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New Years Self Assessment!

Posted by itsjms - December 31st, 2008


I began this year with one of my best flashes ever, and a very big popularity boost.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/
425404

Sprite TV 2 did exceptionally well and ended up being great! I really had some fun working with those guys.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/
428802

Then came a very hard game by ssjskipp and I, HexStar. I feel like this game is overlooked a little. If you actually take the time to learn how to play it is pretty addictive and can be a great time waster. I guess it was just WAY to hard for the general audience of Newgrounds.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/
437146

April rolled around and DrawIT came out well for us, but after finishing it, I still felt it lacked what it should have had. Should we release a 2nd?

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/
438721

A few days later, I released another game from ssjskipp and I called Twist 2 which was a re-make on my original game Twist that did very well in the portal. Sadly, Twist 2 got the exact same score the first one did. I guess because of the challenging factor once again?

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/
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June was a fun month, I got to work with a friend of mine finally (coolio-niato) and we released a fun mind game called - Mind Impulse -. The score was phenomenal and we even got it put on yahoo games over at yahoo.com. I felt good that month :]

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/
450212

Over in July I released The Baby :3 which was a 1 hour short I made for animation practice battling Kyle Thomson, my fellow game designer, it wasn't very important at all. Besides the fact ive been 5ing it for the past 5 months to get its score to what it is >.<

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/
450553

I also put out one of my most famous games, Box Dodge Fury. Its simple and slick design let it spread far and wide. Someone even made a YouTube video of it, which made me happy inside, and it's on quite a few websites. Kyle and I finally started working together again and found out, simple and quick games, may be more effective than games that we spend forever on.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/
452022

This game has to be the biggest let down of my year. I worked long and hard on this HUGE beat game. It has an animated story mode and really REALLY fun game play if you learn it. I guess it was just TO difficult for some people. But, I definitely recommend you go give it a try.

In the last few months of the year, I think ive been getting much better at design and layout setup, as well as transition effects and making the user's happy. Here are a few of my later submissions which I feel I have learned a lot off of.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/
459997

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/
460013

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/
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http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/
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Well, its December now and I have only released 3 more flashes. My best ever which was The iPhone Shuffle, which some people love and others hate. I gained tons of fans from it, and about 4 people put it on YouTube. I EVEN GOT IN THE TOP 50, NUMBER 1 FOR A DAY :D, that really made my year worth it. Thanks Guys!

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/
472735

After it, I released my other 2 games, both being puzzle/logic games. Mind Cards was FINALLY released (even though we started it about 8 months ago and just never felt like finishing it) and it did super well from what I thought. We then submitted our last game, Grid81. This game did terrible for my expectations. I don't understand what people don't get about it, but I guess I know now, those games aren't for you guys :P

Thanks for the great year NG08!


Comments

We're sorry to announce that our hit show "st1k", has been cancled and will not be broadcasted during the '09 season.

Please accept our deepest condolences.

jamming

Well, its December now and I have only released 3 more flashes. My best ever which was The iPhone Shuffle, which some people love and others hate.

Hmmm... shooting for the stars huh S1tks?

A bit pretentious, eh?

Hi I'm coolit 12 and i've seen most of your flashes
i've read most of this bbs
and i think you put great ideas on newgrounds
all your subbmisions on newgrounds are great and i hope see more in 2009!
i read about Oniristu and Grid 81 i played both of the games and thought they were also great! i dont see whats so bad about those game
and i also favourited the iphone shuffle on my cpu!
so thx 4 putting on all those great submissions i hope 2 see more from you
-coolit 12 the review guy

fascinating ¬_¬

You should of mentioned your websites, they're so well made!

I think my favorite was Sling Sling, lol.
It was so relaxing. :]

Ha, nice, a personal NG History for the year. :D Hope next one willb e just as great, Happy New Years!!

Dude you look cute in that pic.