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[Abusive Review Guide]

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This is a very helpful flash. The text is very well written and very informative. Also, I didn't notice any typos or spelling errors, which also is a big plus.

You should have added some images here for a better understanding, though. For example, when you describe what the "Flag this review as abusive"-button looks like, you could have provided a picture of it for a better understanding.

Also, some screenshots of abusive reviews would have been nice, too.

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RohantheBarbarian responds:

Thanks for the review!

I am currently working on a sequel which will have graphical improvements including screenshots. Look out for it!

[Abe Simpson Soundboard]

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It's a nice sound board with an easy to navigate menue and funny quotes from Abe Simpson with a decent sound quality.

I liked the layout of the buttons. On some soundboard they seem to be all over the place, here they where all neatly arranged.

I wished oyu had put in more "multi character" quotes. Also on the multi character quotes page, maybe a different layout would work better there. Sort the quotes by the other characters, like all quotes involving Bart are listed in a column titled "Bart", all quotes with Homer are in a column titled "Homer", etc. .

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Frenzy responds:

Good idea, thanks for the review!

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[MSC 3]

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It's a good game. You offered a great variation of objects, possibilities to create characters AND a wide range of backgrounds. Most games of this kind lack at least one (if not all) of those (ie they give me a good choice of weapons, but only two different backgrounds).

The musical selection was ok, but I think some Hard Rock/Metal would have fitted in nicely here. ;)
I also liked the option to turn the music off. That way I can play my own music in the background while messing around with the scene creator.

The controls are very good, even though it took me a few minutes to figure out that I'm supposed to hold down the key and then click on the object I want to manipluate... but yeah, it's early in the morning right now, maybe that has something to do with it. ^^

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AntoArts-Admin responds:

Thanks for your review. I'm glad that you liked it, thanks for the 10!

[Button Finder 2]

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It's a nice little game which can be quite difficult at times. I liked the pictures you chose for your levels.

The random things in between some level are funny and they are good to loosen this flash up a bit.

The music was fitting, but an option to turn it off would have been really nice. It can be quite annoying to listen to the same tune over and over again. ;)

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EmmDubya responds:

Thanks, you will be able to see more of the random animations when I release the stick compilation

EDIT: The stick compilation has been submitted, it had been online for about a week when I decided to delete it.

[Awesome Sprite Tutorial]

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It's a very good tutorial. The text is easy to read and you explained everything very well. I also thank you for not including any music, as music in tutorials tends to get boring very quickly. ;)

I missed some kind of menu here. It would be nice if I could choose from a menu which part of the tutorial I want to see. That way I don't have to click through the whole tutorial if there's just one topic that I'm interested in.

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Swizardv2 responds:

Hmm that might just be an idea xD. Didn't think of that. Thanks.

[Choices: a poem]

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Very nice flash. When I started this I didn't knew what to expect and I prepared for the worst (like Coop I feared that every line would have a slightly different tone, thus ruining the poems completely), but instead I got the best I could wish for! :)

While the presentation is very minimalistic the narration is done really great and I liked the poems I could "create" with my choices.

But still I think the presentation needs more "eye candy". Some background images would be a good start, for example.

I also noticed that the "Turn narration On/Off" button didn't work.

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Vert responds:

Hmm, are you sure that the narration button wasn't working for you? The button itself dosen't indicate when the narration is on or off, something I was incapable of doing, but it worked fine for me when I tested it just now. Do you have an older version of Flash?
In any case, thanks for the compliments and after all the feedback, I've pretty much decided on doing another poem, but with a little help so as to improve the overall presentation and level of polish. And thanks for the review!

[Kill Boe 2]

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Those kind of games can go awfully wrong, but it seems as if you've done everything right with this one. You offered a lot (and I mean A LOT!) of choices and all of them had something special, like the cloud kicking the guy off the cliff (that's my favorite scene, btw), or the guy getting killed by a guitar solo.

Sometimes the backgrounds were a bit bland. Well, a plain white background isn't that exciting, to be honest. ^^
If you added a small background for every scene it would be really nice.

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Graeme responds:

The only one featuring a background was the cliff. Perhaps that made you more inclined to it?

[NSG015: Apples & Bananas]

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17/21 on first try. Not that bad I guess.

The quiz was very nice with some unusual photographs. At first one may think: "Heh, sure I can tell an apple from a banana!" but it gets a little tricky later on.
Good thing that I eat a banana every day, so I'm not that easily tricked! ;)

I think it was the right decision to make the photos in black and white, or else it would have been too easy, especially on the first few pictures.

You should have added a mute button, though. That background song gets very annoying after a short time.

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Bezman responds:

Looks like I still managed to trick you, though! I wasn't sure if it would be hard enough. :-D

Fair point on the mute button. There were only maybe 3 hours until the end of Pico Day and I just wanted to get this quick creation out into the portal. A mute button may have been worth the 7 minutes it'd take, though.

Thanks for the review!

[LoZ:A Link to the Future]

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The most basic things did work here, that's the good part. Rupees got collected when I ran over the rupee symbol, I visited houses when I walked in a house, the battle screen showed up when I ran into an enemy.

But there are many major flaws in here that you need to iron out. Like when I walked into a house the "house screen" showed up. I made my decisions and pressed "Leave". Now when I move again, that "house screen" would also show up again! Same with fights. I fought the enemy, was successful (you also need to work on the battles, as it seemd I never got hit), turned away... and the battle sceen showed up again.

As for the rupees: Well, rupees don't dissappear once I collected them, so I can get unlimited rupees by just walking over the same rupee over and over. Make them vanish once they got collected. Same with enemys. They shouldn't no longer stand around on the world map when I already defeated them.

Some minor flaws:

Link didn't have any animation. He "floated" across the world map.
The music stopped after some time. Also when selecting that mario theme from the first house, the two songs were playing both at the same time. You should stop one theme before playing an other theme. I could also let the mario theme play numerous times because of that bug.

Conclusion:
This game has a lot of potential, but the flaws make this game unplayable for me.

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ZiggyZack99 responds:

Oops.

[Windows XYZ]

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The general look and feel of this simluation is great. Starting with the preloader everything looks like the real WinXP, good work. You also added the typical windows start sound and the user logon, I liked that.

I also liked that I can start programs with every icon that is on the desktop. I played some Windows simulators that only let me use one or two programs and just came up with an error message for the other icons.
In this simulation I can even write and save my own texts, again: good work!

There are a few bugs here and there, like that I can draw on the desktop if I open paint, or that the start button is a bit bigger (higher) than the rest of the taskbar, but overall it's a very good flash!

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ZiggyZack99 responds:

Right, thanks.