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[ASCII Animation]

Good

It was pretty good. Interesting style of animation. I've seen text used for animations before, but nothing like that. I'd like to see something longer, and maybe if you used the letters as pixels and changed them, rather than having layered text... idk. Experiment. It was pretty good though, nice work overall.

KyleDaFox responds:

Thanks for the comments, your reviews and comments make me feel all happy inside.

[Train Game Simulation 2]

It can only improve

You said: Fact 1: If you think I'm a crappy artist, check out my previous submissions. They were 2nd place to review crew and underdog (dang!).

Yeah after looking at that I do think your a crappy artist, and I'm sorry my friend but that's only why I gave you a 2. The train track wasn't too bad, but that thing gliding around the track was nothing like a train. There were also no carriages or background. You said look at your other submissions, well to be honest, I'm not giving this a better rating on graphics because of your other submissions, my review is bases soley on this.

You said: Fact 2: I have a GOLD whistle. If you write some crap review, I'll have it removed before you can vote on this movie.

If people give you a crap review, get over it. There are a load of people who want to put your work down, but that doesn't mean you should get rid of the review. The reviews are there for people to show their thoughts on the submission whether they liked it or not, so what's the point of removing any? It's unfair on the person that wrote it.

The game idea looked interesting, answering questions to change the course of the train, it seemed like a good idea. The gameplay was okay, but I think you should make it more obvious that there is a time limit for you to choose an answer. The graphics can be improved alot, and I think they need to be, but this isn't the final version so it's okay they're not perfect, but they're really quite far from being stunning at the moment.

I look forward to seeing the modified/final version in the portal in January if you release it then. This is the start of what could be a good game, and I'm sure it will only improve, but please next time don't try to put people off saying what they wan't to about your submission. Criticism is important, you won't improve if you don't get any.

This flash is a good start, I don't know if it'll get past judgement, but it doesn't need to. I hope this helped, a few things need improving and then it's all gravy! :)

Good luck

Sam

highwatermark responds:

Well thanks!

I don't want people to give me better scores when they look at my previous submissions; I just don't want them to say stuff like "go kill yourself" or "never do flash again".

I'm getting a LOT of good criticism now (not crappy ones). These are GOOD. the ones I don't want are like "BLAM" or "Shite" and stuff like that. This is a good review.

And yes, i'll do that.

Hey, if you have the time to write such a long review, maybe you can help me:

I'm doing this at 80 FPS already, but the counting's always slower than it should be (that's at 60frames = 1 second). Any recommendations? Please PM me if you can think of something (I can make the timing shorter, but won't that affect some fast-computer people in a negative way?)

I look forward to a PM.

[Rabbit and Birdy]

Nice

That was pretty cool. Decent FBF animation and the sound fit perfect. Good flash.

TommyVF responds:

Thank you! Merry X-mas! :D Sorry for the sound-problem at the and at the film... :s

[XperimentalXperimentation]

Nice

Thats one of the best compilations I've seen on NewGrounds. It's really good. Tis a shame that you didn't finish all of them, some of them look like they'd have been pretty good flashes. Nice one anyway.

:)

pillowbasher responds:

Thanks. There's actually more that I haven't finished, but I wasn't too sure if I was completely done with them, so maybe I'll work on those

[Ohmygodimonfire!]

What else is there to say, other than

LOL!

XxwaSSupxX responds:

I think ill take that as a compliment :D

[Toxic Sunshine]

w00ts

i like how you can drag the sun around

sunshine-fan responds:

ty

thank you

[Skate For Plebs]

hi mum...

LOL OMFG TEH PLEBS! Cool animation. Only traced video though? Still looks good anyhow.

Basking-Shark responds:

k

[Zhen vs. Mr.Chow]

3 days?!

it took you 3 days to come out with that?!

god help you, sir.

Sumomu responds:

DID I SAY 72 HOURS!? HUH, DID I!?
It took me three days, but i did'nt work on it all day!

[cool_penguin_0 oldskool]

WOAH!!....

WOAH!! How pathetic is that? Thats probably the worst collection of animations I have ever seen.. and thats being nice. Sorry dude but its just totally lame.

Graphics: Totally suck.
Style: I like the idea of having all your animations in one big group kinda thing, but it's just lame how its set out.
Sound: The sound is crap, some of the songs dont stop when you return to the menu and the "sound effects" don't work.
Violence: There is some stupid pathetic violence, so it does deserve a 2, but the blood is crap and so are the weapons.
Interactivity: kinda mantioned that in Style.
Humor: 10/10, I wasn't laughing because it was funny, I was laughing because it's so lame. Flash n00b.

Well, that was the slagging off, now for the improvements bit:
You could really do with working on your art and spending more time on one decent animation than 10+ (or whatever) than lots of crap short ones.

cool-penguin-0 responds:

Old skool does suggest it's a lot of older stuff.

:S