Score: 6

"Games need to be more innovative."

submission: Boxhead: More Rooms

date: February 16, 2007

The shooter genre has been to death and back again, then its dead body has been enflamed and kicked off a cliff and torn apart by wild dogs. When I see yet another game like this hit the top 50, it bothers me because nothing up there is innovative in the slightest. The control scheme isn't even that good; he should turn to face the mouse, not be turned by the arrows, because then he can't shoot while moving backwards for one. Yea I know I'm just slamming this game because it reached the top 50, but really, this is to all games in general: Be more interesting and unique then a simple point and click shooter.

Even if it's addicting >_>

Score: 6

"So this is why I don't like the top 50."

submission: Space Duck

date: January 27, 2007

It was just random animations. Sure your graphics were great and blow mine away, but that doesn't make this all that great of a Flash. No story line, obviously, and you hardly colored anything... I would go as far to say that if you weren't such a well known animator, this wouldn't have touched the top 50. The music was great though.

Ways to improve: Dare I even say how an animator far superior to me should improve? I don't think you're even going to read this anyways. But right about now I would kill for an animation with a good plotline, character development and subtle humor. I've watched some of your other (there I go again, saying your... you, as the animator, are never going to read this, so the only you I could theoretically be talking to is someone who just happens to read this review.. ah well) animations and they have a little more then this, but the general scheme is so surreal there's nothing fulfilling about it past the graphics.

Score: 6

"I voted you 5 for effort"

submission: ANIMATION INVASION

date: November 22, 2006

But when I saw the actual movie, I was kind of disappointed. First off, I realize that I could never touch your skill in animation. That being said, it still seemed to need a lot of work. Yeah, you doing all that with a webcam without having any actual animations to react to must have been pretty tough. But at times it seemed rather sloppily done, it borrowed quite a bit from Animator vs. Animation (although you may not have seen that movie if you started before it) and it - I know that, if you ever read this, you will hate me for saying this but - it seemed too short. I was just getting into it, and I thought that you were going to have a little duel on the computer with the animation, but nope, that was the end.

Oh well. It deserves a high score. The top 50 of all time? It's not really up for me to decide. And poor little me can't touch your 4.36 or something anyways ^_^

Score: 9

"Awesome."

submission: Squaresville

date: September 16, 2006

I loved it. The randomness was spot on and it seemed like the whole movie actually formed something more coherent and cool. The only thing that bothered me was that it seemed like it was trying to be funny, but it never actually was. It didn't detract much, since humor wasn't a central theme anyways. Great job.

Score: 5

"Cool idea but flawed."

submission: Beer Attack

date: September 11, 2006

For one, the controls seemed to be a little sloppy. Was it just me, or were they inverted on the right screen? That's not usually a good idea :P

Second, at times I would just stand at the counter and hit space in front of some guy like 50 times and watch my money go up. Why was that?

Another thing: I didn't understand what was happening. A quick brief of what was going on would have helped immensely.

Other then that: it was a cool game, with a great concept. It just needs a little bit of beta testing and cleaning up.

Score: 4

"Good start."

submission: Astro Bomber

date: September 11, 2006

I can tell that your actionscripting is a lot better then this game betrays it to be. This game still needs a lot of work though. A few things you should do:

Make the sound effects not so loud and obnoxious.

Make it so that holding down the button only fires one shot. Otherwise it shoots off like a line of bullets, which is unrealistic and doesn't look right.

Have the health bar more evident.

In the story mode, all the text should be immediately visible. I'm too lazy to wait for it all to scroll up!

Keep working on it. You'll do good things with more practice, I can tell.

Score: 3

"Not bad for a dress up, but"

submission: sakura dress-up

date: September 11, 2006

Can't you put your skills to something more interesting then this? I'd love to see graphics like these in an actual animation or game. Keep Flashing and submitting.

Score: 7

"A unique concept."

submission: The IIDMDTT Part 01

date: September 11, 2006

This was a fun movie to watch. One suggestion might be like if you had alternate choices to make and that would effect the outcome of the movie, and since it's already a little interactive it wouldn't make a huge difference. But still, it was pretty cool.

Score: 10

"Wow"

submission: The End of Sanctuary

date: September 11, 2006

Amazing flash. The emotions of the characters and the atmospheres were portrayed extremely well. I don't think I understood all the nuances of the plotline, but that didn't really make it any worse. I understood the general idea. This is one of the best flash animations I've seen in a very long time. I loved every minute of it.

Score: 9

"Wow"

submission: Hang On

date: September 11, 2006

Great animation. At first it didn't seen too good, but it got so much better. I enjoyed this movie a lot, and it'll be sad if this is your last one. I loved the style in your art.