Score: 5

"Mediocre."

submission: Game : Police Sniper v0.7

date: January 18, 2003

A glorified game of whack-a-mole. Nothing really sets this apart from the rest of the NG sniper games.

Score: 10

"Hurray."

submission: Qi

date: January 16, 2003

Above all, I appreciate the enormous effort that you have clearly put into this movie. Oh, and Yoko Kanno--good choice.

Some (hopefully) constructive criticism:
The graphics sort of disagreed with me at times, Particularly in terms of the pre-rendered backgrounds. I think it might have been cooler if you had just done a paint-over in photoshop or painter. I've done some work in bryce, and just doing something to give it a hand-drawn style goes a long way (if you would like a before/after example, e-mail me: max_abernethy@hotmail.com). Also, I think the character might have been better as a flat silhouette. What I really -did- like was the way that everything was broken up into its elements, particularly the scenes where the landscapes flashed smoothly on and off.

Great job, looking forward to more work from you.

Score: 10

"Good point."

submission: Tribute To Animators

date: December 1, 2002

And thanks. I wouldn't be so presumptious as to say that the things I've made necessarily deserve better scores than what they got, but it does suck to post something and find that 10 people voted zeros just seconds later, obviously without having even played the game. Flash -is- hard, and I hope this makes people realize the time and effort that people put into it to make quality games and movies that the world can enjoy for free.

Score: 5

"not bad, but..."

submission: Alien Hominid

date: August 14, 2002

...please stop comparing your mediocre game to metal slug X. it was the same style in that it was a side scrolling shooter, but you didn't even get close to capturing the gameplay. nice graphics, but not so great design.

Score: 9

"well designed and executed"

submission: Demonic Goat: The Game

date: July 29, 2002

clever, and it has that mysteriously difficult to achieve "one more go" quality to it. also, thanks for the mention for virus game in your newspost.

Score: 8

"Dead folk."

submission: Fingertips #9

date: June 1, 2002

Aren't you the guy who hit me in the eye?

Score: 6

"It was okay."

submission: Zero Race

date: March 9, 2002

I like the concept of a race against the concept for megaman, and obviously you have quite an amazing amount of programming ability. However, the gameplay just didn't come together for me (I actually thought that this one might have worked better as a linear sort of thing where the obstacles have to be destroyed/jumped/whatever as you go along). Also, the graphics were poor. You had all the sprites from megaman, which was great, but the backgrounds were lousy. It was a decent game, but all in all I guess I was just expecting more.

Score: 4

"It's...a start."

submission: Star Wars: Saber Battles

date: March 9, 2002

My guess is you've been programming in Flash for maybe a month or so? If so, then you're off to a pretty good start. More than your programming skills, though, your design ability needs work. You can make a very small amount of technical ability go a very long way, but you need to think a lot about playability. Mind, you aren't shooting for genre-busting genius--this is just a game for the web. However, just observe the games you like, think about what makes them fun, and think about how you can reasonably emulate that in Flash. Best of luck on your future work.

-Max Abernethy (http://bryce105.tripod.com)

Score: 7

"For a first movie, very good."

submission: Air_Battle

date: June 19, 2001

The overall was much higher than the average because I thought you deserved some extra points for your first movie. All I can say is keep it up, learn new techniques, and improve your work.

Score: 10

"Yeah Keith!!!"

submission: Mario Twins (official)

date: June 14, 2001

Finally the REAL author is getting credit!

SHIGGITY SHIGGITY SHWA!