WritersBlock's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Windows Errors 2007]

Not much of a flash...

I don't really enjoy this sort of thing. As far as I know you just grabbed a bunch of "funny" error messages off a website, and there are some much better windows parodies out there, that have some more originality to them. The presentation is poor. A couple of buttons, forward and back? That means it's just a slideshow! You could have at least made the actual error messages into buttons. You could have done a ton of stuff to make this better, have an on/off button for the music, have more than one song to choose from. Have a proper background, make the buttons more aesthetic, make it more interactive. Make it something you can be proud of, use your own jokes, the different versions of windows error messages makes it look even more mediochre. I hope you try harder and put much more effort into your next flash. It's nothing personal, it's just that anyone could string together a flash like this in half an hour, without any real knowledge of flash beforehand.

Sorry =/

-Review Request Club-

AntoArts-Admin responds:

I know what you mean....... Well, just for your knowing, this is one of my first flashes. The error messages are generated using: atom.smasher.org

Many of them are classics. I'll might make a error game in Errors 2008, in which errors respond, but the slide show will still be there, but with windows (ok, depends on OS, the 08 edition will have many different OSs) background and that stuff. I'll make a sound on off button, and try to have more of my own ideas. Still, pretty many here was my own ideas, maybe someone else have got the same idea but, well......

Thanks for your review anyway!

[Turf war]

Nice

Graphics and gravity was really good. I like the worms type setup. That's great. Although a destructable landscape and/or more weapons would be nice. It's a good fun game, a little slow, but it's decent. I spent quite a while on this, the weapons didn't inflict all that much damage... But it was an entertaining game.

[Snowflakes!]

This is a cool game

I've got a little bit of a lag with my mouse, so that makes things a little more difficult, but from level 2, it provides a great challenge.
I wouldn't mind maybe having a keyboard controlled version, with requirements changed accordingly, as some people prefer keyboard controls to the mouse.
Good job, and thanks for using my audio! XD

ShirkDeio responds:

Thanks for making such a great song!

If I get the chance, I might yet add keyboard controls. Thanks for the review!

[Animax Math Quiz]

Not bad...

Some questions got a little bit tricky towards the end, although nothing terribly hard. The last question was waaaaay too simple, it was easier than the previous ones. You should step it up a notch, with harder algebraic questions.

Nice game (should put it down as a game, not a movie...)

[Tweening Tut.]

Honestly...

That was terrible. A tutorail is something that is meant to have a neat presentation and an organisation of useful information, which is meant to impress the person who knows nothing of flash. People should be able to look at it and say "wow, I wish that I could animate like that" which makes them WANT to watch the rest of the tutorial. This... hmm, you edited the NG preloader to look much worse than it started with, you should have left that as it was. The coloured movieclips in the corners, they looked really messy, at least could you have refrained from moving them around. Then the tutorial taught me how to draw three completely different poses of a STICK FIGURE and link them together to make a movie clip that looks nothing like walking. Then you show the very basic art of TWEENING. Click the timeline, "insert motion tween". There are so many tutorials that show how to tween, and then go further on to more useful information. And as for the walking stick, anyone can do it like that, you should learn how to make it look decent before you tell people to copy you. The last thing the flash portal needs is more noobs uploading poor stick flashes. Please, PLEASE, brush up on your flash skills before trying to teach others flash.
Beginners would find a lot more help in a proffesionally made tutorial.
Sorry to sound harsh, but this is just terrible.

DP responds:

Nice long review.

[TheExtreme Stick Tutorial]

Hey nice tut.

I'm just starting to get into FB animation. There was one thing in the animation that confused me... the v-cam thing, it looks very useful, bit I haven't a clue as to how to apply it to my own flashes. I'd feel like I was ripping you off if I just copied it across, can you explain/link to somewhere that goes into more depth on this camera technique. Much appreciated.
Cheers.

WritersBlock

[torture bootsy the ghost]

This is not original

I have seen pretty much the same thing, different characters and better graphics elsewhere, so maybe you should start again and try and create something original. I'mprove the graphics, make it more interactive. I'm sorry, but this did not impress me at all.

[The Video Game Quiz]

Challenging

I like how you really get put under the pump to get through the quiz. Some of the questions seem pretty easy, but the timer sorts that out. I'm expecting a greater challenge for the next round.
It's a good game, much better than basic q&a, quick thinking.
Nice work.

Thanks for using my music =D

ShmenonPie responds:

Hey, I liked your music, it sounded great, definitely keep making more! I'm glad you enjoyed it, and I'm also glad you liked the time limit, but I'm probably going to extend it due to that being the most requested fix.

[Newgrounds Rumble]

All 10's, how could I not?

I spent hours going through it, did all the challenges, finished the story in all except Convict (too hard) and Salad Fingers. I haven't tried it with Salad Fingers yet... he doesn't seen the fighting type. If you had a couple more characters in that non-violent catagory, I would love to see blockhead in the action, licking people's faces maybe? lol.
Awesome game... gotta get back to trying to beat the Convict story...