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[Dress Our King!]

Quite a selcetion

God I hate the amount of crap that floods the portal when Cock Day rolls around. This needs some work, but not as much as I first thought, when I saw the name and date of submission.

I think that the first thing you need to make is a mute button, as you've got a decent selection of sounds at the moment, but none of them were to my taste, so removing them all together would have been the best solution, from my point of view.

Some people give Strawberry Clock hands - the only feature that you could have added to make this really good, from the standpoint of dressup games.

Either that or make it so that you can produce a comic book about Strawberry and his life in Clocktopia, perhaps.

[Review Request Club]

ThaDj responds:

Good to see a review score, which I see fit for my game. I think the others choose their review score while comparing my dress-up game to others' dress-ups, which is fine, but not the most just in my opinion. It's also amusing to see that you saw the "Cock crew" joke in the preloader :).

A mute button was also mentioned before, and even though you're the first to say that none of the songs matched your style, I still think it's something I'll have to add in future games.

"Some people give Strawberry Clock hands - the only feature that you could have added to make this really good, from the standpoint of dressup games."
I didn't understand that part of your review.
If it means I should have added hands: There is a set of hands, even a set of pirate hooks too.

A comic book background might be a good idea, and customizable text bubbles.

Thanks for the review :)

[Being a Helpful NG'er]

Not really an interactive movie

To be honest, it's more of a text file with page on or back buttons, than an 'interactive movie'. I'd say that there isn't much you can do about it, as there aren't that many helpful pictures that you can get sorted.

Still, the production itself isn't that bad - you've got a decent chunk of information in there, with things like the basics of how to handle abusive reviews, posting well on the BBS and a few useful clubs to join if you want to get ahead on this website.

[Review Request Club]

RohantheBarbarian responds:

Thanks for the review.

[Errors '08]

So true

Ah, and I can sympathise with most of these error messages as things similar to this have happened on the computers that I've owned across the years. I think that you must be a windows user, considering the wealth of the MS error messages and the number of the different operating systems that you have gone across. I can certainly understand the bias against Safari, since every time I try to update iTunes, you just know that they're going to try and sneak it onto the system.

Of course, you could have gone back to the basics, giving us some error messages from Windows 95 and 98, to complete the set. That would have been a cracker, as they were really horrible Operating Systems, back in the day of the 64Mb RAM :P

A nice depth of knowledge, but I would have suggested that the true colour grid come up, in order to allow you to pick your _____ screen of death for Vista.

[Review Request Club]

AntoArts-Admin responds:

Lol, I'll try to add that color set thing in the next version!

[The Halo Quiz!]

Not too bad...

It's a standard quiz, with relatively simple questions. I know that I don't have the greatest knowledge of the game, but I think that with multiple choice questions, which call game over if you get one wrong, you can never totally fail to get the quiz wrong.

What I'd recommend is that you come to some sort of compromise, that totals up what you got right and then a percentage of correct answers, thus telling us how skilled you are - for example "85%+ You are the Master Chief of Halo, you know your way around the games so well - get a fucking life" etc.

The white background isn't what you need - throw some Halo imagery into the mix and add a tune to keep the masses occupied. I think that there are plenty of pieces that are Halo Themed in the Audio Portal.

[Review Request Club]

xIDoL responds:

Thanks :P

[Bouncy Bob]

Great game

This game has everything that is needed to make an addictive little game - good mechanics, a catchy gimmick of a character, annoying music and a decent enough challenge to keep it interesting.

I had a few issues getting myself around the idea that you can jump again while you are airborne, it's a useful skill that you can get yourself a lot further in a level with.

I love the way that Bob deflates slightly as you stop and relax for a moment. It's something that I wouldn't have thought about, but with certain computer games, it does become apparent that they use this technique to get people to interact with the game.

I'd have added an option to mute the music and possibly a range of sound effects for Bob as he bounces off the scenery.

[Review Request Club]

ProfessorFlash responds:

Nice to see that you appreciate the little details with Bob :). There is a 'mute'-button in the menu at the top right corner and in the game about at the same place. Thanks for your review.

[Piggy123s NG guide]

Lacks depth

You have put together a half decent walk around Newgrounds, but the problem is that it doesn't have the depth of information that these kind of things need. You've apparently got no grasp of punctuation, which would certainly be required in showing people around the place here.

I think that it needs more research, such as reading into the History of NG, or the FAQs - expaining that the BBS means "Bulletin Bored System" is farcical - it's a Bulletin Board System, for example and you could ahve mentioned a lot more depth, such as what forums are contained within - the General; Where is / How to?; Flash; Audio; Art; Clubs & Crews could have given us so much more information

[Review Request Club]

piggy123 responds:

Me.......lazy then?

[Abusive Review Guide 2]

Nice tutorial

Another solid round of how to find and deal with abusive reviews and flash. I like the stuff that you've brought to the table on this one.

The quiz is really good, as it really helps drill the information into the users who see this - they can read all they want, but sometimes it doesn't stick unless you can make them apply it to the practicality of Newgrounds. Good work.

I'd suggest a selection of music for the next piece, as it's almost perfect here ;)

[Review Request Club]

RohantheBarbarian responds:

I'll definitely think about music selection for any future projects, thanks for the review!

[Abusive Review Guide]

Not bad

Quite informative about the review system on Newgrounds. I like the way that you've set it out, but I think it would have been better suited if you would have given a choice of three different styles of music for the background tune and also a better looking interface.

For the interface, I would ahve had something more fancy, rather than just a basic slideshow of text, which can even be improved on with the use of MS Powerpoint. Throw a few pictures in there, I'd suggest a screeny of the Middle Finger review, as that would be hugely informative.

[Review Request Club]

RohantheBarbarian responds:

Wow, thanks for an excellent review!

[Abe Simpson Soundboard]

Good work

A good selection of sounds that you've picked for this piece. I think that making the buttons smaller and giving us a grouping of situations that they might be used in could be more productive here, so you can mess around with what he says.

I think that you could have an option to show details of which episodes you garnered the larger quotes from as well, such as the Letter about the states to government. The only other change I'd make is a larger selection of images of Abe that periodically change

[Review Request Club]

Frenzy responds:

Thanks for the suggestions!

~ Z

[MSC 3]

Good potential

I'm not really someone who goes for scene creation technology, as it's not my avenue of creativity. What I do like is that there are so many possibilities with this program - it's hardly a game, with all that you've done to it.

The only thing that you can't do is take screen shots and make it into a Madness style comic book. What you need to do is have some sort of instructions to get them made up to a printed screen and then get people to post pictures on your own thread, which you put in the Flash forum, or make a club about it in the Clubs and Crews section. That way, individual authors could make their own comics of Madness and we can see what precipitates.

[Review Request Club]

AntoArts-Admin responds:

Good idea, I'll try to do that soon