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Lucas Gonzalez-Fernandez @FutureCopLGF

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Best Games of June Review! (with video feedback)

Posted by FutureCopLGF - July 7th, 2022



Every month I see to review all of the games that were nominated as the Best of that month, which you can view in the link above!


As a game developer myself, I know how difficult it can be when you are starting out and how tricky it can be to tell how your game will be received by users. After all, you know how your game is meant to be played, and you can't just wipe that from your memory when you're building and testing it!


Therefore, I record myself playing all of the games for the first time for 10-15 minutes and try to voice how I'm feeling when I'm playing it, so that developers can see how a user might experience their game for the first time, especially for things like tutorials. I also try to provide some advice as well, but it might not always be the best: what I'm really hoping is that developers can draw their own conclusions on what might need work from how I stumble through their game.


Game Devs Reviewed: @Noodle @jefvel @MrNannings @Karlestonchew @SlickRamen @Oscura @bontegames @plufmot @larrynachos @Nutmeg-Nutmeg @TheBlueHatted @Tyler @s-zenmode @Frenchie14 @UnevenPrankster @Just-a-ng-dummy @Kultisti @Rob1221 @MigMoog @JCodina @Jack @Stepford @DefaultLabs @KJScott @Miroko @Blue9Fairy @Scootakip @SECURAS @ShortCakeCafe @sarnyoger @LumpyTouch


While all of these games were the best of the month...


MY PERSONAL ARBITRARILY-RANKED TOP 10 GAMES OF THE MONTH


My Top 10 was (in sort-of ranked order and based on my own criteria which is some weird sense of 'memorability' for me personally and totally subject to genres I like and I don't feature an author twice even if they had two good entries so as to spread the love etc etc):












And here are some Honorable Mentions (games that were close contenders for the top, additional games from an already highlighted dev this month, games that are still demos but promising, games that are clones of existing games but still good, etc):









Thanks to all the portal warriors that sifted through all games to find the best in the bunch for me to check out in the first place! And as always, even if your game wasn't listed by me personally, hold your head high as I enjoyed playing all of them nonetheless as they are, after all, the best of the month!


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I love your attention to detail and brutal honesty - That was awesome feedback. I would love to have you try future demos :)

Cheers! Brutal honesty and in-depth feedback that friends and family might not be able to provide is something I try to go for (without being too insulting or anything, hopefully), so I'm glad I could provide that! I was probably particularly nitpicky since beat-em-ups are a genre I'm super passionate about: very much looking forward to future demos and the full release, which I'm hoping I helped develop somewhat!

Nice to see you doing this even after all this time

Cheers! I've certainly streamlined the process so it's more easier to do nowadays, but yeah, it still is a big commitment: thank god it's fun and there are lots of cool people that appreciate it (like you)!

"It's like [inaudible]'s first flash game. Pretty bad" I'm actually flattered. :P
And also it's not Jeff, it's a fake TTS thing.
"Definetely really wonky"
"Quite a bummer"
Sorry to have gotten your hopes up. LOL

If there will ever be any future updates, I will use an actual sidescrolling engine (I've learned how to make one just as I envisioned it originally) for Episode 1.

Haha, I was definitely pretty harsh, no doubt about it: I always like to think I'm delivering the 'harsh truth' that friends and family might not be able to provide, but sometimes I am afraid I overdo it and don't factor in certain elements. It was still quite a wacky trip and I hope to see more attempts from you in future!

Really love that you go through all the games every month, lists like these are hopefully getting more eyeballs on the best games!

Cheers, I hope so as well! Though I wouldn't be surprised if the general public's eyeballs bug out at seeing the run time, haha: at this point, it's mostly just for the devs to skip to their own games, but you never know!

Awesome as always! Love watching you play through my games - just wish I had a magic mirror where I could see it while still working on it XD

Cheers! Wish I also recorded myself playing it post-recording as I did get better at it and it became less rage-inducing and more fun, haha! Definitely a case where I wouldn't blame you for thinking I hated it, only to be confused as to why I put it in the top 10. We'll see if I can get that treasure chest at some point!

@FuturecopLGF I'm a nit-picky guy myself so I quite appreciated it. You delivered your criticism w/out being insulting at all - mission accomplished :)

Hey man can you beta test my game so you can tell me stuff that I should fix? (an adventure game with combat and story!)