Haggard's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Falsely Imprisoned!]

Nice game

Pretty nice game, but it has some minor flaws that prevent it from being a very good game.
First of all, the controls are somewhat too smooth. The character slides around when running and the ability to slide down the walls isn't that well done as well. The first guard shot me twice before I could hit him because my character was still sliding down that small wall.
Maybe you could change this by making not all walls "slideable", but only larger ones (it also looks a bit odd to see him slide down a very small ledge).

The graphics are neat, but everything seems to be so small. A slightly bigger character would also allow some more details and I think it wouldn't hurt the game that much.

Voice acting would be cool thing to have, I think it would add that extra touch to the game that it's currently missing.

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Skeik responds:

Me and a friend who I work with were actually having a discussion about how I zoom things too far out in games. He usually gets me to zoom things back in before we release games we work together haha. I need to get an eye for that

Thanks!

[Droid Grids Beta 0.19.1]

Has potential

I can tell a lot of hard work has went into this project already and this hard work really shows in the game. The controls are very good, very responsive and I found no flaws here while I was playing.
The hit detection seems to work pretty good as well (wheter it be objects I'm running into or if I'm trying to shoot my opponents).

Also while the graphics look pretty basic right now (everything has geometrical forms) it is very easy to navigate on the map and it's very easy to orientate myself. I also can distinguish very easily between the objects shown on the map.

The only thing that annoys me is that the blue guys can shoot at me from just outside the screen, so they can start shooting before I can even see them. Sure, the arrows help me to locate my enemies, but I think my shots have a range only to the border of the game window. At least I was shooting like crazy in the direction of the enemy, but he still could shoot at me and I could only kill him when he was on screen.

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glider521al responds:

Wow, another guy from the review request club :)

Thanks for taking the time to give me feedback.

I can easily fix the enemies shooting at you from offscreen, by adding in a delay before they can open fire.
If you have any other suggestions be sure to PM me :)

[Crossroads:2D]

Short, simple and very enjoyable

Very short, yet a very nice game. The graphics reminded me a bit of Mystic Quest (released under the name "Final Fantasy Adventure" in the US and "Seiken Densetsu: Final Fantasy Gaiden" in Japan) for the GameBoy.

The controls are nice and simple, I couldn't find any bugs or glitches here.

The music is chosen nicely, but it gets pretty repetitive after a while. Well, you gave the option to mute the sound, so I could always turn the music off and listen to my own.

The added medals are a nice touch, but the game is worth to play it even without the medals.

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kcnh responds:

Thank you for your review.

[NG Portal Radio v2 01]

Still a nice gadget

Nice to see an updated version of the NG Portal Radio. It's still a nice gadget and I can see some improvements here and there. But there's still a lot of stuff that could be added (but I guess most of the "really cool" stuff would be impossible to add).
I made some suggestions on the previous versions, so I won't make any new suggestions here (I'm just pointing out that Fro expressed some very good ideas in his review).

However, what I didn't like was the font, for example on the authors bios. It just seems to be a bit "blurred" or too bold. Whatever it is, it's pretty hard to read, so it would be great if the font could be changed to something that is better to read. ^^

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MCarsten responds:

Thaks for like my gadget and for the font added suggestion! Yeah to be seriously, I prefer to change the font!

Thanks for review! =)
See you around.

[Newgrounds Portal Radio]

Interesting program

This is a very interesting program. There's still a lot of room for improvement, but the basics are already there. The random button is a very nice implementation. It's nice to just press it and listen to what ever comes up.

It would be nice if you could implement some more things, but I don't know if it is possible to do so. My suggestions:
- Being able to insert a minimum length of a song, so that spammy submissions that are only a few seconds long wouldn't be selected if you press the random button.
- It would also be nice if now only the ID of the song but also the name would be shown in this program.

While I think those two aren't that hard to implement this suggestion could be prove to be impossible to implement:
- Selecting different genres and the random songs would be from the selected genres.

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MCarsten responds:

Guten tag Haggard, I will be replying to your review by the topics:

"This is a very interesting program. There's still a lot of room for improvement, but the basics are already there. The random button is a very nice implementation. It's nice to just press it and listen to what ever comes up."

Nice yu liked the gadget. Yeah, is interesting see what songs comes up when you press to randomize.

"It would be nice if you could implement some more things, but I don't know if it is possible to do so. My suggestions:
- Being able to insert a minimum length of a song, so that spammy submissions that are only a few seconds long wouldn't be selected if you press the random button.
- It would also be nice if now only the ID of the song but also the name would be shown in this program."

For the spammy submissions lenght, I think it wouldn't be necessary, may have some loops that are cool to keep listening them, version 2 that is going to be released soon presents a loop function, so is better to listen to loops :)!

For show the name or genre, it is technically impossible (as you thought), they are registered on a different server which I can't get from, I could use string commands to get them but I think it would be necessary or AS3 or HTML.

"While I think those two aren't that hard to implement this suggestion could be prove to be impossible to implement:
- Selecting different genres and the random songs would be from the selected genres."

This is possible to perform but I think only with HTML too, PoderOdunk on Newgrounds Chat managed to do this but he describes on the author's comments a lot from HTML to do that gadget.

Thanks for the nice review! See you around!

[Facebook Game]

Nice

I like the concept of this game. I think you brought something new to the genre of "shoot em ups" here. It's pretty cool to read the comments and blast them away by shooting up all the persons who liked said comment.

I don't know if this concept is enough to keep players motivated for a longer period of time, though. Even though you have some pretty cool power ups there it all gets a bit repetitive quite soon.

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[JUMP IT!]

Simple game

A very simple and not too challenging game. Also it's not very motivating to only press one button and to see the guy jumping all the time.

Okay, you said it was only a test to see if you could create such a game. Well, it seems you can do it, so I guess you should take it a few steps further now and create a game that is more complex than this one, heh.
I liked how you prevented cheating here. "Down and Up" doesn't work and just holding the Up button doesn't work as well.

What I didn't like was the graphics. The rope does look a bit strange. Why does it have such a weird shape?
The rest of the graphics are way too simple as well.

So, in conclusion you have a small game where you could test your skills with action script. My advice is - like I said - take it a few steps further now and create more complex games.

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up-a-notch responds:

thanks, the rope is just a shape tween!

[Meet the Universe]

Great flash!

This is a very nice flash. The music fits really great to the whole topic of the "Universe" as it is very laid back and relaxing. It puts me in the right mood to read all the text you put together here and to do some exploring.

I like that you also put in some things outside of our galaxy like VY Canis Majoris. It's so huge it's hard to imagine such a star can even exist. Imagine for example if our earth was so big. How would living on such a huge planet be? I mean, it would be impossible with our current technology to even really explore the planet. The internet wouldn't be possible, because it would take YEARS (maybe even millions of years?) for a signal to travel all the way to some far away continent and come back.

But I'm getting off topic here (you really hit a nerve with this flash, I like go rambling on about the universe ^^). I really hope you'll expand this flash a bit more or release some more parts of it. There's so much to tell about the universe and all the different galaxies and planets and so on that it would be hard to fit it all in one flash.

Anyway, very nice flash and it also really stands out from all the other flashes here on NG because of the topic you chose. At least I haven't seen a single flash on Newgrounds so far that tells me something about the universe.

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MCarsten responds:

Really a big thanx for you like my gadget! And thanks Raven-Guard (Darklight17 & Supersteph54) by the incredible relaxing song, and it is courtesy from Steph.

Yes, it is pretty hard think how big could be a monster star as VY Canis Majoris, or R136a constellation, and if it was an Earth, how many people would exist in him? And how much carbonic gas in the atmosphere if it would have industries? Is a really good thing to think about.

Maybe I create another one explaining a lot from the universe, and I want to see your review there xD

Thanks for like this one because he is only one in NG explaining something about the universe, also have "The Scale of the Universe", but it just explains largers or widths and such, here I took their volumes and mass, and explained a little about each thing.

THANKS AGAIN!!
Respectfully,
SpyS.

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[Judas bread attack!]

Too fast

Well, the concept is interesting and the introduction to the game spoken by Fro is a good idea as well.
I like how the points are explained before the game starts.

The only problem with this game is, that it is too fast to play it. Jesus is gone in a fraction of a second so it is nearly impossible to hit him. The only way to hit him is by sheer luck.

So yeah, planning and concept is good, but the excecution of this idea is flawed. :P

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MonoFlauta responds:

hahah welll... the idea at least was good :P

[Full Tutorial of Sounds]

Nice tutorial

It's a decent tutorial that sure will help some people out there that have trouble inserting sound into their flashes. However it would be nice if you could also do a tutorial for newer versions of flash (if this is possible for you, that is).

Basically your english is pretty good, but there are some typos in the text and sometimes the grammar is wrong and sometimes some words like "to" or "in" are missing. My suggestion is that you show the texts to some native speaker before you submit the flash.

A minor flaw was that the pause and stop symbols where labled wrong. "Pause" was labeled as "Stop" and "Stop" as "Pause". It was a bit confusing at first.

However, I liked that you put many examples in this tutorial. That way anyone who reads it will learn how to add sound a lot faster. If you could now iron out the small grammatical flaws this would be an awesome tutorial.

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MCarsten responds:

Thanks Haggard, I did these several examples for the people understand that we can do some examples for each thing of sound without need to be changing a lot of the script, maybe this did people like my tutorial and favorite it, I had eight people.

Yes, as I said with Sixflab, I'll need to find someone to correct the grammar using a native from english language.

Thanks again for the great review!
SpyS.