Reviews for Piggy123s flash tutorial

[idiot-buster]

It was not helpfull

This is just useless. Some of the buttons did not work and if they did they did not yeald to much information. Take for example, the dress up game link lead to a blank circle and nothing more.

Before you make another one, make sure you have all of the buttons working and when you click something thers something to learn in each section and not just a circle or some random actionscript. i really think that you did not put to much effort into this at all and needs to be worked on alot.

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piggy123 responds:

ok thanks i am working on a really big new tut with working buttons and that screen is the end of the movement tutorial

[FattyWhale]

(title in work)

Sorry, but this is just unacceptable. I'm sure you've heard it all before, but the simple truth is, this tutorial hardly works. Some buttons are broken, others don't lead where they should. You should have at least tried this before submitting it. I guess some of the script is usable, but that's really only if you want to listen to some annoying, hardly audible voice telling you how to do things.

The best thing you can do is learn flash a bit more before trying to teach others. Because seeing the way this is laid out I wouldn't trust your advice on Flash.

piggy123 responds:

i made it like when i first got flash

[KrevZabijak]

You put some effort into this.

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(Audio)
The introduction was fairly cute, albeit extremely difficult to understand throughout the entire tutorial. Nice idea, though!
Clicking on Flashy? more than once will cause the audio to layer over itself.

( Animation/Visuals/Effects )
The interface could really be polished with a few minutes of work. Borders, transparency manipulation, text effects could all be improved upon.
Making all fonts the same, and the same size would be good- consistency in tutorials is always a good thing. Haphazard red text on black boxes doesn't do much to encourage people to try bigger and better things.
Pretty much, clicking any button in the tutorial pages brings me to another section, and the audio continuously overlaps itself. It's... overwhelming at points.
Also, at many places, there's no button to return to the beginning, leaving the viewer lost.

( Method of Conveyance/What I got from it overall)
Clicking "Move guy with keys" plays the intro again. Clicking the "dressup" box brings me to a round black circle on a white background, with a black rectangle at the top left with the word "END" scribbled by hand in blue. Very poor quality of buttons, but that can always be improved upon! Plenty of tutorials out there.

Overall, I count this as a draft of a tutorial and by no means finished whatsoever. But I do commend you for your effort. I hope to see you improve in the future!

piggy123 responds:

soory the keyframes are messed cause i just added a preloader

[Fro]

I learned nothing here.

~ Animation/Graphics ~

Again, very poor design. Looks like it was thrown together really quick with no effort put into it at all. Organization and a good background would make this look so much better.

~ Story/Content ~

This wasn't very good at all in my opinion. When I clicked the top button to go to the move the guy with an arrow all it did was replay the voice of the guy again. When I clicked on the button for the dress up game it loaded the arrow moving thing.

The only useful piece of information was the action script, but because of the way the flash doesn't work very good and the design I wouldn't even trust using the code.

~ Audio ~

Not only can you not understand what the guy is saying, but sometimes if you would click the buttons too fast we would talk even when it went back to the play screen, etc.. The sound was really messed up and you should have used a real voice if you were going to do something with a voice.

~ Overall ~

This needs to be worked on all the way across. The design needs to be so much better, the buttons need to work properly, and the audio needs to be from a real voice actor instead of that weird voice you used.

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piggy123 responds:

sorry i made it a while ago

[iCurrie]

Another 5 Score.

Once again.

Your idea and what you aimed for was achieved. You had the basics of flash put into this and these little things will really help beginners into the world of flash. But once again, This wasn't flawless.

You could have made this so much better if you, once again, Just put more effort into your drawing and graphics. If you had better looking buttons, backgrounds, and menus, Then your score would have increased by around .3. Which is a huge increase for flash movies and games.

So if you just look into tiny things, and really only an extra few hours work, You can make these works of your so much better!

Also, With flash tutorials these days. They come with normally around 10+ tutorials in the one movie. Especially the Tut Collabs every year or two. So in order to make your tutorials better, You should pack it full with more information and make it more like a one stop shop :)

Your fairly new, So you have potential.

piggy123 responds:

i made this a while back so the drawing suck but thanks anyway