ROBLOX Reviews: After the Flash: Sandstorm vs Military Rescue Mission

Edition #14
Wow, its been almost a month since the last ROBLOX Review! Sorry about that! Hopefully a normal schedule should be running from now until about May/June when I have more exams, but hopefully the other staff members will keep you updated!

Lets crack on with todays reviews!

After the Flash: Sandstorm by chadthedestroyer2

Idea: 8/10

The idea behind this game seems to be very original though I have seen a similar game before. However, the games actual idea is a bit confused because you have weapons but nothing to use them on, at least, I couldn't find any in 10 minutes of playing.

Gameplay: 6/10

Because I couldn't find anything to shoot the gameplay soon got boring. It lags A LOT too and crashed my laptop 5 times before I could actually play.

Scripting: 7/10

There isn't a lot of scripting as far as I could tell, however it all works well. Such as picking your weapons and getting morphed. It works nicely but there could be more dynamic scripting.

Environment: 10/10

One thing that really catches your eye with this game is the outstanding environment. It is incredibly detailed and is super realistic. Its large and dynamic, however this comes at a price; its 14,000 bricks and alot of lag that comes from that. However, once the game has passed the 5 minute mark the lag drops noticeably.

Enjoyment: 7/10

I think this is a heavily-role-playing place. If you like that kind of thing then you can go around with your friends and shoot imaginary things! (I say that but mobs might exist!) Its also a great environment to explore!

Military Rescue Mission by thesilverbanana

Idea: 6/10

The idea has been used countless times before; rescue people who are fending off Zombies. Although this game is fairly creative with its use of rescue methods. Helicopters, Jets, Boats and more!

Gameplay: 7/10

You need to kill Zombies to survive until a rescue vehicle arrives to take you back to the aircraft carrier. Its fun, but theres nothing special about the zombies or the guns. If you are going to rescue people, fly or drive ashore and rescue them, however, theres not much space to land.

Scripting: 4/10

There is little scripting in this game apart from driving a vehicle, but I've seen the same GUI before. The guns work nicely however.

Environment: 5/10

The environment is a bit lack-luster. Its very plain and boring, however the carrier where the rescuers start is very good looking indeed. 

Enjoyment: 6/10

This game could be enjoyed if you played with friends or like rescuing people, however I think that little scripting and a boring environment make the game not very enjoyable.

Final Scores

Idea: 8/10 vs 6/10

After the Flash: Sandstorm wins!

Gamplay: 6/10 vs 7/10

Military Rescue Mission wins!

Scripting: 7/10 vs 4/10

After the Flash: Sandstorm wins!

Environment: 10/10 vs 5/10

After the Flash: Sandstorm wins!

Enjoyment: 7/10 vs 6/10

After the Flash: Sandstorm wins!

With 4 wins out of 5, the winner is

After the Flash: Sandstorm! 

Ambassador Program: Removed!

This is a follow up post to one that I made a few weeks ago about the possible removeable of the Ambassador Program. Its now been removed. A controversial change. What are your thoughts about this change? Leave them in the comments!

Tutorial: How to use dialog in games.

Hey guys! Its RobloxianFire2 coming at you with another tutorial. In this tutorial, I will be showing you how you can use dialog to make your games more interesting. Dialog can be used to make NPCs for RPG games where the players can chat to the NPCs to get quests to do. I'm only going to show you the basics of dialog, if you want to get more advanced into the dialogs, you might want to read up on the ROBLOX wiki about it: wiki.roblox.com/.
Lets get started!
We need something to put the dialog into. I'm just going to use a simple 3x3x3 plate like this:

Right, time to insert the dialog. Head up to Insert > Object then click on Dialog.
In the explorer, you should now see the part and beneath it "Dialog".
Now, I am going to show you a bit about the options in the dialog.

First, we have the "InitialPrompt" option. This is what the NPC/brick with the dialog inside it will say when a player clicks on the dialog. For the purpose of this tutorial, I am going to make it say "Hello. Is there anything I can help you with?". To do this, just click the box next to "InitialPrompt" in the dialog and type what you want it to say. So, when you click on the dialog, you should get something like this:

Okay, so we have our dialog. Time to add some choices. To do this, select the dialog in the explorer, head up to Insert > Object then select "DialogChoice".
Lets go over some of the options.

UserDialog is the choices the player gets to choose from once the dialog has finished. When the player clicks on a choice, the ResponseDialog is what the thing with the dialog will say. In my case, I've made the player say "Who are you"? Once the player has selected the option, the brick will say "I'm Mr.Brick. I am part of ROBLOX. I am here to give information to new players like you."

So, that is basically it. If there is anything I've forgot, please tell me in the comments. ;)

I hope you guys have enjoyed this particular tutorial, my name is RobloxianFire2 and I suppose I bid you all farewell!
Thank you so much for reading!

Lack of posts

Yes, another apology! I am sorry for the lack of posts recently but I have exams coming up and so I can't devote as much time to the site as I'd like. There will be a ROBLOX Review out today and RobloxianFire2 assures me he will be posting again soon.

Please bear with us!

ROBLOX Reviews: ROBLOX Base Wars FPS vs Ro-Planes 2

Edition #13

Welcome to another edition of ROBLOX Reviews! I'm running out of things to say here so lets get straight onto the reviews!

ROBLOX Base Wars FPS by Games

Idea: 7/10

Its not that original, but this game made by Games (Owned by ROBLOX) puts a nice twist on classic CTFs on ROBLOX. First of all there are classes and they are really fun to play! The game doesn't lag at all thanks to it all being made out of terrain. Its very detailed and shows off what you can make with terrain.

Gameplay: 8/10

The map is fairly large and fun to explore and fight in. There are 5 different classes each with different weapons and stats. My favourite was the medic, who can heal people in a Team Fortress 2 style.

Scripting: 9/10

There is a fair amount of high quality scripting in this game. The guns are well scripted and so is the leaderboards, capture points and classes. It all works really well.

Environment: 9/10

Like I touched on earlier, this game is made entirely out of terrain. It certainly is very detailed however it could be more detailed using actual bricks, but this still is a great environment for a great game in general!

Enjoyment: 8/10

This game is very enjoyable and I think the great Environment, Scripting and general execution of the idea makes it that way.

Ro-Planes 2 by cole7778

Idea: 9/10

On face value this game seems to just be a flight simulator. But when you enter the game you realise it is much more. Essentially you load your plane with crates which you can then sell for money at islands. This money then enables you to fly bigger planes with bigger capacity (one assumes)

Gameplay: 7/10

The game falls down immediately with its game play. Its incredibly confusing to a newcomer. After a few minutes I found out what I had to do, by chance I found the crates. However, flying was a different matter. I never left the beginning island, it was too hard to fly. My controls failed

Scripting: 7/10

The scripting in the game is very good from picking up crates and taking them to your plane to the controls of the plane. However, some of the controls on the plane didn't do what they were supposed to. The A and D keys did not turn my plane so I ended up crashing into a building opposite the hangar and exploding.

Environment: 6/10

As I said, I haven't seen all the environments because it was so hard to fly! However, the first Island is fairly boring with just bricks to create mountains etc. It seems to be a very old way of building, with just bricks and no c-framing

Enjoyment: 6/10

This game could be very enjoyable at the start, where you are delivering cargo and making money. However, going back and forth would be fairly repetitive. However, making money means you can buy access to bigger planes and this advancement in the game might make you play for longer.

FINAL SCORES

Idea: 7/10 vs 9/10

Ro-Planes 2 wins!

Gameplay: 8/10 vs 7/10

ROBLOX Base Wars FPS wins!

Scripting: 9/10 vs 7/10

ROBLOX Base Wars FPS wins!

Environment: 9/10 vs 6/10

ROBLOX Base Wars FPS wins!

Enjoyment: 8/10 vs 6/10

ROBLOX Base Wars FPS wins!

So with a total of 4 wins out of 5, the overall winner is:

ROBLOX Base Wars FPS!

Tutorial: How to make a dancefloor.

Hello everyone and welcome to my 3rd tutorial. In this tutorial, I will be showing you how to make a dancefloor using some bricks and a simple script. Although it may sound hard, trust me, its not.

To start, we're going to need ROBLOX studio, like we did in my previous tutorial. I will not go over how to do it again because it would be a waste of time. To see how, check out my previous tutorial.
Once we're in ROBLOX Studio, we need to open a place. Go to your places and choose one to build the dancefloor in then click on "Edit".
Once we're in the place, we now need to get everything ready. For this tutorial, I will be using 17 5x5 bricks for the dancefloor. It doesn't matter about the color as they will be changing all the time with the script we will add later.
Right now, it should be like this:

Next, we need to add the script to make them flash. To do this, we will need to create a script in one of the bricks. Once we have got a script inside a brick, we need to copy this inside it:

while true do
script.Parent.BrickColor = BrickColor.random()
wait(1)
end

Once we have this script in one brick, we need to copy it into all the other bricks.
Just exit out of the script editor and select the script. Next, just press CTRL+C on your keyboard to copy it onto your clipboard.
Once we have the script copied, we need to paste it into the other bricks. Just right-click on each of the bricks individually and click the "Paste into" option to paste the script into the brick.

Once we have all the bricks with the script inside, we now need to test! If the script works, every brick should change a different color each second.
If the end result doesn't work like this, repeat all the steps again to see if that works.



I hope you guys have enjoyed this tutorial. Be sure to look out for more in the coming days! =)
Until next time, happy BLOXing!

Contest: Best Picture Taker.

Yes, its that time! Time for a contest. This contest will be focused around picture taking as, after all, I am a graphics designer.
What I need you to do is to find a good place on ROBLOX that you'll think could get you the prize for the best picture taker. There are some rules though.

Rules


1. No sharing pictures with others to get others to win. This means giving people your pictures that YOU took. This is classed as cheating and if found, you will be disqualified.

2. Make sure your in a relatively good place to take a picture in. A picture with tons of people in the shot will not give a clear understanding of what the place is about.

3. If you edit the picture, don't edit it so it looks better than it did by adding stuff such as more scenery. This is classed as cheating.

To enter this contest, all you have to do is take a picture which follows the rules above and then send it to me on twitter using the hashtag "robloxiatodaypicturecontest". For example, the tweet would look like this:

@rbx_rf2 [[IMAGE]] #robloxiatodaypicturecontest

I haven't decided on a prize yet but as the contest progresses, I'm sure I'll think of something. The contest ends in 3 weeks. (Wednesday 7th March).

Good luck!