Yay! After 10 months of depositing (since I became an official member) I have finally managed to become one of the top 2000, active users (although I am actually only the 2,858th top user). I'm sure I will get that number down further though as time goes on. My point total as of February 28th was 3,090exp. I wonder what the experience is for the lowest person that qualified? I can't be too far. I wonder how much higher that minimum will be in another year. Something to maybe keep track of. Wow, almost a million users and I am right up there at the top after only 10 months. That's pretty incredible.
I wanted to do that neat box, screen capture like you guys do but I have no idea how you managed it and even the long screen capture didn't work for me because it doesn't all fit in my 17 inch monitor. How do you do the picture that has the list with the first five and the second five, side by side?
Another thing that I have to say, now that I can vote, it's that it's a bit unwieldy. The flashes don't even seem to be in alphabetical order and it's really easy to mess up. When I click a place for a flash and then decide to change it, it pops up in both places. What's with that?
Also, does it make any difference in what order you pick them? Does everything you pick get one point or is there a sliding scale. Like first 2 places get a full point while the last two get only half a point. I haven't seen any of these questions addressed before (though I may have missed them) so an answer would be appreciated. Thanks!
Well, here are my votes and a little bit of the reasoning behind them. I want to make a positive contribution to this process and have tired to follow the guidelines that Tom has asked us to follow. I think all of these choices have merit.
1. One- A short
- A great title that connects with the film in an unexpected way, nice ending, decently animated. A definite thinking man's short. I like how the author used abstract animation for this as well. I really felt this movie all had a certain quality to make it my choice for best of the month.
2. Ghost Out Part 2
- I love a well made film noir detective movie. This was my personal favorite of the month.
3. Neighboring Nations
-Another good movie about a fanatically devout Christian. Original characters and high production values.
4. Primal War 4
- This original series keeps improving. High time that one of it's episodes gets a monthly recognition.
5. Chase 'n' Pac-Man
- Great little parody for Pac Man. I'm not sure how much of this was stolen from the Family Guy joke that it admits to robbing and it *is* a bit short. It may not be as deserving as some of the others but the artist is a great contributor to NG with all sorts of creative ideas and it WAS pretty funny... I think a win here is deserved.
6. Time Squad [Part 1]
- Blockman is another great flash that has started here. The author has done great things with this series and I think a monthly award would be a good show. I'm not a big fan of nut jobs like Block but the addition of the conscious really gives a nice dimension. It's also grown on me a bit since I saw the first episode. I picked this over Blockman 6 because he put more work into it and he's got his first multiple arc story here.
7. Geeks In Love
- Wow! That Sour Lemon band is really becoming the NG band of choice. There are other original song that get used here too but this is the first time that the bad behind the songs really is making a name for themselves here on NG that I know of. They keep pumping out all these neat songs and letting popular artist use them for animations here. It's really nice to have this sort of thing so there is a real alternative to using copyrighted songs. Quality stuff. It deserves recognition. We need more of this kind of collaboration. Best way to do that is with positive reinforcement aka, high scores, lots of views and winning awards like this one.
8. LR: Prelude
- Yea, you can say it's "just" a fight movie but it's well made and uses original characters. They put a lot of time making this and that is exactly what NG wants to promote.
9. Mc Donald's videogame
- I'm not big into games and I didn't see anything that really wowed me. Not a fan of most side scrollers and defend your bases and whatnot. However, to ignore games completely would be unfair as they get 5 awards too and need to be voted for. I feel a person should at least vote for 2 of either movies or games if they favor either medium. Minimum! So I will.
-Anyway, this game seems to be an intelligent, resource management game. Played it for a bit and it seems okay.
10 Warbears
- Nice graphics good puzzle solving. There is room for improvement in this series. It didn't end when you make a game losing mistake and there is no checkpoints so you have to start all the way at the beginning when you lose. Still it's pretty fun and you have to do a fair bit of thinking to make something this deceptively complex. Kudos to the author of this. I hope to see more.
Now I wait to see how it pans out. *sits back and relaxes*
