Score: 6

"Was going to blam it"

submission: Steve's Day

date: May 25, 2009

at first, for being a low effort stick flash, especially after you said you made it in an hour, but it exceeded my expectations after the first few seconds and it was too damn funny :D You should spend more time on your flashes, would be pretty good.

Score: 9

"I feel stupid."

submission: < lightBot >

date: May 19, 2009

I got stuck at the 10th level. For hours. I even wrote down the two possible paths on paper and tried to pick out every possible pattern to use as functions but I still couldn't get something that worked. This scares me because I'm going to be learning programming next year XD I think this is a really cool game and makes you think a lot, but it seems really hard for the average person. I wish the difficulty would go up more slowly between levels. It's great that you added the save and load function though.

Score: 9

"Nitpicking"

submission: Cat Face ep.10

date: April 22, 2009

Another quality Cat Face, random humor and it looks great in fullscreen. Except the background gets a bit pixelated, I've noticed this in a bunch of your stuff. Not a big issue but I think if you brought the quality of the background up to everything else it could really polish the look off. I love the scribbly crayon backgrounds and Cat Face is animated so smoothly, the two go together quite nicely. But when the background gets pixelated in fullscreen and Cat Face stays high def, I think it puts a bit too much contrast between the character and the background and kind of ruins the look. I'm nitpicking here but I think it's something you might want to address. Asides from that, great job.

Score: 9

"chill"

submission: <MWA> Don't Forget [DEMO]

date: September 22, 2009

I like the mood here, it's well mixed with plenty of space to breathe. I really like the break at the end. I don't know how I feel about the bass though. The portamento/glide makes it really weird sometimes. It sounds great at the end of the measure, but when you have several notes clustered together it's really just causing problems and sounding sloppy. (like at :11-:13) What I recommend doing is duplicating the bass and for those shorter notes, transfer them to the second synth, and bring the portamento/glide time wayyyy down, or otherwise change the sound. Try to make it more dynamic. I guarantee that will help a lot. And I'm not really a huge fan of the overall sound of the bass either but I like more electro, saw basses anyway so just personal taste. But it works here and you're on the right track.

Score: 9

"lol"

submission: Rezie - Moon Beach (Clip)

date: September 12, 2009

This sounds kind of like the track I'm going to submit. Except yours has a more creative chord progression. It sounds well mixed but it sounds a little soft to me. Maybe you should try putting some light overdrive on some of the synths like the bass, to warm them up. It's mushing together a bit.

Score: 7

"Dude..."

submission: [RM] - EnTranced Space WIP

date: September 2, 2009

I can hear the bass clipping... not good. Back off on the compression, the whole mix is really squashed sounding. You loose dynamics the punchiness of sounds that way, especially kicks and high hats. Don't try to make it this loud it just doesn't pay off. Professional songs get really loud from careful mastering and brickwall limiting, and it's not easy to get right.

Overall pretty generic sounding but it progresses nicely. And I hear the sour note people are talking about. It's because you go out of key and hit a minor chord. It happens at 1:00, just change that middle note in the 3 note arpeggio, move it up a half step and you'll be good.