Sorry, the whole point of that 2nd post was to link to page 156, where Shanus's last list actually is.

At 6/25/08 07:52 PM, Bezman meant to write:

To reviewers - this is the list of requests made between the last update and now. Haggard or Shanus will probably tally the points for these reviews on the 6th/7th July. If you haven't already completed them, I suggest you first review some stuff from Shanus's list on page 156.

Seems to be becoming a tradition. Sorry.

To requestors - if you made a request since my last list and it is not listed below, I have made a mistake. I am, after all, only human. Let me know if I missed your request or got the link wrong.

To reviewers - this is the list of requests made between the last update and now. Haggard or Shanus will probably tally the points for these reviews on the 6th/7th July. If you haven't already completed them, I suggest you first review some stuff from Shanus's list on page 154.

General Rules for Requesters:
If you are planning on requesting reviews, please:
-Make no more than 3 requests within one week.
-Respond to reviews.
-Be patient. Due to the points system, you may not see reviews until up to two weeks after you request.
-Post a direct link to the submission(s) you want reviewed.
-Do NOT request without posting a link.
-Do NOT just say "Review everything".
-Do NOT request reviews for the same submission more than once.

Movie Requests:(4)
Bahamut's Favourite PMs by Bahamut
Jim and Pals Shorts: Ep 6 by Peter (Jimtopia)
Dragonball Z Episode 2 by Formalz
The Music Video Collab by Asbjorn Ottesen Steinskog (GlowingMonkey)

Game Requests:(1)
Awesome Sprite Tutorial by Swizardv2

Audio Requests:(10)
.:Sweeping Through Life:. by GronmonSE
DKC- Ice Cave Chant Slow Mix by no name (mariomusicmaker1)
-rT- Nexus by ReaperTechno
HIT ME Organ Donor by David Franco (SymbolCymbal)
Enigmatic Automatic by gregaaron89
+Utopia+ by Loveblimp (WritersBlock)
Stuck on a Name by jxl180
Ake 2 by Fredrik Svensson (svere)
Chocolate Rain by The Stig (OctaneVein)
just rock on by jet (piggy123)

Spotlighted Recommendations:
none

You get points for reviewing recommendations.
You may make a recommendation if you reviewed 100% of the previous weeks requests and recommendations. It should have fewer than 30 reviews.

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Early list because I leave Scotland tomorrow. 15 requests despite the earlier list - an active week!

Welcome to new/returning members.

Deleted a few words from the rules for sake of brevity. As usual, tell me if you think it was better before.

I have 2 small suggestions/questions regarding 'official' club business. Firstly, how about some 'form' of the rules for reviewers/requestors to be posted on the top of each page? Normally we only move about 1 page each week, but for more active weeks like last week, it might be nice to have a little thing to copy/paste to the top of each page, so those who click a link to the last page can quickly see what goes on here. I know I mentioned it a while back and there was some reason it never happened, but I can't remember what that reason was.

Secondly - how would you two review-list-maintainers (Shanus/Haggard) feel about raising the max.# of reviews in a permitted reccommendation? I really wanted to reccommend a game, since there's only one-ish on the list, but the ones I'd reccommend have over 30 reviews. Would 40 reviews make the list-making unmanagable?

At 6/21/08 10:09 AM, Haggard wrote:

How's the seperated lists been working out for you guys?

I think it works really well, especially with Shanus or me reposting the list in the update posts. This gives us more time to do the reviews AND everything looks as always. So, I think it's a win-win situation. ^^

I remember you being a supporter of the idea back when, so it was little surprise to hear you say that.

Little_rena and others who originally disliked the idea - have you totally changed your minds, or do you still have quibbles?

At 6/24/08 09:40 PM, genee wrote: May i join? i just found this post , cause my friend is part of it already.
thanks for making a club like this :)
At 6/24/08 11:07 PM, Alpharius120 wrote: I'll join, yo.

Welcome! As already said, review the requests posted in the last list, then after reporting back to state how many points you've gotten, you'll be added to the next list.

Remember to actually give some specific constructive criticism - maybe say something you liked, state something you didn't, saying how it can be improved and also maybe give a summary of your overall opinion.

I'm not sure asking for reciprocal reviews after a 1-liner is polite.

Specifically for the Metal songs on my profile. *Hint, Hint*

Give us a few direct links before tonight and they'll be on the next list!

At 6/25/08 09:00 AM, Shadow-1409 wrote: Hmmm, if i participate in a collab, and then request it to be reviewed. BUT i am not co authored, do i still have to review it?
Even if i have 2 or 3 pieces in it?

I would say no.

Just make sure to let Shanus/Haggard know in this thread so they know to change your quota.

At 6/25/08 09:24 AM, AnalPenguinFarming wrote: I would like to request to rejoin the RRC again. I know I left a while back, but I haven't gotten to review much in a long time, and I would love to get back into it. Hopefully you guys can afford to let me back in as I'm very sure it's getting fairly busy here lately. Thanks in advance.

Sure thing! I'm sure you know the jig and also know that more reviewers are ALWAYS welcome.

Review the stuff on Shanus's update, then tell us your points and you'll be included in the next list.

At 6/24/08 07:15 PM, Coronus42 wrote: If it's just sitting on the frame code outside of a function or event handler it's not going to be run through again. I'd do something like this:

That's the answer. Code on a frame is only run when the frame loads.

To have some code that runs ever frame, I personally make a shape off-stage, make it an mc then give it the code

onClipEvent(enterFrame){
  //put the score-checking code or anything else that should happen every frame here
}

Simple, but effective.

I still use the original AS though (still using Flash MX), so assuming you're more up-to-date than I, Coronus' method may be better.

At 6/23/08 08:33 AM, Corky52 wrote: Alright guys. I have reviewed from the entire list that was just posted, now exactly what do I do? Sorry, but I'm new here.

Now you've posted your points, either review the requests that have been made since, or just wait for my list on Thursday (I can't do it later than Thursday afternoon as I'm heading South).

At 6/23/08 12:12 PM, Seasons wrote: i'm looking for some reviews on my music! i'll return the favor to all and anyone who helps!

Sure!

Give us the links to the specific songs you'd like reviewed (picking up to 3 that you care more about).

At 6/23/08 11:12 AM, Evan wrote: Those were just some different looks the main character had in his normal state.

He's going to be looking a lot different after he switches personalities.

Sounds quality then.

Also, original concept. I look forward to seeing it!

Hairhats
That's the most amazing thing I've seen since http://www.blublu.org/sito/video/muto.ht m

My favourite was the elephant, but they're all astounding. Shame there's no background about how it was done - PVA in their hair? Hrm...

At 6/23/08 12:09 AM, Evan wrote: Well, as far as the background goes, he's meant to be an average joe that can accomplish average tasks, yet has alternate personalities. You can switch to these personalities throughout the game to accomplish certain things that he himself could not. If that makes any sense...

When I saw it, I thought those faces were gonna be just incidental things - the character reacting when something around him happens.

If it's a key game mechanic and we need to be able to tell what 'personality' we currently are, maybe make them more distinguished? Like maybe have angry guy with a red face, bulging vein, worried guy with a raincloud above him... maybe content guy could have some rosy cheeks and add some sunshine around him?

Or at least exaggerate the faces and maybe poses a bit more?

Just an idea - if it's difficult to tell them apart at the scale they're being used, it could get annoying...

At 6/23/08 12:40 AM, Shanus wrote: 06. 2144 | 297/825 | 036.00 | 17/17 | Bezman
All Requests Completed:
Coop83, Little-Rena, Haggard, Shanus, Shadow-1409, phantomlassuk, Metal-Therapy, HeavyTank, TheBellmaker

P.S. I should be on there.

sorry for double posting again.

At 6/23/08 12:40 AM, Shanus wrote: Review this Week: 171
Average per member: 8.55
Average per movie: 9.5

Great co-operative scores!

New To the List:
TheBellmaker

Your reviews have turned out to be great ones! Good job!

Leaving the List :( :
CyberDevil, Jurian

A lot of folk leaving... but I still approve of the new rule.

Still haven't completed my uber spreadsheet, but I might,

Is that the one that'd automate parts of the reviewer-update?

I'm just surprised how late you stayed up. That's why I always assumed you were American until Haggard pointed out otherwise. Thanks for the update!

At 6/22/08 05:17 AM, xx3pacxx wrote: how do i make a score system in my flash game

Make a dynamic text box with the variable of '_root.score'. (Make it dynamic and input the variable in the properties box)

Then on your main timeline initialise a variable of 'score'. ('var score = 0;')

Whenever your score should increase, add the code '_root.score+=10;', replacing the number with whatever it should increase by.

When the game restarts, have '_root.score=0;'

There's probably negligibly better ways to do it if you're using a more recent version of Flash, but that's what I'd do.

At 6/21/08 08:12 AM, Corky52 wrote:

At 6/21/08 01:33 AM, Metal-Therapy wrote:

At 6/21/08 12:29 AM, Corky52 wrote:

So, how long do I have to do them. Because I won't be able to start writing them until Monday.

You'll want to wait until the list Shanus puts out on Sunday, then. You would have until he posts the list on Sunday night to finish this week's requests, but if you can't do anything until Monday, then just start off with the new list.

So pretty much I don't want to start yet right? So I'm really not a member yet. I will start reviewing from a list thats posted Sunday. Sounds good enough to me.

The list posted on Sunday would be a repost of the list I posted. As I wrote at the top, "Haggard or Shanus will probably tally the points for these reviews on the 29th/30th June.". So if you want to do a review today or tomorrow, do it from the list I posted. Literally the same.

OP, sounds like you' ve included some silence in your original song when you exported. Just trim the silence before exporting it from whatever music-making software you used!

In flash, it's a simple matter of opening the properties panel, where you can select the number of loops. Assuming you're already doing that, I suggest editing the mp3 itself.

 
if (firstinstancename.hitTest(secondinstancename)) {
  gotoAndStop (framenumber);
}

It's a full stop, not a comma. That code is AS1 and so is valid in Flash 5 forwards (including MX).

maybe try something like:
(on the player)
this._x+=dx;

(on each wall)
if(this.hitTest(player)){
while(this.hitTest(player)){
player._x-=player.dx;
}}

// if he hits the wall he cant move
if (hitTest(wall){
player.dx = 0
}

But if we can't move - then he can't ever move away from it! Walls shouldn't immobilise someone, just block their path.

At 6/20/08 11:28 PM, Corky52 wrote: I would like to join and start reviewing for the very next set of reviews.

Seems you write quality reviews. Good stuff!

To join, I suggest you review the 6 requests I posted above (2 flash/4 audio) and then post your points once you've finished them, or within 8 days time.

Check Shanus's update on p154 to read the points system.

To requestors - if you made a request since my last list and it is not listed below, I have made a mistake. I am, after all, only human. Let me know if the unthinkable has happened and I missed your request or got the link wrong.

To reviewers - this is the list of requests made between the last update and now. Haggard or Shanus will probably tally the points for these reviews on the 29th/30th June. If you haven't already completed them, I suggest you first review some stuff from Shanus's list on page 154.

General Rules for Requesters:
If you are planning on requesting reviews, please do the following:
-Make no more than 3 requests within one week.
-Please respond to reviews.
-Due to the points system, you may not see reviews until up to two weeks after you request. Please be patient.
-Post a direct link to the submission(s) you want reviewed.
-DO NOT request without putting a link.
-DO NOT just say "Review everything".
-DO NOT request reviews for the same submission more than once.

Movie Requests:(1)
Wegra Adventure 3 by Michael (wegra2007)

Game Requests:(1)
Delayed Radar by Treerung

Audio Requests:(4)
Dreamwalker by David Franco (SymbolCymbal)
Listen to Your Heart(DeeZ RMX) by DeejayDeeZ
-rT- Nexus by -rT- Nexus
Final Moment (Alex Sandford) by Naitzmic

Spotlighted Recommendations:
none

You get points for reviewing recommendations.
You may make a recommendation if you reviewed 100% of the previous weeks requests and recommendations. It should have fewer than 30 reviews.

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Few requests. Summer laziness or exams?

I think I'll start doing this list on Thursdays. That'd be slightly easier for me and it'll also serve the purpose of letting people spend time over audio reviews (or whatever) a bit better.

Lastly, I think about a month ago, Little-Rena and someone else weren't too keen on my posting the early lists. I said we could open up discussion again in a month's time after we'd had time to adjust, so this is me opening up discussion again.

How's the seperated lists been working out for you guys?

13. No mute button. Sorry.

7. LARGE DIMENSIONS. the 800 by 600 maximum setting of NG is too large. I hate it when I have to resize my browser window to see a movie.

What screen size do you use? Surely your browser should have at least 800px width?

And what about all the mouse-manipulation games? Having a bigger screen allows folk to add more to a single-screen level without making everything tiny and really difficult to touch or avoid.

What would you call a reasonable size?

At 6/19/08 12:28 PM, GuyWithHisComp wrote: 1. When tutorials have music. I'm there to learn, not jam out.

Maybe he was talking about game tutorials, when you're learning how to control your characters etc. In which case, I'd personally agree with him, otherwise I'm with you.

Thanks for the replies and suggestions, but I wasn't looking for specific suggestions. I've already got a few ideas of what the preloader game could be.

I was actually just looking for general qualities that make a good pre-loader game.

For example, I note that all pre-loader games seem be be a highscore-based thing with no 'winning' status. I guess that's because a highscore can appeal to the 'conqueror' in us and it lets more simple (=> lower filesize) toys entertain us for longer. Furthermore, with a winning objective folk could win, then be bored again whilst the other MBs load up.

Perhaps more notably, I've decided that shorter play-periods are better for a preloader game. i.e. it should be hard so we lose quickly.

I think Highscores become relevant only when we've got some mode for comparison and with a shorter game time, we can quickly have an attempt at improving our score. Also, I feel that the few pre-loader games I've played where I've been able to survive until the actual thing loads are almost like a failure - I want to quickly get to the point of near-misses and inevitible failure, before trying again. Surviving with ease while the feature loads - whilst better than a solo loading bar - isn't much better in my opinion.

Maybe we expect pre-loader games to be quick, so don't get too annoyed if we die within seconds.

Then again, maybe this depends on personalities? Do you guys have examples of pre-loader games that did frustrate you? Do you have something to add or disagree with something above?

Preloader games must meet different concerns than the full feature, and I was hoping to get discussion going about the general differences between a great game/great preloader game and also general discussion on what the qualities of a great preloader game are.

At 6/18/08 07:32 PM, Hexobolic wrote: optimize your flash

of course! Why didn't we realise before - with optimisation, everything can be downloaded instantly? Incredible! If only everyone on NG knew about this before!

Seriously, I'd like you to give me the benefit of the doubt and assume I already do that.

At 6/18/08 05:45 PM, SupaPeeves wrote: Something like this

Not really a game. Something I made :D

Are you really citing that as a good pre-loader game? It wouldn't keep me interested for longer than 30s or however long it took to realise that there was no interaction beyond controlling your avatar. I mean, even adding horizontally shooting shapes and a highscore would only take around a Kb yet pay dividends in keeping folk interested.

I'm finally about to submit something big enough to merit making a pre-loader game for.

I wondered - what makes a good pre-loader game?

The rules must be simple of course - the game should perhaps be shallow and instantly gratifying so it doesn't require more time to have a laugh than the loading takes.

It must of course be small enough to load before any boredom sets in. But what size? At a guess, 100kb seems like the upper limit. Flash 5 had an option to check out how a file would play under a certain bandwidth, but I can't find the analogue in MX and that'd help decide.

Then other questions pop up - is it important for a pre-loader game to be thematically connected to the main feaure?

Should we avoid the pre-loader 'upstaging' the main feature - is it a failure if the pre-loader is as enjoyable as the main event?

Tell me your thoughts on what makes for a great pre-loader game.

At 6/16/08 03:34 PM, djbdr248 wrote: I made this match puzzle game but it is way to hard.
I need the rows to pull together after a row had been deleted.

Rows DO pull together. I presume you mean columns?

Conceptually, if you're storying everything as a 2D array, can't you just check each column after pulling stuff with 'gravity'?

for(n=0, n<number of columns, n++){
for(m=0, m<height of column, m++){
//if this bit is NOT empty
{
columnIsEmpty=false;
break();
}
}
if(columnIsEmpty){
go through the fields of the previous column, deleting them and pasting to this column;
}
}

Something like that?

o - Belleville Rendezvous, telling a story entirely visually (and with computers outputting more-traditional-looking work)

You can ask a review mod to delete it as a favour to you.

Bear in mind it's a favour...

At 6/15/08 03:51 AM, XwaynecoltX wrote: Now that i think about it i may have joined this club maybe over a year ago maybe 2x lol, anyways keep up the awsome reviewing people, we can never have too much review if ya know what i mean.

~X~

I remember that too... but you never actually kept up with the requests, which is why you're not on the list now.

Struggling to keep up with the pace, eh? ;-P

At 6/14/08 06:06 PM, phantomlassuk wrote:

Post your points whenever you want, as long as it's before Shanus or Haggard do the update. I think if you've already done all the reviews, you could just do it now.

Thanks for the new list i completed the list from last sunday, do we need to do all of these by tomorrow? thanks .

I was wondering the same thing...Seems like a huge ammount to have done by Sunday. I was assuming all those reviews that were requested over the last few days would make up next week's list. I PM'd Shanus basically asking the same thing. Either way I'll both lists done by tomorrow. :P

Sorry guys. I forgot to update the date of when the list is to be done by.

That list is the list to be done for the 22nd/23rd of June - it's just a preview of Sunday's list to ensure everyone always gets 8 days to do their reviews.

Sorry again for the confusion and welcome to the two new guys.

At 6/14/08 04:04 PM, mranarchy wrote: heh...this looks awesome, I'd love to contribute.

Brilliant!

I'm a little confused on the Idea of submitting it. are we welcome to?, or is this thread just a commentary on the project?

It's an attempt to get more contributors from outside Scotland. I'd love for everyone interested to start submitting stuff!

If so, is there a specific background colour to be used? for the wires too?,

No palette guidelines. Originally, I suggested the bg be 'black or a very dark colour', but experiments and feedback, I decided that having varied background colours works well, letting folk express themselves further. As long as the positioning is kept EXACT, wires will seem to flow, even if they're changing colour.

The wires, plugs/adaptors and sizing connect it enough, visually.

How do we know where to place the points where the wires join up to the pic?

Download the .tif I linked to in the first post. It should make it all clear.

Wires should be 5mm thick at the point they enter/exit and should be 165mm from one corner and 80mm from the other. If using outlines in your style, maybe don't count the outlines as part of the 5mm width guideline.

Cool stuff!

Is that a fractal? What program did you use?

This is another pic - one I started last night and kinda finished just now.

About aeroplanes, this is more 'literal' with the 4-way adaptor and the composition looks OK from 3 directions - something that'll help when it comes to putting pieces together.

At 6/14/08 02:37 PM, Shea08 wrote: I think this is an awesome idea, and a collab that I am genuinly interested in. Can't wait to see the finished product

Thanks! Do you have any ideas for what you'll do?

Slick stuff. I like your lines.

Only thing I could say is that the arms don't look 'right'. I mean, you've got the tiny torso, which is fair enough, but then the arms feel like they should be smaller too. Since they aren't, it kinda looks to me like his hands are floating.

Also, you need to do his tats! They're a distinguishing feature!