BlueMonday1984's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[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

[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.

[NG BBS Awards 2013]

A neat little time capsule of an earlier age on NG.

Got all the medals on this one - ended up decompiling the game in JPEXS to find a few of the quiz answers.

Cyberdevil responds:

Hadn't heard of JPEXS before hmm, interesting... there is a medal guide for this floating around too if you Google. ;) Thanks for the review!

[Kill Lola Bunny]

A pretty solid throwback to '00s-era Flash - gratuitous violence and all.

DrSevenSeizeMD responds:

AS IT SHOULD BE

["Loss" Collab!]

Its a large-scale kind of LOSS

Exlhk responds:

Mass Loss

[Balloon Collector]

Pretty good all around, and kept me entertained for a while.

My main complaint's the net's hitbox - it feels annoyingly small, and I've had it fail to catch balloons i swear I actually hit.

chaoticc-neutral responds:

thanks for playing and feedback

[Deaht Scrolls]

A solid demo with a pretty clever death-based gimmick.

Icelogist responds:

Thanks

[The New Internet]

I gotta say, this absolutely feels rushed. Its a barebones idea, which IMO doesn't have anything interesting going for it.

The BGM's pretty good, though - it'd definitely work for a Silent Hill type horror game.

TheAuspiciousCygnus responds:

That's more than fair. I'm still learning and I'm glad you liked the song. I'll use it in something decent in the future and thank you for the feed back.