Score: 4

"Obviously takes a lot of cues from 'Invasion'."

submission: Battlefield

date: June 25, 2006

Instead of just making it like Invasion with real-time unit purchasing, I reckon you should've taken this opportunity to take the genre a bit further, maybe with some more unique ideas of your own.

Score: 4

"Mmm..."

submission: AntiEbaums Tutorial

date: June 3, 2006

In response to the guy who said you could Right-click and choose 'Rewind', 'Play', 'Back', or 'Forward' to get around this, regardless of whether or not that would have any effect, you can simply remove the Right-click menu with a Stage.showMenu = false; statement (there are other ways, too, but I like this one the most).

However, putting a script like the one featured in this movie won't help against a good decompiler. Even if you obfuscate your code, the bottom line is that there is no way to fully secure your movie. We've been over this many a time at Flash Kit, approaching it in every possible direction, and we came to the conclusion that there's no way to get around a dedicated hacker.

The best way to combat SWF hackers is just make their life as hard as possible by making your movie load in its data from loads of external files, which will make it nearly impossible to use on most movie portals, and force the hacker to look for all the parts of the script that load in the essential files. I'm not saying don't add the URL protection. On the contrary, put that in as well, and use it in each file the game has to load in. Then obfuscate the lot. Makes the hacker's life a lot harder (although admittedly it also makes your life a lot harder).

Score: 3

"Looks like you only spent about an hour on it."

submission: Winzows BETA

date: May 7, 2006

The alternatively coloured backgrounds don't appear in the same place as each other,
the windows aren't draggable,
the buttons don't dip down when you click on them,
there's a strange blue line in the middle of the preloader,
the login screen isn't anything like the real thing,
the task bar doesn't react to opening windows,
there's no minimize or expand button, the start bar is nothing like the real thing,
normally you would have to double-click on something to open it,
you can't select or click and drag stuff,
for no reason (other than laziness, I can assume) the desktop icons are inside the Recycle Bin,
you used a Single Line Input Text Box for the Word application instead of a Multi Line one,
you didn't put a scroll bar into the Word app,
you didn't make the buttons in the Word app functional (could be done using HTML text),
you didn't do anything with the cursor (make it so that Mac users see a Windows cursor, you can achieve this with System.capabilties.os and Mouse.hide();).
you didn't make the windows stretchable (could be done with masking or bitmap fills).

I could go on, but I think you get the idea. Also, never release a BETA. if your Flash is unfinished, submit it to Newgrounds Alphas.

Sorry about the long list of things to fix, but each thing would only take a couple of lines of code to fix.