staind2523's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Ultra Sprite Tutorial]

Extremely helpful

As this is my first day in learning how to use Sprites, I found this tutorial very, very helpful. It did assume that you have a little background knowledge on Flash, which really wasn't a problem. It would only be a problem to someone that hasn't been using Flash for over a week, really.

I for one thought the "next" button was creative...and it took a mere 5 seconds to find it. I don't see a reason for complaint on that either.

FidioProductions responds:

Now this is the kind of reviews I love! Cheers! Go buy yourself a beer or coke depending on your age.

[Star Force - Episode 1]

Amazing!

I was very, very impressed by this. I especially loved the ability to "Skip" the first little bit to get to the menu, and then the ability to skip the intro to the game as well.

Everything looks great. It's very eye-appealing.

The difficulty increase is well-balanced.

The only complaint I actually can make about this is that oftentimes I couldn't see around the ship, so I'd get shot without knowing there was a blast coming...but that happens in many third person games, so it's not a worry at all.

Ultimately this deserves a 5/5, 10/10 in my opinion...excellent Flash.

I'm curious...how long (Just take a guess in number of hours) did this take for you to make?

1man responds:

Hi,

Tnx for the positive feedback. It's my first game so I lost a lot of time with learning as3. Also making sure the gameloop runs smooth on my dual core as well as on my pentium3 laptop was a bit off a challenge.

So in total it's around 100 hours. But my next games with this engine should only take 20 - 40 (I hope :)

[Flash CS3 Mini-Tutorial]

Very helpful!

I'm using Flash CS3 and have been waiting for a tutorial on buttons for the longest time now...thank you for clearing the confusion up!

I thought you did a pretty good job explaining things, although in the future I would like to know just a bit more about what the code does and how it works. Those little notes marked with "///" really helped...a lot. I'd just like to see more of those. They were frequent in the buttons section but not so much in the pointing arrow and cursors section, which left me wondering how the code works and what each piece does.

Other than that though, I thought this tutorial was EXCELLENT. I'm adding it to my favorites for future reference. Thanks for making this!

Jaye19 responds:

Youre Welcome

I didnt explain that much in the other sections cuz there not that much important