Mrputter's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Dress Our King!]

A great dress up game

I wish there were more dress up games on NG which can match this games quality.

I love the fact you gave the user so many different types of music to choose from, but I couldn't find a mute button, which is something more or less every game needs.

The graphics were very good, I loved the cursor :3, and the backgrounds were very nice.

Just a couple of things to improve on though....

1) Add a layers button, as at the moment I can't place some of the objects on top of others.

2) Make SBC a little bit bigger

3) You could clean up the game, by adding menus where all the content can be found.

In the end, it was a great game, so well done :).

~~Review Request Crew~~

ThaDj responds:

Thanks for the wonderful review, I'll remember the mute button for other games - And if I ever create another dress-up, the other three useful tips as well :)

[Smiley Avoider]

A neat little game

It is quite a nice game.
The graphics are lovely and simple, and the music suits the game well.

There are a few slight improvements which would make the game a bit better.

First of all, you may want to add lives to the game. Three will be enough, but this will definitely give the game a larger life-span.

When playing on the 'score' mode, I did find it quite hard to collect the smilies. A difficulty selection before both games would be best.

The pre-loader wasn't as presentable as the rest of the game.

A mute button is important, especially if people are listening to their music, while playing this.

Anyway, well done with this game, and good luck with all your future projects :D.

[Newgrounds Helpful Guide]

Another great guide for Newgrounds :)

I think that you've done brilliantly here.

The presentation scores more or less top marks, the choice of colour and the background are all related to NG.
The one slightest bit of improvement that could be done here, would be designing a cursor for the game, but it's nothing drastic.

The choice of music was good overall, as everyone knows those tunes well.

Finally, the questions were very good, and it's great that you added the explanations in the end.

So well done, it was a great little quiz, and good luck with all your fututre projects :)

From the Review Request Club

[Being a Helpful NG'er]

A brilliant guide :).

This is a near perfect tutorial, it is clearly written, and not too wordy, which is great.

The graphics were fine. Granted the choice of colour wasn't the most sophisticated of choices, but it was very presentable.

Sticking with the presentation, it would have been even better, if you designed a cursor, and made a nice design for the movement buttons.

Personally, the music wasn't to my taste, so I'm glad that there was a mute button. There was one tiny error in the flash, which is when you click the sound button more than once, an extra bit of music will play.

If there is anything you could add to make this better, it would be a short multiple choice quiz at the end of the 'Good Review' category, so the users can get all the info drilled into their head.

Well that's about it, well done with the tutorial, and good luck with all your future projects :).

From the 'Review Request Club'.

RohantheBarbarian responds:

Yeah the sound loop is an issue I'll work on in the future.

As for the navigation buttons and general presentation, I got some complains in my last flash that there was too much colour, so I tried to limit the colour without eradicating it. It's tough to find a good balance.

Anyway, glad you liked it, and thanks for an awesome review.

[Pongnop]

A lovely concept ;)

It's such a simple concept, and it still plays very well.

A few minor tweaks should be considered though.

The choice of colours aren't exactly eye-catching. Try to liven the game up.

Maybe a lives system wouldn't be a bad idea.

Give a second option to the user, where they can choose what difficulty they want their game to be throughout.

Well, that's all I can think about now. Good luck with all your future projects ;).

[Naruto RPG]

Looks promising :)

When this game is completed, it will definitely have a chance of reaching the front page, as the graphics are great, and what you plan to add in the main game makes a lot of sense.

A couple more tips

Add a help option on the start menu, and on the top of the screen, as I have never seen Naruto, so I have no clue about some of the stat options.

Give the game about 3 separate loading spaces, because if more than one person is playing your game on a certain computer, they would want their own file, rather than playing on someone else's.

Also make sure you have a volume control and mute button.

Well, I hope that was useful, and good luck with the ultimate game :D.

eBlitz responds:

Thanks, I never really thought people would enjoy it this much, I've still got a lot graphics to go though but I've already managed to improve some.

I'll work something out with a help system or at least a tutorial for new players.

Actually I was thinking of adding 3 save spaces (For some reason I'm imagining something similar to the way Zelda's save system works so just 3 "profiles" and a you can view a few stats about each one before you load any.

And I'll at least have a mute button ;) I'll need to look a bit more into controlling sound to figure out the volume level but it's a great idea and i'll be sure to add it.

Thanks for the review.

[Formula D]

Great design, poor end-product

When the menu screen was shown, I was very very impressed with the menu's design, the options available, and the amount of cars on offer.
Unfortunately the cars themselves are uncontrollable.
If that could be fixed, you would have a very good game here.

Other things you could consider are...
Leader boards
Cars to race against.
Colour options for cars

Anyhoo, good luck with all your future products :).

[Bombators Multiplayer]

Wow.

This is a fantastic multi-player game, and this definitely deserves front page, or some other type of recognition.

Well done, and good luck with any future games :).

LorenzGames responds:

Thank you very much! :)

[Where's Billy 1.5]

Not bad but....

...this game can be made much better.

For Example, you could...

1) Give more detail to the character. At the moment Billy isn't a very interesting person to find.

2) Have 3 or 4 difficulty levels for the user to choose from.

3) Put a stopwatch at the top of the screen which shows the user how long it took them to complete each level (and show them the average time spent per level, and total time spent to complete the game.

4) Add a mute button

5) Maybe even add a few more songs to the list (Not 100% necessary though).

6) If you're really ambitious, you could make an 'arcade mode', where the user has a given amount of time to find Billy.

7) Make a high-score table.

Well that's it for now. Best of luck with all your future projects!

funkycaveman responds:

thanks for the tips, needed for the next game

[Mouse Maze 2 (WNXX)]

Ouch!

Some people have been a bit cruel about this game.
It isn't a disaster at all, it's pretty good.

For example, the loading screen and choice of music.

To make it even better I would do the following.

1) Before the game starts give the user a choice of cursor graphics to choose from (About 3 or 4).

2) Improve the use of colour. Maybe give each level a different colour, rather than all of them being blue.

3) Repeat the music when it finishes.

4) Give the user 3 lives.

5) There aren't enough levels, and most of the levels in here are bloody hard.
I would give the game about 10-15 levels, where the level difficulty would slowly increase.

6) Add some obstacles. For example 'opening and closing doors'.

I think if you did all the above, the game would receive a score towards 3.00, which would be brilliant!

WasabiNinja-XX responds:

Yeah sorry I scrapped this game, but thanks anyways! I will take your advice, and I am sorry for releasing the wrong version. This is actually my rough draft. There are a few bugs and problems but my cat tripped over the cord before I could save the better one. Stupid cat...