BlueMonday1984's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[NG Review Game #2]

Even over a decade on, this is a pretty solid guide to making reviews on Newgrounds
Only getting one whistle-related medal at a time was annoying, but that's only a nitpick of mine.

The animation for whistling a flash is pretty funny, too.

[The Interview Codex]

A much welcome and perennial Flash, given it provides an easy method of searching through the many, many interviews that have gone up on The Interviewer over the years.

Being sent back to page 1 after exiting an interview does complicate looking through the archive, though, as does search settings not being saved.

As of this writing, the archive only goes up to 2023 - given The-Great-One's tireless work on both The Tank Tribune and The Interviewer, I suspect he's ended up abandoning it.

ETA: Whilst scouring the Codex for the last unearned medal, I did end up discovering that searching too many interviews or opening/closing too quickly has a tendancy to cause it to freeze - ended up causing a tab freeze on Ruffle, too!

The-Great-One responds:

Abandoned? No. Forgotten and put on the back burner for too long? Yes.

[NG's 20th Anniversary Collab]

A wonderful celebration of a wonderful site's 20th anniversary.

I doubt anyone who worked on this knew the site was gonna have the resurgence it did by the end of the decade, but that only makes this all the sweeter.

Urichov responds:

I'd actually been orchestrating it for several months at the time this came out; idk about everybody else though

[Upgrade Complete 2]

A fun and addictive lil' shmup, with plenty of upgrades and medals to offer.

Missiles are somewhat overpowered though - after cramming a crapload onto my ship, I was basically set until I met the boss.

Ended up switching to lasers to deal with the boss, after seeing another review recommend that.

[Bluk in the Space]

An alright shmup with a nice artstyle, if rather barebones.

[Surviving the Snowstorm]

An impressively good Scratch title, with the Henry Stickmin charm we all know and love.

All the fails got a smile out of me, but there's something about the cheese option which just cracks me up. Probably seeing the hilarious face Henry makes.

"Load Save" was pretty clever, too.

The high-bit pixel art gives this a quite distinctive style, too.

[Assassinating the Guards]

Not much meat on this fangame's bones, and its crystal-clear this was held back pretty badly by Scratch's limitations, but what's there was entertaining nonetheless.

I like the clever use of the "Go Back" and Teleporter options in the opening screen, though the "Smirk" medal was rather annoying to find.

[.GRAND DAD SAVE B]

An easy source of medals, and that's about it. With naught to do but catch incoming Bs, this got old extremely quickly. The lacking sound package didn't help, either.

[NG BBS Quiz 2012]

A neat little time capsule of Newgrounds back in 2012, if not the most well-programmed.
Being able to earn more than one score-related medal at once would have been nice, as would be not having to click the textbox after entering in my answer.

(Fun fact: Like BBS Awards 2013, I found the answers for this one by decomping the game in JPEXS!)

Cyberdevil responds:

Solid critique man. :) Hadn't considered those things all, multiple score-related medals at once at least would be easy enough to code in, automatically focusing on a textbox ought be documented somewhere too, never tried that... keeping in mind for future stuff.

Just like with the last there is a public cheat sheet out there too. ;) But cool to know! Useful stuff JPEXS.

[Guide To Medals]

Well, this was a joke. One that fell painfully flat.

If anyone wants to know what the ending BGM is, its "Stay With Me" by DJ Ironik - not sure if its the original or the edit, so I'll post both:
Base: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34HWz_2Qo2Q
MySparks Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CPEmuMrE9E