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[NDC: 2010]

ok I guess

Honestly I have seen better art in my students work they do in their sketches for art class at the end of each Friday. most of these are nice but few follow anything close to traditional figure drawing...yes even he heroes..those use heroic proportions, not realistic ones.

Aside from that critical thing. These are best suited for what they are for anyway, video games and comics and the like. So no major motion films for them. But I guess as a teacher, I kind of get tired of seeing stuff like this . The novelty wears off after a couple years of it.

I'm not understanding the need for such background fake papers. They were all done in flash or whatever program each prefers with those paper backgrounds right. So I don't see a point. I'd say its a little more impressive if entirely done on those papers freehand, then scanned over. Since paper drawing is a much different experience and skill-set than tablet or mouse drawing.

So overall I would guess some points for the efforts done to get tis ready, but this is roughly same or less than the quality my students put out in a 2 hour session every Friday afternoon for sketching time.

So grading as I do for my class, 10 being A and 1 being fail-redo, I give a 4/10
and over all flash a 2/5
Im sure you'll do better next friday :)

JKAmovies responds:

Not to sound like a douche, but I don't really believe you being a teacher (what kind of teacher goes on NG?). Sorry if I am wrong though.

As for the criticism, I'd like to see those 'students' of yours, because they must have some pretty good art abilities if that is true. Seriously though, the point of this is sketch drawings, and doing this on paper (even though being a very good idea) it would be a great distrait on many artists and doing that is a struggle for those who don't have such facility's to do so. This is a media based collab anyway, and trust me... Drawing media-based is just as hard (or even harder) as doing on paper. it involves knowing the program and utilize what it offers.

I guess this is solely for artists. This is something that artists would understand more than others.

Thanks for the criticism none the less, it is a help, though most of what you pointed out I do not agree with (I'm taking a guess that you're an English teacher if any). thanks ~JKA ;3

[Twisty Little Passages]

VERY Awesome!

Loooving this game man.

Great job!

5/5/ 10/10

[BAD Big Armed Dangerous]

Robot! Go!

Awesome game man! Simple and you can just jump into the game without a lot of wordy anything. super simple controls. The only thing I do is ADD more awesome to it!

Like upgradable weapons, various gadgets to help protect and move faster/slower traps..etc. you get the idea...music choices might be good but I i know how limited music is for flash. best to focus on features than more music. After all, if I font like the music I can always mute then turn my own on. so that's not a big deal.

So yeah pump up the weapons choices and you are gold!

Full points!

Keep up the great work!

[A Blobwork Orange]

huh?

There's no humor here. nothing to relate to. Barely understandable in whats going on. some random blob hits a window and is sucked through into a tube. uh OK. I suspect many wont see the humor. Doesn't seem to fit the clockwork orange story at all. or at lest its not animated to be that way...also animation means actual animation, motion..there so little of that it feels like a sideshow or power point presentation instead

its not that someone doesn't have humor. something needs to be actually funny to be humorous. if only you and your friends get it and find it funny, then its not comedy, its only an inside joke. so nobody else will get it.

No clue what is with the too hard for you thing..you cant do anything else anyway.
seems to be no point to this. also no sound other than the music

can you enlighten everyone what it is for? and WHY its funny?

MBOT:
I'm not trying to be rude or mean or sarcastic,. I genuinely want to know why this is considered funny by the maker of this. Then perhaps I can appreciate the humor more

[Nephi's Adventure 2]

AWESOME!

im not religious, but since all religious stories are great fiction, I found this very awesome to play. I also loved the many jokes and other funny things in it. Great work and I cant wait to play the next one. Seems to be promising of some steamy time eh? Wink, nudge.Say no more? heh :)

full points!
5/5 10/10

BoMToons responds:

We shall see! Probably very G-rated steaminess though...

[Orchestrated Death II]

entertaining

certainly has potential...but I cant even get past the first one...hint isn't working at all..no hint is given

810 until next review..maybe it will work better.

OzMafioso responds:

Hmmm, I haven't had any trouble with it, it doesn't actually say anything, it will just light up a number or series of numbers to give you an idea of what to do :) Thanks for playing!

[Blockhead: The Game]

fun fun fun!

Awesome game even if I never got past level 1

He was just too unmanagable. oh wel, I have much fun anyway :D

full crazy points and a gazillion tongs for this game
5/5 10/10

[Conversation]

unfinished

Looks very unfinished, unpolished. Line work needs work. Shading may help there. Actual animation would be good since this is supposed to be a "flash movie" usually means some action (movements, animation)

If you wanted to make storybook, then that's different and should go possibly to the game or experimental category.
Either way its not done yet. and the girl side made no sense. Perhaps some good voice actors might help. Maybe collaborate with some talent here. You direct until your skills are up to the task. Just a few thoughts.

[Zwarte Piet]

Cute game

Well made. Seems best for kids to play. I would have aded more variation in the levels, possibly a double jump and other special abilites from power-ups. mayb e some nice background music too. So basically jsut a little extra stff to make it sparkle. Good work!

(also it was in English for me. no clue what that guy is complaining about. It very simple to understand what you need to do, so even if it was showing as dutch for me, I could still play it. That guy just needs to suck it up and enjoy life)

[Zombie Creator dot com]

Happily surprised

Awesome work there man. Yes, it could use more categories, but with a little imagination, once can turn a couple of blackened eyes on their sides to create a nose hole.

Just get creative guys. There's much you can actually do with so few pieces.

Great job! fill points. CIAO

thistler responds:

cheers :) Glad you liked it! I'm going to do my best to fully support this by adding new features every week. Stay tuned!
-thistler