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Score: 9

"Heavy on the Portal there... [749]"

by: gfoxcook

date: August 21, 2008

And yeah, you mentioned that in your comments. And I claim Portal as my fave game from Orange Box (it's listed as my fave game on Steam, as well, though I have 25 games, including the great Bioshock, therein) even though I have 10x more playtime on HL2+eps and Team Fortress 2.

So... yeah, nothing wrong with Portal, it is brilliant gameplay condensed into a tiny gem... but I have a feeling that more people who'd love your flash would find it if you had named this "Still Alive" or "Portal song" or... anything more accurate/descriptive.

"ANYWAY... this [flash] is great."

You rely upon ye olde lyrics scroll a bit too much in parts, but then again the final credits of Portal rely almost entirely on lyrics scroll during this song (the ASCII art Valve put in... adds a lot, though), but I liked your use of a super-simplified monitor face during much of it... interesting assemblage of "still alive" dead folks at the end of your flash, too.

But the main reason I'm actually reviewing this... and the main reason I enjoyed your flash... is that it introduced me to Coulton's Skullcrusher Mountain, which I hadn't heard. My gf and I loved Portal and Still Alive, of course, and I've heard through the nerd grapevine that Coulton is the MAN. A geek musician right up there with Flight of the Conchords, Moxy Fruvous, and They Might be Giants.

But... sadly... I only had heard Still Alive, the remix, and his acoustic version with his own singing. i.e. three versions of one song........ until now. Finally... FINALLY, I have heard a 2nd song by him. And it is excellent. Both in terms of its folksy/rock/country hybrid feel.... but even more especially due to its lyrical genius. It's like watching The Venture Brothers (a show my gf is even more fanatical about than I am myself).

You, sir... have done us both a huge service by putting this song in your flash as a 2nd bonus song during the credits.

:::listens to it for the fourth time in the past day::: Win. Pure win.

Score: 10

"OH MY FU*KING Darkside7000"

by: thexgrim

date: March 23, 2008

ive completed portal dozens of times just to hear that song its soo cool(and people that submits the song) [thaat means U] its just soo good. WAY TO GO D00D. ps im great fan. oh btw great animation and everything but thats just usual for u right? :D

Score: 7

"It was.. OK"

by: thecatreturns123

date: March 3, 2008

It was O.K. I like Jonathan coulton and the animation was well timed. I like the song and it was overall pretty good, but some of the pictures were low quality and you could have animated the face a liitlemore. I like that you've tried but I think it needs work.

Score: 0

"lame copycat... ::"

by: werwolf

date: March 3, 2008

aw, come on! if you're trying to copy something - in this case the VG CATS animation, google for it, the strip id is 250 - then you should really do better and at least have the decency to credit your inspiration...

Score: 7

"not bad, needs work"

by: nekoheehee

date: March 3, 2008

its been done, and done better but the VG Cats artist whos name escapes me right now. there where a few little problems i saw that you might want to fix up and update/resubmit. in the very beginning the black box you use to make the typeing effect is a lil bit to short. its no big deal but the green dot on the bottom of the text shows up well on the black, just delete the box and tween, make a bigger box and re-tween it. it's like a 30 second fix. same basic problem with the braking heart. you can see some of the black through the middle. i suggest just moving it over a little and re-tweening that part too. also the "fire" box was kinda cheap. you should put a bit of work into a movieclip of lapping fire. use a lot of layers and the shape tween and after playing around you can get a good effect :D
all in all it wasnt bad, but could be better. i think you should fix up this stuff and maybe make a second short for one of the other games and make it like a "pick your movie" kinda flash. keep it up, i cant wait to see what come next