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[Block Pieces (Demo) - 3D Jigsaw Puzzle]

You just need to make the game start on level 7 (I think that was the one where it started getting 3D) because otherwise people will get bored and stop playing before then, and say "right click and drag to rotate" at the beginning of the level underneath "observe the piece".

natomarcacini responds:

Thanks for the feedback. I'll add the tip of rotating the camera in full release.

[WINDOWZ XP 2012 EDITION]

Now I don't feel so bad for having a username in 1337 and being a "cyan cat" anymore

Kolumbo responds:

CYAN CAT I LOVE IT

[School Escape Room 1: Detention]

It's a nice old-school game. I started a run and ran into a softlock when I tried to open the locker and it wouldn't let me leave -- I think I had even found the clue to solve it and was entering it correctly but it still wouldn't open, but if someone hasn't found that clue they could probably get stuck there.

On a second run through the combination worked fine, finished the game.

On a third run to confirm that you'll get softlocked if you go to the locker and try entering something without knowing the combination yet, yeah, confirmed that softlocks it. You'll probably want to add a way to leave the locker after trying a combination.

awesomeunderscore responds:

Ok thanks for the comment I will see what i can do

[CityBuilder TowerDefense]

I agree with Georgikus, it could use a short tutorial on how the economy works, I tried a couple of times and got game over on day 2 for unclear reasons (maybe losing too much happiness?) Looks like the game could be neat and expanded on if that initial learning spike is handled well though.

AlkalinePineapples responds:

Shit, I forgot to communicate important mechanics again!
I really need to be more careful about this.

[Quest Finder Adventures]

The game won't load, and it's showing a 404 error under the browser's DevTools-Console window. Maybe try reuploading?

QuestFinder responds:

thankyou for that, I just updated!

[Golf Adventures! 2]

That last level set made me forgive you for the brutality of the mechanical zone :3

If you'd like to add NewGrounds medals for the achievements or a NG leaderboard, here's how: https://3p0ch.newgrounds.com/news/post/1211786

Aleksander-Sats responds:

Yeah, Mechanical Mayhem was made to test what you've learned so far, so in return the next one for your effort is more fun and easier! :)

Thanks for mentioning that post though! I will keep it in mind

[ULTRAFUN]

I ran into some serious performance issues - like other users I frequently got "WebGL context lost, please reload the page" messages after the game loaded and before it started. Every once in a while it does start, but when it did there was lag and the music was extremely choppy.

There might be an issue that's being pointed to by some odd errors showing up in the browser's Developer Tools - Console window (if you play the game from NG, press Ctrl+Shift+I or pick it from your browser's menu and go to the Console tab to see them). It makes me think that an autoload script might be acting up, but you might be able to make more sense of it than I can since I don't have the Godot source code. If you want me to take a look at it when I get a chance then msg me.

Other tricks I've found in Godot that might help with performance if you're not already doing it this way are 1) for most of my big scenes (like game levels or main menu or stuff) I'll make an autoload that holds the entire scene as a variable like
levels_autoload.gd:
var level1 = preload("res://levels/level1.tscn")
etc...
and then in other scripts instead of using get_tree().change_scene() you would use get_tree().change_scene_to(LevelsAutoload.level1) and it should noticeably reduce if not eliminate the stuttering and lag when you switch scenes.

2) For audio, maybe try compressing the music files in Audacity. If they're in stereo then mix them down to mono (Ctrl-A to select all, then Tracks -> Mix -> Stereo down to Mono) and then do File -> Export -> as OGG with the Quality slider set to 0.

3) The other thing you could do with audio is significantly more complex, but if you're up for it I described the process in a post at https://3p0ch.newgrounds.com/news/post/1148893

Hopefully it can get running more smoothly because now it's kinda barely playable for me.

Kwongo responds:

Thank you so much for the detailed feedback, it's really helpful :) I am still new to using Godot with HTML5 so this comes in really handy. I'm exploring some more options too, such as converting the game to use GLES2 instead of GLES3, which might improve compatibility (this is the source of most of the WebGL issues), but it comes at the expense of performance and not being able to use my pretty particles the same :(

If anyone truly desires the bonafide ULTRAFUN experience ASAP (and doesn't want to wait for me to fix it) the game is also available for free on Steam (Windows/Linux) :)

[THREAT != CONTAINED]

w00t another 3D Godot dev!
I also ran into audio issues with my HTML5 exports and came up with a workaround to fix it. It was kinda complicated so I posted a description of how I did it: https://3p0ch.newgrounds.com/news/post/1148893
I'm not 100% sure this will also fix it for you but I think it's more likely than not.

Edit: Finished the game. The 2D-in-3D graphics were appealing and had a lot of nice touches, the creepiness of the things in the containment rooms helps make the game memorable. The design of having the player go into a J shaped area when they kill the power and have the monster where it is pretty much guarantees that the player will die the first time through and have to start from the beginning, and if they don't notice that the monster moves through walls right away then they'll probably die at least once more, each time having to start from the beginning. It's a short game so it's not horrible to have to repeat the path to the power room each time, but it's kinda monotonous to have to do each time before the real action starts. After figuring out how to really play the game, it's entertaining enough to make up for it. Looking forward to seeing what you do in the future.

Frosty responds:

Thanks a ton for the review. and i will 100% check out that fix, cheers!

[Lost For Swords]

Hi fellow Godot dev, I saw comments about issues I can help with.

First is the issue of zooming in the browser producing unintended funky resizing of control nodes. That's easy to fix and described here https://3p0ch.newgrounds.com/news/post/1157195

Second is audio playback quality for one of the reviewers being kinda bad. If it's what I think it is, switching to Firefox will fix it for that user because it's an issue with Chromium and probably depends on their computer's hardware too so won't necessarily happen for all Chrome users. If you want to make it play music without any glitchiness in Chrome, then the fix on the dev's side is a lot more complex but I gave a short description here https://3p0ch.newgrounds.com/news/post/1148893

Lastly, if you want to add medals or leaderboards, you can use the Newgrounds API implementation I wrote or one of the others at https://www.newgrounds.io/get-started/ but mine would be the easiest to implement (I mite be biased :3)

Oh yeah, as for the game itself, it was fun and had well-polished presentation, but after finishing the tutorial and clearing two rooms I started getting rooms where my only option was to backtrack and I couldn't advance anymore?

MaxBytes responds:

Hello fellow Godot dev!

Thanks for the nice writeup and help, I appreciate it!

I have just today published an update that implements your described workaround for the music using howler.js, works great. And your tutorial helped a lot! :)

Will try your suggestion regarding the window stretch mode... although I cannot reproduce the issues myself and zooming works correctly in my browser (chrome). I had suspected that the actual issue for some players is that their browser window is too small in height (and/or width) to display the game fully (on 100% zoom)... maybe I'm wrong though.

Regarding you being stuck in the game: the game does not do the best job at explaining what you actually have to do there. You're not really stuck, your goal is to defeat all Monsters so that there are no more monsters in the Dungeon Deck (or on the board). Once you achieve that, the Backtrack turns into a door that lets you continue :) If you cannot defeat the Monsters within the 3 rooms, you need to backtrack and take some damage.

[Tangled Slug]

There seems to be a bug - after I finished level 100 it went to level 101 (which looks just like level 1) and then level 102 (which doesn't look like level 2), but in level 102 after I collected all the shrooms the level didn't end, the slug still moved around as if there were still more to collect even though there weren't. Can't say I'm too surprised that no one else has mentioned this bug before. :3

Might be nice to have an option to show numbers over the shrooms to see what order they'll spawn in - in the Very Hard levels I was screenshotting some of the tougher ones and writing numbers to help plan them out.

erytau responds:

Oh wow, I guess you are one the first to finish the game! Awesome work. One could say you even over-finished it and found some "secrets". Those 101, 102 etc were the debug levels that I forgot to delete :D

Later I'll probably add some extra levels, but for now I just removed them (NG version is already updated). Thanks for pointing it out, and congratz on winning!