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[Soul Calibur 2 Game Pack]

Back to the drawing board.

It's a good idea, but I'm thinking the execution comes up short because you're not too experienced with Actionscript yet. A one-on-one fighting game is complex to build, even without a computer-controlled opponent.

The animation is far too limited. Characters need to move even while they're just standing idly, let alone when they jump, walk, fight, and get hurt! The fighting system needs tons of work. Lifebars would be a far better idea than a point system, and instead of a 'hitting' animation playing while you hold down a key, the character should just punch when you hit the key and play through the animation once.

There's just so much to make an effective Flash fighting game. Maybe try and look up some other fighting games on NG to get ideas.

helllfire responds:

I know, infact, thats almost all the actionscript i know really, its hard, Jesus im only 13 dammit! If you think sucks can you help me make it better?

[Alloy: Arena]

Damn, addictive. Damn addictive!

I love the varied enemies and weapons. The scrolling screen felt a little slow so that enemies would often be off screen while I shot them, and the jumping felt unnecessarily high and slow, but maybe that's different or necessary in the full version. Awesome game.

[Egg Attack 2 Shooter Game]

Pretty fun.

Simple concept, insane clickfest. I might've liked it even better with keyboard controls, but I guess that would've destroyed the easy movement.

[mouse maze]

Reminds me of those electro games

where you have to move a ring on a stick around a curved wire without the ring touching the wire. Those games are horribly frustrating, and while this one is pretty easy, I'd suggest finding a different game concept to develop.

[AppleCatch 2.0]

Pretty fun game.

I checked out your first version of the game, and it seems like you listened well to the reviewers. The speed pill with boost meter was a good idea.

Maybe in a sequel you could make the game a bit more challenging. I read in a good suggestion in someone else's review about throwing in not just regular apples but also 'golden' and 'rotten' apples that would give you bonuses or detract from your score. Maybe other bonuses, like something for a little extra time (a rare bonus), or maybe some enemies that would bother you somehow... like a bird that drops something you have to avoid, or you'll lose lots of points, or something.

The only thing that bothered me here was that the character sticks out his tray while he's walking to the side, but holds it in front of him when he stands still. Maybe it would be best if, when he stands still, he keeps his tray in the direction he just walked (and turns around if he walks the other way).

teh-jengerer responds:

Thanx for the idea. I'll do that.

[FlashTrek: Romulan Wars]

Whoa.

Quite a learning curve with all the controls, but this looks to be a pretty complex and cool game. I'll have to practice some more, but from what I can tell so far, excellent job.

vex-xiang responds:

Thank you. Everytime you transport to your starbase (press "END" to use the transporter) your game will be saved so you can return to it later.

[Frame by Frame Tutorial]

Is this useful?

The tutorial is ridiculously short, and I think that says a lot about the point of a tutorial on frame-by-frame animation. Yes, if done right it's better looking than tweening, but to start animating frame-by-frame, people don't need to know anything more about frame-by-frame animation except that it exists. Because, you know, the name pretty much explains what it is.

Your tutorials looks nice, but it's really pointless. Sorry.

[Tutorial: Masking]

Ohhh.... textaloud...

I honestly do think that textaloud can be funny when applied in creative ways, as some Clocks and Locks have done. But in a serious tutorial, it's a handicap. You did of course use short text lines to accompany the pictures (in an excellent step-by-step process, just needs a 'back' button), but I'd just as soon get rid of the voice and maybe add a little more clarifying text - it would save space, and I'd rather hear a pube muppit's monologue about shitting in Eminem's mouth than get Flash pointers from a textaloud character.

Another problem - I didn't see any explanation at the start on what masking, what it can be used for and why it should be used. I love masking, I didn't find out how to do it until I'd been working for Flash for quite a while and it opened worlds for me - but I don't think a Flash novice is going to know why he should be following this tutorial in the first place.

Lastly, I think it perhaps would've been better to first show the application of masking with basic shapes, and only then suggest how it could be used to make a Lock's lock appear like an eye. It probably alienates non-Locks the way it is now. And of course, you don't have to publish a movie to see its masks in action - you can just lock (hah) the mask and masked layers.

While I'm glad to finally see a tutorial on something not explained in the standard Flash tutorials and that actually looks helpful, I think the points I described will make it mostly miss its target.

ZoloftClock responds:

Wow, thanks for this amazing and in-depth review, I will make sure to keep your points in mind. You make a lot of excellent suggestions. Everybody mark this guys review as helpful, he's GOD I tell you.

[Seinfeld Invaders]

Hmmmyeah... could use a little more.

It's been a while since I played Space Invaders, but this seems too easy. OK, normally people on NG are always whining that games are too difficult, but I think this ought to be faster, the barriers smaller, and the enemy shots more frequent.

The simplified character portraits weren't bad, but I think it would've been funnier with just cut-out photos. And as distracting as Jerry might find tinsel, I found the madly looping sound effect more distracting. Especially when the 'nazi soup' appears the sound file seems to start repeating wildly.

Not bad, but not great either. Excellent filesize though, of course.

babycrusher responds:

Hey Fatsatan. :( It's Cap'n Crunch from I-Mockery and everyone was wondering where you were for like a year. I am kind of new at actionscript, so some stuff I can't fix. As you progress, the game gets way faster. It just starts up slow, try getting past a few more levels to find it challenging. Instead of the nazi soup cup spaceship thing comes, instead of the original sound, I made it that. I thought it would but funny but I found out that most people find it annoying. I can try and see what I can do about this. I am planning to get this deleted and get all of the Seinfeld-esqe games I've been working on into one pack. I think it should have a filesize under 200K and about 5 games, so people can look forward to that. I can fix all of the problems that you and other people suggested in it. Thanks for taking time out to review my game.

[Punish Saddam Hussein]

Solid graphics, worn out topic

The drawings, animations and effects are all done very nicely. It's just too bad that the subject of the Flash is so played out.