Bezman's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Magnets!]

Nice technical demo, but not much fun for me

It's a nice way of familiarising yourself with the process of duplicating movie clips, and an interesting idea.

However, it's just not fun for me. I like my interactive playtime to have goals.

Sorry to be negative.

Hey - I'm sure it was fun to make and a good learning experience. And other folk seem to like it more than me. :)

Chr0me responds:

haha thats ok man not everyone likes every game

[Where's Waldo]

An enjoyable diversion for a few seconds.

However, I'll have to knock off a point because you simply scanned in a picture from a book.

Also, having to zoom in seems like a bit of a problem, and having an arrow appear when you hover over him really isn't the best idea.

Still, fun for a few seconds.

Stay funky,
Bez

PimpMasterKDOG responds:

No, I didn't simply scan a picture from a book. I d'loed somebody else's scan and added a pretty arrow. >:(

-->KDOG

[3D Logo Tutorial]

Might have been useful if I had Swift 3D...

To be honest, I can't really comment for the above reason.

However, I liked various things including being able to go forward with either mouse of kb, being able to play music only if you so wish and the scrolling text windows.

There were instances though where the window could have been larger and scrolling wouldn't have been needed...

And you did make at least one spelling mistake. ;p

Pain bucket tool? Sounds... kinky...

111287 responds:

Whoops, I didn't see that.

[Blaster Master (Test B.2)]

bodes well for the final version.

You must surely know yourself how incomplete and buggy this currently is.

When you switch to jason, he doesn't do what he's supposed to do.

The car gets stuck at the top of the screen occasionally when you lose your energy.

At (what I think is) the end of the level, the car goes into the wall, and keeps on driving. Surely a single congratulatory screen wouldn't have been too much to ask?

There are other things as well I feel could be improved before the final game. When you take damage, you should flash and be invulnerable for 2 seconds or thereabouts, rather than being able to die in that time.

There should really be a 'skip' button for the intro.

However, despite all these flaws, I kept going till the end, which bodes well for the finished game.

I'm looking forward to it. :)

Stay funky,
Bez

BlasterMaster responds:

thanks man!

I'll try my best to keep working on this game..but idno..its really hard to code this shizat. When I make my next update, I'll make a congradulation screen lol

[Pumpkin Simulator 2003]

A simple, brilliant idea, brilliantly executed.

I wouldn't know how to do the carving at all - it really shows how competent you are with Flash.

Other than being a technical acheivement, it's a fun, creative game that's definitely worthy of the short amount of time it takes to download.

Scribbling on various faces is fun enough, and the way you get to see your creation with a candle inside in various states of darkness is brilliant.

It would be nice if after seeing the 'ending' you had 2 options - 'new pumpkin' and 'continue', for those of us who'd like to maybe add something to the face.

But it's great fun as it stands and is definitely worthy of its score.

The sounds are definitely worth the extra kilobytes in my opinion.

rotpad responds:

thanks

[SD-Elevation]

Enjoyable to begin with.

It's presented nicely enough and the game's fun for a wee while.

However, it does get a wee bit boring after you get so far, lose and start having to replay levels.

You can cheat by right-click forwarding, but I don't see that as a massive problem. Just the fact that I decided to do that maybe underlines another problem - a lack of variation?

Maybe you could have introduced more movement patterns, maybe had them move in circles, or had different sizes of lifts, or things you collect.

I kept at it for a while, but there didn't seem much point in carrying on to me since I'd seen the levels and realised that they really offer nothing new. And you don't seem to have an online scoreboard, so I don't understand why you need our name.

I suggest that you also have it so that if you lose your lives you can either continue and lose all your points or restart from the beginning. I think that might also help to make it more enjoyable.

I look forward to seeing a better, funkier version.

Stay funky,
Bez

SD-Syndicate responds:

Thanks For All The Reviews Guys, Theres Been Alot Of Great Adeas Here Which I Could And Most probaly Will Incorporate In The Game. I Release This Just As A Beta Really, But Seeing As Im Getting A Very Nice Responce Here I Think Im Gonna Have To Finally get It Finished. Thanks Alot Guys And Cheers For The Help :).

[Caveman Pong]

Too unoriginal.

It's a decent game, but it's just been done so many times and there's so many other pong games... When I clicked on the name, I was really expecting some extra features or something else to make this a bit different.

The AI isn't great. I know it's not impossible, but it is near-impossible to win. It took me about 4 games to get a single point and that just seems silly.

The graphics were reasonably nice though.

rangi responds:

If it was easy , it wouldn't be enjoyable would it. This is meant to entertain for 5 minutes. Not bad for a game under 15kb.

Thanks about the graphics though , I'm a programmer so that was pretty much my first try at graphics.

["Slug's Quest"]

I didn't get past the first level...

There's a red thing at the top right, which I think you need to get, and I couldn't seem to get to it.

You don't seem to be able to jump down from platforms. Jumping from the platform one down will take you up to far and jumping from the platform 2 down doesn't take me high enough...

(I might well be wrong and if so, please explain the way to do it to me.)

Other than that, the most important thing you need to sort out is tha speed at which your character moves. That one trait of the game makes it so tiring and unplayable...

Other than that, you've done a decent job, so well done.

However, you really need to speed up the character before it has a chance of being playable.

I hope my review was useful to you,
Bez

LAUBO responds:

Hi, the idea was that you would jump down from the platform and wile falling jump to the coin. Please retry playing my game, I think that you would enjoy the other 2 levels.