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[Creep Away]

Not too shabby! I do like the gameplay and while I was initially a little confused by the tutorial info text dump, I was impressed at the attention of detail you've given to the HUD and UI elements, as well as general presentation, since it really allows the player to soak in the mechanics and learn everything in a visual way. That being said, I did dislike how despite being able to hover over a player to see how far they can move, you can't also see how far their attack/spirits can spread as well like how games like Fire Emblem do. Also, I felt like the game was really slow: instead of being short and sweet puzzles, it was long, tedious chase sequences where you need to keep waiting and waiting for way too many turns, watching the enemies move and their spirits spread in, and out, several times. When I lost, I couldn't convince myself to continue because I would have to wait for so long to finish a level. Basically, I just felt like the difficulty spiked too early and levels go on too long, but otherwise, the game seems very well put together.

drewby-games responds:

Thanks for playing, and i appreciate such a well written review/cricism. Totally agree that levels are too long and the game is too slow. adding spirit on hover when not moving them makes a lot of sense too! Id love to have levels as short and interesting as Into the Breach, for example.

I hope to continue to work on the level design, speed, and difficulty in the future!

[Can You Save the World ?]

This was a really charming game that really hits everything for me! Very cute music and graphics, nice story and concept, solid, smooth and intuitive gameplay with varied and challenging mechanics, and to top it all off, it's educational! I think my only complaint was that there was a bit of a boring middle part, where you have already seen everything the game has to offer and the difficulty isn't ramping up anymore, but you haven't saved enough people to see that you're making meaningful progress. Because of this, I was tempted to end the game since I thought it was just going to loop forever without any more progress. However, I did eventually get a big boost of lives saved which drew my attention to the top-right bar making significant progress, which bolstered me to make it to the end. Nice work!

MartinJacob responds:

Thank you so much !

The game is meant for all age groups so we had to cap the difficulty eventually.
In future releases we'll be including difficulty levels to challenge skillful players such as you !

[Larcin Lazer]

Very charming game! I actually had a lot of fun trying to make my way through the lasers, all helped by the goofy visuals and sounds of the thief dancing around like Kronk. I do kinda wish I could choose when to start moving instead of the game deciding, both in terms of making it go faster if I want to skip it and in terms of making it go slower if people want a few more seconds to memorize the pattern, but I do understand the design in escalating difficulty by only allowing a very short time to see the pattern. Also kinda wish it would show the entire laser pattern on death, like how Minesweeper shows all the mines when you trigger a mine, and I don't like how you can kinda move off-screen on the right side. Still, solid game!

DrGeraud responds:

Thank you for your time and for this in depth feedback. A lot of great stuff here. I'll sure think about that if I decide to do a full game out of this!

[Touble & Trouble]

Had a lot of difficulties trying to play this game initially due to some weird license validation, but once I refreshed it worked, and thank goodness it did!

Game is a pretty solid puzzler with a charming aesthetic and story to it. I like the mechanic of balancing moving so many opposing elements around and trying to keep track of it all and not killing yourself. I also felt the mechanics were introduced and tutorialized intuitively and effectively with the narrative. If I had some complaints, it would be that there were a lot of typos and mistakes in the text: it kinda adds to the goofy nature of the game, so it's not all bad, but it did kinda take me out of the experience since there were errors in practically every text segment. Also I felt like the game could stand to have some more powerful sound effects to accentuate certain moments, especially like death and victory, which are done in silence. Still, very nice game!

TristanMX responds:

Thank you! This game was made in 5 days for a game jam, so although it could had been bigger and more solid, I had a deadline to reach. My self imposed challenge was to make it semi-rytmic, and that was what I aimed for... sorry for the typos, as you may realized I'm not a native english speaker, some other where intended for the sake of silliness.
.. and while "fast coding" I may had committed errors without noticing. Anyway, thanks again for playing it 😁

[[BTNverse] There was something here]

Very interesting game! A bit too confusing for me to comprehend at times, however, and the progression curve seemed very odd where it took a bit too long to get to the real cool part of the game (though that might've been from me having difficulty telling what the heck was even going on at the beginning when generating things). Lots of elements of the games seemed a bit clunky and frustrating to figure out: for example, the mini-game with things and anti-things was blocked by the buttons so even though I figured out to hover over anti-things the buttons blocked me, and moving friends around to build things was odd as they didn't seem to build in a logical manner: I kinda needed to stop and start moving and fidget about to get them to respond. I did love the really cool transitioning between modes and the sense of escalation and craziness which was accentuated by the musical changes which you've done very well in your previous games, so there definitely does seem to be 'something here'.

adriendittrick responds:

thanks for sticking until the cool part :)

[Party Land]

I love the goofy aesthetic of this game that is told through it's comical story, art and animations! However, the lacking element of sound really hurt the game: I would've loved to hear the main character gobble up the enemies, among other things. Enemy attacks seemed abitrary at times as well, with no sound or animation cues to signal them that I could tell: I'd just take damage for some reason not apparent to me. Some of the platforming was a little glitchy at times, and the upset stomach mechanic was a bit confusing: I thought at first it was only happening when I overate (on a full energy bar) but then it just seemed random when it filled up or didn't. With some more polish I think this game could really shine though, since it was still fun to play just going on its comical presentation.

catproX responds:

Thanks for the awesome feedback. Completely agree with the mechanic concepts. The game jam was a great experience and one of the lessons learned was about sound. I was able to grab the music from Freepd.com, an excellent tip from GeoKureli. What sound effects I was able to find were pulled from opengameart.org and hastily thrown in. In the future, I look forward to working with the talented composers on the site.

[Sense of Unity]

Pretty neat game! I enjoy the gradual increase in difficulty and the way the levels teach the mechanics in a very subtle and intuitive way, such as forcing you to walk past some example plankable areas with a carpenter so the player sees how they work, and how levels have good 'gotchas' areas where you'd get stuck if you bring everyone there too soon in the wrong order. Definitely pretty good, though there are some annoyances. The art is a bit too dark, gray and drab (I know, it's intentional, plague-times and all that, but still, it shouldn't hurt the gameplay) and it makes it difficult to tell puzzle elements apart in the environment. Also, it is a bit annoying that the game doesn't seem to have a restart button, nor a save feature: I got stuck and had to reload the page, only to lose all my progress, which was a bummer since I was having fun!

MonoFlauta responds:

Thank you a lot for playing it and featuring it on a video.
The restart button is pressing escape if someone find themselves stuck. Sorry about that!
About the game, we are planning to make a new version keeping the mechanics. As this one was made for a game jam, there are a tons of things to be poolished.
From what you meantioned, we are planning to make things more clear for the player. The levels will be more lighter and the models will have bigger differences. Hopefully, these changes will help.
Thank you once again for your review and for playing it!

[My First Game]

Very cool game! I like the idea of jumbling together a bunch of simple mini-games based off of common 'first game' themes you see in tutorial videos on youtube and such and creating a rapid-fire Warioware-esque reaction game where you cycle through all of them. I had a lot of fun playing them, with some of them being better than others. I felt like the tutorial section wasn't even needed: the thought is nice, but it took way too long, and all of the games did an already good job at leaving a second or two for the player to react and realize what game you were playing and the controls to it (except for flappy disk, that can kill you instantly, screw that game haha). I'm unsure if I'm missing some sort of ending or something: I played the games and got a high score but I was kinda waiting for some sort of twist ending or event to happen. I tried hitting publish but nothing: maybe I need a higher score?

HealliesGames responds:

Actually the main game is a score attack, but yes there's a little bonus secret!
The publish button is just for Newgrounds, to let players share their high-score.

For the secret you need to enter the BIOS of the virtual machine, as the readme suggests.
Thanks for the feedback!

[Convergence]

Pretty nice game! Everything seemed to be pretty solidly put together: neat dialogue boxes, good movement, shooting and animations, and nice level design that introduces the mechanics bit-by-bit in a natural way. Kinda wish the dialogue boxes could be controlled manually so you can read at your own pace, but the pace you set at it wasn't too bad for me, so no biggie. Only real problem I had was that I feel like it...lacked something. There was a lot of built-up intrigue and mystery at the start, it escalated bit-by-bit, and then we suddenly had this huge battle at the end. It felt strange because, while the end battle was cool, it kinda came out of nowhere and didn't answer any questions and just threw together some sort of jumbled-up moral. Take it as a compliment, I suppose, that I felt like it was so well put-together and intriguing that I wanted more out of it in the end in terms of plot and story and scale!

VascoF responds:

Many have said that the ending seemed forced, and with your description I think I finally understand why. Thank you for the great review!

[Keep Hope Alive]

Pretty decent game with a neat concept! I enjoyed trying to collect all the people into one line and lead them together through all the obstacles that threaten to disconnect them to the finish all at once. It's pretty bare-bones at the moment, though, and I feel like the concept could be communicated a bit better. I couldn't even tell that a line was forming or why the tether was breaking on the first level: perhaps the first level should be more linear to start with instead of having verticality. Also, perhaps people in line should be closer to each other so it's more obvious they are forming a queue, and perhaps the tether should thin itself or turn redder and redder when you begin to stray far enough to break it so it's visually apparent how it works. Would love to see this get improved upon and have levels with medals where you try to get optional perfect chain finishes!

keybol responds:

Thank you! There are definitely a lot to improve here and thank you for the feedback. I'll keep them in mind. We also want to explore this chain concept!