Score: 3

"what were you thinking"

submission: Xeno Tactic 2

date: June 18, 2009

It's obvious you didn't want to make the same exact game only with minor upgrades, and that's commendable, but this is just bad. There's barely ANY tactic to it. The first one really was about trying to skillfully complete a level using different tactics that you develop ON YOUR OWN throughout the game and that and it was amazing. Learning each weapons pro's and cons and how each enemy is effected by them. The game is just too different from the original to work right. There are some good ideas that should be applied to a third game that's much more like the original, but this one is just awful. And the requiring you to go to a different site to play the last 3 levels is just PANTS ON HEAD RETARDED. cut it out, you know better.

I've played the first one hundreds of times, and I've played this one maybe a dozen, it's just not good. the stacking of weapons is a good idea. the having ultra weapons that cost a ton and take up more room is cool. the ability to build walls is pretty dumb. the weapons being able to be placed anywhere is dumb. the weapons not blocking the enemies path is the worst thing ever.

I'm sure this game has some real depth, and you can get pretty advanced with it, but it's pointless because it's just so bad no one will invest the time to even bother. Make another one, I beg of you. The first is my #1 favorite flash game. I see it's name on my profile under favorites and just instantly think, damn, that's such a good game. Which just adds to the disappointment in the sequel.

Do better, we know you can.

Score: 4

"good start, needs some more work though"

submission: Newgrounds Sig Maker 1

date: May 26, 2007

the menu isn't very readable, like the words Font and Border. and you need to embed your fonts into the flash (Uppercase, Lowercase, Numerals, and Punctuation). it converts them to glyphs and saves them, so the person using your flash doesn't need to have the same exact fonts as you, cuz if they don't, they just show up as times new roman. also could use some higher quality raster images, a lot of them get pixelated when they're blown up to larger sizes. may want to change their properties to set them up for smoothing also, if you haven't already.

pm me if you need any further explanation or directions on what I'm talking about.

quasimondo com_archives_000572 php
(replace spaces with periods, replace underscores with slashes)
that page will show you how to let people save out the image they create. the print screen thing works fine, but this is just one more touch that could make it better.

other than those suggestions, it looks good. could use some more images to pick from, but not too many, I'd say 50 tops, and maybe like 25-30 backgrounds. changing the color of your text would help also, and since it's aimed at the design impaired, or at least program impaired, maybe picking out 3-5 colors for the text that would work well with the current choice of background. just some ideas for you to mull over

Score: 0

"bad rap"

submission: [uu] clocks arefuckin gay

date: May 11, 2007

you know what I hate? really.... REALLY shitty rap music. you know, the kind that has absolutely nothing to do with anything other than making up a new phrase to refer to a chicks body part or a lame ass dance craze that no one gives a shit about. and even without listening to the words you already know it's bad because you can tell it took less time to make it than it does to listen to it all the way through.

that's what this is. really bad rap that only mentally retarded 14 year olds listen to and 23 year old sluts who are drunk at "da club". this took less time to make than it did to watch.

for a suggestion, to improve upon anything you make in the future, spend no less than a week of planning and then no less than a week of animating. Here's a good example of something well made and worth watching, and it's even on the subject of shit that floods the portals, look up "EndangeredSpecies->the KK". Notice how it's well executed, well animated, makes his point clear and precise, and best off all, it's not a waste of time.

now, I'm gonna go listen to some intelligent and well worded, clever and comical hip-hop. you boys keep shakin' your laffy taffy 'aight

Score: 10

"I know that kid"

submission: Cinq Petit Morceaux: No.1 in C

date: May 8, 2009

I've used two of Simon-F's preludes in my stuff. nice kid. I liked the phrasing.

Score: 9

"well done"

submission: Accoustic Lullaby

date: September 9, 2007

I've been listening through accoustic stuff on here, this is the first thing I felt like rating (0-5). the only thing wrong with it is that it should keep going for about 9 minutes before it loops. but at least it loops well.