Age/Gender: 27, Male
Location: Glasgow, Scotland
I am BEhrooZ Bahman Shahriari. I am a man. For years, I have been (sometimes) called... BEZMAN!
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Latest Flash Reviews
I love the bold shapes and colours you've got here and your illustration style really comes through in some of the held faces.
I think the running cat looks a bit cheap though, with the sorta slightly awkward ellipses for legs.
A fun watch and I look forward to seeing more animation from you!
Author's Response:
Thanks! I agree with the cat and would definitely fix it up if I were to use it again.
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A very mixed bag.
It's a shame that all of the things apart from #12 were just mcs being spawned at the point of your mouse.
I really liked the change in #12 and had fun imagining other possible ways to interact - hoping you'd do some of those things and more.
The different shapes and animations do encourage different sort of movements as we're interacting in order to make pleasing shapes though - something I like.
And yet, there's an awful lot of repetition and a fair few that I think could have been cut out in the name of improving the overall impression. There's a good few variations on each possible movement pattern when it may have worked better to just focus on the best few.
The representational smiley faces felt trite compared to the abstract stuff and the thin black lines around some shapes looked unpleasing to my eyes as did some of the 'hand-drawn' stuff. The geometric shapes look kind of classier and seem better suited to being repeated as particles.
There's a fair few Flash on NG that spawn particles at mousepoint already but if you pursue different ideas in how the particles could move and be interacted with - something I hoped you'd do after #12 - I'd love to see a sequel.
Bird in Flight was cool too.
Author's Response:
I am making a sequel actually that will have 100 effects and many of them physics controled. These effects were all tween controlled with a program called Fuse where they change different colors, blur, glow, e.t.c. You might think most of them are shot out of the mouse when in fact, they are just created when you move your mouse. I wanted it to be simple top control, so i made everything with the mouse.
Thanks a lot for the review. :)
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The style was really pulled off brilliantly.
I loved the music, flickering darkened edges crazy morphs and rubber-hose limbs.
After the island bit had gone past, the rest of the story was fairly predictable but fun to watch regardless.
My one complaint would be that you could've thrown in some more 'Oh shit!' -type reaction shots from the KKK Uber-kids.
Twas fun. Good work.
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Latest Audio Reviews
This totally sounds like the backing track of a stereotypically groovy 70s porn flick.
I'm digging this!
For such a short track, there's a fair bit of depth there. Drums, lead and bass all working well.
Maybe drums a touch loud and I'm not too keen on the sorta snipped off cymbal noise's prominence.
Near-perfect.
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"Varied modern mix, sticks to roots. Should be loop"
I loved the variation here - there was little needless repitition and there were a couple of places where the tune actually surprised me.
The samples betray the video-game roots, though the beats sound modern. Maybe they clash slightly? Still, I'd rather they were there.
The entire tune flows well and got me dancing - for longer than the other one.
After the 1:13 mark, it seemed like a retread. Maybe you could cut out something like 0-13s and 1:13-1:35 and have it loop?
A tune this short seems ideal fodder for a computer game so that would probably result in it being used. Maybe in my forthcoming Megaman TAS-inspired parody-game. ;-)
So yeah, a loop would be lovely and definitely warrant +1 on the score.
Author's Response:
lol thank you the technical your talking nearly flys over my head makes it spin haha but thanks for the love!
~Kyuubit~
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"Could be great for a megaman game - loops fine."
This is a fun remix, but a bit repetitive for my liking.
The melody has that cheesy 80s feel and each phrase is repeated at least twice, often 4x. Suits the source material well, with its own cheesy style but it's just not my preferred style of music.
The 2nd half seemed to be just a copy of the 1st half, with added beats.
I did like those beats though they sound modern, yet stick to their roots. They got me out of my chair and dancing a tiny bit.
The repitition was just too big a turn-off for me.
Author's Response:
:/ i can see that in your score never got a 4 before. but i suppose your entitled to your opinion and i respect it. im an amature still and im hoping that i will get better one day.
thanks for the review!
~KyuubiT~
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