Unusual Flash
<Good Points>
Explained the topic good and sound quality was good
<Improvement>
You can add some humor maybe. I don't know
3/5 homer8722
Reviews for "How To Win Portal Awards"
Frenzy responds:
Thanks.
Well
It was pretty good but It was way to obvious
of course your gonna have to do your worst to get turd of the week award..
The sound got a bit annoying a couple minutes into it..
Frenzy responds:
Thanks for your review!
Hmmm...
^^Good Points^^
I really liked the introduction to this. The music was really cool, and the animations were pretty well done as well.
^^Needs Improving^^
This is kind of like that movie "How to write reviews", which I'm sure you remember. This really didn't shed much light on how to win awards other than the obvious, like "make it really good" is kind of a given to win the daily feature. Sorry, but this doesn't really help me too much.
Frenzy responds:
Thanks for your review, first of all!
Also, now that I think about it, I guess this would be helpful to newcomers to Newgrounds who don't really know much about the site...
Once again, thanks for reviewing, any review is appreicated!
for what is
+++ Cool idea. Subject matter instantly grasps people's attention. Well that of authors anyway.
-- Poor buttons. Sort out the hitboxes on frame 4. Perhaps use a big rectangle in that frame.
+++ Cool bg logo.
-- Kinda garish text colours and button colours.
---- Really thin on actual info. There's a lot of tips and tricks you can use to get these awards, none of which are mentioned.
--- The bg for the 'voice' version is really boring. Maybe you could have instead had an option - text alone/text with voice?
- Voice option does seem kinda pointless.
++ Cool sounding wee snippets.
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Nice idea, but for what is essentially just textual information it's just not informative enough.
Frenzy responds:
okay, thanks.
.frenZy.
You can do much better
~The good~
Not a bad idea to tell people what every award means, as it's pretty hard to figure out what underdog and review crew picks awards are for people that haven't been here for too long. I also enjoyed the techno music, as it suits the introduction, which also looks pretty cool.
~The bad~
You could've done a lot more than you presented in this flash. For one, I disliked the background. Once again, you chose white as a background, which can be very boring to look at. People don't like to bored, even if they're watching a tutorial flash. Also, the pictures were just plain horrendous, you only had one picture that barely even showed the awards you were talking about, also, in some awards, like the review crew pick, you didn't even have any pictures. How hard is it to cut out the awards on photoshop? Another huge problem I had was the voices and text were seperated, which was a very stupid idea. The right thing to do is put a voice in with subtitles. Not to mention the voice was VERY hard to understand, and some of the text was choppy, so combining them would be a lot more legitement. The biggest problem, though, was that you just gave a general desciption on how to win an award, besides "make a good flash" or "make a very good flash".
Overall, not a bad idea, but the presentation was god-awful. Sorry for being to critical, but I hope this review was helpful!
1/5
Frenzy responds:
Hmm... not some bad ideas you had here. I was actually trying to get pictures of the actual award, but one: I don't have Photoshop 9I have the Fireworks Demo), and 2) I tried saving them, and then that image came out.
Thanks for reviewing!