Haggard's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[GTFTN1 - Scanlines]

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Too bad I don't have photoshop, so I can't say if your tutorial is helpful or not.

But what I can say is, that your tutorial looks nice and simple. You didn't use any long explanations, but got straight to the point. You also used pictures along the text to show what you are talking about.

I think you should have added a few more examples to show what effects scanlines can have on pictures.

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[Newgrounds Character Quiz]

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A nice quiz-type game. The layout is pretty nice and the texts are easy to read (except for the texts at the end of the game. They are sometimes a bit hard to read).

I liked that you have so many NG Characters in this game and you described their personality quite well.

The music that played during the quiz gets annoying pretty fast, so it's a good thing that you put in that mute button there. However, the same problem with the start button (pressing it more than once and the music starts playing more than once at the same time) still exists.

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[Daily Life]

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It's a nice game. Good if you have some free time and don't know what to do. ^^

The game concept is simple and it's easy to get what you are supposed to do.

The graphics are very decent. I liked how you displayed the character on the top left of the screen and changed his expressions when he didn't feel so good anymore.

I also liked the musical choice. It fits well to the game and the music keeps itself in the background quite nicely. And I also appreciate the fact, that you put a "stop music" button in there. Even the best song gets annoying after a while.

However, the game gets highly repititve after the first few levels. We have to accomplish other goals, but basicaly it's the same over and over. Eat, work, talk to people, study, eat, sleep, etc.

Anyways, here's how I beat the first three levels (after level 3 I lost interest in the game and stopped playing):
Eat at 7:00, 15:00 and 23:00. Buy either the burger pack or the pizza
Work from 8:00 to 15:00
Study from 16:00 to 20:00
Talk to people from 20:00 to 23:00. Always talk to the same people to raise their status to "friend". It's no use to talk to different people all the time.
Sleep from 23:00 to 6:00 or 7:00.
Alter this schedule slightly if you've finished your studies or if you already made a friend.

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[Being a Helpful NG'er]

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A very helpful flash. I hope that many users that are new to the site will watch it, as it explains everything very well. From posts, to reviews, to some clubs. It just contains everything.

Too bad some of the images have such a low quality, which makes it a bit hard to read some of the text displayed on the images.
I also noticed that the music will start playing multiple times if I press the "play music" button more than once. Maybe you can fix that by makeing the button unclickable after the first click (and of course make it clickable again, after I press the "stop music" button).

The choice of colours is done very well (newgroundish gray background and white text. Can't go wrong with that. ^^). But the text could have been a tad bit bigger. There's a lot to read in this flash, so starting at small letters is very exhausting for the eyes.

What I liked most about this flash... well, of course you put my name in the "Great Reviews" section. ;)

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RohantheBarbarian responds:

The image quality was a pity, something got screwed up on export. And the play button is a known bug. However, overall I'm glad you liked it and thank you for the review.

[Newgrounds Helpful Guide]

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This is a very interesting quiz and I enjoyed it quite much.

The good parts:
As I've said: You managed to present the quiz in a very interesting way. The questions are well chosen and I learned something about myself. ^^

The music choise is nice, too. I'm glad you didn't put the annoying original "Endless Handbag Loop" in here and I'm also glad you gave an option to turn off the music.

I liked the "explanations" feature very much. It's interesting to go through all the questions again and to read the explanations thereto.

Things to improve on:
When I click on "play music" more then once, the music starts to play... more than once. You should try to fix that. Maybe by makeing the "play music" button unclickable after the first time.

The presentation of the results isn't that great. On the one hand it's good to see all results at once. That way I don't have to retake the quiz serveral times to see all results. But on the other hand: The text was quite small and a bit hard to read. It was also not that clearly arranged, so that it took some time to make out where I fit in with my score.
A possible solution might be that you put in some buttons with the score range and then display the text underneath those buttons when I click on them.

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[Collector]

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You completed this in only 4 hours, which is quite quick I guess. Sadly, it shows that this game was kinda rushed.

The colors don't really work that well together, so it all looks quite ugly and not very "eye friendly".

Also, the game doesn't have any kind of replay value. The health bar is a nice addition to the game and quite original in the "avoider genre", I guess. But I really miss some power ups or different level layouts.

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[Errors '08]

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The style of you flash is very nice. I like how you put in the typical styles of the different operating systems in there.

Most of the error messages where quite funny to read and some of the things you said are just true (like the "This software is not supported!" error for Mac OS X).

Overall, it's a nice basic flash. Nothing more, but nothing less!
You've shown with that flash that you know how to handle most of the basic things in flash (and also some of the more advanced things), which is a good thing. Now you can aim for bigger goals! ;)

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AntoArts-Admin responds:

Thanks for the review. I do know a lot of the more advanced parts of flash, this is just a side project, which I make every year ;)

[The Halo Quiz!]

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The quiz itself is done quite good, even though some "checkpoints" would be very nice (ie if I answer 5 questions right, I'll start at question #5 if I answer a higher question wrong, etc.).

But the look and feel of the quiz needs some polish. A white background always looks kind of sloppy. It would be better if you would add some Halo screenshots.
You could then put the text in boxes, so that the readability isn't harmed by different shadings of the background.
You also should use a standard font, as they are always easier to read (use Arial or Times New Roman).

Also, sometimes the text was a tad bit too small, so that it was quite hard to read the answers.

Overall, it's a nice quiz that needs some work on the graphics.

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xIDoL responds:

Thanks! I never thought of 'Checkpoints' But its a VERY good idea...
I might add Some screenshots later.
Thanks, xIDoL :P

[Bouncy Bob]

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It's a pretty simple, yet highly addictive game. The game mechanics work pretty well (even though I had some trouble with those "wall jumps").

Also it reminds me a lot of "Loco Roco" for the PSP, which I enjoyed a lot.

The graphics of your game are very decent and the backgrounds look good, too.
The music and special effects are nice, too.

You managed to make this game different from Loco Roco with special moves like the Splash Jump.

Overall, it's a nice addictive game. Good job! :)

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ProfessorFlash responds:

Thanks for the nice review :)

[Piggy123s NG guide]

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Well, it's a pretty basic flash in every aspect. It deals with the most basic things of NG (nothing wrong with that) and it looks pretty basic (nothing wrong with that eiter ;) ).

It's annoying that the music starts from the beginning every time I click the "next" or "previous" button, but I appreciate that you put in some different tracks.

You should use a spellchecker if you submit a flash with lots of text in it and you also should use proper punctuation. Some of your sentences are pretty hard to understand because you never make use of the comma.

Here's a part from your text: "now there are levels on newgrounds like in a RPG game but unlike rpg games levels do not power up speed and stuff they power up B/P points"
Not only is that really hard to understand because of the lack of commas, but it also seems that this info is wrong. The levels don't power up your B/P, the levels only change your picture on the forums (voting power is affected by Experience and B/P, not levels).

The last page (where you explain what BBS stands for) is very hard to read because of the dark background. Either use a brighter font there or a brighter background.

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piggy123 responds:

when i wrote now there are levels on newgrounds like in a RPG game and stuff thats what i meant GOT THAT