3p0ch's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[The Trivially Possible Quiz]

Your flash forward jam link is picking up a lot less than if you use the NewGrounds search for Games and look for flash-forward-jam. It's not your fault but it is your problem. Can't blame you since I tried to do the same thing during the NewGrounds Phaser Jam tho :3

[Virtual Pet Rock DX 2000]

Poor rock is ded nao. :(
Is that a cocknballs on the baseball cap? If so then +0.5 star for the cock joke in a Flash submission on NewGrounds.

Edit: Ok, +0.5 :3

PegasuTV responds:

cock joke

[Tonight we hunt Revenge]

I don't have much to say except that this game kicks ass. The cartoony graphics are great, and the gameplay overall felt like a good brawler. I'm still stuck at the final(?) bossfight right now and was about to flip a table after seeing that after finally getting past the first one and losing to the second one I'll need to do them both synchronously, but I'm not one to let the game's difficulty detract from my score. The only things to nitpick about are that the mechanic of only jumping straight while shooting seems pretty unnatural, and the very first time I ran across a mob while getting to a boss I wasn't sure if I was even dealing damage to it since it took a long time to kill, but once you get used to it it's fine.

FsebastiamL responds:

Thank you so much I really appreciate the review

[Gloom]

I've got to respect your making a 3D game in a 2D engine. The big downside is I felt I could only turn around and aim fast enough to be playable using the mouse, but the mouse won't lock to the game canvas so if you move outside you stop turning, and that put a big damper on the game's fun factor for me.

Kwing responds:

Thanks! This game was basically a result of "hey, I wonder if I can make a 3D game in Flash" and developing the proof of concept into something substantial. Funnily enough, the function that does all the heavy lifting - called render() - is only about 20 lines long (feel free to check it out in the game description if you're curious.)

The camera was a big hair-puller for me when I was making it - hence why there are so many different controls for it. Each change I made (arrows, duration-based rotation speed, shift lock) approached something that felt natural but never quite reached the smooth, intuitive feel that I wanted.

I can play pretty smoothly using the mouse and shift lock, but it took a pretty significant amount of practice for me to start doing it fluently (IMO it's easiest to re-center the mouse before you hit the edge, so that you're never fussing with the camera lock with enemies breathing down your neck.) You can 360 noscope enemies by panning the mouse in the opposite direction, but this also requires some practice.

[InvasionLab]

It feels like 2008 or so again. There's enough in the game with the unlockables and upgradables to make it not be too simple, and there was enough fun factor to make me play twice and try out other upgrade paths. It's got enough to be a 4/5 IMO. Maybe it would be better if there were more variety in the enemies' behavior since most of them just walk back and forth on the ground, and maybe if you had something like Kwing suggested and having something more like a target that the enemies reach to drop your HP, but personally I thought having enemies drain your HP when they're on the screen was fine. And I'm not getting any of the lag that fuckoffasshole had.

[VoxelSrv (Beta)]

Instructions plz? I can't seem to do much other than look around. And press numbers to select items on the bottom row.

Since it's unplayable right now it'll prolly get blammed (unless it's just a problem on my computer). Plz re-upload when it's playable though since it looks like it might be cool when it is.

Edit: I reloaded again, and this time I can move around with WASD, jump with space, and use numbers to select stuff at the bottom but mouse clicking does nothing. The mouse scroll wheel moves the item selection, but also scrolls the browser screen even if I clicked in the game to make it capture the mouse. So yeah, something weird's going on.

Patbox responds:

Looks like a bug, I will try to reproduce and fix it! Reload might help, but I'm not sure

[Spacewar Championship]

This game has a really high fun factor. The gameplay is really smooth, and while you could nitpick that maybe it would help to have a brief period of invincibility after respawning so you don't get insta-killed by the enemy spamming shots, it still felt overall fair there was an appropriate amount of skill requirement. Graphics are nostalgic of old-school Flash, and music is pretty cool. If there's a way to make the ships more visible when they're near the edge and about to wrap to the other side of the screen (like making the game window larger with the edges of wrapping being within the game window) then that might help.

[Chrome Switcher]

Game doesn't start for me -- the preloading screen has the bar fill up most of the way and then stop. Reloading the page doesn't help. Using Chrome, if I go to Developer Tools and look at the Console window it has the errors
Uncaught SyntaxError: Invalid or unexpected token
V0.1.3.loader.js:1 Uncaught ReferenceError: unityFramework is not defined
at HTMLScriptElement.r.onload

ChromeSwitcher responds:

Odd, it works fine on itch. Thank you for telling me, the same thing happened last night but I assumed it was because it's under review and wasn't uploaded yet. I'll look into it!

[My Tiny Empire]

It has a killer bug -- After he says I should probably go back and give the news to the townsman, it doesn't let me move around anymore. If I open Developer Tools / Console it says there's a null reference exception (object reference not set to an instance of an object), both when the last bandit dies, and again after the end of conversation after the last bandit dies. Granted, I think I had that error come up a lot in my first Unity game and I never cared because that alone won't crash the game, but it might be a clue to why I can't move anymore.

Aside from that, the game looked kinda neat while it was playable.

kyshama responds:

Hey thanks for letting me know, I tried to reproduce the bug on my end during play but couldn't. Ill keep try searching directly in the script it might be during my looping process when it tries finding enemy to attack.