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2013-03-07 19:23:18

I think this game has a pretty solid engine, however, there were quite a lot of things that bugged me. First was the long pauses in dialogue. They are not needed, they just make you want the dialogue to end more quickly. Second was the walking speed. It's insanely slow and makes progression really monotonous. You could fix this by adding a run button. Third was the graphics. I guess I'm not the sort of person to critique this but they could have used better contrast and maybe a bit more color. The in-battle spites were very lazily upscaled as well. The battle system is pretty impressive. However, it severely lacks an escape button for how often you are going to get into a random battle.

It's a nice engine, but could be pretty refined, so I give it 3/5 stars.

mixceed responds:

Thank you Joshsouza. I really appreciate the time you took in playing our game and writing your comments up. This is a engine we look forward to fine tune with feedback.

- I am grateful that you mentioned the pause part in the dialogue, as it does affect flow.
- We hope to increase the walking speed in the next update or adding a run button like you and others have suggested.
- The escape is done through pressing shift in the attack commands to find it because I wanted to emulate how Final Fantasy 7 was done. But we see now how that isn't a very good idea, and should just add an escape button instead.

Once again, thank you for your suggestions.

Kees' Adventure 3

2010-03-13 03:37:29

Review Request Club

I thought the game itself was pretty fine but kind of got boring and repetitive because it is one of those trade in games where you just end up walking everywhere and talking to people but it is cool how it all leads up to the most important thing Kee needs but Kee IS a weird name. Did you know that?

The art was fine with the pixels but I think it needed to be a bit more detailed a bit to help it a little because it is just a bunch of colored pixels mixed into each other but then again the waterfall was pretty god but just make more things to make it seem a little less repetitive. The story was pretty generic though like "I will give you this for that" until you find the stupid gem to replace the eye and boom, you're done with that shit.

The audio was pretty cool but no sound effects? ;( Jk it's pretty good and fitting for a game like this but did you make the music or did someone else write it or uh compose it. Then I see it was a guy named bob. I think you showed some effort into making this and it is a quick 5 minute game you could just play when you are supa bored so nice job altogether.

I really don't think there is much else to say then putting a bit more animation into it because I only saw people arms moving and Kee moving and the waterfall moving and the statue and that was it in the whole thing so work on that and all of the other crap that I told you about and I am going to play number 4 when it comes out so bye!

~Review Request Club~

-Joshsouza

kcnh responds:

Thank you for your review.

Joe's Minor Adventure

2010-03-12 22:40:03

Review Request Club

I thought this flash was pretty good and I really enjoyed it but the instructions were all weird because all of the connectors looks like something you should avoid but the name was pretty witty.

The art was really good and decent but I think it could be a bit better but the high scores table was pretty good too and it was good to do that. I think the animation was good too like the train coming and the warning for the train coming was all pretty cool plus everything else like that but why was the intro like not animated because it would be pretty cool if you did that.

I think you spent lots of time and effort onto this but it was pretty underrated to me because it looks like you spent a lot of time on this but the power up things was pretty cool too but the story wasn't that good and it is just a generic train chase but is there an end to this game because it's pretty stupid to have a game without an ending to it whatsoever unless there's a free play mode but it was a bit challenging to me.

Overall I think this is a pretty good game that needs a bit more attention on it because it looks like a pretty good game to me and I found it saddening that I didn't see it in the portal when it came out but it's pretty cool and I think you should keep up the good work.

~Review Request Club~

-Joshsouza

ProfessorFlash responds:

It's a highscore game so there's really no real ending to it. Get as much points as you can. But I felt that adding some sort of a story was still important. It answers the question "why am I doing this" for people. It may seem little silly but people find it important to understand the game like that. It gives reason for playing.
Thanks for your review.

The Ñ

2010-03-06 15:31:14

Review Request Club

I thought this was a nice little game but it was really just breakout with an Explict song playing. So I will start now:

ART 4/10

I didn't really like all of the gradient and it just told me that you were too lazy to put in much art in it plus the ball is all gradient too but it would be nice to have a better background though.

AUDIO 5/10

I guess since the audio is one of the main points of the game, II guess I have to give it an OK score but why did you put the song in for a breakout game? It doesn't really make much sense nor does it explain anything. But It would kind of be cool to put a bit more sounds into it.

GAMEPLAY 6/10

I thought the fast ball was kind of cool but I think it should be more challenging because really? 20 lives! that's kind of overdoing it so be sure to fix it once you get the mute button in. That's another thing, the mute button should be easy since you just have to put only 1 or 2 lines of code in to do it so be sure to fix it.

ANIMATION 5/10

I gotta say it was cool to made this fast pacing but the only animation I could find was the ball moving and the blocks disappearing but at least the thing worked and oh yeah, the rectangle at the bottom moving.

OVERALL 6/10

I think this could be a good game if you put in powerups and stuff into it and make it more challenging and a bit more artwork because I kind of lost attention at the second level but remember, try to make the game addicting and make people want to play it!

-Joshsouza

TheSongSalad responds:

Thanks for the review man. The incredible amount of gradients were because I have no artistic talent. Not quite lazy, it actually took me a large amount of time to get right, lol.

Thanks for the suggestions and the review though man, I appreciate it.

Level Editor

2009-11-10 16:50:01

Original

The art was very good and the music is ok and i like how you can just move around while you are editing. I didn't like how it had a timer though :(. I think you did a good job getting a sponsor with king. The concept is really good too. I also like how you made different blocks instead of the plain one.

I think you should have put in more animation when the stick jumps. Also, the stickjust doesn't go along with the other art. I am glad you put a mute music button because it got annoying after a while so all I had to do was click it so good job for that.

You also did a god job with the sounds and i liked how every coin gave you more time to finish. The game reminds me of some other game that is like the same but im sure you didn't copy it because i had to search to find it and anyways, it wasn't a platformer like yours. I extremely LOVE platform games so good for this.

Well anyways, overall I liked it and maybe you should make a second soon and here is the overall score:

Art 10/10
Concept 10/10
Animation 7/10
Physics 10/10
Funitude 10/10
Please make more like this and I hope you are happy you got a good review :D

KingDotCom responds:

Thanks!

Hover Kart Battle

2009-10-18 21:45:41

Nice Game

I didn't like this one that much but i still think your website rocks. I like how when you submit a new one, you can look at the other games that you made using only one. The graphics are always amazing but I see that you got rid of Tracism and some other one(I forgot the name). Other than that, keep up the good work

iminlikewithyou responds:

Tracism is still around, but not many folks played it, so it's not on the main list. People can get to it by going to http://tracism.com but then they have to invite their own friends most likely to get a game going.

minigamez!

2009-08-08 18:26:22

Sloppy

Could use a lot of work and I barely could read what all of the messages said in the maze one.Work harder next tim and I dont know what you have to do for the gas mingame

piggy123 responds:

gas is S to attack as for the maze talk to logan about it

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