IceDragon64's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[The Insult Machine]

Not too bad

Its a sound board of the most basic variety.
If you made it so that you could put these words together, then play them all at once it would be great fun, but as it is there's not much to it.

However, there's nothing much wrong with it as it is, apart form the sound of the word wanker, which is lame.

[NSG012: Flag Finder]

I like, I approve

I enjoyed playing this- it is up my street indeed. I was disappointed with myself how badly I did at first, then I got the knack a bit and I learnt the flags a bit- which is good for me!
I started with about 7-10 flags for the first few goes, then got on to 17-20 after a bit. It crashed a few times with a error message about the movie containing something making Player 8 run slow. When it finally did that on my highest score-20, I lost patience with it.

I think it would benefit form better resolution pics- not necesarily bigger, just clearer as they are. We would learn more and those of us who know a fair few flags would benefit from our knowledge more- which is supposed to be part of it.

I look forward to the full range. At first 84 flags seems a lot, then you kinda get fed up the same ones after a bit. You could make the full range a level (or two)up.
I didn't miss music as such, but yes, you were lucky to score as well as you did without it. Sound is such a big part of NG. In fact if you think about it, you did well- this is one of the highest scoring soundless subs I know! If you are going to do it I trust you will do it well with a small selection of different styles of music (or other sounds?!) and an off button (I know, I'm a hypocrite!) If you could get National Anthems to play for the flag you lose on, that would be cool, but I guess way ambitious! 84 sound clips, or more!
As it is its good, do it up and it could really score.
Best Wishes,
Ice

LuckyLollipopLad responds:

I thought I sorted out that bug. The problem was that it doesn't pick the same flag 2x, but for some reason I think my array didn't reset after each game.

Meaning that when it runs out of flags, it currently crashes. Many apologies and I'll try to sort it out.

I mainly didn't include sound for the sake of a low filesize. I suppose you're right though - folk on NG expect to be supplied with tunes rather than having to open winamp or whatever.

The idea of national anthems is great! I'd love to do that, but I don't know if I could find them all out - specially with some really obscure countries.

Thanks for the great review!

Stay funky,
- Bez

[WordScrambles-countries.9]

Good

I enjoyed it and I was challenged by it.
I started with hard.
I found hard too hard and gave up quickly!
Although you have said all 300 countries are in it, I kept having some of the same countries come up, which started to affect my score. I got a hiscore of 51 twice.

It looks fine and it sounds fine. Was that 'you got it right' sound your voice?

Its cool and fireeagle liked it too. He 's 12 and he was clueless on Easy!
Best Wishes,
Ice

LuckyLollipopLad responds:

Glad you liked it!

The same country should not come up twice in the same game, but could well come up in subsequent games as they're essentially randomly picked. Odd if it's happening all the time.

The countries are divided amongst the 3 difficulty levels.

The 'got it right' sound and 'wrong' sound were from flashkit.com, I think.

Thanks for the review!

[Blan's Guide to Buttons]

Very Good

I see why its here in the collection-
+ Clear
+ Cheerful, lightly humourous and positive with cheery music
+ Unusual volume control
+ Examples and good pictures
+ Buttons taking you to further info for those that need it, instead of going through boring stuff if you know it
+ Good looking

1. parentheses is the plural for parethesis

2. "Just experiment and found [find] out on your own

3. Replay button only hit on default text area- this is a bit lame for a button tut, surely- you click on the area and maybe nothing happens of you don't click the text.
4. You explained the meaning of the words for the four frames of appearance, the didn't go there- it was like you meant to and didn't get round to it. People should be encouraged to go there and do that- they can do such great things with the up/down etc. and they might put in proper hits.
Many people will not understand what to do when they double click and you are JUST the person to tell them! Many people will fail to put in a keyframe in the right places and screw up.
This is a very good tut- please make it a GREAT tut!
Best Wishes,
Ice

blanblan responds:

Thanks for the great review. I'll be sure to improve this as much as I can using your tips. :)

Cheers.

[Social I.Q. Test]

Not too bad, keep working

+ quite funny
+colourful
+worked all right

Spelling needs improvement. Theres not much to it but text, so that really should be right.

[Newgrounds Blam Blaster]

borderline protect

+nice idea/theme

very basic game as far as I can see. What were the Games Played and Maximum Score about? I couldn't even see a replay button.

I protected it only cos of the theme. It needs work to make it more functional. As far as I can see you just run out of bullets, which is a bit grim.
I liked the little 'play' voice!

[The Expert's Guide to NG]

Yet still better!

+Good Sound/music
+good graphics
+Good info, well written, almost no errors left

-automatically is still spelt wrong!

Generally as last submission, title better.

If ways can be found to improve this submission, such as putting the animation in at its best, I hope you will continue to do so.

It is hard to be objective but I have tried to vote and review with my honest opinion (D&S don't subscribe to your rules, despite being a mojor contributor to this sub.)
Best Wishes,
IceDragon64 of the Dragons & Spirits

highwatermark responds:

I value honesty when I can't force it out of someone. Keep being honest; you'll be rewarded someday :)

[Kill Saddam']

Well made

+ lots of variety
+ even though the art wasnt great it was well expressed with some details
+amusing and topical idea

Personally I feel uncomfortable about the subject becuase of the disgraceful way the execution was shown on TV and because I am uncomfortable with state murder anyway, but you did warn me and this is NG, so I accept that.

i feel that you should have had music, and your reason was a little lame- as long as you have an off button any music is usually acceptable- at tleast thats how I vote- I would have thought the Death March would be appropriate.

Although there are enough ways I do thing that other reviewer had a point- he was actually hanged!
IceDragon64 of the Dragons & Spirits

[Newgrounds 06 memory book]

Its actually good!

I don't like pic gallerys much, even 'official' ones.
however, I liked the tank thing with good sound at the beginning and it had quite a bit of interaction and a good lot of pics-
Choice of three music and off was good
couldn't you put in a few more pics of special days? Aren't there any office photo's you could put in for Clock Day or something? It just seemed a bit lame compared to the rest.

Best Wishes to you all from the Dragons & Spirits. PM me if y'all come to London sometime, we will meet up with yous
IceDragon64

[Stick tutorial (two-lan.)]

Good tut.

+ some good graphics
+ mostly well explained
+ good interactivity/options- especially two languages
+ lots of subjects and explanations
+ I liked the introduction to sticks

-music turned on but not off
-in Animation I did not understand you- "Now insert 5 layers on each other layer" were you talking about the three layers or did you mean 5 Key frames?
-please explain briefly what the coding does in Good Hits
-slow mo 2. didn't uderstand what you did

-some english is poor- If you would like me to edit all the english, I can go through all the spelling, meaning and puctuation, but I would liek to be included in the credits "Text Edited by IceDragon64"- there is a lot of work to be done!

Looks good- I learnt a little- got potential
Best Wishes,
Ice