Score: 7

"Good pong"

submission: Tron Pong

date: March 4, 2007

I'm pretty sick of Pong games on Newgrounds, but this one did come across as better made than most. Liked the graphics, had a nice feel to it. I still knock some credit off for unoriginality though, a few more extra features to give it a uniqueness would help a lot.

A more serious problem with this is how there's no reset delay when the ball slips past. I'd often lose a point when my paddle was at the side of the screen, then lose another 1 or 2 because I couldn't get back to the middle fast enough. If the ball just flashed for a couple of seconds before moving off, that would be good.

Kinda liked it, 7/10.

Score: 7

"Looks good, plays mediocre"

submission: Doodle Man The Game

date: March 3, 2007

Thought it'd be great when I first opened it, great graphics you've got there. Using a tablet I presume? I really gotta get one of them, this looks much better than most games at Newgrounds.

The game was pretty basic, but quite fun. My main problem with it was how the character would zap back to the start as soon as he got hit. The collision detection wasn't perfect, so it became very annoying after a while. A HP bar would work much better I think. Or at least have some kind of effect when he dies, not just a position reset.

If you make a sequel to this, I think you should add something a bit more original to it too. This walk and jump style platformer has been done to death, people will like the game much more of it offers something new.

I thought it was a pretty good effort though, I'm guessing you're pretty new to making games, if so this is a promising start.

Score: 7

"Real interesting"

submission: Coincidence or pure lie?

date: February 28, 2007

This got blammed first time round? No way! I told loads of people about the last one, it was cool. Hope this one makes it, gave you 5 to help.

Something you could add: if you type 'bush hid the facts' in a notepad file in windows, save it, then reopen the file, it screws up. Weird.

Maybe this would score better if you made it like a quiz (the player had to guess if each fact is coincidence or lie).

Good luck ; )

Score: 7

"Nicely done"

submission: My Love...

date: November 10, 2006

Pretty good, great graphics and style. Sound is a 10, cause it's the beatles!

For it's purpose it's a great Flash, nice that you went to the effort (good idea too, might try something like this myself some day!). For a Newgrounds movie it probably doesn't have enough in it to score well, I hope it passes though.

Nice work, 7/10.

Score: 10

"Really good beat em up"

submission: Amoeba Amoeba

date: October 18, 2006

Beat em ups are hard games to make in Flash, you did a nice job of it! The thing that impressed me most was the perfect difficulty level, most of my matches were so close they went into a round 3. I guess it's your good AI to thank for that.

Graphically I thought it was great, both the characters the and detailed backgrounds. It was funny too, some very original characters and lots of well conceived attacks.

Really good game, hope to see a sequel with more characters. 10/10

Score: 8

"Funny"

submission: Excuse Machine v1.0

date: October 15, 2006

This is really funny, I could play for ages.

Not sure if it'll score well cause the graphics and coding are both pretty basic. But the concept is great, and you chose good words - I didn't get a single excuse that didnt make me at least smile.

Nice one, 8/10

Score: 6

"Cool idea, but..."

submission: Ginger Ball Shooter

date: September 6, 2006

I like the idea, it's so sick that it could have worked. But I think it needs to be more violent, the cocks n balls really need to splat when they're shot. The sound effects could be much better too.

The game itself isn't varied enough. Point n shoots are so unoiriginal that they need something special to stand out, the concept here helped, but it still needs something more.

I wouldn't minds seeing a version 2, I reckon you could pull this off. Keep at it.

Score: 6

"Nice idea, but some major problems."

submission: Newgrounds Hold'em

date: September 6, 2006

At first I thought this would be a Texas Hold Em sim, and as I haven't seen a decent one done at NG I thought that would be good. But this is something I've never played before, which is even better.

First off - graphics great, sound great. The NG characters and 'other things' made it more enjoyable to play.

But major problem #1 - the concept doesn't really work. All the backgrounds could be won by placing an all-in bet on the highest odd hand (post-flop) and if it doesnt win just reset and try again. I did this on a 20-1 hand, won on 2-pairs and grabbed the Girls 2 background. In a short while I had them all.

There's a serious bug too. If you lose all your chips and forget to reset at the end of a round, you're buggered. Cause when you click deal you cant reset any more, and when the flop shows with no bets on the deal button cannot be selected. So it's a freeze situation, the game must be refereshed.

The bug can be fixed no problem (I suggest re-uploading the fla quickly) , but the first problem would require quite a big rethink. So maybe more testing was needed. Shame because this could have been great. Still, you got a good score and it's deserved, so well done.

Score: 7

"Good tetris remake"

submission: IS_Tetris

date: August 20, 2006

A perfectly good Tetris remake. Crisp clean graphics, smooth gameplay, simple controls. The choice of background and music was a nice touch.

But this loses points for unoriginality. Surprised you couldn't find a decent Tetris on Newgrounds because I've definelty played a few here. Some say that making a good game is 90% ideas and 10% everything else, which wouldn't bode well for this.

As the maker of Gravoor you've got nothing to prove so it's cool if you want to make stuff like this. But I like to see fresh ideas myself.

Score: 8

"Funky"

submission: Mouse fx 2

date: August 12, 2006

Pretty impressive stuff, and fun to play about with. The graphics were great and went perfectly with the music.

Few suggestions:

-Just a basic counter in the bottom to show which effect you're on. I think I counted 40 effects here, it could just say 21/40 or whatever effect you're on.

-Maybe a chocie of background would be good here and add replay value. I mean if you had 25 backgrounds that's 1000 different combinations, which'd keep people busy for ages!

-To save the need for keyboard, maybe clicking the mouse could move to the next effect?

-Colour change seemed to be random, I like that, but maybe there's could also be a a button to instantly change the colour.

Good Flash though, 8/10.