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Graphics
The overall drawing was good, although some frames lacked shading and colour. As graphics incorporates animation, I will give it a good score for graphics, as the animation was very good. Animation went perfectly with the sound, and was synced well.
Great frame by frame animation, and no shitty character animation tweens. Some great morphs.

Style
The shading style was unique, in that it was done with lines varying in density to give the contours. Added points for lack of motion tweening, although there was some shape tweening I think, it could just have been fbf morphing. Unique style that I have never seen anyone else using.

Sound
Though I don't think you can really claim added marks for the sound, as you didn't make it, it was a great track, well synced, good quality and went well with the animation. Great selection, good idea for an animation.

Violence
There wasn't really much violence, but this is a stupid category that doesn't contribute to the overall score of a submission, therefore not important.

Interactivity
Nice preloader, play and replay buttons. All a non interactive movie needs. No errors that I could find.

Humour
Very funny, thanks to the sound. Very humorous song, catchy and pretty random, in a funny way. You captured movement and lyrics in the song which made it that much more funny.
Although admittedly not laugh out loud humour, it was consistently amusing in its own way. Lots of marks for this.
Liked very much the part where the man was screaming at the cat, and then came out of his 'trance' into realisation, "sorry" - funniest part for me.

Overall a fun, well made and entertaining submission, the best I have ever seen by you. Deserves a very high score, and I'm sure it will achieve it. Hopefully an award too, and maybe frontpage :D.

Author's Response:

thanx for the huge review. although you forgot to even mention the bsdie it's still a detailed review of very well done....-ness..

glad you enjoyed the mvoei and thanx yet again for the review.

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Score: 10

"Great Tutorial!"

submission: Start Hack Interactive

date: March 2, 2007

Very in-depth and helpful, it would take a moron to still not understand how to change the text on their start button.

Few graphics other than screenshots, but what there was was good quality and relevant. Not much style either, but it was a nice font.

No sound. Definitely a problem, sound could have made this even better, you could even use the Windows installation music, available in the windows folder.

Violence, none. Thank God, no stupid unnecessary stick men or mascots :).

Interactivity was great, although it would have been good if you had gotten rid of the button cursor...however it would have made the tutorial harder to follow, so indifferent really. Good Actionscript though, great touch adding the text input for the Start button within the tutorial.

Humour, there's nothing more funny than being able to write dirty words in someones start button. I had a jolly good time.

Also, this review was not swayed or influenced in any way by me knowing you, was a very good tutorial.

I hope you submit more of these Windows tutorials and videos, you definitely have a theme going for your account.
Make more, I'm technically retarded but I want to fuck with Windows, please :).

Hey Taco'd.

Author's Response:

Thank you for the very in-depth review, and Flash 8 Pro wouldn't let me import music and I no longer have the .FLA file for it, so this is the last version of this I can put out without either decompiling it, starting over completely. Thanks again for the review!
~Justin (jpoke89)

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Score: 5

"Unoriginal but fun."

submission: Evasive Action

date: January 25, 2007

First of all, I would like to say this sort of game, along with others, has been done to death. Bored of all the dodging games, perhaps add different obstacles, like less harmful and more harmful. Although I appreciate the code would be more complicated.

Besides that, it was a fun game, I have no idea why, but I played for a while.

The graphics in this game could have been better, a more imaginative background and more ship sprites would have helped this. The animation on the collision I believe is a timeline effect. In future flash's you should avoid those, they're common and increase filesize. You could do better.

Sound I cannot comment on - speakers are currently not working. I put a five for a guess.

Actionscript was good, and I didn't encouter any errors. More original coding would've gotten you better score here. For all I know you could have just got this from a C&P tutorial.

Overall:
Nice game, and you obviously posses animation skill, but try to be more imaginative in future projects.

Thanks.

September 1, 2007

Author's Response:

It's been a long time since you posted this, but I'll reply anyway.

Yeah, I'm aware it's been done to death. At the time it was just coding practice.

The death animation wasn't a timeline effect, it was just some clever tweening. Certainly the graphics could've been improved though - my next release is much prettier.

The song was just a cascada song.. I cued the crescendo to fade in/out when you die, which I thought was pretty clever at the time.

Yeah, coding is my strongpoint, not game design. I'm a coding standard nazi, and everything has to be perfect before it'll see the light of day. I certainly didn't copy-paste any of it.

Thankyou very much for such an in-depth review, I hope when I release my next game (which is already finished), you'll find the time to review it as well.

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Score: 8

"Not as good as the last."

submission: New Numa: The Animation

date: November 12, 2006

While this was great - as all you're animation is, it seemed lacking, and not as good as the last one.
The animation wasn't as good as usual, the movement was a bit jerky and the motion tweening got on my nerves, I think you should have done more of the animation frame by frame.
The graphics were great still, the cartoonising of real people, without exaggerated features was great, you have a true talent for it. However I feel there should have been more shading and tone in a lot of the drawings.
The sound was very well recorded and clear, but didn't sound much like Gary Brolsma, and the song was great, but that wasn't your doing.
The movie was very similar to the actual New numa video, apart from the begining - which no offence, but wasn't very humorous in my opinion.

Like the actual New numa video, I don't imagine this will take off like the first, but is still a great animation.

Author's Response:

Thanks for your feedback. I'm really surprised that several people have commented on the animation quality and using tweens. I seriously didn't use ANY tweens in the animation apart from the hand picking up the phone, and the arm lifting the "Gray Poop On". That's all! It's all just sitll drawings that move around, and if you compare, this one has super nice animation compared to my American Idle animation. That really didn't have any animation in it at all, just a couple still poses from the characters. The most interesting thing about that one, I think, was the moving backgrounds, which is all tweens. You'll notice I have never done fbf animation, ever! (rotoscoping doesn't count) Also, compare the art from American Idle to this one, it's seriously a thousand times cleaner and nicer. I think it's just the boring subject matter of this one that seems to drain the excitement out of it. The stage of American Idol is certainly a lot more fun that a guy's bedroom! Oh and about hte begining, it wasn't really supposed to be funny, it was just setting up the video, and the reason I had the guy on the phone say what he did, was that that was EXACTLY some of the things Gary's manager told me on the phone about the new video before they made it! Really, it was crazy! Hope that clears some stuff up for you. :)