3p0ch's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[BitBase]

It's still a work in progress but so far this is good retro stuff, especially for having been made in only five days. It reminds me of the old Dune game. So far my only suggestion would be a quicker way to pan around the map than WASD, like if holding RMB and dragging were to pan the camera and movement would need a quick right click and release, or smth like that. When the game gets far enough to have a huge area to manage, maybe even a minimap where you can click to move.

Aron-Ato responds:

Hey, thanks for playing, and feedback. Yeah, ofc we had to focus on the playable aspects because we had such limited build time, mini-map (and much more) is definitely on the list of soon-to-be-added features :)

[Ring Ring Bang 2]

Since you're planning on updating during Pixel Day, my recommendation would be adding a reload button so we don't have to keep firing to empty the magazine when we're in safe areas between shooting.

[Nearverse]

Edit: After playing it, I started thinking about everything that would be involved in the procedural generation. Especially the music if it's generated at the note level since Godot's really not set up for that. Even things that would normally be trivial like making ship sprites by importing a drawing would instead have to be done from code by spawning a bunch of pixels in some way that ends up looking nice.

HealliesGames responds:

Fixed the tag, thank you! I'll probably add the borders: the extra-space I added was to avoid black borders when comes to fullscreen.

EDIT: For graphics came really useful Conway's Game of Life, which is used in most of procedural sprite generator I saw online. Music was kinda painful due poor documentation of the AudioStreamGenerator class; luckily there was a set-up example from the engine repository which helped me a lot.

[Puk]

It was fun while it lasted, but I got the same problem as Remi-le-Oduen (and maybe imtheratman) with the guy in the lower left corner -- after going through the convo it just keeps re-looping through the same convo when it finishes. It was working fine the first time I talked to him, but when I completed his quest (I think) it kept re-starting the convo when I press Z to end it so it essentially softlocked.

bokononyossarian responds:

Thanks for confirming this softlock! We just uploaded a new version that has *hopefully* addressed this, as we have not been able to reproduce since.

[WYRDSMYTH]

Looks like there is a way of telling if a letter is used more than once? I guessed uvula (yes the letters I was left with were that horrible) and only the first of the two U's ended up yellow.

bokononyossarian responds:

Yep, if you guess multiple letters it will show the second as not in the word(unless it is actually in the word !)

[Indirection]

I like it overall and have some small suggestions:

1) faster text appearance in the signs, and/or smaller font so it can show more at once, because text display can get tediously slow
2) no audio (or maybe different audio) of continuous laser firing -- that got grating quickly
3) I was getting some crackliness to the background audio playing in Chrome, and that became an issue in Godot HTML5 builds after a Chromium update sometime around March 2021. If you're not already using Godot 3.4, that version seems to decrease if not eliminate the audio crackliness, or you can implement the workaround I posted here of routing the music through howler.js instead of playing it through a node in Godot which completely gets rid of it
https://3p0ch.newgrounds.com/news/post/1148893

[Heroes Quest]

The player animations are adorable, music is good, and graphics overall are nice. I agree that I'd like to see other paths you could take by killing or not killing different things, but it's a cool little game for what it is. Also I know there's not an API implementation for GDevelop up at newgrounds.io, but if you feel like adding medals to the game or future games I got this implementation for GDevelop working so feel free to use it: https://3p0ch.newgrounds.com/news/post/1211786

[House Pusher]

One of the cuter and more polished Sokobans for sure, although easy until the last few levels when it gets real on you. If the secret room actually is present I couldn't find/unlock it.

[Miriam's Mice]

I'll come back and write more of a review once I've finished (or given up), but for now just wanted to say the only way I've found to get all the pellets in the Pellet Contest level involved something that makes me think it's not the solution you had in mind based on the dialogue.

Only potential tweak I can think of is that it might be nice to have a button to reset the entire level instead of making multiple undos.

[The Lives Of Others]

I like the concept, but in practice there ends up being a whole lot of walking around just to reach the enemies or items that makes the gameplay drag. One playthrough like that is OK, but replaying it to get all eight endings would get pretty tedious. Maybe add a button to run? That would break the difficulty if the player could run around enemies, so maybe only if enemies aren't nearby.