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[Bouncy The Ball]

Decent game. Needs some polish.

Your level design, concept and interface are well thought out. I only have a few suggestions to take this from a good game to frontpage material.

1) Add some detail to the backgrounds. The layouts worked great, but the plain gray ground and blank black walls fell flat. Just a touch of texture would really improve the overall look of the game.

2) Some sort of audio alert for getting injured. I got fried by that flame that rises and falls right through the floor and didn't even realize I was being cooked until I died. Perhaps you could make the floors block flame as well...

3) Perhaps it's because my system is crap, but the boards with more than a few flames on them caused the game to run so slowly I couldn't even see where I was moving. Something slightly less graphics intensive for the flames would be a welcome addition.

Nice work though. It's a great play, and well worth the high scores it's gotten already. keep up the simple and fun games...they're the ones people keep coming back to.

[Albert's Adventure]

Unfinished = fail

Games that don't work = submissions that shoudn't be.

Finish.

Resubmit.

[ROFLattack!]

You win.

I'd say you were the master of ASCII gaming, but as this is just about the only ASCII game I've ever seen, it wouldn't really do you justice.

Great work all around....and were those some Sonic noises I heard?

Can't wait to see STFUtank or whatever you have in the works next.

[Capitão Prego,the 1 movie]

¡Hã!

Heh...somehow the really bad Spanglesh made it better....like those poorly translated Japanese Engrish tee-shirts.

Anyway, you've got to do something about those buttons. Just make it so it advances automatically once the viewer has been given enough time to see what's going on or read the caption. Other than the continuous annoying clicking, it was a funny-ass flash. You got a 5 in my book.

Anax responds:

My translator is a trash!! I believe it now, because i'm brazilian and not spanish, haahahahah!!! ! But, anyway, thank you

[NG ranks/levels handbook]

Great idea.

Damn...why didn't I think of this sooner? Now we've finally got a resource for all those people on the BBS who have questions about NG's different rank systems all in one place. I think it's safe to say you're going to rack up a lot of views really fast, and keep getting views forever. This is one Flash that won't be relegated to some dusty corner of the NG server. You can expect links from the BBS from now until forever.

Pilot-Doofy responds:

Damn thanks, thats the best compliment I've gotten yet.

I hope I do get all those views! Thanks!

[Arcanoid]

Not bad for your first game

I'm a crazy fan of Arkanoid, so you really couldn't lose with me. I've got 3 important suggestions:

1) up the framerate to something like 20. It looks really choppy as it is.

2) there is a glitch along the right hand side of the board where the ball ends up bouncing back and forth up and down a narrow strip to the right of all the blocks. It can't hit more blocks, and can't escape other than out the bottom killing you. Definitely work on that before the full release.

3) add some event sounds to the ball hitting the walls, paddle and bricks. That's what this game needs most.

Nice job....I look forward to spending hours in front of your future revisions of this. Also, perhaps you can make boards with different color blocks. The crazy boards that make up pictures and crap in DX Ball were always fun.

George-phinkle responds:

Glad to see a true fan. thanks for the advice i'll see to it that the revised edition comes out bug free(i hope)...

[Punk-o-matic]

Words fail to describe the awesomeness...

Straight to the top of my favorites. This is the coolest thing on NG, bar none. I beg of you, you must make more...make a metal one...it would totally kick ass. This thing ate up my entire morning. It's so damn much fun watching those little dudes rock out to my music. Holy crap.

3--73--8404-404-404-404-3---3--70-1-0-18404-404-404-4049--- 99980-1-0-180-1-0-18404-9--------6737473c4737473c40---0---0- --0---737473c4737473c9---9---0---0---1---1---7374c-6-7-6-89a 2-1a26-a2-1a28-6-7-6-8-6-7-6-8-a2-1a26-a2-1a2-----0---6-7-6- 8-6-7-6-8-a28-a-

Song Copyright - Ryan Tanay 2004

[Insane Orb]

Best game since Cantankerous Tank

W00t! Über Pong!

You should work on the AI for the opponent paddle though...I freaking whooped it's ass like 75 to 7. Also the final boss Pac Man didn't grab the ball too well. It kept getting right in front of it and leading it all the way back to the other side and just letting it score. Really sweet and entertaining though...the shooting and blocks and gravity wells really made the old Pong game a helluva lot better. I would have thought this game type was dead, but you've updated it and done it total justice. Next, do the same thing, but put some blocks in the middle you have to hit with the ball to break so you can score points...and breaking blocks gives you powerups...an advanced pong/arkanoid crossover. I'd play that for weeks on end!

Great work, keep it up!!

[Game - Skateboard Steal'n]

Meh..

Not too terrible, except the controls. You can't turn worth crap, and the walls are so close together, that once you hit one, you start bouncing back and forth between them uncontrollably.

Make it easier to turn.
Put more space between the walls.
Make the walls slow you down instead of bouncing you.

Popeofdope responds:

I would except no. the whole reason everything you just said is that way is becausee it would be so easy if you didnt bounce or if it wasnt narrow at all, its already really easy why make a simple game even less entertaining. and the controls are supposed to be like a skateboard. hers a tip man, think a few seconds before you say something

[cantankerousTANK]

Utterly Fantastic

If this isn't frontpage material I don't know what is. My only suggestion would be to make the guns pivot up and down a bit faster. Other than that this thing is flawless. Keep em coming.