Imacow's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Errors '09]

Pretty good

-Good-
I liked the wide spread amount of operating systems you added in here, it made it much more enjoyable than an XP clone or Vista clone by itself. I found many of the jokes pretty enjoyable, mostly the "right click to continue" on the mac OS.

-Bad-
Some music may have lightened the mood of the flash.

-Overall-
A nice little flash here, I enjoyed it.

~Review Request Club

AntoArts-Admin responds:

I believe music would make the feeling of using the OS's a bit less realistic, but for a menu, I could think about this, or maybe a music player for each operating system (Windows Media Player for win, iTunes for Mac and AmaroK for linux)

[Key Run]

Pretty cool

-Good-
Nice game here, I though the music choice was real nice for this type of game. The graphics were simple but nice. All in all a pretty good mouse avoider.

-Bad-
Well, I liked the way the walls faded around to different designs but occasionally it would throw me off and make my ball flinch into a wall :P

-Overall-
Nicely done, a fun game.

~Review Request Club~

MintPaw responds:

Thanks, the walls trick you, how it gets so dark.

[Windows Errors 2007]

Meh

-Good-
A decent submission I guess. Some of the messages were chuckle worthy, but a lot of them were bland. The music added to the submission a little, but you used an overused song.

-Bad-
Well, like I said a lot of the messages were unfunny. It also looked like you used some kind of automated webste to make these. I also thought the buttons were too annoying to hit.

-Overall-
A decent submission, but nothing to special.

~Review Request Club~

AntoArts-Admin responds:

Well, I used an automated website :/ Next time not, it's funnier to make own ones

Stupid messages, unfunny messages, they won't be there next time

[=Simple Button Tutorial=]

Alright

-Good-
A decent tutorial on buttons here. You mentioned A few different movie control AS that can be placed on buttons. I liked how you had screenshots for each step, but it was kinda annoying to have to click a button to see each screen shot.

-Bad-
I thought the layout of this movie was bland and confusing. The gray BG color made the movie more boring than it was. I thought the screen shots could have been fit into the instructions by cropping out the parts that weren't needed. When I was going through this tutorial I noticed that the music started over lapping which got pretty annoying.

-Overall-
A decent tutorial, but the layout needs work.

~Review Request Club~

Phantox responds:

I am aware of the sucky background but I didn't want to make something very fancy and take up unneeded file size.

Thanks for the review.

[A How to of Preloaders]

Alright

-Good-
This tutorial was alright. I tryed to make a preloader while reading this but didn't suceed. The information and everything was good and I liked how you explained all the AS instead of just telling us to copy paste it.

-Bad-
Well, I thought the text was to small and was hard to read. I also didn't like how the tutorial had a sonic backround on some frames, and then changed to a black background.

-Overall-
A decent tutorial

~Review Request Club~

knuxrouge responds:

Well, I don't quite understand how you failed to make the preloader if you folloewed my directions, but people think differently, it'll work for some, but not for all. I appreciate your appreication of me explaining the Action Script.

Some others thought the text was too small and I noted it. The reason I switch to a black background was so you would be able to see the Action Script--unchanged, easily.

Thanks for your review.

[Defend Level 60]

Alright

-Good-
The idea for this was alright, but it was pretty boring in my opinion. The music was a decent choice for when the levels were attacking, but it got repeditive after a while. The menu was pretty good.

-Bad-
Like I said this game gets boring after a while. The first thing I noticed was that you can't actually move level 60, which made it feel that you weren't actually controlling him. The other thing I dislike was that most of the level icons were of poor quality. I also didn't like how the level icons had errotic patterns.

-Overall-
A decent game, but got boring.

~Review Request Club~

Objection responds:

The errAtic patterns were deliberate - they make the game harder as it is harder to kill the enemies.
Name me a defence game where you control what you're trying to defend.
Also, to make things more interesting, I'm doing a second version with added powerups such as shields.

[The Road to King]

Pretty good

-Good-
The story for this was pretty good. The idea was interesting. The graphics were alright. The characters walk cycle sorta looked like he was limping alittle. I thought that the background you used was realy great, but I didn't like that you overused it in every level. The gameplay worked, but could have been better.

-Bad-
I thought the game was slow. You character could have moved faster and the ability to double jump would have been helpful. I didn't like how the enemys had different alpha levels as you shot them, it didn't make that much sence.

-Overall-
A well done game, but could have been better.

~Review Request Club~

Abs55 responds:

Thanks for your review and the comments.

The walk cycle was a bit irregualr due to the lag of the game, the background changes after every boss that is defeated but I can see where you are coming from.

I realise that it was a bit slow, which I will improve for the next game, this help the character move faster as well. The double jump was one that I thought of but in the end, I didn't want to include it. The alpha levels were an effect that I liked but seeing as many people think a different effect would be better, I will work on it.

[Block Frenzy]

Pretty good

-Good-
The idea of the game was simple, yet it worked. When the game started I wasn't exactly positive what I was suposed to do, but I got to hang of it. Wow that was intresting to make a song in "Punk-o-matic" and put it in a flash, I've never seen that done.

-Bad-
Well I thought the menu was bland and could of been more colorful. It also lacked a replay button.

-Overall-
A good game

~Review Request Club~

Koeberto190 responds:

Thanks for the review!

I know the menu was bland, I'm terrible at making them, so I just came up with the best thing I could think of. As for the replay button, I tried to add one but the actionscript I had clashed with the actionscript of the replay button, so I just got rid of it altogether. I'll try to fix that when I get around to finishing V2.

[MSC 2007]

Alright

-Good-
There were plenty of objects to choose from, unfortunatley there was so much lag it made it hard and annoying to make a scene. The idea of being able to have the item duplicate was great, but stacking MC's on top of each other was not the way to go about doing this.

-Bad-
The lag aside this game could get very wierd with layers, I asume this had something to do with the stacking of MC's.

-Overall-
A good game but ruined by lag.

~Review Request Club~

AntoArts-Admin responds:

I've learnt from my misstake....