Rayamondo's game Reviews on Newgrounds

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There's a future for this guy.

I personally don't think this is any more than an interactive movie but unfortunately I don't think this will receive much in the way of a good score anyway.

I think the animation was pretty good. A nice array of colours was used and everything was clearly labelled (no matter how simple it was). The good points are completely outweighed by the bad ones though. I won't go too much into it as it's only a small submission. Here's some tips for you in the future.

O Test your flash! I happened to notice that the buttons didn't function correctly.
O If you make another interactive movie, make a lot more choices, or even possibly decisions to a plot.
O Try to put as much effort in as you can so that you know you've done your best.

Too be honest, there's nothing to really be ashamed of for this short movie, but it's not necessarily the best you may have to offer as a flash artist. I think it speaks for itself at the end of the day so that's why I have attempted to compliment you as opposed to insult you with criticisms. All in all it's not a badly executed flash for your level of animation, the movement is actually very good. Keep flashing!

Rayamondo

By the way, I'd just like to say something about the reviews. You guys that have reviewed it fairly and give this guy some good points and advice, good on you. Sadly, there are always appalling, pointless and desperately short reviews. Bow I'm not pointing fingers COUGH(dogstoenails)COUGH butI'd like to say the following things to him:

1. I don't see you contributing anything to the Newgrounds community (even if I haven't, I should hope through my usefully marked reviews that I encourage and make artists feel good about themselves).
2. You say you wanted to know what the purpose of the game is? Well he's a maturing artist and seeks opinion on his work, but may I add, what was the purpose of your review exactly?
3. If you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything at all.

lillewilli responds:

Thanks ^^

I have done all your tips on this movie, but I'm so lazy, so i let it go :P

[Effect Compilation]

An excellent and great hands-on experience

I really like this piece of flash for it's creativity and pure resourcefulness. I have the utmost respect for you to contributing not only a brilliant flash experience but offering the audience the ability to recreate the effects you've shown here. As a student in computer science I have to study programming and there is nothing like trying to comprehend the logistics of code. I feel that you have offered many amateur developers the opportunity to get there teeth into action script and further there knowledge of how programming languages work.

The graphics were excellent in this movie. I liked the general layout of everything as well as the external links to alternative views of them. I really liked the way you offered each individual flash file also to be chopped and modified, to give people a hands on experience into how it exactly works.

I hope you realise that it's guys like you that inspire people to take this kind of development up and you couldn't have done a better job with this compilation of tutorials.

I'd like to say well done and what a brilliant idea you had for this game/tutorial.

Rayamondo

mayoarm11 responds:

thank you very much. I am glad you enjoyed it!

[Finishing the NG Layout!]

Very very short!

Too be honest, it was hardly the most inventive piece of flash really, i dont know how it got 5th place it needed too be a lot lot longer. The fact that the gameplay (if thats what you can call it!) was so easy and so short really made this almost a pointless entry.

The flash was nice looking though and it the ending movie was quite funny. I just think that this couldve been a lot more than a 1 minute attempt at a flash game. Maybe you could have added difficulty levels or choice of song, or been really creative and come up with a totally new concept. I was expecting a lot more from this, the flash was good, but the gameplay was bad.

JohnMazz responds:

Thanks for the review.
"The flash was nice looking though and it the ending movie was quite funny"
I tried to make it clear, but this was the point! it wasn't meant to be a game, the "game" part of it was the set up of the joke, poking fun at the RO contest and the underconstruction page. The ending was the punchline. The fact that you found it funny means I did a good job. Anyway, glad you liked it, even though you didnt know why. =)

[V-tech Rampage]

Hmmmm...

I myself am not american but i still saw and heard the news headlines of the shootings and it made me sympathetic to all the innocent students and there families. It really made me think about how you cannot trust anybody these days and just how selfish some people can be.

Firstly, I think the reviews commenting on how the game only stands out because of its title are true. The gameplay was a bit simple aswell as the graphics and so it couldnt have been a popular game because of these aspects.

I think that the authour has just jumped on the wagon to try and stand out. Its almost as if he just put this together before anyone could submit anything else to do with the shootings and as intellectual as the author sounds with his replies i think a lot of people would agree. It is also not a very original idea and anyone could have put sometihng like this together.

It may be historically accurate, im not sure how many people died exactly or how they did but i still think certain lines have been crossed, such as respect. I think it was released WAY too soon, (IF it should have even been released at all) and rather than argue it out, you should accept that people will find it offensive and will retaliate nastily.

As an author its okey to use historical events within flash movies and games but sometimes theres lack of common decency and sense to realise when you might have taken it a bit too far, and in my and many other peoples opinions, this has.

PiGPEN responds:

I havent retaliated in more than jest.
I understand peoples objections...and dont care.