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: @Emizip @MrDoth @Thetageist @Ravernt @Pitigamedev @rvh86 @crow-seeds @brokellusion @RowanFuture @ProsciuttoMan @Ferociter @jebouin @WooltronicStudios @Luvdice @jacklehamster @AmphibianOblivion @shyfu @ThePeterson @kaiakairos @CJspellsfish @Tombdude @musrattus @R083RT
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 the 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!
OTHER COOL STUFF:
Something that really caught me by surprise in the Halloween Spooktacular that I wanted to shout-out was 9 Cam by @Mantis1. Check it out if you have a moment, especially fans of Halfquake!
Also, if you weren't already aware, Picayune Dreams by @Stepford, @milkypossum and @Andyl4nd is out and it's just 5 bux! 5 freakin' bux! Get it immediately over on steam at: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2088840/Picayune_Dreams/
And maybe check out some of their past work like Olive's Art-Venture as well!
Thetageist
Holy shit. I’m in a Futurecop post. This is so surreal. I look up to you for your reviews, and you actually inspired me to do a video review of the other Costume Jam entries.
I am excited and incredibly nervous to hear what you’ll say about Costume Clash. I might avoid it for days, I’m that nervous, but when I do get around to it I’ll send you back any thoughts I have.
FutureCopLGF
Uh oh, you might not like how it turned out, but...