Reviews for A Quick Sprite Tutorial

[Deranged-Productions]

Okay, sure, why not.

Ahh, I remember the good old days, when you actually had to be good at something to make a tutorial on it. Sadly, times have changed.

Oh, and yes, I did notice the major problem with the movie. It blew.

Now, what you should do is actually use more than one sprite. And don't interchange them haphazardly. You've got one sprite of Sonic running, like a paper cutout, then he goes up and then you use one frame again, but it's a different sprite from a different game. This leads me to assume that not only were you too lazy to make a movieclip of running, you were too lazy to bother ensuring it was the same sprite sheet. That, and a total overuse of the very lazily done transformations. And the text was jerky and some was on for too little time to read. Essentially, it was unpleasant.

I can see what you're trying to do by helping people, and I commend you for it. Thing is, you generally have to be better than that before it'll do any good.

Zornkatzu responds:

Ok. I'm going to clear up one thing about the movie. That sprite movie was made when I was first introduced to flash. At that time, I didn't even know what a movie clip was. I used that sorry excuse of a sprite movie, to help show people what NOT to do.

Now, about the Sonic sprite, your correct I didn't use a movie clip as I should have. Why? Because when this was made, I didn't know how at the time of its creation.

However, I believe you are mistaken about the sprites. When Sonic is running, then goes up a hill and continues, it is indeed the same sprite. If you are referring to the motion tween portion of the tutorial, then you are correct. I lost the original sheet, and since it was simply a run through anyhow, I used a sprite from the other sheet I had.

I believe you were very blunt in your review, however I thank you for speaking your mind. And yes, my next flash will be much, much better.

~ Mitsubishi

[TwistedMoonlight]

Advice

The music gets a little repetitive. I think this would apply more to the type of person needing your tutorial who would be reading it over carefully and taking their time.
Also some of the text at the top is cut off occasionally.
And the scores don't mean anything.

Good luck =)
TM

Zornkatzu responds:

Thanks for your CONSTRUCTIVE criticism. It is very appreciated.

I must have missed the text cut-off your talking about. I'll have to look into that (if I ever recover the .fla)

As for the music, perhaps I should add a sound changer; allow people to choose the music they want to listen to from a list.

Anyway, thanks for your review.