3p0ch's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Among Us 3D]

Great atmosphere! The imposter was kinda bad at stabbing me if I just run (or even walk) by him though -- stabbing does work if you sit there so it's not like it's bugged or anything, but maybe something to tweak if other people notice the same thing. And the comments mentioned stamina but I didn't see any indication of it during gamplay?

larrynachos responds:

I'll expand the hitbox a bit, anything else you noticed needs improving? It takes me a while to upload so I want to make as few updates as possible :X

Thanks for the review!

[SPACE EVADE]

While it's a fairly simple game, the fact that it's made from C++ and SDL2 is impressive, at least to me. Think you would recommend that approach for other game devs versus a low-level framework like Phaser or HaxeFlixel? The thing that caught my eye from a quick look at SDL's website is that it can handle 3D graphics through OpenGL which the others can't AFAIK, but IDK if it would actually be practical to do.

slogga responds:

SDL is definitely easy for 2D graphics and can run well on low-end hardware. I'm not sure about 3D apart from the fact that the Source Engine uses SDL for it's 3D.

[GUNI TORESA]

I can't play the game. It freezes right after it loads. If I go to my browser's Developer Tools, under Console, it says

DevTools failed to load SourceMap: Could not load content for https://scratch.mit.edu/31b932aa68d4f678cc23.worker.js.map: Fetch through target failed: Target not supported; Fallback: HTTP error: status code 404, net::ERR_HTTP_RESPONSE_CODE_FAILURE

So if you want to try to debug it then that's where to look.

JASTINEPH responds:

I Fix Now Please Try Again :)

[Orbs Arena]

This is kinda cool, and at least a nice time waster to be sure. The one thing I might suggest is that I don't like having to spam mouse clicks and would rather be able to just hold down the mouse button to spam slashes.

ahmadkalach responds:

Thanks for playing it and for your feedback!

[TOYROGUE]

There's a bug in that the HP doesn't get reset if you start a new run.

Other than that it's a nice and fun game, even if the runs that I've been RNG'ed so far have been easy. So far it doesn't seem like there's much use in the Throw ability since just pouring stats into the others looks like the way to go, but now that I've read through the author comments (it's amazing how many people don't look at them... even when they themselves are game devs ^_^) maybe I'll try a run focusing on it and trying to lower the enemy stats until I can beat them by slapping them around with a large trout.

Extar responds:

Hah, can't believe I never noticed that. That's fixed now. :)

Throw becomes much more useful when you come up against enemies that have better stats than you, especially on harder difficulties. You can't really level or equip your way around a particularly strong enemy so that's when throwing items of Health -5 become more important. :)

If you've got the hang of the game, which it sounds like you have, then Hard difficulty is basically the 'gloves off' difficulty that I actually tested most of the time. >:)

[Gastric Voyage : Regurgitated]

Right now it seems like a lot of the edge of the game canvas is cut off. Make sure the game size that you set in the Unity editor and the size in the NewGrounds project page match up. Because right now I can't really figure out how to play after starting a new game since I can't see the whole screen, and the problem should be an easy thing to fix.

leftshoe18 responds:

Thank you for letting me know. I have changed the window size.

[Bug Bite Billy]

The game mechanics are fairly simple but it actually came out pretty fun! The graphics are as cute as they could be considering the game is about a bunch of man-eating bugs, and there are nice visual effects like screen pulsing when firing some of the guns, glow effects, and the powerful sound of the ~1 shot/sec gun that give it a polished feel. The only nitpicky thing I noticed was that splashes of bug blood when you shoot them often seem like they appear after the shot has kinda passed through the bug, but that sort of thing only matters to an OCD game dev. The bossfight was a little easy but still cool. Overall, for a small game with one arena battle area, this was pretty solid.

Noc-Tech responds:

Thanks for the feedback, and don't worry I'm aware of the bullet thing, it was part of a situation with the shotgun bullets once I update the game it will fit better

[Space War (My Version)]

It's kinda fun, I'd just say that if you want people to be able to play with keyboard then look into whether GDevelop can capture arrow keys so they don't scroll the browser window, or let WASD move in addition to arrows. The only bug I came across was that when I reached the boss with two arms and a central laser, he started firing the central laser and wouldn't stop and it doesn't seem like that was intended.

[Gatlin']

I hate everyone listed in the credits :)

Srsly, there did seem to be something a little bit off about the physics of gunfire momentum. I can't quite put my finger on it, but when I was going through the level with the long spike-walled corridors it seemed like I was losing altitude when the mouse was behind and below the guy but I would gain altitude when the mouse is at the same y-coordinate but directly below or in front of and below the guy, but I would've expected them to maintain the same altitude if you're calculating force as (distance from player to mouse) x (horizontal or vertical component of direction). It also seemed a little weird during the first big bossfight, although it's much harder for me to put my finger on exactly why.

If the game is still in development then it seems like there's some room to expand on the different uses of the different types of guns in later levels. And, you posted a game on NewGrounds without a cock joke when it has a freakin' statue of Michelangelo's David? Missed opportunity...

dotcopycat responds:

<3

It's hinted at in the tutorial, but you actually have a max velocity cap. If you exceed the max velocity in any direction, control becomes a lot more droopy. In order to counteract it, you're intended to shoot in the opposite direction you're moving for short bursts.

[Pixel Detective]

It looks like it could become a good game, but with only one real level it's still pretty early in development.

I got tripped up from not realizing that you need to not only get the killer correct, but also find all relevant pieces of information and choose each of them and only them when you're making the accusation, or else get a losing screen with no indication that the suspect was correct but the selected clues weren't. I had the culprit correct on my first run but was missing one clue, and that really messed up my thought process trying to do it over.

I have to agree with LuckyDee that it seemed like a sorta arbitrary choice and I could have argued that another suspect was the perpetrator. If you think it would be possible to design cases where the clues narrow down the number of possible scenarios and only one person could have committed the crime based on the clues that are presented, then personally I think I'd prefer that approach.

TheOlga responds:

First of all, thank you very much for your opinion.

As you say, there is only one level available, but that's to get feedback and fix any imperfections. Working only in a team of two, it is difficult to achieve the right balance of the game. There are a few things that could be better designed and we agree with that.

However, we hope you had a lot of fun after all. 🙂