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[Sonic Flash Engine[alpha]]

pretty good!

well done on building this engine so far!
im going to state the obvious things that i feel need altering, not neccesarily bugs
firstly, obviously you need to make it so its either megadrive sonic, or gameboy sonic sprites, not both. (personally id prefer to see megadrive sonic just to differentiate it from ultimate flash sonic more ;) )
you could do with closing in the camera when sonic moves to the edges, its good that the camera isnt just fixed on sonic but it moves too much straight away, it would be good to have the camera slowly pushed that far to the sides when hes at maximum speed (if he has a maximum speed) but not when hes only just starting running.
gravity could do with decreasing a bit, so that he stays in the air at the peak for a bit longer
when you jump and change directions, the sprite changes to skidding

thats about all i could think of, i look forward to seeing this completed!

hiimcody1 responds:

First off, thank you very much for the constructive review!

The sprite thing is a leftover, i do intend on using the megadrive sprites, the gba ones dont fit the feel of the engine at all. The camera has been a beast to deal with from day one, im planning on tweaking it to be more like the extended camera like the one used in Sonic CD.

Gravity, oh god... I made the mistake on not commenting my code when i started, ive been tweaking with with for two weeks :)

Speed is capped at 20 pixels advancing either way i plan on increasing the speed cap once i get the camera sorted out...

[Know Your Tequila]

Where was the salt?

I couldn't see the salt so I couldn't answer that one correctly :(
Also, on the drag the ingredients into the blender one, I had it wrong but it only let me continue until I put the lime into it (as I had already put in the tequila) so I was just dragging them all in. ie, it didn't tell me I was incorrect when I dragged two bottles into it that weren't lime and tequila.
But yeah I like this quiz, as said before it 'wasn't just a reel of questions with buttons to click on', it was creative with asking the questions, and I liked that :)

KidneyJohn responds:

Sorry, the salt is a bit hard to see. It is on topof the hand holding the lemon. With the blender question you are allowed to make 3 mistakes before you get it wrong.

Thanks for the feedback.

[Platformer Game Maker v5]

You really need to test these games yourself

Theres such serious bugs. Obvious bugs. Test the game yourself before you submit yet another version.

It's been said countless times you dont need to submit a new version everytime you change a tiny part of the game, as your still lacking in many other areas.

Test the game yourself and you'll see whats been going wrong, and until you can create a FINISHED bug free game, you shouldnt submit again.

This may have been said before and you are yet to come to it like many other suggestions put forward each time you submit a "new version", but from version 1 i've always found it irritating how you move the character around in order to create the game in the first place, and having to put the character back to the beginning before testing your game. You've created a goal, now create a starting point. Use another method to scroll, something that moves faster too.

Now put some more time into version 6, go through the other reviews and answer to the suggestions, and make sure you are fully happy with the flash yourself before you submit another one.

BrokenVoice responds:

Ok, I think I got all that, thanks for the big review!
It is a bug free game, look at the commentary...
Jon

[Insurgo]

What actually counts as the tower falling over?

Because it seems to think its fallen over for no apparent reason for me, I'd like to know how I can avoid this.
Other than the problems I'm having (probably because im trying to create too much obscure buildings) this is a decent game :)

VoidSkipper responds:

I keep getting reports of this glitch, but I've been completely unable to recreate it myself. I'm very sorry I haven't been able to fix it, but I can't even see it happening to figure out what's causing it.

[AGE Darts]

haha

reckon last reviewer didnt get the point lol.

though i did think i was hittin the board quite well... :P maybe you could make this into a proper game? and then add this flash to it somewhere, like in the extras or as one of the game options?

got a laugh out of me though XD

Gaizka responds:

You know, I just very well may do that!

[Optical Illusions Test]

hmmm

first note
for the last review.. he never said you drew them either :|

okay my review.
i dont normally find a compilation of images from the internet placed in a flash interesting unless i havent seen them before. unfortunatly i have seen these many times before.. so this doesnt interest me.

but nicely done.. lol

Seandadj responds:

lol glad you kinda liked it :P

[DressUp2]

one major thing that bugged me

when ur cycling through all the colours of an item you dont want and you just wana see the next one.. its best 2 select the item and THEN the colour separatly... i dont think it even needed that many colours.

LegolasFIN responds:

Well i tried to fidn the right action script to that thing but i couldent find, if some1 will find that actionscript can tell me! :)

[The Death Trap]

this file is too big

i cant judge it until its smaller.. perhaps shorten music or just simplify it in other places.. cos this is stupidly large atm, looks good tho!

ramster83 responds:

The file was already compressed from 20MB to 14MB and i cant make it smaller otherwise gameplay will be effected. Im happy with the game so if youre not patient enough to wait its your loss. Bein honest here lol. I didnt work my ass of with this game for nothing.

[Path Of FreeMan]

i tried to enjoy it..

but it was so slow and just irritating... i couldnt see anything happening fast so i gave up while trying to jump onto a ladder. the game needs action fast to get people interested.. theres just to much with nothing 2 do apart from slowly move about kicking cans and basketballs. u have a lot of talent in making it, but not in ideas for the game to be good

BlackFox-of-ITMO responds:

Damn, man, it seems your PC is just too slow, so you're playing with framerate of 15 fps instead of 30! Just turn interactive enviroment off, simple shells on and set graphics quality to low. I hope next time you'll at least find the crowbar...

[Popular!]

badly done...so many things needed

heres my list:
1. menu button shud warn ppl it wil quit the game
2. once u did an action u cud redo it (talking 2 the guys which made me press the menu button tryin 2 skip it...)
3. final battle controls r crap, but u heard that alredy... it wud b better if u just used the mouse and the left and right, and r u sure it is posible?!
4. if thats the final battle then this is very short... all u do is 3 mini games... which wud be ok but theyr buggy.
5. i dont like the story... im sure other reviewers have expressed that so i wont.

but yeh i no ul get it right next time cos this is pretty close 2 bein a gd game, so well dun on that

FlashFlower responds:

well, I made the menu button so you can go back if you have started a game, maybe i should have made it when talking to the bullies to, or have a skip button.... Thanks for the review :D sorry you didn´t like this game. maybe you will think my next one is better.