Score: 6

"An okay spriting tutorial."

submission: Sprite Tutorial V 2.0

date: August 10, 2007

Tutorials are nice to help beginners, but I must tell you that you are breaking apart your sprites incorrectly. By breaking them apart with Ctrl+B, you leave the background attached with the rest of the sprites, requiring extra work to cut the background out. Instead, go into Modify and select Trace Bitmap. Set the Color Threshold to "0", the Colors per Pixel to "1", in the first drop down menu select "Pixels" and in the second select "many Corners". This allows you to just select the background itself and delete without having to specifically cut out each individual piece.

Now, aside from that, it was a good tutorial, though I suggest adding additional music so that you have many options to choose from as well. :D

-Josh

Score: 9

"It's mothafuckin' pants for the win!!"

submission: Pants! - Episode 1

date: July 1, 2007

So I knew pants were bad-ass, but I've never seen scribbles fight over them!

Graphics - Scribbles that... glided. :D

Style - See above. But scribbles that annihilate each other for MY entertainment? That's awesome. :D

Sound - Interesting choices, and they all came in clear and perfect. :D

Violence - More Vitamin-V than you can shake a stick at.

Interactivity - The buttons were interesting as well. :D ( Unless it's a game, I never rate this very high. :/ )

Humor - C'mon! It's fuckin' pants, man! Who doesn't love pants?! :D

Overall - If you don't make more, I'll murder YOU for more pants. xD

~Joshy676

Score: 8

"Dude, you've got an animating gift."

submission: A NuklearPowered Rhapsody

date: March 22, 2007

Especially considering this is your first Flash ever, I'm going to have to assume that you're already an animator/artist of some sort and decided to jump right into Flash animation. A very wise decision, if true.

Graphics: I loved the custom/edit FF sprites. Sprites are far from original, but they looked good and did the animation justice. A 7/10.

Style: I loved it. There's no way that you're not some kind of animator. All the movements were fluid and you have your own unique way of doing effects. Very useful. A 10/10.

Sound: I love Queen. I just wish it was a little louder. A 9/10.

Violence: None. A 0/10.

Interactivity: Not much, but it's not a game. I usually give this a score based on the number of clickables and their usefulness. A 2/10.

Humor: A Serious animation. A 0/10.

Overall: I highly enjoyed this piece. A great way to calm down after getting into an angry rage with a certain crew on Newgrounds ripping off a certain team of seasoned Flash artists. An 8/10.

All my fives are belong to you.

~Joshy676

Score: 0

"A mockery at best."

submission: Decline of Video Gaming 4

date: March 21, 2007

Keep in mind, I've never been a fan of NG "clubs", but this is just plain pathetic.

Graphics: You have exactly 1 graphic, and it's not even yours. It has nothing to do with what you're obviously trying to parody. A 0/10.

Style: Or should I say lack thereof? I haven't a clue what in the world you "Clocks" made this for, nor do I know why it took 5 of you to make a preloader with a DS background. Another 0/10.

Sound: What sound? 0/10.

Violence: I feel violated just watching this. That's violence upon me. A 2/10.

Interactivity: Wow, the play button actually works, but it goes nowhere. Ineffective, but it was there. A 1/10.

Humor: Hahaha. Real funny. 0/10.

Overall: This preloader is crap. The idea behind it is crap. The fact that it passed through the Portal shows that people vote blindly without checking the author's name is appalling. I think there is something to be said about that. And it really took FIVE PEOPLE to make this?

It is impossible to parody someone's work with a black screen. Congratulations. You suck. If this movie [read here on out: utter filth] was a game, it wouldn't be worth watching the trailer for it, let alone renting it. This movie is a waste of what looks like the 5 minutes it took to make and the 5 minutes it took me to write and carefully word this review. A 0/10 and a 0/5.

P.S.: Go ahead and waste your "author's response" on this review. Your response will prove my point.

~Joshy676

Score: 9

"Nice."

submission: Sunday Comics & Toons 004

date: September 25, 2006

Finally something with my works makes the front page. Thanks for using my music.

Score: 7

"Thanks for using my music!"

submission: SSBM Collab

date: July 20, 2006

I don't have too much to say about this flash, but let me start saying something anyway:

Graphics: It's almost as good as sprites get. Could be better, as others have said. Experiment with different things like framerate and tween types and I'll bet you could make something that blows this out of the water.

Style: Better than most collabs out there. Seriously. Outside of The Matrix Owns You, TSAH, and a few classics, there's nothing really great on NG collab-wise. Or maybe it's because the Star Syndicate is high on the idea of crappy collabs about buttsex. I don't care.

Sound: You used my music! Only three other people have done it, and you're the only one who used it so far not in a game and using the whole thing. If there's any other music you guys need from me, take it.

Violence: Lots of it. 'Nuff said.

Interactivity: There's a low-quality DVD-style menu and a play button. At least I get to click something.

Humor: It wasn't really funny, but most things with lots of action aren't really funny anyway.

Thanks for reading my review, and there's some pie in it for you if you guys continue to improve.

OMFG PIE!

Score: 7

"New or not, I find this funny."

submission: Misplaced Turnabout

date: May 16, 2006

And I like that you used my music. Thank you so much for caring enough to download and use my stuff. Please, make more and help yourself to my shares of music. Just don't touch my character themes. Those are mine from now on.

Score: 8

"C'mon now..."

submission: FFVII: 66 Hit Combo

date: March 14, 2006

That's an unfair estimate of Cloud. It takes 66 hits from Sephiroth to just KNOCK OUT Cloud, but it only takes 16 hits (Omnislash) for Cloud to frigg'n kill Sephi!

Nice work though.

Score: 8

"Thank you for the use of my music in your game"

submission: Cursor Challenge!

date: February 19, 2006

Unfortunately, I haven't played through it enough to hear it. Still, thanks for using it.

Score: 9

"Very cool."

submission: C&K Excellent Adventure

date: December 15, 2005

I really liked the music and the animation of the flash. I still can't believe two kids would go to all that trouble for a gumball, though. Still, it probably wouldn't have been so funny if the kid just had a quarter!

Overall, I give it a 5/5. Have some pie!

OMFG PIE!