but still be enjoyable. Don't submit a poorly constructed partial level and call it a game demo.

Please finish before you submit. If you need ideas or suggestions, watch more stuff on Newgrounds. You'll eventually get new ideas of your own, not copying someone else's ideas or work like some people here do. If you can't come up with ideas on your own, please don't submit anything. Just leave submitting to the people who do have ideas. And finish their flashes.

[Flur]

What a gorgeous game!

Well done indeed! Awesome idea. Excellent music. I expect Frontpage with this one. :D

[The random quiz]

The game's not bad.

It's not great either, but I still gave you a 0 and here's why:

You yourself said that it sucks. When the creator of a flash says that their work sucks, that means:

1. You don't care enough about your own work to say nice things about it, and so if you don't care, why should I?

2. You know your work sucks and rather than take some time to improve it before submitting, you just sent it thru without caring and, again, if you don't care, why should I?

3. You know your work sucks and you don't care enough about Newgrounds to keep from sending us stuff that sucks.

Again, the game actually was not bad. It was short. If it was a bit longer and/or had some other redeeming qualities, I might have passed it.

1. Care about your work.
2. Don't submit things that you know 'suck.'
3. Find some way to make your flash stand out from all the other 'Random Quiz' type flash games, and you'll be one step ahead of the masses.

:)

[The Fruits Destroyer]

Stop the zooming!!!

The game looks and sounds great.

However...

The zooming kills it! When you shoot, the screen zooms in on that bullet which is incredibly annoying. It's slow in zooming in for the video and basically stops the game for the unnecessary cutscene. This completely ruined the game and overshadowed any good qualities it had.

[Normandy Survival]

It hasn't really changed...

It's not bad, and yet, it's too easy. You hold the space bar and the arrow and you're on your way. The enemies come in once every 3 seconds. The other day, I played til I got to 750. It took about 45 mins!! I put a weight on the space bar and a weight on the arrow and waited. And waited. And ate. And ate again. And waited. By the time I got the ending screen, the game was blammed.

It IS a good start, though. I don't want to discourage you from continuing to try and improve, and that's saying a lot. I usually try to discourage people who make bad things when I think they lack what it takes to improve. You, however, have something that's not bad, but it's not great yet either. You seem to have the deire to improve and to make something of yourself.

I wish I had Flash so I could make things and also offer you some helpful advice. But I don't, so I can't.

Keep trying to improve. None of the 'Greats' on Newgrounds got there immediately. All of them worked for it.

:)

austinplaneboy responds:

Well, guess what? I just updated my game! So now it's harder to play then before. Hopefully, you'll all consider this an improvement for the better of the game. If not, you can always write a review about it here, or you can personally PM me about it.

[Owl's Nest]

Great game!

For those who can't get it to play:

If you play in a pop-up:

Choose NEW GAME. You'll get the pic of the 3 guys, and seemingly not much else. It's there, but the viewable part is smaller than what's actually there. Maximize the window. Now, in the lower, right corner, of your window there's the ZOOM feature. Click once to get it to 125% zoom and the SKIP INTRO and NEXT buttons should become visible for you. Or:

If you play embedded:

Chooses NEW GAME. You'll get the picture of the 3 guys. Hold down CTRL and roll your mouse wheel up or down a click or two. One makes it smaller, the other makes it larger. Roll until you can see the words/links below the SKIP INTRO and NEXT buttons. This method sometimes makes the graphics skew for a moment. Just find the new location for the NEXT or SKIP button and it will correct itself.

PLEASE REPOST THESE COMMENTS IN YOUR REVIEW FOR OTHERS TO SEE SO THEY CAN FIGURE OUT HOW TO PLAY THIS COOL GAME. :)

[The Vision Test 2 (Fixed)]

ADD.

CHECKPOINTS!

The game is ok. Really. The biggest gripe I have about this one is the same as the last one. Add Checkpoints. It's SO frustrating to have to go thru the same questions over and over. It's one thing to go thru 5 or 10 questions again, but if you mess up at 24, then it takes you an unpleasant amount of time to get BACK to the question you need to get to again. And if you screw up and hit the wrong answer on the way there, well, back to start you go! Again!