Age/Gender: 19, Male
Location: Ireland, under a rainbow
Job: Being bored
I've been described as a mixture of Mel Gibson, Jonathon Swift and old milk. But that was by a homeless man who told me I had magic shoes and that I was the only hope to stop Regionalisation. Really I'm bored, funny (apparently) and good at flash. So, hi
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You give some very good tips and it's all laid out very well, but you didn't have a section on fully tweening animations (which believe me, can be done well).
Also, I wasn't convinced by your lip syncing method, and it was a fairly brief nad vague explanation. As far as I'm concerned to do it accurately you need to actually look at your mouth in the mirror as you say the line.
But, overall it's a good, useful tutorial
Author's Response:
Indeed there is no tween segment, it can be made well yes but it's hard and time consuming (you can make good tween stuff fast but that takes pure talent imo) also I'm not that very good at tweens. on the Lip-synch I kinda agree with you. The reason I choosed to put it in even tough I'm not all that good at it was simply to show how I found a way to at least be able to create movies with lip-synch in them. The mirror tip is a realy good one.
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It was alright, it's kind of hard to judge these kinds of animations when everything moves quick and it's so short.
What I will say though is that this is a good starting place for you, what to improve? Maybe add some kind of actual plot, the sounds were fine, but maybe add detail and flexibility to the characters, even if you do keep using stickmen.
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You might have wanted to test the game a bit more though, as it is it's a little clunky but more importantly, the chat window completely blocks the other player on the screen, that kinda ruins it. Also, even multiplayer pong is a bit basic, maybe add a bit to it or try a different game.
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I don't really understand the plot, partially it might have to do with the text cutting away suddenly once or twice but also I think it wasn't fully explained.
The art was pretty good, but you didn't really do any animation except a couple of tweens and mouth movement.
About mouth movement, don't just use a couple of set images and usually if you're going to do it you'll include audio dialogue as opposed to text.
Author's Response:
its a trailer
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This is good, I liked the fact that you used more screenshots to demonstrate what to do, something most people skip over.
You may want to mention which version of flash/actionscript you're using in case people get confused by differences but overall it's good, although you haven't done a tutorial about much and it's on a fairly narrow topic.
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This is brilliant, I love the system and all the different characters.
I have no criticisms at all for this game, and that's saying something.
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"I really like this, please add to it"
I like this a lot, but if you added difficulties (where the bar moves faster and stuff) and maybe some other minigames it could be getting a ten.
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Simple idea, but it works well.
I can see this getting addictive.
I also like the professional touches like the scoreboard, sound effects and unintrusive music.
Author's Response:
Thanks, I wanted it to be pretty simple to understand.
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It's ok. But it seems like too much of a little thing you do as a test before doing your real game.
And why Micheal Jackson? That just seems randomly thrown in.
Maybe try something a bit different. Good start though.
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I like this, it's very weird and the atmosphere is done well and kept throughout.
And it's defininitely original.
One small thing that you might not want to hear, I hope this isn't meant to be funny...
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