Zir0's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Easter Eggs Tycoon]

Nice Game

Hey.

Interesting concept of gameplay here. (-:

Gameplay
- The color-matching, in my opinion, is the selling point. As a programmer myself, all my "training" of hue, RBG, and what not is finally being tested. :-P

- Can you save your progress in this game?

Audio
- You implemented a 2D sound system! You actually used panning and volume controls! Awesome! :-D
- The quality of the sounds available is good.

Graphics
- Done quite nicely, and the animation was very smooth.

Polish/Other
- It still seems a bit limited in the selection of sounds available. The game's a little too quiet. Perhaps add some more sounds, maybe some ambient background sounds, and perhaps the machinery could make more sounds. When more clients appear, maybe there's a little bell they can ring, if they're not visible when they appear (for example, if you're tending to your hen). Perhaps the clients could make subtle sounds, depending on their moods.

- Perhaps you could include some scoring information as to how scoring is made, due to accuracy of the color-matching? (-: As this is not required, some details fanatics (like me) could check that out.

Overall, very nice game.

As you were, soldier.

* salutes *
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- Ziro out.

D-mah responds:

I was in a hurry to release it before Easter, so it didn't come out as neat as I would like it to be. If I decide to make a new version, I'll take your suggestions into the account. Thanks.

PS: adding the scoring info into the author's comment.

[newgrounds FAQ/help]

Thanks for the Info

Hey.

While most of this can easily be researched on NG, I do have a question about voting power: would you happen to know where I could find the actual formula? I know it uses your experience, then you get additional % based of your B/P, but what is the exact formula? Probably not even available to us.

Thanks for making this. Nice tune, by the way. ;-)

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- Ziro out.

cantstophammertime responds:

voting power 5/ BP rank +30%

results a formula:

5:100x30=1,5-> 1,5+5= 6.5 voting power

hope this could help

[Guitar Flash MindFlow]

Nice Game

Hey.

Nice game. presented fairly well.

The only issue I encountered was an AcrionScript run-time error.

I encountered this error just after selecting the difficulty. The message was:

Error #2044: Unhandled securityError:. text=Error #2048: Security sandbox violation: http://uploads.ungrounded.net/490000/
490463_guitar_flash.swf cannot load data from http://www.gamesx.com.br/jogos/guitar _flash_underground/pontos.asp?cod=0.
at pontos/enviaDados()
at pontos()
at jogo/tcVerif()

Using Flash Player 10 debug version (to catch error messages).

Other than that, the game is good. Test of timing!

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- Ziro out.

[Pet Bird]

Interesting Concept

Hey.

Interesting concept.

However, I felt like I was wrestling with his sleep. It falls asleep too fast. Darn lazy bird. :-D

Having a solid understanding of AI is key in simulation such as this.

Would like to see this developed more.

Good skill, soldier.

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- Ziro out.

[Atomic Rush]

Some suggestions

Hey.

There is a high saturation of Flash games like this one, and it doesn't stand out.

- With the exception of the Health power-up, they've been done to death. Something that still has some some life to it is a hunter power-up, than can track enemies. Perhaps make a "bomb" power-up. It's fire rate isn't as high, but it explodes, killing all enemies within its area.

- The play area is too small, as there's not much room to maneuver. Slightly smaller objects would have been better.

- The music is too loud. Either allow players to adjust its volume, OR mute only the music.

- Make the audio more dynamic. Pan the sounds left or right, and/or adjust their volume, depending on their distance to the player.

- Make the power-ups move around or at least make them appear in random spots instead of the center each time.

- Create a sound effect when power-ups are collected.

- In the instructions, "multiplier" is misspelled.

- The point of origin for the player's projectiles is a bit off.

Just some suggestions.

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- Ziro out.

[Hit That Poring!]

Booooooooring.

Hey.

- All I did was go back and forth, simply holding the spacebar down the entire time. Not much to it. Needs something that actually requires some skill. Make it into a full-fledged platform 8-directional scrolling game where you can get power-ups, and go around bashing various different things.

- Needs more content.

- Add sound effects.

- You bash the, then more of them appear than you bashed, and eventually, it's overrun with them.

- The best thing about this game was its music quality, although the music didn't fit the game.

- Please go back to the drawing board and try again.

Good skill in the future.

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-Ziro out.

badtrip712 responds:

yep totally agree with you! I'll put my new artist to work. And we'll be working on a new game...

[Hell yeah, bikes. YEAH!]

Needs Much Improvement

Hey.

- The background is distracting and makes it difficult to see things.

- Is there scoring in the game?

- Make the crosshairs stand out more. They are difficult to see, no matter which set they are changed to.

- Make a mare pratical challenge. The targets that are "teleporting" all over the place are annoying, then the screen just gets overrun with them, which brings me to the next point:

- The instant and sudden transition to the Game Over screen. Make a special effect transition. Not very user-friendly.

- The instructions were a little hard to read. Make them stand out more.

- Include more sound effects. And if you do (you really _should_), include at least two similar sounds for some of the events, because I can already tell you that based on what I've seen here, you'd put the same annoying, monotonous sound effect in.

- Please put in some (more) effort, because this looks like it was thrown together in a very short period of time.

Good skill in the future.

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- Ziro out.

shadow-ghost responds:

I really appreciate the feedback, but I think the part you were missing was that it wasn't supposed to be taken seriously. I guess I didn't make that obvious enough, though ;)

Anyway, have fun, and good luck with... whatever you need luck with.

-SG

[TANKMEN Creator]

Glitch Viewing the Tankman

Hey.

I can't see the Tankman.

After I input my name, he appears for just an instance, then disappears.

However, when I click the "Random" button, then he appears, and all seems ok, but unless this is by design, that issue should be corrected.

Also, maybe give several songs to listen to while we're customizing. (-:

Other than those, it's ok.

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-Ziro out.

C01 responds:

Well, you're supposed to choose them all in order...Not changing your class will make it so the character doesn't show up..Just how I coded it. But I will fix that anyways in the next version of this. Thanks for the constructive criticism.

[Orbital Decay]

Nice Game

Hey.

Interesting concept of gameplay. Noting a few things now:

- Graphics detail is quite good, although they are to small. They fonts are a bit too small to read.

- It's difficult to read and play at the same time. (-:

- The shot of the main gun should move faster, because it's quite difficult to aim at things. Even firing "leading" shots is difficult, because the projectiles are too slow.

- I would change centering to the "S" key. Puts it right in between the "A" and "D" keys.

- How does repairing work? When I want to repair on demand, seems I can only do a large repair, then I only get little repairs after that (and even those aren't always available). Then, I get nailed. :-P

- Audio: Overall, pretty good. I'd add maybe two or three different sounds for some of these events, especially firing, because it gets monotonous and annoying very quickly.

Otherwise, neat game.

* salutes *
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-Ziro out.

Karg responds:

if a turret doesnt have the "repair" available, then it's either undamaged or there aren't enough resources to repair it :)

indeed, it's a bit offhand to read the story. on easy mode, the story lines come at a slower rate and are easier to read. besides, the story is synced with the (combat) events and some guys complained that the game is too slow for them...i guess the balance is hard to reach :)