Jolly's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Meteorite smash]

Review.

Pros:
I honestly don't have much to say here, unfortunately for you. The sound effects are for the most part pretty good, excluding one that I dislike, but I'll get to that in my cons. The space ship you play looks very well, I don't know if it's a sprite you found on the web or if it comes in GF2, but it looks good. The meteors and exploding effect looks good as well.

Cons/Recommendations:
I really don't like the sound of shooting. It sounds like somebodies knocking on a door or something, which is really far from what I imagine a space ship to sound like when it shoots. I recommend you make it sound more realistic, like a gun, or change everything, including what the shooting looks like, and make it into a zapping sound, which is what I'd imagine a space ship would shoot.

I really don't like how the background is a brick wall. That's very unrealistic as this is based in space, it should be a space background. If you'd like, you can PM me and I can link you to a tutorial on how to easily make a space background.

I didn't like the effect you got when the ship exploded. Sure it looks cool, but it always leaves behind some of the animation, the meteorites do the same thing, and it's silver, why doesn't it look like a normal explosion?

This is a very big con and makes the game very unfun. As mentioned in the review below, if you just go in the center and shoot, they Meteorite's never go anywhere. They never even come close to hitting you. That really takes the fun out of the game.

Another big thing is that the score seems to be messed up. It appears to just be quickly going from 0-100 and restarting. That's a major thing as I would think the main point of this game is to try to get high scores as there are no levels.

CAN-OF-SPAM responds:

Lol thats not the score. its the counter i used for spawning the asteroids, in the next 2 flashes i made i fixed majority of this crap. thanks for the review.

[Newgrounds SIM v 1.2]

Review.

Pros:
This is quite possibly my favorite game on NewGrounds. Perhaps it's simply because I love NewGrounds, or maybe it's because this is one of the first games I ever played on NG. Over a period of 5 years I've beat this game several times. The replay value is great. I feel like this is a great way for new users to learn how to use NewGrounds as while. It teaches about Trophies, B/Ping, submitting/creating flash, etc.

I loved the Easter eggs. Although there wasn't music to them other than a simple wallpaper change, they were still fairly funny and enjoyable. Although I think it would be cool if you had figured out someway to add additional awesomeness too the Easter eggs, I'm still okay with it.

The graphics were excellent for the time. I know several users have complained about the graphics saying they're terrible, but they're obviously not taking the time in which it was made into consideration.

The emails are pretty funny, although after a while of playing the game they actually become very annoying due to the fact that I don't believe the emails were actually based on the score of your flash.

Cons/Recommendations:
If you click the "extend flash" button you can see outside of the game, and it shows odd images scattered all around the flash. I recommend you disable the "Extend flash" button as it's pretty much useless due to this.

One small, and useless, complaint is that there didn't seem to be any easter egg to your username. I won't count off for this, of course, but you created the flash, how could you not include yourself in the easter eggs?

I also really don't like how you get banned so often. In my opinion there should be a mini game of sorts that determines weather or not you get banned because the banning seems entirely random. In my opinion when you become a moderator should be based on how frequently you were banned instead of being based on cool points. I very much doubt any BBS moderator has been banned as many times as I was in my road too becoming a moderator on this game.

More choices of music would be great. The endless handbag loop is annoying and repetitive. I know you can disable the music, but then it's a boring silence which makes the game a little boring. Don't get me wrong, it's a great game, but without music that isn't annoying and repetitive it's defiantly not reaching it's full potential.

It was also fairly annoying how it didn't save your settings. By that I mean weather or not you had your audio muted. The reason I hate it is because once you're tired of the Endless Handbag loop, you're unable too handle a single second of hearing it again. I won't count off for this, because I guess it was only a slight annoyance, but it's more of a recommendation than anything.

Another thing I disliked was how the Blam/Protect system was. I feel as if it should have been based more on cool points than intelligence, personally, because intelligence barely has anything to do with B/Ping. Perhaps it's just the decision too tell weather or not the flash is passable or not, but I don't like the system used.

On the subject of B/Ping, I also didn't like how getting the points worked. You were equally likely to get the points, and it always seemed like you got more Saves points than you did Blams. Personally I think that blams should be more likely because back in 2005, blams were more likely.

Additional Notes/Comments:
Sorry if this review sounds a little bit harsh, don't get me wrong, it's a great flash, but everything has it's cons. Overall, I loved this flash, but for me the amount of Cons always outweighs the pros. I hope you continue too make great flash like this, and perhaps even make a newer and updated version of this flash with some of my recommendations?

[Dodge the balls]

Review

Pros:
The menu looks quite good, although I'm not completely sure if you created the "Dodge" logo, and I'm assuming you didn't due to lack of transparency, but I like it.
This game is a good time waster if you need to waste about 10 minutes or so, but probably no more than that.

Cons:
It wasn't really that fun. It doesn't have any music, or any sound once so ever. Although it may not seem like it, sound is a big deal and really decreases the boringness of a flash. If you're going to release an updated version of this flash, I defiantly recommend that you add upbeat music too make it more fun.

The background is for the most part a bland and boring black background, with a pumpkin in the center, and the enemies, or whatever you would like too call them, are just a black too green gradient so it partly blends in with the background. In my opinion you should change it so that they're more visible at all times.

I tried out the multiplayer, and it just seems as if it's only a higher difficulty instead of an actual multiplayer. Generally when you think of a Multiplayer game you think going against each other too see who can get the highest score or last the longest, but on here it just adds another player and makes it slightly harder because then you have double the chance of losing. I believe you should either take it out completely or make it so that you're going against each other.

As I mentioned in my "Pros", I really like the "Dodge" logo, but if you didn't make it I don't think you should use it. It doesn't look good on the background due to lack of transparency. The buttons in the menu also look a bit stretched out and they're very low quality. On the subject of graphics, I know for a fact you didn't make the character you play as. I've seen it many many times before. I'm not saying you stole this flash or anything, but in my opinion it would be better if you did make your own graphics as it usually actually looks better.

[astroid beta test]

Review.

Pros:
It's programmed well, for the most part at least, and it can be quite difficult. The more difficult the gets, the more fun it gets. It's not really a boring game, although it has things that it could defiantly improve upon.

Cons:
The space ship becomes nearly impossible to completely stop once you've moved even just a little. It's way too quiet and boring and everything is in what I believe is Spanish. The background doesn't move at all and it seems like it should, and it's very colorless.

It was really annoying that after you were hit by an asteroid you had to wait several seconds until you can fire once again. Due to the fact that after once you hit an arrow key you start sliding and it's really hard to come to a complete stop, a lot of the times when I could fire once again I was about to crash into an asteroid.

How too improve:
I recommend you translate everything into English as Newgrounds is an English website and you used English in the description, if you're going to make the game in another language other than English, why don't you use said language in the description? Although I won't count off for this, I personally recommend that you do it.

You should probably decrease the time it takes to be able to fire once again after hitting an asteroid, because as I mentioned before, a lot of the times when I recovered from this I was crashing into another asteroid and it was a very major annoyance.

I think it would look better if you made the asteroids solid instead of transparent as it's a bit unrealistic that you can see through them. You could add upbeat music and perhaps sound effects, because that would make it a lot less boring and quiet.

In my opinion, you should also make the background move. There's a tutorial here on Newgrounds that teaches you how to make a simple moving space background, you can PM if you want the link to it.

Score:
Graphics: -2
Sound: -3
Programming: +3
Fun: +2

dargonesti responds:

thanks for your review, i wasn't supposed to work on this game for 1-2 days since i'm late at school buut... ^^'...

anyway, i've already changed a lot of thigs to my game, even if it still need a lot of work before it'll really be a good game :S...
at least now it's less laggy&buggy :D

I'll repost after i've add the sound and some menu to it...
until then have a good time!

[The Bastard Game]

Enjoyable, and annoying.

Pros:
It's a fun and unique approach on the normal and overdone maze games. It doesn't look like it would be very challenging at first, in fact, it looked like the easiest maze game ever, but I was deceived. ;) My favourite part is the even more challenging cursorless option.

Cons:
It's a little lacking in the graphic department though, and it's quite bland and boring. It lacks any colours once so ever. I really didn't like how when you clicked, you lost all of your points. I understood the shakey cursor, losing all of your points when you right clicked, but that seems like a little much. I assume their is some reasoning behind it though, perhaps too make it even harder? Another thing is, although it may just be the fact that the cursor is suppose to deceive you, as mentioned in the description, it seems like my cursor jumped towards wall sometimes while playing.

Fun: +5
Uniqueness: +5
Graphics: -2
Annoyances: -2

Kwing responds:

Lol, I can explain the cons.

I made this game then realized there were no colors. Then, looking again, I realized making this game in color would ruin the art style I was going for. I could tweak the graphics, but I won't put color in it.

Next, there's a very easy cheat for maze games which involves clicking and dragging the cursor to the destination point. Right-clicking isn't the only way to cheat.

And whenever you run into a wall, the cursor resets back to the space where your cursor really is. This will make it look as if the cursor is ramming into a wall, when really the cursor is just going to the place where your cursor really is. Otherwise, the cursor would go off more and more until you simply had to refresh the page. The difficulty curve is meant to apply for each string of points, not each gaming session... So yeah.

I'm glad you liked the idea, though!

[Mr Pointer 1.1]

Mr.Pointer

The Graphics and sound effects were nice, and it's good that unlike most flash like this, you made it were you lose when you right click.

But it's perhaps.. a little too hard? There's barely any space between all of the cars and the cars are going extremely fast. You should probably slow down the cars and put more space between them.

danken91 responds:

thanks :)
I'll fix it...