Van-pl's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[MindFeed]

Interesting

Interesting game, you nicely built up atmosphere by music and sounds, even if this was only a quiz, you really made me think that's something more.

Questions were intriguing, however personally i finished it very fast. Some of them were dumb, such as giving the dog a name or favourite food. This isn'te even close related to the actual personality, it spoiled some of my interest while being tested.

Graphics were nice, however you could done the text appearing by actionscript, it would be waay easier.

Thumbs up! 4/5

And plz, no bagles next time!

K-Guare responds:

No bagels? :]
Yes, i'm only making a sequel if i make an
AS function that can do this for me.
Sorry it wasn't quite what you were expecting, but,
i'm definitely glad it's not a thumbs down :]
Thanks for the review :D

[Planet Ball]

Nice

Gameplay is nicely designed, everything is cool, however you could work a lil bit more in graphic design. Game is sometimes too hard, but overally entertaining.
:)
4/5

someone22 responds:

Yeah, like I said before, I'll update it and make it optional to change the hardness levels.

[Drunken Masters]

Awesome

The game is really awesome. I remember times I gone crazy, cuz i couldn't find the "Last Call" game, and you did excellent work by "translating" it into flash. :)

Firstly: Graphics
They are mostly pretty good, and eye friendly. Interface is also quite intuitive, however menu inbetween missions is not so readable. Also, I personally don't like, when work, which can be done directly in Flash via vector graphic is actually a raster graphic. (For example your round buttons)

Secondly: Sound
I must admit I didn't like the music, so I appreciated an option to turn it off. However, every time i played mission by mission I had to turn it off everytime, which was kinda pissing off.

Thirdly: Gameplay and Idea
You did it geniously. Every single aspect of the whole bartending you did excellent! I liked the effect of breaking glass :P Two little twists i didn't liked was no mixers, spoons and shakers at all (I know it's beacuse of fast game speed). The other thing I didn't liked was the making tricks with bottles and stuff is more important than actually making a perfect drink.

Overally, the game is excellent, i've lost few hours of my life on it. It sucked me in like a vaccum cleaner :P

4/5 8/10

Keep up the good work :)

JohnnySedona responds:

Thanks- breaking the glasses is one of my favorite parts of the game. A lot of time that I should have spent testing was actually spent smashing glass- that's where Johnny's signature move came from.

[Futurama dress up game]

uhh...

"a simple futurama dress up i made but i will add heaps more if you like it"

I don't like it, beacuse it's really nothing new and interesting... You forged some time on it but don't you think that newgrounds have plenty of other pointless dress-ups? Try making something unique, not copy others to proove everyone how good in flash you are.
0/5- i don't want you to make heaps of such a things... Try to manage your precious time better and make one flash, but a g00d one.
I'm looking foward to it. :)

Subliminalvids responds:

ill keep that in mind

[Blue Ball]

Qiute good

Your game is pretty good, nice idea with cup mixing, I didn't found out any bugs either, but you definetly should fix up the graphics.. Who knows, maybie if you add some logical plot and other stuff, this may hit frontpage, beacuse there are many simple yet genius games here.. 3/5
cheers :)

nabibrian responds:

Thanks for your review!

[The Background Tutorial]

Pointless

I see you had been inspired by Chulaid, and wanted to make some tribute to this great author.

But this is really for newbies, beacuse everybody can draw. Pepole just need to practice a lot. By doing it they create their own style, and i think it wouldn't be good if everybody would use the same style.

Bluring can be found in first better tut site for example Flashkit.

BTW, using shape tween on text is not so good idea, better use fbf.

Nice try :)

2/5

karategangster responds:

Ok thanks for the advise and not completely slaughtering the so far good score, i dont deny that it is for newbies but there are just too many tutorials that have the noob phraise in them. It wasnt a tribute to him as such, but yes i do like the brackenwood stuff a lot.

[-:Buttons Tutorial:- 2]

Oh God...

If i was noob, I wouldn't know a simple thing, that you want to show in your tut.

Make it eatable and get the f out this stupid 3D.

1/5.

BTW: I firstly watched your second work. You didn't fixed the worst bugs.

Your major problem is that you're making tuts whiout being so smart and pro in flash. Second prolbem is that you make tuts about hopeless problems.

And making tuts leave to Gamecubicle and Adam Phillips ;).

DragonFruit-Rock responds:

shut up. you have no material meaning in my life. you just make things seem worse. begone

[Spriters Hangout Tutorial]

You read too much Flashkit

Too much copied acionscript. I don't belive that person with AS skills to make a volume bar could make this that bad. Oh dude... You had to woked well, but this work is worthless.

2 Fingers to you

And next time make larger hit area on Button, cuz you are making a bug that is usually maked by noobs. Read more Flashkit next time.

Ultralink responds:

Okey,I try put that in my mind.

[Grave 2]

Good and bad

Dud, this is a 50% of great animation... One piece of sucess is actionscript.. U maked it great... 10% is sound and music.. Tis sucked well, and zero music is not-so-good for tat type of flash creation.. 10% is idea.. NOT bad... 30% is graphics.. That was awful. I dont want to suck u out, but don't jump tat high next time... Shooters and Horrors need good and dark drawing style. Good luck making Gave 3.. And i dont care about ur age.. I'm 15 by the way... :D:D

FrostedMuffins responds:

I'm not trying to use age as an excuse. I'm just saying it. I tested to see what would happen if I took out the age from the comments and for that period of time, the score went down and the reviews got worse. That sucked cause I thought people liked it cause it was fun, now I know that people just think that it's cool that a 13 year old can make games. Hopefully my next games will actually be fun.