Score: 9

"Great"

submission: Ragdoll Avalanche II

date: August 31, 2006

My highest score: 814 "damn it where is my mantle of evasion when i need it?"

It's a very fun and addicting game, especially when you get your body parts cut off. It's just missing something. Right now, it's just a very simple dodge game with ragdoll physics. And while it is addicting and VERY fun, it needs something to make the actual game play unique, other than the ragdoll. Powerups maby, even varying the color and sizes of the spikes could do it. Polish it off and it will be like... better.

Score: 3

"Gah! I'm sick of you're overrated crap"

submission: ShoBizNewsyNews #26

date: August 23, 2006

seriously, you take images and video off the inter net, put it into a flash, and people eat it up! That's not talent, that's about as much talent as ebaum has.

Seriously, stop relying on your ill earned popularity to bring you success. Do something that actually takes effort.

Score: 5

"Heh neat"

submission: "Turd of the Week"

date: August 8, 2006

except the way people get TOTW is by simply swapping the below average but passing movie with a different SWF after it get's out of judgment

Score: 10

"God bless the star syndicate"

submission: TooF Collab

date: August 2, 2006

TooF parody day i'm guessing. It was great. Maby next time though, you could use some fart jokes or something.

Score: 7

"Well it's well programmed..."

submission: EXPGEN

date: August 1, 2006

But, the editor itself is not intuitive. There's too many menus, and too many options, and buttons and all that junk. It takes too long to make a level, i just played your pre built ones as examples. I never even finished a level of mine cause i didn't want to spend an hour making a level and figuring out all this stuff and how it works. But I can see that it's well done, so props for that. But, a few little things that can make it better:
When placing items, have it so you can hold the mouse and drag it around to place a line of items like platforms, essentially drawing with the item you're using. That way it doesnt take 2 days to design a level.
On the menu, show all the items you can place down, as buttons. That way it's just open the menu, click the item, place it on the map. It really does help if you can see what your making. Rather than flipping switches around for 3 types of items, i'd rather take up more space and just clutter the screen with a lot of buttons that dont involve arrows. Also, use hotkeys. Nothing says you shouldnt use the arrow keys to scroll, or space to open the menu, etc. It makes it more intuitive.

About the graphics, sounds, etc. Rectangular blocks make a game look clunky (like in the mario game) The sounds you have are kinda monotonous, almost as if the editor would let you compose music yourself. Which would be a neat idea, for even more customizability. Perhaps even draw your own graphics (bitmap data ftw). It's all possible, but it would make the codes larger. You'd probably want to create a compression algorithm for the codes.

Speaking of te codes, I've only seen 2 level editors made in flash where they give you a code (not saying there aren't more than 2, but these are the only 2 i've played). Your game, and my game (see my news post on NG or on my site). Now on yours, i notice that you keep telling people not to post their codes in reviews. Well, why not? Yes, the line breaks and all that junk. So why not just ignore all the characters in the code that involve spaces or line breaks? After a little fiddling, i managed to do it with my editor, cause believe it or not, people WILL post codes in reviews and on forums and stuff. So work your program to the people playing it, dont make your people cater to the limits of the program.

So ya, this is definately well programmed, and defiantely has a lot of effort put into it, and is a good idea. But it's not executed as well as it could be. Plus, the customizability options of it are limited. There's only so much you can do with a character, an enemy, a block, and a coin. You need to add stuff like fake blocks, and blocks that do things if you jump on them or press down when your on top of them, and moving blocks. But i really think that adding doors into it could be helpful. You'd create a few maps, then place doors that link the maps together. You could essentially make a warp pipe in mario with these combinations. Just have some fake blocks, some trigger blocks that you fall through if you press down, and some doors on the pipe.
There's a lot of possibilities for this game that you never added in here. And yes, I know that it will make the codes huge. So who says you have to stick with the codes? Just have like a couple of PHP files and a database on your site, and people get an ID when they make their levels. It could be cool, and then you wouldnt have to worry about codes being the size of this review.

So in summary, you definately need to work on your execution of this game. It's a good idea and well programmed at that, but in a game requiring this much user input you can't afford to sacrifice intuitivity to increase performance or looks. Plus, as it is, there are so many limits to what you can do in the game that it doesn't really hold your attention while playing it. You make one level, then bam, all the levels are so similar it just doesnt feel good. Please play my editor before responding, and I would also like it if you could contace me on AIM, I know your a fan of mine based on the metroid games.

Score: 10

"lol@toms"

submission: NG Sketchbook Tour 06

date: July 29, 2006

only 3 of us didn't have the artsy button on... glad to be one of them :)

Score: 4

"Mediocre at best"

submission: Super Duper Mario 2 VGDC

date: July 24, 2006

It was like watching someone play the new supermario bros game, only with pixelated sprites instead of polygonal models like in the actual game. The animation job was poorly done too. Normally with sprites, you need to be really good at tweening to make something look good. And you normally do. There was only 1 part that looked good, the close up of the koopa. Vector drawn. It was nice. But the mechanics of mario moving didn't match the game quite right. Mario's jump heights would frequently change size and get larger even when he's not running (like the final jump before the flag), you'd need to run to get on that block. There seemed to be too much gravity in the movie too, he jumped and fell too fast. Plus, you had an 8-bit toad in the beginning which didnt fit the new game.

So apart from the poor animation, what about the rest of the movie? It had no story, it was like watching someone play the game. If i want to see this, I'd play the game. I have it right here next to me. The humor in it, a fart joke. A fart joke. Fart jokes are not that clever. It could have used a little more cleverly written humor rather than a quick and unsatisfying fart joke.

But you did show what you can draw yourself in that short half-second close up of a koopa. Good for you. A half second is not enough to raise your score though.

I think it'd be best if you made a movie that doesn't use sprites, you have the skills, you just need to use them.

Score: 0

"This isn't a tutorial"

submission: giant game tutorial

date: July 18, 2006

This is a massive open source dump. I'm willing to bet that you didnt make the scripts in here. Please, tutorials like this have been done so many times before. You need to actually EXPLAIN the code for it to be new and helpful. And you can't start with movement, you need to start with variables and loops first.

Score: 10

"cool game"

submission: Nephi's Adventure

date: June 29, 2006

as said before though, its a bit short. Just make the next few ones a bit longer.

Oh and to fix the white preloader glitch, on all your sounds with linkage, right click and deselect "export in first frame". Of course, now they wont be put into the swf at all, so make a dummy clip and stick the sounds in the timeline of that clip. Bam, problem solved.

Score: 0

"Stolen"

submission: Platform game level maker

date: June 24, 2006

http : / / www . newgrounds . com/ portal/ view/ 169111

you just added your name on it. Come tro think of it it's probably from an open source tutorial. ANd if it's your first submission why do you have another one that's flagged?