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The Elite Guard Barracks

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Response to The Elite Guard Barracks 2015-10-14 02:31:14 (edited 2015-10-14 02:39:25)



Musicians make music , producers make products. * drops mic :D

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Response to The Elite Guard Barracks 2015-10-14 17:44:37


MTB/CAR/TRUCK/MOTORBIKE Shovelware.

Response to The Elite Guard Barracks 2015-10-15 04:23:40


More from this guy, this time it's a flappy bird clone :


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Response to The Elite Guard Barracks 2015-10-15 08:22:22


Restaurant/fast-food shovelware

Pong clone


"Till one day, that lion gets up and tears the shit out of everybody."

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Response to The Elite Guard Barracks 2015-10-15 08:29:19


How damn cool is this. I've been waiting for ever for someone to submit some seriously cool games like this. I mean seriously, who doesn't want to play Shovelware Escape games and Shovelware Pair Matching games and Shovelware Car Parking games. Am I right? NOT!!!!!!!!!!!

Response to The Elite Guard Barracks 2015-10-15 11:24:12


At 10/15/15 08:29 AM, gamejunkie wrote: How damn cool is this. I've been waiting for ever for someone to submit some seriously cool games like this. I mean seriously, who doesn't want to play Shovelware Escape games and Shovelware Pair Matching games and Shovelware Car Parking games. Am I right? NOT!!!!!!!!!!!

Alright. I looked through those. firstescapegames is shovelware so feel free to add them to your list, I took off their submissions. Same goes for lisa-joy. figames was a big account and they have a lot of carbon copy stuff, also no replies to reviews, so I took their stuff off too, you can add them to your list. As far as mirchigames, they replied to reviews in the past, so this one for now, atleast from my perspective, is up in the air like Engames was for a little bit, we will see from here where they go.

Generally I feel like a little bit too much low quality shovelware has been allowed through recently, so any feedback on the biggest offenders is appreciated. Those accounts are like hydras, you clear one and 5 others start submitting.

Insight from @Exedor on the matter would be appreciated.


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Response to The Elite Guard Barracks 2015-10-15 14:31:14


more shovelware from this valued contributor. i doubt he's from the match3 site listed on the opening screen so he's probably stolen this to boot

Response to The Elite Guard Barracks 2015-10-15 22:22:16


At 10/15/15 11:24 AM, Asandir wrote: Alright. I looked through those. firstescapegames is shovelware so feel free to add them to your list, I took off their submissions. Same goes for lisa-joy. figames was a big account and they have a lot of carbon copy stuff, also no replies to reviews, so I took their stuff off too, you can add them to your list. As far as mirchigames, they replied to reviews in the past, so this one for now, atleast from my perspective, is up in the air like Engames was for a little bit, we will see from here where they go.

Done, done, done and not done. In that order.

Generally I feel like a little bit too much low quality shovelware has been allowed through recently, so any feedback on the biggest offenders is appreciated. Those accounts are like hydras, you clear one and 5 others start submitting.

There's been an absolute crapload in the last couple of months. It's getting a bit out of hand.

If you're looking for long time shovelware submitters gamesrishti & kidsgamess & ATOZONLINEGAMES & coolgames8 are 4 you could have a think about.

Response to The Elite Guard Barracks 2015-10-16 13:11:49 (edited 2015-10-16 13:15:53)


At 10/15/15 11:24 AM, Asandir wrote: Insight from @Exedor on the matter would be appreciated.

Hello, my peeps! Sorry for the delay in responding. Here's some exedor input. I hope it gives some insight into what goes on, and why sometimes things take a while to get done. EDIT: and, it's friggin long! No wonder I have no li-, er, um, -full! Such a full life!

Generally I feel like a little bit too much low quality shovelware has been allowed through recently, so any feedback on the biggest offenders is appreciated. Those accounts are like hydras, you clear one and 5 others start submitting.

Yeah, I've been sketchy in my NG mod time as of late, due to life and massive computer problems (poof, smoke, darkness. Really.), so anything that has made it thru, feel free to hunt down. Hopefully, nothing removed will get republished somehow...

Actually, I do like the idea of letting things get thru Judgement before we do anything about them, unless of course it's something like gay anal fisting videos, or malicious shtuff that takes over and no matter how hard you try, they JUST WONT DIE!! (...Ahem.)

See, if we remove them at first sight, we then remove the possibility that it could get blammed by the voters, and get us a rare blam point, and we also take that away from the Newgrounds community who also votes on these. If it passes, then NG voters failed and we should unpublish them. ...the fail voters. ...and the submission too, I guess. However, the big problem with that is that it's taking so long for things to pass Judgement (especially games), that once they pass from the purple zone, they're far enough down the list that we miss and forget about them.

I created a shovelware and spammers thread in the moderator BBS, but responses have been rather light, despite the fact that not much can distract a NG moderator once their focus is set on the important task ahead of them!

Gamesrishti: Yeah, they poop out far too many similar games. Problem: how do you decide what to remove when people do seem to like these type of games? They pass with scores in the 2-3 range, so someone's playing them. So, do we remove all of them? Half? This is what mods discuss and try to resolve, and is why things take so long to figure out sometimes. Plus, we all have families to attend to, so modding time can be limited sometimes. They're being discussed, tho, along with other names you all know.

My best advice, all things considered, is that it'd be a good idea to revisit some of the old links from time to time to see if they're still up. If so, feel free to remind us and repost the link, especially if it passed. It'd also be nice that if a mod has reviewed a submission, post a reply so we all know it's been looked at, and if action was/wasn't taken, what and why. (I've been trying to get better at this myself.) For example, I'm all for leaving this one:

It's horrible and uses copyrighted Nintendo sprites. But that's why I'm ok with leaving it

for now

, it's horrible, and I fully expect a blam on that one. I doubt Nintendo will bitch in the time it takes to pass/

blam

that one.

This one's a template, but it also sux terribly (and its 'part 2' version), and I expect a blam on it, too:

My opinion of this one, is that it's kinda like a 'helicopter' game (game engine), but it's modified into its own, unique, kinda dull, monochrome, hard as piss to control >:0, but original enough game, that I'm kinda ok with it.

As far as mirchigames, they replied to reviews in the past, so this one for now, at least from my perspective, is up in the air like Engames was for a little bit, we will see from here where they go.

Hmmmm... they actually have the

same ad setup

as Enagames, and their author comments text is eerily similar to Enagames, too. ,':|

EDIT: Enagames' daily came thru, and the very next submission was mirchigames. Coincidence?

Gameplay is similar, but similar to a lot of the escape-type games nowadays. I remember when escape games were where you found magnet and the string and combined them to fish the screwdriver out of the hole in the floor so oyu could remove the vent and get the key... etc; where all the actions made reasonable sense. Nowadays, it's just puzzle after puzzle, and very little makes sense.

If in doubt, don't forget to play the game (and vote). I played one of Mirchigames' games and while it did have some find-the-rod; find-the-hook; combine-into-a-hook-rod content, it also had lots of the colored squares/colored circles/4 numbers/etc drek. Enagames never changed their tactics or content, nor did they ever respond to reviews or PMs, and I did send them a PM about their content. That's who we can do without. Dunno why they continue to submit, despite having everything removed day after day, minutes after submitting. :\

***And, yes, VOTE APPROPRIATELY!! Recently, we had a kid submitting a real life video that was almost an hour long. To my amazement, one person in the EGB gave a high-star review, and another I know voted a passing score. I know Protect points are fun, but don't forget about Blam points! My vote power is 15+, but if two people vote a passing score, you can effectively cancel out my vote, or even surpass it. Then we get a low score submission that passes judgement, just like that long video did. (It was removed by a Superuser, so we all lost in the end. Kinda.).

Those accounts are like hydras, you clear one and 5 others start submitting.

And that's exactly it. These groups are little asian sweatshop-type game producers (seriously) who, when one guy makes a game or game engine, they all start submitting it all over the place so they can get ad revenue. Deleting their stuff under one username just causes them to make another account and submit again.

The goal is to keep the fun games so the Newgrounds community can enjoy Newgrounds, even if it's a game that's similar to another game. Once a submitter makes a nuisance of themselves, then we can address them. Sometimes, that's a slow process. That doesn't mean that we have to pass every basic, boring Pong and Snake submission, or Madness Test that comes thru. Use your vote power and get a better ratio of Blam to Protect points, which'll help your stats and Newgrounds.

Sorry so long. Thanks for skimming my read. :)

Response to The Elite Guard Barracks 2015-10-17 07:43:58 (edited 2015-10-17 07:46:46)


At 10/16/15 01:11 PM, Exedor wrote:
Gamesrishti: Yeah, they poop out far too many similar games. Problem: how do you decide what to remove when people do seem to like these type of games? They pass with scores in the 2-3 range, so someone's playing them. So, do we remove all of them? Half? This is what mods discuss and try to resolve, and is why things take so long to figure out sometimes. Plus, we all have families to attend to, so modding time can be limited sometimes. They're being discussed, tho, along with other names you all know.

It's very, very simple. severely restrict the amount of submissions they make until they start coming up with something new beyond Match 3 Variant 389768934568. Nobody would give a fuck about Enagames if they only "produced" a "new" game every two weeks. Restrict them in the same way you get a Portal ban if two movies get blammed. If they can't come up with something slightly new in that time, restrict them again, this time for a month. If they still can't do it, fuck them, delete their account.

And how do you know people like them? A score in the 2-3 range is the very bottom of what any submission beyond a 2 second stick animation can get, because of the huge number of abusive voters we have. Looking at one of rishti's games that got submitted three weeks ago, it has four hundred views. I have the same order of number of views on my award winning Clock Day spam - nobody is playing them after they pass judgment.

Anyway:

Seen the exact same mechanics/graphics before, I'm guessing it's a stolen template?

edit - it looks kind of familiar to the crap you posted above, no?

Response to The Elite Guard Barracks 2015-10-17 12:21:42


Has porn images in the beginning.


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Response to The Elite Guard Barracks 2015-10-17 19:58:30


Yet another Flappy Bird clone.


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Response to The Elite Guard Barracks 2015-10-18 06:24:24



Musicians make music , producers make products. * drops mic :D

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Response to The Elite Guard Barracks 2015-10-18 08:35:27 (edited 2015-10-18 08:37:49)


Not a game. Still image.

Not a game either, it just blinks every few seconds.


"Till one day, that lion gets up and tears the shit out of everybody."

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Response to The Elite Guard Barracks 2015-10-18 10:15:42


Response to The Elite Guard Barracks 2015-10-18 11:10:36


At 10/17/15 07:58 PM, Decky wrote: Yet another Flappy Bird clone.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/664934

Not only that, but it's a construct 2 template.


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Response to The Elite Guard Barracks 2015-10-18 11:47:37


A game about cutting yourself. It seems like a lawsuit waiting to happen.


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Response to The Elite Guard Barracks 2015-10-18 15:06:34


Non-animated:

Response to The Elite Guard Barracks 2015-10-18 17:17:31


Non-animated crap:


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Response to The Elite Guard Barracks 2015-10-18 17:41:31


At 10/18/15 05:17 PM, MrPostalDude wrote: Non-animated crap:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/664970

Lots of that stuff today, guess they all decided to make this the official "let's submit garbage slideshows" day. Thanks for all the reports.


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Response to The Elite Guard Barracks 2015-10-18 17:49:56


At 10/18/15 05:41 PM, Asandir wrote: Lots of that stuff today, guess they all decided to make this the official "let's submit garbage slideshows" day. Thanks for all the reports.

Yeah..I've noticed a lot of them.


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Response to The Elite Guard Barracks 2015-10-19 03:51:39


This doesn't look like it loads..I've refreshed the page over 10 times and it's just stuck:


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Response to The Elite Guard Barracks 2015-10-19 04:19:58


My bad for the triple post..but these two have been reported here and they haven't been removed yet:

Original

Original


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Response to The Elite Guard Barracks 2015-10-19 05:54:05


Response to The Elite Guard Barracks 2015-10-19 06:22:13


At 10/19/15 05:54 AM, gamejunkie wrote: The daily double.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/664979
and
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/664980

The got DUP'ed, double- unpublished.


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Response to The Elite Guard Barracks 2015-10-19 07:14:36


Stolen:

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Response to The Elite Guard Barracks 2015-10-19 11:36:00


More stolen crap shovelware crap:

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