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Lazarou

Age/Gender: 26, Male
Location: Leicestershire UK
Job: Flash Developer

I enjoy using Flash creatively to make cool looking games and applications. I'm still learning a lot of actionscript, so prefer to stick to simple formats rather than all out flashy action games.

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Flash Reviews: 71
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Score: 7
Roll

"good game"

submission: Roll
date: October 25, 2007

I played this on jayisgames, thought it was a good games, but there ARE a few things about it that annoy me:
When you die/run out of time, the red balls do not all reset to their original positions, so you can just carry on, making some levels trivial providing you have enough lives.
Also the control system whilst simple, is kind of awkward. Spam-clicking the smallest power shot seems to be more effective than being more strategic and trying to make each click count. Not sure if this was your original intent, but it feels a bit wierd.
Finally some of the levels are a bit unforgiving, especially ones which combine the spikes and the ice. I think it was lvl 19 that I stopped playing on, just got way too frustrated with that stupid ice and narrow pathways through spike-lined corners. Oh, and I hate the circle levels too, they were just evil >_<

Overall its a very nice game, graphics and overall polish are top notch, a few bugs and stuff tho, and a gameplay depth that starts to wear a bit thin past lvl 15. Keep up the good work tho, hope your next game is even better.

October 26, 2007

Author's Response:

The balls not resetting was intentional. I don't like games that are frustratingly difficult/ uncompletable so i made the game this way on purpose.

The controls are the way they are because the game theme was ball physics and I felt this was the best way to get physics into the game. You fire the ball and the n the physics take over. With keyboard controls you would control the ball so there would be less physics based goodness.

Balancing the levels was quite tough and I've had a few people mention the circle levels - imagine trying to complete them if the balls reset each time :) BTW There are 20 levels, you were 1 away from finishing.

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Score: 4
Eye Popper

"not bad"

submission: Eye Popper
date: October 25, 2007

not bad but got pretty old fast, here are some suggestions;

the eyeballs werent really gory enough. A nice optical nerve trailing along behind them would make them look a little more realistic. Also they seemed to be hollow, eyeballs are filled with a clear jelly like liquid, if you burst one then it oozes everywhere, would probably make for a more realistic (and more funny) experience.

Also the powerups were kind of lame, the best one was the pitchfork because it didnt require any clicking, the gun wasn't that great as it was very rare that two eyeballs would line up. They shoudnt last forever either, made it way too easy to last a long time.

anyyway, nice job, hope my comments give you something to think about

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Score: 4
Tank Forces

"nice game, but that music is annoying"

submission: Tank Forces
date: October 25, 2007

please either put in a way to mute that music, or remove it. After 2 minutes of it, I had to stop playing the game because it was too irritating. Which is a shame, because overall teh game was pretty good. Was a little confusing tho, sometimes I would get in the tank then get kicked out again for no reason and get shot to death. Could probably do with a few more hours spent on it to tweak the controls/interface/music.

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Score: 3
Math Strip 2

"don't know why this is scored so high"

submission: Math Strip 2
date: October 25, 2007

it's just porn and maths. If you take away the porn, it would get blammed in 3 seconds. Sometimes guys just vote with their dicks instead of their heads.

October 25, 2007

Author's Response:

I don't normally respond to reviews but your comment was so stupid that I felt I had to make an exception:
"it's just porn and maths. If you take away the porn, it would get blammed in 3 seconds"
Soccer is just men kicking a ball around. If you take away the ball it would totally suck!
The Mona Lisa is just paint on canvas. If you take away the paint, you'd be looking at a blank canvas!
Water is just hydrogen and oxygen. If you take away the hydrogen you wouldn't be able to drink it!

It's fair enough that you don't like my game, or appreciate the effort I put into it, but please come up with some sensible reasons for a negative review in future:
"It's just A + B. Without A it wouldn't be any good!" is just lazy. And daft.

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Score: 1
HALO 3: the first game

"i didnt like it"

date: October 25, 2007

very boring, a series of still images with very crappy jokes and story on them is really not worth wasting my time with. Especially when the files size is over 6MB for something which takes 30 seconds to flick through.

Don't bother making any more, please.

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Score: 5
CopChase

"its quite short for 4 weeks worth of work"

submission: CopChase
date: October 25, 2007

its not bad, but pretty short. The file is very big for something of this length, have you included a lot of extra audio clips or something?

Suggestions for future movies:

- Use a REAL preloader, an image just saying "loading" is very frustrating, a nice progress bar means I know exactly how long its gonna take to load and dont sit there like a goose waiting for the play button to appear.
- The voice acting was very basic and monosyllabic. eg "Oi", "AHH!" "Uhhh!" etc, some propper dialogue or banter between characters would be more interesting.
- On that spray graffiti there were strange white edges around it, do you know about using alpha in seperate layers to produce transparency? Would probaly produce a more realistic effect.

Overall the animation and graphics were nice for a beginner, pretty basic tho with simple shapes and black outlines on everything, lots of room for improvement, but its not bad for a first try.

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Score: 7
Dark Cut²

"encountered a bug"

submission: Dark Cut²
date: October 24, 2007

I was unable to bandage the patient on the first level, probably a bug from the latest update but hugely frustrating anyway, clicking like crazy on the bandages but nothing happens.

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Score: 4
Stapelmeister

"not bad"

submission: Stapelmeister
date: October 22, 2007

would really be nice to have an english translation though, this is a mainly english speaking community, and you dont want to alienate them by posting a flash that 95% of them can't read.

Also, the corners of your boxes had bright green pixels, I'm guessing this isnt intended, looks like some of your lines got clipped or wern't coloured corectly.

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Score: 1
the person drawing tut 2

"umm..."

date: October 22, 2007

i think you need to use a tutorial yourself if this is what your people look like.

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Score: 4
Zombiez 2

"seems to be a clone of that other zombie game"

submission: Zombiez 2
date: October 19, 2007

not a bad game, but way too generic. Really, there are other games that are almost identical to this, except they are a lot better.

Some things I dont understand about this game:
How does killing Zombies earn you money?
If you are all alone in the middle of nowhere, where is this shop you keep popping off to every night to buy new supplies?
Why can't you just steal the guns and stuff, if there is no one else around to stop/help you? :S

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